The NFL Draft is upon us, which means some poor 340-pound sucker is going to spend 4 hours in the green room or eight hours at home with relatives and friends waiting for his name to be called. Mel Kiper will come out of his burrow. People will stay glued to their television sets for hours waiting for the next left tackle from Podunk State to be picked. I don’t get it. The NBA does the draft right. Just a couple minuts
If you take Chris “Birdman” Andersen’s stats and project them over 48 minutes, the NBA’s most colorfully tattooed player would be averaging about 36 points and 22 rebounds in the playoffs. Of course, “Birdman” is not a 48-minute player, but an argument can be made that he’ll se a serious uptick in playoff minutes as the Miami Heat continue to advance. And on a side note, Andersen is trying to trademark the name “Birdman” with the U.S. Patent Office — much
MIAMI – The 12-0 run. That was all it took to separate the men from the boys in the Miami Heat’s 98-86 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in Tuesday’s Game 2 of their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at AmericanAirlines Arena. And two bench players – forward Chris Andersen, a.k.a. the Birdman, and guard Norris Cole – led the way. Not LeBron James, not Dwyane Wade and not Chris Bosh. “It’s not surprising,” James said. “That’s what they bring, that’s what our bench
I touched on this in yesterday’s MVP rankings, and I did it again in this interview with CineSport’s Noh Coslov. I called Chris Andersen the “missing link” for the Miami Heat, and you can add your own joke if you like. [Read more…]
Frank Vogel conceded the Eastern Conference to the Miami Heat on Saturday night prior to his Indiana Pacers’ loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, stating the obvious — there is no hope of catching LeBron James and Co. for the No. 1 seed. This came one day after Pacers point guard George Hill, an Indianapolis native, criticized the local fans because so many of them were cheering for the Lakers during their visit to Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Friday night. You look southward
Generally, as a rule (unwritten, of course), anytime that you do something to which the reaction would be, “Don’t quit your day job,” you know that you’ve probably embarrassed yourself.
Who was that masked man? Kyrie Irving (40 PTS, 5 AST, 3 REB, 2 STL) hit 16 of 24 shots to win the PG battle over Rajon Rondo (17 PTS, 13 REB, 8 AST) and lead the shorthanded Cavaliers to an impressive win. [Read more…]
Full disclosure: Greg Oden has always been one of my favorite players. Maybe it’s because of this commercial, maybe because of how fun his Ohio State team was to watch, maybe it’s just that I really like big men who get absurd amounts of rebounds and appear to be older than 50. [Read more…]
