Many basketball fans, especially Chicago Bulls fans, have lasting memories of an exhausted and visibly weak looking Michael Jordan playing through severe illness in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. Seeing him put up 38 points in 44 minutes for a narrow victory over the Utah Jazz set the bar for all athletes confronted with severe “flu-like” symptoms. Such was not the case for Chicago Bulls small forward Luol Deng, who missed Thursday night’s Game 6 tilt against the Brooklyn
NBA players react to wild Game 6 between Warriors and Nuggets
The Golden State Warriors are moving onto the second round of the playoffs. Most expected the inexperienced team to make a swift exit in the first round, but Mark Jackson and his squad found a way to outplay the Denver Nuggets for much of the series, thanks in large part to the star power of Stephen Curry. [Read more…]
Tweet of the Day: Royce White
Wednesday night saw the Houston Rockets go into Oklahoma City as underdogs against the Thunder and walk away with their second straight win and a lion’s share of the series’ momentum. Given the way in which the game played out, the prevailing observation—by many accounts—was that OKC seemed to have thrown in the towel in the waning minutes of the game when they opted to utilize the “Hack-an-Asik” defensive strategy with hopes of getting back into the game. The strategy backfired. Houston
Tweet of the Night: Metta World Peace shares his list of Top 5 centers
Now that the Los Angeles Lakers are down and out of postseason action, Metta World Peace has freely opened up himself on twitter about a variety of topics over the past couple of days. On Wednesday, he touched on a number of current situations, including why the Memphis Grizzlies can beat the San Antonio Spurs and how he’s not surprised by the Boston Celtics coming back against the New York Knicks. But the most notable tweet? His list of top five centers
Tweet of the Day: Portland Trail Blazers
What was for most of the season all but an inevitability is now a reality. Portland Trail Blazers rookie point guard Damian Lillard is the Kia Rookie of the Year. [Read more…]
Tweet of the Night: Draymond Green responds to George Karl’s sarcastic post-game remark
Game 5 at the Pepsi Center between the Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors proved to be quite the chippy one. Unexpectedly down 3-1 in the series and facing elimination, Denver needed to do anything it could to stay alive. Part of its tactic was to try to get in the head of Stephen Curry by playing him more physically, which appeared to help throw the point guard’s game off – he managed to score just 15 points on seven-of-19
Tweet of the Day: Funkmaster Flex
New York hip hop legend Funkmaster Flex took to the internet to further ignite the flames between the Eastern Conference rival New York Knicks and Boston Celtics on Tuesday. [Read more…]
Tweet of the Night: Metta World Peace fires back at Charles Barkley
The Spurs are older and still getting it done.Its all about chemistry. Micheal Jordan was 36 during his last title run.
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Metta World Peace
Charles Barkley never won so it is hard for him to understand what it takes to win.
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Metta World Peace
I actually like Charles Barkley , but I had to respond to his statement only because he called my team old rags or something. Kinda funny
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Metta World Peace
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