Joakim Noah getting his putt on, at the annual Chicago Bulls charity golf tournament. The photo is just too hilarious not to go caption crazy for. It’s worth noting that Noah is cool, most of the time but leaning over using a putter a foot too short has to bring a smile to Bill Murray. Maybe Noah didn’t intend to have his picture taken. The guy behind Noah is wondering if he can get some Le Coq Sportifs in his size. Noah was at least color coordinated.
Posts Tagged ‘NBA’
Joakim Noah Plays Golf and we LAUGH!
Posted 02 Sep 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Chicago Bulls, NBA, Rae Carruth Award for Excellence, Random
Category Chicago Bulls, NBA, Rae Carruth Award for Excellence, Random
Michael Jordan wears #12!(time capsule)
Posted 01 Sep 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Chicago Bulls, NBA, Orlando Magic
Category Chicago Bulls, NBA, Orlando Magic
The Truth Sports takes a trip back in time when the NBA was a tad rougher, and some players wore shorts we now call “daisy dukes”!
February, 1990-Reggie Miller’s jersey was stolen from the Eastern Conference dressing room after the 1990 All-Star Game at Miami Arena. Then a thief pulled off the coup de grace at Orlando Arena on the following Wednesday, when he/she swiped Michael Jordan’s famous No. 23 before the Chicago-Magic game.
Someone slipped into the Bulls’ dressing room about 5:30 p.m. and stole Jordan’s jersey for the first time ever. An alert was sounded, and drastic measures taken. Orlando Arena officials sealed off the building about 6 o’clock, and departing employees were searched. The jersey was not found.
Then someone spotted a kid in the stands wearing a Jordan jersey. He had a likely story: He was a Bulls fans and bought the jersey at a sporting-goods store. The authorities apparently believed him, but they took the jersey to Jordan anyway. It was too small, so His Airness was given the a jersey with the number 12, and had the name removed off the back. Michael scored 49 points, a Bulls record for players wearing that number, but the Bulls lost in overtime. I have read that Sam Vincent gave up his jersey, but he wore the number 11, and even more interesting, Sam was traded to Orlando before the trade deadline… weird!
Jordan was none too pleased about the heist. After the jersey was stolen, he sent out word that he would not sign any autographs in Orlando, and he held true to his word. “It’s pretty irritating because you’re accustomed to certain things and you don’t like to have things misplaced,” he said.
The jersey has yet to appear to this day, and if located could be worth a small fortune. A pair of legitimately obtained Jordan game shorts sold for $15,000 at an Orlando auction back in 1990.
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Tickets go on sale for NBA games in London
Posted 01 Sep 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets, Toronto Raptors
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets, Toronto Raptors
Tickets have gone on sale for the first regular-season NBA games in Europe.The New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors will play a pair of games at the O2 Arena in London on March 4-5. The NBA is planning a week of activities across Britain, including basketball clinics and 3-on-3 competitions.
Nets guard Devin Harris says “Everyone involved in bringing the games to London is excited about playing in one of the world’s great cities.” This announcement follows the success of four sold-out NBA Europe Live games in London from 2007 through 2010, with this year’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves selling out in record time. The NBA’s increasing presence in the UK has helped basketball participation double over the past four years with the sport reaching new levels of popularity.
The NBA became the first American professional sports league to stage regular-season games outside of North America when the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz opened the 1990-91 season with two games in Tokyo as part of the NBA Japan Games. The NBA has staged a total of 13 regular-season games in Japan and Mexico since 1990. The Los Angeles Lakers will face the Minnesota Timberwolves on Oct. 4 in this year’s installment of the league’s European tour.
Tickets can be purchased at www.theo2.co.uk.
Derek Fisher interviews Kobe Bryant on Rome is Burning(video)
Posted 28 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, YouTube
Category Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, YouTube
Derek Fisher guest hosted Rome is Burning earlier this week. Kobe Bryant stopped by to get interviewed by his long time teammate.
YouTube Friday!
John Wall Showing Why He Was The #1 NBA Draft Pick At The Elite 24 Midnight Scrimmage
Carmelo Anthony “The Rise”
Kobe Bryant on “All That”
US routs Greece in final exhibition
Posted 25 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Team USA
Category Team USA
United States defeated Greece 87-59 on Wednesday in their final tuneup before the world championships.Unlike the close call with Spain, the Americans were never threatened. Greece, one of the favorites going into the Worlds, was determined to show little against a potential medal foe. The Greeks rested several top players, including “Baby Shaq,” Sofoklis Schortsanitis.
Derrick Rose ran the team seamlessly making his first five shots, scoring 13 points and was named Player of the Game. Eric Gordon led the team with 18 points.
Their quickness on defense resulted in 24 turnovers, helping the U.S. build a 42-32 lead by halftime. The U.S. then went on a 28-12 run in the third quarter to put the game away.
Forward Costas Tsartsaris scored 17 of his team-high 24 points in the first half for Greece, which was playing less than a week after a bench-clearing brawl in a game against Serbia.
ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla suggested, not so subtly, that the American team was better off without Celtics guard Rajon Rondo. USA Basketball announced Tuesday that Rondo was withdrawing to attend to personal business.
The world championships begin Saturday in Turkey.
姚明 Yao Ming cleared to play
Posted 24 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Houston Rockets, NBA
Category Houston Rockets, NBA
The 7-foot-6 Yao sweated through a gray T-shirt during a vigorous workout for reporters at the Toyota Center. He mostly worked on post moves with teammate Chuck Hayes and 7-footer James Cripe, a player in the NBA’s developmental league. The amount of times Cripe and Hayes fooled Yao with the ball fake was tad troubling.
“I am very excited,” Yao said Tuesday. “I am just looking forward to playing a great season. I think I can count on my foot now.”
Tuesday’s activity served as the latest indication that the 7-time All-Star is well on the road to recovery from the fractured left foot which cost him the entire 2009-10 season. The workout came a day after Rockets Consulting Physician Dr. Tom Clanton revealed that the hairline fracture in Yao’s surgically repaired foot has fully healed.
“That’s just the confidence,” Yao said. “I think everybody would have that after a foot injury, and (I’m) just still a little bit weak on that. I just need to continue to build on that. Compared to two months ago, it’s really a lot better.”
Happy Birthday Kobe!
Posted 23 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, Random
Category Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, Random
White House having some fun!
Creeping out the ESPYS!!
Hanging out with Spike and MJ!
Nice Kicks: For The Love of The Game(Video)
Last week Nike, Jordan Brand, and Converse joined forces to celebrate the game of basketball and the culture that surrounds the sport in New York City. Hear from NBA elite, world class USAB players and coaches, and the greatest of all time on what the love of the game means to them in this amazing documentary by Nice Kicks.
LeBron James opens up to GQ!
Posted 17 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, NBA
Category Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, NBA
LeBron James is featured on the cover of the September edition of GQ. (Ben Watts/GQ)
Limited in his comments in the wake of his dramatic free-agency shift from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat, LeBron James opened up in an interview with J.R. Moehringer for the September edition of GQ.
At a time when James was being obsessively shielded from the world by his team of handlers, J.R. Moehringer had unprecedented inside access: a pair of face-to-face meetings shortly before The Decision and a follow-up phone call six days after the fact. During that postmortem interview, when Moehringer asked James what he’d change if he had a do-over, James replied, “Nothing at all.”
LeBron took a dislike to those who questioned a focus other than toward the sport.
“People questioning how much I love the game,” he said, “that’s never been something I haven’t cherished. Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, who ripped James for his choice to go to Miami, was also a topic of conversation in the GQ story.
“I don’t think he ever cared about LeBron,” James said. “My mother always told me: ‘You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You’ll get a good sense of their character.’ Me and my family have seen the character of that man.”
GQ interviewed J.R. Moehringer on the post-Decision aftermath, predicts how the first season in Miami will go down, and crowns the single most insane moment from his time with James,
