Happy Birthday Russell Westbrook: A List of Presents He Could/Should Receive

For fear of you guys criticizing me tomorrow for not doing this for Metta World Peace's 34th birthday, I will still go with my gut and post a list of presents that I wish I could give Russ this year.

1) More 90's Cartoon shirts
2) Less Tyler the Creator/Tommy Bahama Shirts
3) Mike D'antoni as a coach (but as of 7AM PST, that is no longer a possibility.  Thanks a lot, Jim Buss for ruining this joke).  So at least the point-guard friendly offense D'antoni runs.
4) Lil Bow Wow's face photoshopped onto his body, or his face on Bow Wow's body. Who can tell the difference??
5) More roller blade J's
6)  Less frameless post-game glasses, more Tony parker in-game goggles.
7) Joakim Noah's finger guns dance to add in with his pistol gunzz celebration
8) Permanent physical and mental reminder to never get this hair cut again

Please feel free to add in any other gift ideas!

Highlight: Jerryd Bayless Gets the Huge Block which Leads to Wayne Ellington Knocking Down The Transition Three

Huge day for Wayne Ellington (7 Treys), and great effort from his Ramon Session-Carloz Boozer looking backcourt mate.

League Pick'em: Week 3

Week 3 of the season is upon us!  After two entertaining weeks of action, the Knicks are undefeated and the Bulls and Sixers are on top of their divisions with their star players out.  The Heat, Thunder and Spurs are expectantly on top, but the Clippers and Memphis are unexpectedly right up there competing for the top spots in their conferences.

8 out of 10 members of the league made picks this week but we are still waiting on Challah and Clipper Nation to join in on the fun. Although it was a more predictable week of action, the Kings had a surprise victory over their northern california neighbor, Warriors.

For this week, we have some competitive games to watch out for with the Heat taking on the Clippers on Wednesday Night and what should be an entertaining saturday game between upstart Nuggets and steady Spurs.  Happy Pickings!

Recap

Pick 10 of the Last Week

11/5
Knick v. Sixers
Pacers v. Spurs
Blazers v. Mavs
Warriors v. Kings

11/7
Suns v. Bobcats
Nets v. Heat

11/8
Clippers v. Blazers

11/9
Jazz v. Nuggets

11/10
Lakers v. Kings

Match-up of the Last week (MOTW)

gmachine v. skiptomylou

A tie! Everyone who participated gets points for this pick 'em, which basically means these points don't really matter.

Flashback Friday: When Durant, Harden and Green Lip-Sung Trey Songz

The year was 2009.  Sophomores Kevin Durant and Jeff Green enlisted the help of a gregarious rookie by the name of James Harden after a morning/afternoon of practice.

Utilizing the increasingly popular micro-social media app twitter and add-on, twitvid, KD shared this improptu video that he, Green and Harden filmed.

The lighting? A bit foggy.  The video editing?  Elementary.  The performance? Phenomenal compared to official music videos made by other nba superstars.



In hindsight, you can also see the personality of each of these guys based on their performance.

Durant: Clearly the leader and initiator of the sing-a-long. His humbleness is clear in how he gives up the spotlight to Harden during the interlude. 

 

Harden: The charisma and talent is there, but you can tell that he would have shone just as bright had he been spotlighted more.

 

Green: A good back-up singer. A bit awkward with his choice of dance moves.

 

Westbrook: Not visible. Probably in the next room filming a song of his own.