Archive for January, 2008

60% of NBA Players Broke After 5 Years…

    The NBA Players’ Association met with the Toronto Raptors recently to discuss financial prudence among players and during that meeting cited a statistic that scared the heck out of most of the team. It was said that 60% of NBA players go broke after only 5 years of retirement! Are you kidding me?!? [...]

Home Crowds, stop talkin’ trash to Lebron!

For the second time this season a home crowd has cost its team a win against Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Why would you do this to your precious home team? They work their butt off for you and give you a huge lead, and then you go and tick the man off! The [...]

NBA Heading to India…

The NBA has most recently announced the division known as NBA China to conduct all of the league’s business in Greater China. However, in its goal to become the ultimate global sport, the National Basketball Association has begun its development in a new country, India. “India and China are two emerging markets in Asia . [...]

Sonics End Skid, Beat the Spurs?

Tonight turned out to be a nightmare for the ailing San Antonio Spurs. Earlier in the day, coach Greg Popovich decided to bench his All-Star point guard Tony Parker indefinitely while he deals with bone spurs in his left foot. Then the team found its way up I-5 to Seattle to take on a team [...]

Tony Parker out, now what for the Spurs?

Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs has found himself some bone spurs! He’s a Spur with spurs…OK bad joke. His left heal seems to be the issue and was initially not a major worry for Parker and his team, but things have changed. Does this mean the Spurs are in on the Damon Stoudamire [...]

This Year’s Super Bowl XLII Drinking Games!

The time has come gents! Super Bowl XLII Sunday approaches and that means your spectacular party should be on the mind as well as those timeless drinking games. Of course this year we have the New England Patriots vs. the New York Giants which is a fantastic match-up in itself on the field, but off [...]

Sunday Recap Day!

Another Sunday down and another amazing day of hoops! Check out the results: The Suns take down those poor little Baby Bulls. Hinrich even managed 31 points tonight; still not enough. 88-77 Phoenix. A KG-less Boston team gets dropped at the buzzer by H-E-D-O Turkoglu of all players! Boston just lost 5 of its last [...]

So I Went to Steve & Barry’s…Holy Starbury!

So I went to Steve & Barry’s today for the first time ever. You see we don’t have Steve & Barry’s in Oregon and just opened one across the Columbia River from us in Vancouver, WA. Now I’m well aware of the store and also aware that Stephon Marbury sells his inexpensive line of basketball [...]