But more importantly, Merry freaking Christmas fellow Bawfulites: GREG OSTERTAG COMEBACK!!! He and Ricky Davis have both signed D-League contracts and after clearing waivers Tuesday afternoon will be picked up by teams. If the prospect of seeing professional basketball once again played by these guys -- a ridiculous 38 year old white stiff with a Fred Flintstone tattoo, and the guy who shot at his own basket trying to fradulently get a triple double -- doesn't give you goosebumps, what the hell are you doing reading this blog?
"It's a thoughtful, well-shot documentary about the Crimean war."
"It's a stupid Mexican kids movie!!"
...yeah.
Celtics at Knicks, TNT, 12:00pm: Well, Paul Pierce is listed as "doubtful" for this game. By comparison, the rest of the team (except for Rajon Rondo) is just listed as "old."
Also, to continue my Christmas tradition for this post, knock an hour and a half out of your schedule once you're done here and go watch Mystery Science Theater 3000's Santa Claus episode. Try not to sing along to Santa Klaws' epic The Warrior of Christmas song. I dare you.
Celtics at Knicks, TNT, 12:00pm: Well, Paul Pierce is listed as "doubtful" for this game. By comparison, the rest of the team (except for Rajon Rondo) is just listed as "old."
Heat at Mavericks, ABC, 2:30pm: Bawful and I are both severely dismayed to see Shane Battier sign with the Heat. My memory is a little fuzzy, but we may have just exchanged text messages saying "NOOOOOO" for twenty minutes when we learned the news. However, he is a game-time decision for this Finals rematch. A certainty, however? Eddy Curry is ruled out. I'm pretty sure he was ruled out of this game five or six years in advance even though he didn't play for the Heat at the time. (Well, wait a second. That was poor wording. He doesn't even play for the Heat now. He's just on their roster filling up space. Lots and lots of it.)
Bulls at Lakers, ABC, 5:00pm: Everyone's all up in arms about Kobe's wrist injury. But come on, what about the real story? MATT BARNES is pissed, you guys!
Magic at Thunder, ESPN, 8:00pm: Stan Van Gundy is already having to lash out in press conferences in preseason games at reporters questioning if Dwight Howard is quitting on his team since they did not follow through with his trade request. How long until his head explodes Scanners style? Meanwhile, the Thunder may be the team to beat in the Western Conference. No joke here. Just a statement.
Clippers at Warriors, 10:30pm: LOB CITY! Chauncey Billups' gonna be throwin' up the rock and DeAndre Jordan's gonna be throwin' it down! (What? Who did you think I was talking about?)
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Highlights: West and NBA Champions, Lakers sweep and not a single mention of the Mavs, and no mention of Derrick Rose for MVP.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Meanwhile... Ostertag and Ricky Davis return... Heat need a reliable center and some veteran scorer from the bench... need to say more?
Eddy "Manatee" Curry injured. Not-comeback of the year delayed.
Metabolic Piece in Lakers 2nd unit since CP3 arrival. Wait, CP3 didn't arrive to Lakers. Anyway, fatty being backup to Ebanks ( WTF ? ) takes away some precious minutes of bawfuliness.
Bonzi Wells cut by Wolves. Too bad, but not even them are so stupid.
Antoine Walker wasn't even invited to any camp. He'll still play somewhere in Idaho. Or Guatemala. Or whatever.
Still plenty of bawfulity ahead of us. Let the Bawfulfest begin.
You're damn right there's plenty of bawful coming our way this season. Everyone's going to be out of practice, out of shape, overworked and exhausted, etc. I watched two minutes of preseason ball (I don't have NBA TV, so I watched a horrifically low quality stream of a Bulls-Pacers game just to verify that, indeed, the NBA was back) and I saw some of the worst passing and ball-handling I could imagine. It was like the real life incarnation of our annual Null-Star game.
I'd love to see the Thunder take the west. I still say they're missing that one more piece but you never know come trade deadline.
Ricky trying to reach triple double by shooting at own basket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqqgeXF3e4E
In the end: 53 PFs, 65 FTs and at least 6 technicals, I stopped to count.
Game had no rhythm, lasted for almost 3 hours ... but Joey showed who's the boss in NBA. Like we don't know.
I've just read through FIBA, NBA, NCAA, and a selection of HS rules and I don't find it defined that way. (Most of what I've read uses "wrong basket" which seems to be avoiding the question).
Do you have a source for that?
In over 40 years of playing I can't recall anyone using the usage that you suggest, but then I can't remember more than a handful of wrong basket attempts in any of those games, or sometimes what I had for breakfast.