Video: Alexey Shved Learns About Trick or Treating

hahahahahahaha, oh alexey.

His accent, the way he hums when he walks around the T'Wolves office and way he says "give me one please"(0:56) just boosted him up to #1 in my rankings of most hilarious international players off-the-court. The previous leader being giannis "says 'doug-ieeee' while dougie-ing" Antetokunmpo.

Video: A Peek at how Solomon Hill Gets Treated By Paul George And Roy Hibbert

Just when you thought that it was kinda cute that Paul George was just hanging by Solomon Hill's locker and that it was more chill to be a rookie with Indiana than over with those cleveland folks and that sassy bully Jarret Jack, Roy Hibbert makes an appearance.

Look at Solomon's reaction.  No way he or any Pacer rookie ever forgets  the donuts.

Halloween Costume Champs: OKC THunder

Happy Halloween everybody.  Although the holiday typically involves little kids dressing up as cute animals and little animals being dressed up like little kids, with the NBA season starting right around Halloween, I would say over the last couple years, I'm begun associating the day more with gigantic NBA players dressing up in ridiculous costumes.

This year's outstanding dresser-uppers have got to go to the Thunder and their firm commitment to the culturally popular (see Nick Collison's costume below), the cliche (KD's Jason mask with what looks like regular clothes from his closet), and the classic (Serge Ibaka's outfit also below).

Noteworthy for 10/30/2013

What just happened: Heat were down 19-0 to start their game against the...Sixers.  Then they decided to start playing like the champs and took a 9-point lead going into the 4th.  Long story short, they blew that lead and end up losing by 4 to the same Sixers that have guys you wouldn't even recognize in a Justin Bieber wig.

Ballin':  Kevin Love hit a 3 to push the game into overtime. Then he asked for lots of noise.  The Plumlee that plays for the Suns had 18 and 15, which is impressive.  Even more so when you consider that he only allowed Lamarcus Aldridge to grab four rebounds.  Klay Thompson was 15 for 19 from the field and had 38 points in 3 quarters.

Video: Anthony Bennett Already Forgot The Donuts

Maybe we should be kind of nervous for Anthony Bennett, the season is barely in its infancy and he's already forgetting his responsibilities.  I mean if an experienced employee (Jarret Jack) needs to dress up a promising new-comer (Bennett) in a ridikilous outfit to make sure he's less forgetful, I say 'bring on the colorful vests and matching fedoras'.

Video: Tnt's NBA Future Promo Is Kind Of Creepy and Cool at the Same TIme

A lot of these things could happen in the new NBA season, or if you're like me, they may have already happened in Association mode of your last NBA 2k13 season.

Metta World Peace Took A Subway to His First Knicks Game

Thanks to the brother of the forward formerly known as Ron Artest, we got news this afternoon that Metta (or Ron), actually took a subway to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks home opener vs the Bucks.

Judging by the photos posed by reporter Jim Baumbach, it looks like things went as planned. However, I couldn't help but wish that the following might have happened for MWP's trip to his Knicks debut.

1) Metta gets lost, ends up at Barclays Center.

2) Metta dons the fake beard and cowboy hat he wore on Jimmy Kimmel as his undercover garb. 

3) Metta brings Beno Udrih along and everyone thinks Metta is Ethan Hawke's body guard.

Noteworthy for 10/29/2013

Too Tall was that Roy Hibbert guy as he grabbed 12 boards in the first quarter.  He finished with 16 total and 7 blocks.  There was basically nothing to cheer for the Magic besides Victor Oladipo returning to his Indiana roots.

Two Pretty Good & One Pretty Gross Quote for Tonight's Lineup of Games

Magic vs. Pacers

From Orlando Sentinal:

"It should be fun," Magic small forward Maurice Harkless said. "It's going to be a good measuring stick for us. They're a good team, a great defensive team. It's just going to give us a chance to go out there and see where we are."

Bulls vs. Heat

Per the AP:

“When Dallas got their rings [on Christmas Day 2011], we wanted to embarrass them on their home floor, wanted to defecate on their night,” Bosh said of a Mavericks team that beat the Heat in the Finals in June 2011. “We know [the Bulls] want to do that to us and they want to spoil what we have going.”

Clippers vs. Lakers

According to Mike Bresnahan, LA Times:

“I respect what they’re doing and what they’ve done, but still, they’re nothing like the Lakers,” Kaman said Monday. “You look up here at all the championships. They’re never going to have that. It’s never going to happen. I don’t see it.
“There’s just something about the Lakers. The history behind everything. It just makes it that much sweeter.”

I'm sure you were able to distinguish between the three.

Homan League Preview

So the goal is to do a review of the Homan League at the start of each week.  Since opening day of the season is actually tomorrow, and we just drafted about 2 days ago, I'm not gonna be able to do that. Instead, heres a quick preview based on those draft results.  Team names are italicized.

Big Bullies (Jae's Dazzling team) trio of meanies with Pekovic, J'kim Noah and president of intimidating-centers club, Kevin Garnett.

What does that word really mean (Swagger): drafted a most appropriate mascot in "(Swagger minus 'ger' plus 'gy') P".

Two Picks, Two Really Different Sized Players (Sasquatch): took a chance on giant Greg Oden having some fantasy impact and made a sneakily good pick with the diminutive but super-talented Isaiah Thomas.

Rookies (Clipper Nation): top overall pick Anthony Bennett as well as the early ROY favorite in Victor Oladipo.

All-International Team (Kobeking): Pau, Enes, Calderon, Gallo, Batum.  Plus, Kyrie was born in Australia and Farmar's mom is from Israel.

Video: Uncle Drew Goes to Chicago

It must be Christmas for commercials starring our fave nba stars.  Early this morning there was the Lebron 'Rocky'-like Nike ad, then Blake Griffin teamed up with that weird guy from 30 rock for another Kia commercial and then Pepsi decided to release part III of the Uncle Drew Series.

Wont spoil the deets of this video, but if you caught the premise of the 1st one and the special guest in the 2nd, be prepared to be entertained by more sweatpants-wearing pretend oldies.

Do You Know This NBA Player: Probably Not Related to Justin Bieber

In an effort to recognize all bajillion nba players in the league, when I randomly see nba guys dressed up in ways that make them hard to distinguish, I will share the photo and a contest out of it.  Comment if you know who is in the photo.  Prizes are available, but not that great.

Here is a nba dude that decided to dress up as the Biebs for some early Halloween celebrating.

First person to comment who this is, is really good at not being thrown off by sandy blonde wigs:

HINT: He also makes for a good valentine card meme

Sophomore Year of Hoopology

Hey Hey Homan League members and all others.  Hope you're as excited as I am for another season of basketball.  I know you're probably wondering what this is so please allow me to do my very best to explain.

1) My name is Benson and for as long as I can remember, I've had but only 2 hobbies: making jokes and loving basketball.

2) Last year, in an effort to mash up these two interests of mine and also to  make the fantasy basketball league I was involved as fun as possible, I started this blog.  I decided to chronicle the nba and fantasy basketball season as much as I could while still holding down a full-time job and not upsetting my extremely beautiful and even more gracious girlfriend fiancee (yeah, i know. go me).

3) I really didn't know what I was doing most of the time, but I found that I really did enjoy highlighting things that were happening both in the NBA and within our fantasy league as you can see by the archives.  I wrote a extremely  long-winded explanation  about why I was doing this and posted a lot of sillyness; sometimes with photoshop and sometimes with poetry and sometimes with both.

4) If you choose to visit the blog, what can you expect? 

I will post photos/gifs/videos/tweets/vines/etc about what's happening in the NBA as filtered by my feedly account and goofy brain.  Recommendations are welcome and hoped for.

I will recap things happening in the 'Homan League' such as free agent pick-ups/trades/DNP's because someone went to the movies on Friday night and forgot to set their lineup for the early morning ABC game on Saturday.

5) If this isn't your cup of tea, then s'all good man, no kevin-love lost here. Enjoy the season as you normally would.  If it is, I really hope you'll continue visiting the blog and laugh along with me as we enjoy all the goodness that is the NBA.

Video: Bucks Do that Weird Starbucks Drake Hands Thing

11 days until the new season and couldn't find any better reason to revive this ole thing than something culturally relevant (kinda) and hilarious (for sure).