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Archive for July, 2006

I guess it's called a Blogiversary

Posted by Nels on July 31st, 2006 filed in Diatribes, Random Stuff

Give Me The Rock is 2 years old!
And all I could find was that crappy cake picture.

Well, and this one, but it sucks too.

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Jared Jeffries: Offered $30 Million by Knicks

Posted by Patrick on July 31st, 2006 filed in Free Agency, NBA Basketball, New York Knicks, Washington Wizards

Seriously. It’s $30 million over five years, to which the Wizards still have a right to match. It’s fun to watch some Knicks fans explain that this is a good move because it’s not as stupid as some of Isiah’s other moves.
However, what makes this offer hilarious is a point brought forth in a post [...]

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"The Top" Video Links

Posted by Patrick on July 27th, 2006 filed in Random Stuff, Videos

Go to YouTube, search the word “basketball”, sort by ratings, and the video below turns up at the top of the list:

Personally, the video cuts totally ruined it for me. Sure, if the kid made like 20 in a row, I’d be impressed. But, two? Come on? The guy probably sat there for 2 days [...]

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Mid-weak Linx

Since I post on a 7 day per week schedule, Thursday still counts as the middle of the week for me. Despite that (or perhaps because of that), only 3 links is pretty weak. These are good links, though. That’s what people pawn off as quality over quantity.
QUALITY:
NBA.com’s Rick Kamla talking about [...]

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Fantasy Preview: Cleveland Cavaliers

Posted by Patrick on July 26th, 2006 filed in Cleveland Cavaliers, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2006

All hail the power of his name! King James has signed his extension and Cavs fans are rejoicing. Really Rejoicing. Rejoicing with crazy-ass-girlfriend like rants. All the way from a comment on a Caviler Attitude post, take it bigbuddylove06:
Listen up all you haters! If you are not from Cleveland then you dont understand how we [...]

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Fantasy Team Preview: Denver Nuggets

Posted by Nels on July 25th, 2006 filed in Denver Nuggets, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2006

On some level, it offends my sensibilities to let someone who appears to have honed their English skills listening to the Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon, Yung Joc, and Chamillionaire write my fantasy team previews for me. On another level, Sven probably did hone much of his more than adequate English listening to such [...]

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The Larry Bird of Carnivals

Posted by Nels on July 24th, 2006 filed in Boston Celtics, Carnivals, NBA Basketball

Carnival #33 hosted, appropriately enough, at the Perkolaters nee Get Buckets Brigade. An interesting take on things. I appreciate the apology.

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Ryan Gomes Revisted

Posted by Patrick on July 24th, 2006 filed in Boston Celtics, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2006

In my Boston Celtics fantasy preview, I nonchalantly penciled in Ryan Gomes for a 15th round draft pick (a last rounder in the draft that constantly plays in my head morning and night), behind Al Jefferson and Kendrick Perkins. I received a comment about sticking Gomes way down at the bottom:
Ryan Gomes definitely shouldn’t be [...]

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U Sat Ur Day on Some Linx

Posted by Nels on July 22nd, 2006 filed in Detroit Pistons, Fantasy Basketball

Fantasy! From NBA.com! They’re almost as serious as Give Me The Rock when it comes to fantasy basketball. Not as in depth as the reporting you’ll find here, but it does have an update on the new fantasy features coming to NBA.com. Jon Loomer (aka J-Loom) says he won’t rest until [...]

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Fantasy Preview: Okahoma City Supersonics

Posted by Nels on July 21st, 2006 filed in Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2006, New Orleans Hornets

Interesting… I opened up Juan’s analysis of the New Orleans Hornets, and it actually turned out to be a fantasy football anaylsis of the New Orleans Saints. Perhaps he was in too big of a hurry to get to Houston to watch the Dynamo play. You might think that’s racist, but I’m pretty [...]

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