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Friday, April 1, 2011

They’re Playing Basketball (and Getting Mad)

With the NBA playoffs looming I’ve decided to start stepping up my NBA acumen and start building my hate for the Lakers’ potential opponents in the postseason. Obviously the Spurs are a no brainer. One look at Tim Duncan with his mouth wide open or Manu Ginobili’s rat face and I’m instantly enraged. But the Dallas Mavericks are another animal – generally non-assuming, traditionally non-threatening and often likeable. But I did find a few things I could hate.


Shawn Marion – This guy’s shot looks like Jim Furyk’s swing except it’s not as accurate. It looks like someone setting a volleyball. I just always assumed he learned from a coach with tiny arms but I’m starting to think his broken finger may have something to do with it.

That’s disgusting. But Marion is quite as distressed about it.

From ESPN.com
“It doesn’t hurt; maybe if I bend it a certain way or something [it hurts],” Marion said as he bent and pulled and squished his pinkie as if made of rubber. “I got full rotation. The doctor’s like, ‘What are you going to do?’ You look at X-rays and it’s sticking off to the left, but at the same time I’ve got full rotation. What more do you want me to do?”




Well from the gross to the gorgeous here’s your number one reason to hate the Mavs – because backup guard J.J. Barea dates this woman. Her name is Zuleyka Rivera and she’s a former Miss Universe.

That’s just not fair. She was considered the hottest woman in the world two weeks ago and he looks like a Hispanic version of Opie. The article on ESPN.com said that Opie head this girl broke up with her boyfriend and just sent her a text. You’ve got to give it to him, he’s ballsy.

Apparently the Lakers must have felt the same way about hating the Mavs because not only did they blow them out last night, the game almost turned into a WWE style throwdown with the Mavs throwing down some hard fouls and then not wanting to back them up.



I went with the longer version of this video because I caught the biggest inadvertent sex comment of the year by Mike Fratello.
“There’s the two hands where he shoves him out of bounds. That’s what made Blake react and come right in his face.”

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