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Dope. Narrated by Michael K. Williams.
NEED to get this fly Dunk lamp by Karl Zahn which I will probably break within a month of getting it trying to shoot hoops with it. (via Joe Is The New Black)
It’s media day, two weeks before the season even begins, and Russell Westbrook is already keeping the ball out of Kevin Durant’s hands. (via nbaoffseason)
Reg-gie! Reg-gie!
What’s the lesson? Michael Jordan would tear your heart out and show it to you.
March 19, 1993
Jordan had a poor night from the field against the Washington Bullets (feels good to write “Bullets”). The Bullets took a 1-point lead with five minutes left in the 4th quarter, when Michael rattles off the Bulls’ next 11, winning the game 104 - 99. Great finish, but not the focus of our lesson.
Despite the win and his own 25-point total, Jordan was angry that the man he guarded, LaBradford Smith, scored 37. Jordan told reporters,
“That was a very embarrassing situation for me. Evidently I didn’t respect the guy and he’s certainly capable of putting up some numbers, and he did. Offensively, it wasn’t going for me and I let that effect my defensive effort and that’s something I will improve on. I look forward to the challenge.”
Jordan continued, telling reporters that Smith mocked him after the game saying,
“Nice game, Mike.”
Now, Mike wants blood, and he didn’t have to wait long. The Bulls played the Bullets only one evening later, this time in Washington. As the legend goes, Jordan promised to score LaBradford’s total from the night prior - 37 points - in the first half. Now, this is a history lesson.
March 20, 1993
Jordan starts the first quarter a perfect 8 for 8 from the floor. At the end of the first, he has 19 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals. With three seconds left in the second quarter, Jordan has 35, with two free throw attempts at the line.
Somehow, Jordan misses the second, finishing the half with “only” 36 points. The Bulls went on to rout the Bullets by 25. Jordan finished with 47 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, while guarding Smith, holding him to 5 of 12 from the floor, for 15 points, no assists, and a turnover.
A ruthless performance. One for the history books, for certain. But the story gets much better. So. Much. Better.
In 1997, Michael Jordan admitted to making the whole thing up. LaBradford never said, “Nice game, Mike.” LaBradford Smith never said a word. Jordan lied. Michael created a fake quote, a phony rivalry, just to fire himself up, so he could kill Little LaBradford and his Bullets the next night.
And in what might be the strangest wrinkle in this otherwise insane story, LaBradford Smith never denied the any of it. As a matter of fact, his Bullet teammates believed Jordan.
Don’t you get it? Michael Jordan would have to be crazy to make up a story like that, and a certifiable maniac to not only believe his own lie, but to act on it, and get his “revenge.”
It’s a good thing to remember: Michael Jordan would tear your heart out. And he’d show it to you.
Jordan: Love The Game spot, CP3, Melo and Wade take their game to various runs, the Senior League, Women’s League, Williamsburg Pick-up game, Jewish Under 40, etc. Gotta love it! (via JE Skeets)
If anyone is starting to think of Christmas gifts early, the Origin Workstation by Mirato is now at the top of my wish list. A workstation with hardwood flooring, storage shelves and a wiring management system speaks to me and my office. Head on over to Etsy, they got some over there for the cool price of $4,160.
via Freshness
If you didn’t know my pen game reaches far. Previously, I wrote for a basketball magazine named handle out of Australia, which shut down unexpectedly. The editor rose like a phoenix from the ashes and started a new mag called Buckets: The Book of Basketball Goodness. Well after much wait and further ado, Issue #2 is available, specially priced at my good man Morgan P. Campbell’s favourite price of FREE-NINETY-NINE! So head on over and check it out.
Derrick Rose is on the cover, I wrote a piece looking back at the five year anniversary of the NBA age restriction rule. Too young to ball? Heady stuff, I know. There’s a ton of quality hoops content and my man Ray Bala is thorough on the sneaker coverage as well.
MUST WATCH: Taiwanese guy jams on LeBron.
The story’s even better.
“King” James was touring Taipei, where he coached an exhibition games as a NIKE ambassador. Unhappy with his team being tied, LeBron decided to leave the bench and play. The 2-time MVP put on a show, throwing an alley-oop to himself off the backboard, and blocking three consecutive shots from his opponent.
Then this happened…
LeBron got cute at the top of the lane, so his Taiwanese defender ripped him, raced down court, and punched it on him.
The King was so rattled, he immediately came back down court, traveled and then threw the ball out of bounds.
It’s like Game 6 all over again…
Alex Owumi is an American basketball player who has spent considerable time playing professionally overeas. Most recently, he played for a club in Benghazi, Libya, and also happened to be right in the centre of the nation’s civil unrest. He shared what he saw and his struggles to get out of the country, here’s an excerpt:
Owumi first grew concerned about the situation in February, when small demonstrations started to get bigger and bigger. On February 17, real havoc began. As he was preparing to go to practice, Owumi received instructions from his club not to leave his apartment. Anti-government protesters were marching next to his building and military men were coming at them.
“I had access to the roof of my building and there were three or four tanks driving into a crowd of people,” Owumi said. “I went back to my apartment for water and as soon as I went back up, I saw 30 or 40 military men shooting at the crowd of people. There was nobody with megaphones telling people to disperse. I just saw them shooting. Not to the air or the ground. Just shooting at people. Bodies were dropping. It was happening a block away from my street.”
Check out the full account in his blog entry on HoopsHype.
MUST WATCH: “Disgusting” by Kevin Durant and James Harden
Durant knows exactly where James Harden is the whole time.
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