The Lighter Side of Sports
Basketball
And the Dipshit award for 2010 goes to…..
Mar 24th
ANDRAY BLATCHE!!! Congradulations!!!!
Wizards’ Blatche refused to play
The Washington Wizards‘ Andray Blatche(notes) may be 6’11″, but he’s looking pretty small right about now. He apparently refused to play for his team last night while they were getting handed the twelfth defeat in a row, according to Reuters. This one came at the hands of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Head coach Flip Saunders took Blatche out in the first quarter to talk to him about his work on defense and then the four-year pro refused to go back in. “I took him out of the game because I wanted to talk to him about not getting back on defense,” Saunders told reporters. “He didn’t want to hear it.”
Saunders told him that if he didn’t want to be spoken to or coached, he wouldn’t play. “We had coaches go up to him three different times. He just said he didn’t want to play,” he said.
Not a good move by Blatche.
Whats even funnier was the Wizards were actually printing THIS MOST IMPROVED FLIER FOR BLATCHE BEFORE THE GAME!
A picture is worth 1000 words….
Mar 5th
Well that is for normal pictures, this picture has got to be good for about 52,000,000. This is an actual ingame photo of the Nets playing in front of 20 thousand beer infested seats.
I don’t think I have ever seen a stadium this empty and this is freakin New Jersey, not some little town with no transportation nearby. The Washington Nationals aka the Montreal Expos laughed when they saw this photo. They were actually giving the Nets advice on how to fill the seats.
First off, everyone knew the Nets were gonna be bad this year no shock there, but this bad? no chance in hell. The fact that they are this historically bad team only makes me want to see them live and in the flesh even more. No way I was going to leave a Nets game when there are this few people. It’s disrespectful to these players with self esteem issues. I mean it’s bad enough they have to play for the Nets, a team who’s coach was forced to come down from the GM cushion to coach when he explicitly said he had no desire to. I can picture leaving my seat heading to an exit when a Nets player like Josh Boone looks at me and says “Where you going? Come on! Stick around, it’s not even halftime yet” and I would slowly shy back into my seat.
When there are about 100 fans in an NBA arena, there is no actual noise being made so anything you want to say can be heard by the players and coaches. This leads to some awesome heckle opportunities.
Thank god Stephen A Smith isn’t on ESPN anymore….
Feb 17th
Just saw his name today and I am so grateful ESPN canned this penis last year. Dude was everywhere 24/7.
Stephen A Smiff (as he pronounced it) had a radio show, tv show (Quite Frankly) pretty sure he had a cooking show on midnight as well.
All he blabbered about was black vs white issues as if he was Martin Luther King. Dude was dumber then Al Sharpton and Gilbert Arenas combined.
A couple highlights from Stephen A Smith come to mind.
- He was discussing a missed Field Goal in the last second of a football game and said this quote which is an all time favorite of mine “That’s why you should kick the field goal on 3rd down because if he misses then you can kick again on 4th”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This gem has no explanation, ESPN should have locked him onto a basketball court and told him he can never leave.
- When the Giants fired Defensive Coordinator Tim Lewis in 2006, Stephen was blasting the Giants for firing him, what was the reason Smith was upset? you guessed because he was black he said he got the raw end. He took back those words a few days later but we saw what a clown Stephen A Smiff really was
- When Byron Scott was the coach of the Hornets a few years back and replaced all the assistant coaches with “brothas” , Smiff says he was proud of Scott for doing that. Nothing needs to be said about what would ahve happened if a white radio analyst had said the same thing about a white coach.
David Lee, raped by the NBA….
Jan 29th
You gotta be kidding me! Lee didn’t warrant an all star spot? I was so disturbed by this I called the authority’s to investigate this rapage that was done to Mr. Lee
Lee was snubbed from the all star team for the immortal Al Horford?! Lee outperformed Horford in nearly every statistical aspect that counts. It looked like the Eastern Conference would snap their 18 year whiteless all star player streak, but with the snub on Lee that streak will continue to go on until Larry Bird’s son gets drafted to the Pacers.
With the likes of undeserving all stars like Iverson, Garnett, Horford on the team, Lebron was saying he was embarrassed to join such an anemic squad.
But there is some hope for Lee to be called up as a replacement for one of the players if they back out. When Iverson was sent a memo by the league that he will have to attend practice for the all star game he responded with this….
Though Lee was pissed about missing out on the game the league stretched out their warm hands and offered Lee a spot on the glorious NBA/WNBA dribbling,passing,running,hopping and dancing competition held right before the game.
Arenas meets with King Stern, says he deserves Full Year Suspension….
Jan 27th
At least the dude finally wised up and said something meaningful. Can’t understand how he won’t get more then 6 months jail time at most while Plaxico Burress is sitting two years in a joint for accidentally shooting himself in the leg. Had Plaxico had 4 guns with him at the time of the shooting maybe he would have gotten off lighter….
Talk is the Wizards could null and void Arenas 100+ million contract over this fiasco. Talk about learning a lesson, Arenas will be hesitant to use a super soaker from now on.
Rasheed Wallace fined 35K for ripping refs….
Jan 20th
http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nba/news/story?id=4842666
The NBA fined Boston Celtics forward Rasheed Wallace $35,000 for publicly criticizing game officials following Monday’s 99-90 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
Wallace
“[The officials] don’t like tough defense on [Dirk Nowitzki], so, of course, I get a whole lot of [expletive] calls,” Wallace said after Monday’s game in which foul trouble limited his minutes. “That’s how the story goes, I’m not worried about it. We’ll see them again.”
The Mavericks made a late third-quarter run with Wallace sidelined with four fouls. Asked if he thought that was the difference in the game, Wallace added, “Actually, I honestly can’t remember which one the fourth foul was, there was so many bogus [calls], but I’m not worried about it.”
Wallace was fined $30,000 earlier this season for critical comments on the officiating after Boston’s 116-103 victory over Toronto in November.
Wallace’s latest fine was announced Wednesday by NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson.
Can you imagine how much Wallace would have been set back had he said about commissioner David Stern that “he will never be the man that his mother is” ?
I recall reading that all NBA fines go to charity, so about 10 thousand Haitians were just given food and shelter because of Rasheeds insults, so Kudos to Mr. Wallace, he disguises the good things he does. He is the NBA version of Santa Clause.
Every time Rasheed tells an official to “go fuck yourself” he saves a couple of villages. The NBA should encourage this behavior, after all this is exactly what the NBA Cares and NBA is Giving Back ad campaigns are about. The NBA really should broadcast the event where they hand over a 35K check to the president of an African village or whatever and then all the little kids say thanks to Mr Wallace for his generosity.
Maybe if other players like Steve Nash and Dwane Wade weren’t such cheap pricks they would rip the refs and cause the happiness overseas that Mr Wallace and Mr Artest cause.
For 35K, i am pretty sure I would let Rasheed Wallace say whatever he wanted to me, while spinning me on a helicopter propeller and having Rex Ryan take a shit on me…
