i had a question for ya'll similar to emeka's?

who wins in a basketball tournament (first to lose 2 is out):

with everyone in their prime by decade (kinda difficult to separate guys out but i will try---i tried to put the guys in the decade in which they were at the height of their careers)

(1) designates starter...ace stated team millenia would win but i just named starters in that case..does this change your opinion

team 80s:

(1) Magic, isiah, gervin, (1) glide, dr J, (1) larry bird, (1) mchale, james worthy, moses, (1) kareem
i am struggling with a back up to mchale so i will go with another small

team 90s:
(1) stockton, gary payton, reggie, (1) jordan, (1) scottie, mullin, (1) barkley, malone, (1) dream, ewing

team millenia:
(1) kidd, CP3 (sorry ace), wade or AI (who makes the cut), (1) kobe, (1) lebron, melo or pierce (who makes the cut), (1) duncan, garnett, yao, (1) shaq

i can't decide....i am partial towards the 80s team....too much clutchness

The Lakers & Rockets Get Physical

So I'm sure most of us saw the Lakers game live last night, that is real playoffs basketball. In my biased opinion I don't think anyone should get suspended (Kobe for the elbow or Fischer). I also don't think Fischer or Artest should have been tossed out of the game.

Scolia had that hit coming, he had been playing like a punk and tried to get in Odom's face earlier that quarter. He shouldn't have been lazy and set a screen with his ass hanging high in the air. If he had lowered his center of gravity like you're supposed to he would have been fine. Now this was a pre-meditated lacrosse hit by Fischer who probably realized Scolia sets lazy picks. I have no problem with it, would have called it a personal foul and told Scolia to stay on his feet. I could have dealt with a flagrant 1, but maybe because it was called a 2 he won't get suspended.

What I don't like is how close the refs decided to call the game after Ron Artest got ejected. Almost all contact became a foul. The Lakers were in the penalty in the 4th within 4 minutes or less. Kobe got a tech for telling Battier he couldn't guard him after he drained a 20 footer in his face.

Opps Upside yo head

bret farve? to play or not to play

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4142857

honestly i have no issues with someone being indecisive (this happens with everyone with retirement for the most part).....

but he put off bicep surgery and he is at the point where to me it seems like he doesn't like the preparation part anymore at ALL....i just don't know if you can play pro sports with "distaste" for workouts and practice....this is fine if you want to have a middle of the road career but if you want to play at the HOF level at an older age you have to tough it out thru the hard part.....he said this i believe previously..."i like playing, i don't like monday thru saturday". this is rough for his teammates (see roger clemens coming back to the yankees for the games he pitched only and k rhodes and t jones last year with bret) and since he is old he needs work harder to be in game shape....

what about tavarvis jackson?

Pete Rock talking about the Shut Em Down remix

2001 MacDonald's all american....David Lee

do you guys remember and angel and ace trying to pretend like biedrins is just as athletic as david lee...."biedrins could have won the dunk contest at 17-18 too". i don't think so....not sure if biedrins can do these dunks now (but definitely not as a teen).

some notables in this one:
T.J Ford, Jawad Williams (he is the fifth starter on the UNC championship team with marvin williams, mccants, felton, may), Julius Hodge (Trevor's boy...he got shot while playing with the sonics but its been a struggle for him to play at that level now), and James White (went to UF but could not get along with donovan and transferred to Cincy; he now plays with the spurs reuniting with matt bonner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EAL9Tj-8FU

bill simmons at it again with bulls celts

i think this dude has my dream job...writing about sports but tying in pop culture....
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090501&sportCat=nba

anyway more good points

"Two and a half minutes left and we have the ball. Again, they can't stop us. So Doc brings in our worst player -- our least intelligent player, our most ineffective player, the master of the fantastic drive/missed layup -- and takes out Big Baby when he was our second-best player tonight? And all because Chicago went small? SO WE'RE REACTING TO A DESPERATION COACHING MOVE BY VINNY DEL NEGRO!!!!! REALLY, THAT'S WHAT WE DID?????????"

i like tony allen....he was money before he dunked the ball after the whistle and blew out his knee to further reiterate his 'our least intelligent player' point "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le8rMnL56w8&feature=related. very unfortunate...dude was on his way

"The great Ray Allen became a minus-130 favorite in the "Reggie Miller versus Ray Allen" argument and might have to change his name to "The Great Ray Allen."

dude i was just having this argument at lunch....i don't know....i like to think reggie is the second best SG I HAVE SEEN PLAY. but i like ray allen more off the dribble....i still would go to reggie down three before ray but it is very, very, very, very close....its a toss up.

"then a WNBA player dunked on Paul Pierce"
"When Noah stole the ball from Pierce and dunked on him, I threw a tantrum like a little kid. I screamed out a slew of F-bombs. I ran outside my house and screamed some more. How could the 2008 Finals MVP commit such a dumb foul? He had five! Didn't he know he had five???? And what's worse than a Jo-No celebration at the expense of your own team? I screamed and screamed and screamed. That play ripped my heart out."

this is why i love noah....he is probably the most annoying guy ever but i would have him on my team any day....he knows how to win and how to lead (UF will do that for you...ask TIM TEBOW another annnoying WINNER and leader that does not necessarily have stellar skills)....i recall peopl getting mad with him a year back win he was a rookie demanding that his team was a soft bunch of quitters that didn't knwo how to win and then said basically i am not use to being a loser...peopl thought he was out of line because he was a rookie....well where are those peopl at now after he straight humiliated the 2008 championship MVP (kinda reminds me of horford last year barking at pierce after hitting that jumper to force game 5 or 7 in boston i think...even though he lost and noah may lose i would love to see that out of my teammates) . noah will never be great (maybe good is within reach) but there is a difference (not tangibly but intangibly) between he and verajoa....i would take the side show bob version in chicago..... paul was hoping that noah as a lanky big man would kicked the ball off his foot only to end up with it on his dome piece....he used to do this all the time at UF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GOowP3BSeQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouTOQloka_0&feature=related