Give Me The Rock

It’s not often that one gets selected to host a Carnival. It’s certainly less often when Matt wants that Carnival to happen right around when your blog is celebrating it’s Blogiversary. So, without further Ado, Happy 3rd Blogiversary to Give Me The Rock!

Oh, and a Carnival too… Let’s see what we gots…

I have voluntarily submitted for Matt his post regarding BlogABull’s 4th Blogiversary. Yeah, he beat me out by just over a year. In the comments on that post, he points out that Desipio has been around in one form or another for 10 years. I’m tempted to argue that if it’s not called the same thing it doesn’t count, but I was over at Blogspot for a good 8 months, and I’m not going to easily give that up, so here’s to GMTR making it to 10 years!

Speaking of the Bulls, here’s an interview by Mike North of Joakim Noah. It’s an audio interview, and if Mike North wasn’t so annoying, it’d be an excellent interview. I’m liking Joakim.

Speaking of liking players: Bright Side of the Sun has a double-wide post on Steve Nash’s Charity Game. The second post has something about wanting to get close to the players. Thanks for writing that up, Sue B. Next time, Sue, maybe you need to work on your outfit. I’m thinking something like this girl has:

Next up, from NBA Glue, something that fantasy heads can appreciate: Starting 5s for teams for which you might not know the starting 5s. Or if you’ve been taking the summer off like the guys at Fantasy Basketblog, this is an easy way to catch up on what’s been going on. The NBA Glue is also holding things together with a preview of the Atlantic Division teams. Another good way to catch up in case you’ve been frozen in carbonite.

Kind of looks like he got hit with the NBA Glue.

Speaking of NBA Glue, Ryan McNeill from HoopsAddict brings together Matt Kolsky from the Chicago Sports Review (holla!) and D-Wil from The Starting Five for a Podcast about the Eastern Conference teams at the Vegas Summer League. For those of you that aren’t podcastingly inclined, you can also read a summary of the audio file. I, myself, listen to several podcasts, but I have been holding out from making one for at least 2 of GMTR’s 3 years on the web. Everyone says I’m a bit of a low-talker and/or I mumble when I’m not really making a point, so I don’t think I’d make the best podcaster unless I pretended to be someone I’m not.

Speaking of someone I’m not, I’m not a Sports Agent. Nor do I want to be one. But Paul Shackman and Darren Heitner and a bunch of other guys do. In their submissions, they talk about what to do with Yi Jianlian now and Kevin Durant’s shoe deal with Nike, which is evidently the second largest endorsement deal ever [citation needed].

Speaking of endorsement deals, Give Me The Rock recently signed Rachel for $1 to tell people “If you like basketball, it’s pretty good. It’s really not that dorky or anything.” I think we might have overpaid for that one.

Speaking of Rachel, I’m sure that many visitors here wish she was the one running this Carnival, even though I’m sure those same visitors don’t actually realize they wish she was the one running the Carnival. If you can imagine the referrals to this site, the majority of which come from Google Images, then you can come to some understanding of what I mean.

Speaking of hot girls associated with the Nets, check out this post from Becky and El Friends Du Nenad with Nenad Krstic’s girlfriend.

Speaking of ways to sneak in posts with cool segues out of 8th grade, here’s Steve - with no experience with the Carnival - taking it to the rack strong! By rack, I was going for something related to Nenad’s girl or something attached to a dancer, but I’m not sure that it came across clearly enough for those of you who don’t have your mind in the gutter. So, just so you know, I was going for “taking it to the rack.”

Oh, and here’s the links:
http://mvn.com/nba-takingittotherack/2007/07/25/finding-perspective-while-we-search-for-a-fix/
http://mvn.com/nba-takingittotherack/2007/07/22/donaghy-and-vick-tip-of-the-iceberg/

Speaking of: SCANDAL ROCKS THE NBA

Trusted Advisor which I’m not sure is an actual NBA blog has a post about the NBA and it’s newly found need for transparency.

Speaking of more posts about the scandal:
With Malice on gambling in sports and Epic Carnival (a new one to me) find the NBA at fault for the reasons behind the scandal and With Malice has another post to help us find our way after the scandal.

The SportsBiz blog has a post about how no one will let the NBA into Vegas now that there’s the whole betting on games thing.

Speaking of other things the NBA shouldn’t do is: allow players to make more rap albums. Of course, the WolvesWatch says that Troy Hudson’s new album isn’t too bad. I got a little hyped up for Ron Artest’s album, but T-Hud isn’t going to even get me to think about going to iTunes, let alone Amazon or something.

Speaking of the Timberwolves, the College Wolf at the Twolves Blog has a pretty in depth post about how to fix the Wolves. The need an in depth plan like that. Cause, well, they’re not really going anywhere as they are right now. Kevin Garnett needs to make a Daughtry-like album to express his anguish.

NOTE: This was written before I heard about the Garnett trade

Speaking of (see above) the Sports Biz blog, they have an article on the people buying part of the Hornets. Maybe they should have held out for a share of the Sonics. Or at least a piece of GMTR blogiversary cake.

Speaking of holding out, I am holding out on posting a review of the book authored by a guy who is interview here because I haven’t had time to finish it. But since I grew up in Portland, and now live in Chicago, I am 100% sure that the 1984 draft was the most important draft in my personal NBA history. Read an interview with the guy who wrote a whole book about it, and you’ll see how it changed not just Portland and Chicago, but the entire NBA forever.

Speaking of drafts that are probably important in the personal history of other authors of this blog LOY’s PLACE remembers Reggie Lewis.

Speaking of Celtics swingmen, Matty G - a member of Red’s Army - tells readers (and Celtics fans in general) why to be patient with Gerald Green. And it’s not just that his name works really well with the team’s color scheme.

NOTE: This was written before I heard about the Garnett trade. So, now I guess it’s the Twolves’ fans who will have to wait for their young stars to bud, while the Celtics dominate the East.

Speaking of dominating the East:

And if case you needed a post somehow related to the above subject matter, please click this link to get to the Washington Wizards Blog.

Speaking of posts that will make people happy, Epic Carnival has an opinion on the always opinionated Stephon Marbury and his desire to play in Italy a la David Beckham in reverse. Except not as good looking. Nor famous. Nor with a good looking, famous wife. But they will both be playing sports that no one in the country really cares about.

So there’s your Carnival of the NBA #47, aka stealing everyone’s thunder to celebrate GMTR’s 3rd Blogiversary. Want to celebrate your own blogiversary by hosting the Carnival? Or maybe you don’t have an upcoming blogiversary, but want to host the Carnival anyway? Just click on over the the Carnival of the NBA group on BallHype and you can have your cake and eat it too.