Talk about a name from the past. This is when high school guys were taughted incredibly highly and the NBA wasn’t so dickish about letting these guys in the league. Remember Jonathan Bender? Looks like the kid might be ready to play…
After being sidelined for nearly four years, Jonathan Bender is confident a new training regimen will allow his troublesome knees to handle the pounding of playing basketball again.
The newest member of the New York Knicks was inactive for Tuesday’s game against Charlotte. Coach Mike D’Antoni said Bender will probably sit out Thursday’s game in Chicago, too. But the 7-footer with the soft shooting touch no longer has constant bone-on-bone pain from a lack of cartilage and thinks now is the good time to make a comeback after not playing since the 2005-06 season
It is a longshot? Yes. But it would be a great story. Bender, now 28 is pretty confident he could handle himself on the court. Remember, his best season was in 2001-02 where he only averaged 7 pts and 3 boards. But still, wouldn’t that be pretty badass if the guy returned and actually helped a team?
The Knicks no less? I’m rooting for the guy. To be out that long and still be thinking about the game is pretty cool. Bender could have wound up drunk or dead somewhere for all we know but he’s persisted and found a team that’s willing to take a shot.
A team could always use a skilled 7 footer and I hope that Bender helps this team
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Earlier today I mentioned how awesome a commentator I think Bill Walton is but who the hell know that this guy was such a rapper!
The clip above shows slick Bill Walton pulling out a little freestyle after his Celtics had won the championship.
This has to be the most entertaining video of the day.
[Video via NESW]
This has got to be the weakest prank I’ve ever seen. I mean, smashing someone’s hand into a plate of whipped cream? The face I can understand, but the hand? Jesus. That’s like a step below a “kick me” sign on someone’s back.
But for some reason, these fisherman think this is the best prank they’ve ever seen. Even LaTroy Hawkins (dude likes to fish) acts like he’s just been victim to the greatest practical joke of all time. I don’t get it.
The whole time I was hoping that LaTroy would pull out a gun and shoot Alton Jones in the face. Like, you can lock me in a room using pennies and put saran wrap over my toilet seat, but ain’t no motherfucker gonna put my hand in no whipped cream.
“Don’t miss it!” is probably the most harmless thing ever yelled out at a sporting event. Coach Roy Williams has to realize that. Maybe in the moment he was fired up (really?), and simply went with his gut (not always a good call), but because he did he is now the coach famous for throwing a harmless fan of the opposing team out of a game that would later become a blowout.
Asked about it afterward, Williams said, “I don’t think anybody should yell anything negative at our players. Period. Let’s don’t make it a bigger thing than it is.”
Says the guy who made a bigger deal out of it than need be.
He coaches at one of the top programs, if not THE top program, in all of college basketball. His fans are inherently cocky douchebags, much like Ohio State fans can be in football. With that in mind, does he really believe his fans haven’t said anything worse than “DON’T MISS IT!”? Obviously Williams is a smart dude, so he should know that it’d be a cold day in Hell before a North Carolina fan regress to such tame taunting.
If nothing else, I love watching the assistant coach literally mimic Williams’ every move. If only the audio were better on the video, we could probably hear him repeat him word for word.
[via Fanhouse]
Since Monday night is obviously the worst night on television (save for Monday Night Football) I did quite a bit of channel surfing last night. And finally at around 9PM I couldn’t believe my eyes. Yup, it was Dennis Miller on Monday Night Raw hosting WWE’s Slammy Awards?
Dennis Miller is introduced and walks to the Slammy Podium situated stage right. Miller goes off script (or so he says) with some of his own jokes, and bombs. He then draws comparisons between politics and wrestling. (I think this is hilarious, but the crowd is DEEEAAAADDDD!) Miller then promotes his charity, Usacares.org.
And if any of you saw last night, that quote about sums it up. Did anyone think this would come off as successful? Putting Dennis Miller’s sophisticated political jokes together with a bunch of rednecks from Texas? Um, hello? Not such a great call Mr. McMahon.
What the hell has happened to Dennis Miller? I’m 100% convinced his life has turned into utter turmoil since completely bombing on Monday Night Football (I also find it funny that last night was Monday and Miller’s on WWE and not MNF). I mean he was so out of place it wasn’t even remotely funny. In fact it was kind of serious and I might have felt bad for him for a little bit.
Now he’s doing WWE in a blazer and jeans? Did anyone catch this? He was friggin’ miserable. And having to announce wrestlers as if they were like movie stars or something? “Winner of 13 championships and a tag team title!” Man was that sad.
Miller belongs on his own talk show spitting out hatred at people. That’s the only stage he can carry, and I will add that he did carry it well for some time. But as we all know, Jon Stewart does it way way better on the Daily Show. So unfortunately for Dennis he’ll have to take any gig he can get.
I’m hearing his next job will be hosting Strong Man Competitions around the country.
Like most of us, Rick Adelman is not a fan of flying:
HOUSTON (AP)—Houston Rockets coach Rick Adelman criticized the NBA on Monday for setting up an “utterly ridiculous” schedule for his team that includes four back-to-back games over the next two weeks.
The Rockets face Detroit at home on Tuesday, then must fly to Denver to play the first-place Nuggets on Wednesday. They visit Dallas on Friday and return home to face Oklahoma City on Saturday—then have to play two games on consecutive nights twice more during Christmas week.
“We have a horrendous stretch here,” Adelman said. “I don’t know if the league really understands that they gave us four straight back-to-backs. It’s awful.”
NBA spokesman Tim Frank said in an e-mail that the league had no comment on Adelman’s statements.
I gotta go with Rick here; I think he’s got legit beef. And the fact that the NBA simply replies with “no comment” has got to be infuriating. It’s not so much the fact that the Rockets have to play back-to-back games more often than other teams, but that they’ve got to fly around to do it. And flying sucks. I know that NBA teams get state-of-the-art, comfortable planes to jet around in, but you’ve still got to deal with airports and turbulence and your ears popping every 20 seconds while you try to keep youself busy on the plane.
I’ll take the train 10 times out of 10 instead of flying. The biggest advantage is that you can pretty much sit where you want and won’t get stuck next to some moron wtih body odor who blasts his crappy music on his headphones for you to suffer through. I think that’s what Rick is really getting at here – he’s sick and tired of smelling Luis Scola’s breath and armpit odor for three hours a night. Because there’s no way that Luis Scola doesn’t stink. The entire plane must have a musk to it.
It looks like John Lackey and his mirror-cracking good looks are headed to Beantown. From ESPN:
The Boston Red Sox have reached a tentative deal with right-handed pitcher John Lackey, pending a physical, worth slightly more than the $82.5 million, five-year contract A.J. Burnett signed with the New York Yankees last year, a source familiar with the negotiations told ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark.
Lackey traveled to Boston for a physical exam Monday, fueling speculation that an agreement was close at hand.
I, for one, think this is a good deal for the Red Sox. A rotation featuing Beckett, Lackey, Lester, and Bucholz is pretty formidable and will help to counter the Yanks. Boston still needs to address their offense, but that rotation looks nasty.
But the real story here is that now, without a doubt, Boston is the ugliest team in Major League Baseball. I mean, they already had pig-nose Pedroia, the black Shrek David Ortiz, and Kevin Youkilis in the lineup, and now they add Quasimodo? It’s not even close.
