Video: A Dunk Contest with Rasheed Wallace

Thanks for hiring Sheed, Detroit.  I know he's been impactful already in teaching Andre how to be a better defender, but look at how much more funny he makes Andre's vine.  Just Awesome.

Noteworthy: 11/14/2013

Only 2 games last night but they were dandies.

Jeremy Lin was back in New York tonight as the Rockets played the Knicks.  Chandler parsons was pretty giddy after Jeremy's dunk.

Some pretty unstandard nba things happened last night including,

Dwight Howard getting his shot blocked by definitely-not-DPOY, Bargnani.

as well as Carmelo Anthony hitting an off-balanced heave of a three pointer which was called off. Lots of controversy for you to read about that play and how it affected the ending of that game, if you missed it.



Thunder v. Warriors game was too ridiculously entertaining that I neglected writing and just started renactingthe plays on my mini-hoop.  The sequence of plays that ended it:



Basically I'm leaving the recording of this game on my DVR for a little while.

Other:  The best gif involving both ricky rubio and kevin martin...

Noteworthy: 11/13/2013

Shooter:  Arron Affalo didn't miss much last night, hiting 8 threes and going perfect from the free throw line.  Here is video of all those 3-pointers he made.

Jeremy Lin also had a career high, with 9 three-pointers made.  He also dished 12 assists but turned the ball over 8 times and the Rockets lost to those overachieving Sixers.

Firsts:   "I never had a triple-double at any level, not middle school, high school, anywhere.'' - Tony Wroten after recording his first triple double last night against Houston.  It was also Wroten's first start of his career.

A lot of Assists: Ricky rubio and Chris paul both dished out 16 and stole the ball 3 times in leading their teams to victory.  Here is one particularly cool pass from Ricky:

Hmmm...Those Brooklyn Nets, who were supposed to be challenging the Heat and Pacers in the eastern conference just dropped to 0-4 on the road after getting beat by the Kings last night.

Welp:  Someone definitely should have stopped the dribble drive.  A very simple-looking game winner by Lillard



Pretty: Serge Ibaka and Matt Barnes got tossed out right before the half of the game between the Clipps and Thunder, which is probably a big reason why the Clipps made such a big run in the 3rd quarter.  However, Serge Ibaka was still in the game on this play and couldn't stop it from happening:



Nice Job:

The Jazz finally won last night.  Enes Kanter lookin' ridiculous after the game.

Knicks won on the road in Atlanta last night, getting a really good game from Andrea Bargnani for the second game in the row.  He also had this save which kinda looked like an accidental wraparound pass



You Block me, Tiago Block you:
John Wall, the one man fast break stopper.

Tiago Splitter, the stopper of John Wall (on this play at least).


HEHE: 
annnnnnnnnnnnnd my favorite highlight from the night because Kanye kind of once said..

 "HOW COULD YOU BE MO HARKLESS"


Other: Westbrook hit a three right before the half yesterday and then gave a high-five to Scott Brooks.  I cannot find this on video or as a gif, but it was hilarious, i promise...Cool dude at the head of the post is me at the Clippers/Thunder game last night...here is a video of Jordan playing beer pong while the part of that Jay-z song where Jay-z sings about Jordan is playing in the background...Classy Dwight Howard, actually the opposite...there will be some Dwyane Wade-inspired bow ties and ties for sale.

A Look at This Year's Christmas Jerseys

We are officially nearing 40 days until Christmas, and as a result all around us we can see signs of the coming holiday.  KOST 103.5 is starting their christmas music tomorrow at 3PM and yesterday, pictures of this year's "Christmas"-themed Jerseys were tweeted out as modeled by some of our fave players.  I don't know about you, but this continuing trend of using christmas themed jerseys is neat to look at, just like the holiday-themed shoes that have been the rage since the late 2000s.  Of course the classic Laker Gold and Chicago Bull home reds should never be replaced, but I'm a fan of special holiday uniforms as long as they are on par with the St. Patrick's day all-green jerseys, and/or they have additional subtle designs such as Denver's Christmas game shorts from last year .

However, the trend toward sleeved jerseys has got to stop man.  The beauty of the sleeveless NBA jerseys has always been that it in itself represents the sport.  Whether it be in some peewee city league or in the high school to the college ranks, everyone wears a sleeveless top; although many now will also layer in all kinds of other sleeved shirts (lookin at you Vince Carter and 2012-2013 Dwight Howard).

Please save us from having to wear sleevies by NOT buying these jerseys.  You can look at the whole spectrum of these yucky jerseys on nba.com as well as them being modeled below:

First, a smirky Derrick Rose and sleepy Iman Shumpert via Phil Hecken

a shiny Dwight via Jeff Zillgitt

and standard Lebron James celebration pose,via Jim Ice