Sports 4 Dorks

“Coach…it hurts when I suck.”Cleveland Cavaliers: The Cavs hit a missing rung in their climb back to semi-respectability, losing 90-81 to the Atlanta Hawks. Lebron James scored more points in the fourth quarter (14) than any of his teammates did in the entire game. Seriously, the Cavs (James excepted) shot the ball like they were […]

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For Rudy Gay, maybe the best idea to try in the NBA All-Star weekend slam dunk competition will come from a bent rim in a New York City playground, the dirt driveway of a farmhouse in France, an oceanfront court in Sydney where two teenagers lower a rim to 9 feet to dazzle the Memphis […]

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With three games on the schedule, a blowout scheduled for TNT’s first game, and a downer pairing of two bad
defensive teams as the alternate, it would seem that picking Warriors/Nets
would be making the best of a bad situation.
Not true. The "Game to Pay Attention To" doesn’t mean "best"
or "closest" game of the evening, it […]

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A look around the league and the web that covers it.
It’s also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren’t
always listed in order of importance. That’s for you, dear reader, to figure
out.
C: WIZZNUTZZ.
With Rod Strickland becoming Director
of Student-Athlete Development at Memphis,
WIZZNUTZZ
is diagramming just how this will affect the student body’s sausage
intake. You […]

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I can’t believe that I’m about to link to something
from TMZ.com, but I can always blame it on the cold.
No I can’t. This is pretty stupid, and I know that it’s
stupid going in, but I haven’t seen it anywhere else, so I’m throwing it up
here:
Ron Artest tried to get into an L.A.-nightclub the other
day, and […]

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I’m only 51 pages into Wilt,
1962, which is pretty pathetic considering the fact that I picked the book
up about two weeks ago. I’m a pretty fast reader, and could probably knock it
off in two long afternoons, but with about two hours between the end of the
bloggin’ day and the start of each night’s games, I’m […]

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Kids, it’s time to pick a point guard for the All-Star team.
The way I see it, you have two choices.
This guy: 
37 minutes per game, 11.4 points on 37 percent shooting,
33.5 three-point shooting, 10.5 assists to 3.8 turnovers, 8.3 rebounds, doing
his damage on a 18-23 team. Good defender.
Or this guy: 
31 minutes per game, 12.1 points on […]

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My tonsils are roughly the size of Phil Jackson’s ego right
now, so you’ve been warned … 
Toronto 114, Boston
112
This was such a fantastic game; Boston
really had no reason to be in it due to Toronto’s
white (usually) hot shooting: 58 percent from the field, 71.4 percent from long
range, 19-19 from the line. And yet, the Celtics hung […]

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One of our favorite, mostly forgotten, plays. Grant Hill
crosses Dan Majerle over, and dunks on Alonzo Mourning.

It’s from the 1996-97 season, where Hill’s Pistons developed
into a top tier NBA team (even after losing Allan Houston) after languishing
amongst the .500 the season before. As a bonus, Grant Hill’s going to show you
how nice Sprite can be: […]

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Go Around the Association presented by T-Mobile for a recap of Thursday’s games.

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