Dick Move Or Brilliant Move By Jason Kidd?
Atlanta Hawks coach Mike Woodson did draw a technical in which Dallas Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki made the free throw. The game eventually went into overtime where the Mavericks beat the Hawks 111-103.
So was Mavericks guard Jason Kidd’s play a dick move or a brilliant one, I’ll let the opinion be left up to you.
But what ever your opinion is, don’t overlook the stat that Kidd pulled in his 104th career triple-double, by posting 19 points, 17 assists, 16 rebounds. Only three players have ever laid down a 15-15-15. Kidd did it back in 1996 with a 21-16-16 and the other two where Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
Juan Dixon Test Positive For Steriods In Europe
"Damn homie, in high school you was the man, homie"
Another athlete has been suspended indefinitely from play but this time the player isn’t affiliated with baseball. It’s former Maryland star Juan Dixon, who is the program’s all-time points leader, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone and was indefinitely suspended by the International Basketball Federation. Dixon is currently playing in Europe for the Spanish team Unicaja. He took the drug test in November.
He was drafted by the Washington Wizards, then played with the Toronto Raptors, Portland Trail Blazers, Detroit Pistons and was cut by the Atlanta Hawks last October before resorting to earning a paycheck overseas.
Super Bowl Hangover Hits Washington Wizards Antawan Jamison
No Blame For Wanting An Extra Day Away From Flip
The Super Bowl hangover doesn’t effect only the working man it even hits NBA superstars like Antawn Jamison who missed his team practice because he was still in Miami.
Jamison was unable to meet up with his team who was in Orlando for it’s practice today. Jamison had a suite at Sun Life Stadium to watch the New Orleans Saints but couldn’t find other means to get from Miami to Orlando, like say a rental car. He did call the team to inform them of his problems and plans on joining the team in Charlotte later in the afternoon where the Wizards will play the Bobcats on Tuesday.
The Wizards who have had what head coach Flip Saunders called “a mini-all-star break before the all-star break,” with the snow in Washington DC keeping them stranded in Orlando over the weekend which caused their home game against the Atlanta Hawks to be postponed and rescheduled for Thursday, March 11.
NBA Announces All-Star Reserves
February 14, 2010
The NBA is set to announce the All-Star reserves during tonight’s TNT games but Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski got a hold of a leaked list of the 2010 NBA All-Star reserves
Eastern Conference Reserves:
Rajon Rondo – Boston Celtics
Derrick Rose – Chicago Bulls
Paul Pierce – Boston Celtics
Chris Bosh – Toronto Raptors
Gerald Wallace – Charlotte Bobcats
Joe Johnson – Atlanta Hawks
Al Horford – Atlanta Hawks
Western Conference Reserves:
Deron Williams – Utah Jazz
Chris Paul – New Orleans Hornets
Pau Gasol – Los Angeles Lakers
Kevin Durant – Oklahoma City Thunder
Dirk Nowitzki – Dallas Mavericks
Zach Randolph – Memphis Grizzlies
Brandon Roy – Portland Blazers
It will be the All-Star debuts for seven players: Williams of Utah, Chicago’s Rose, Boston’s Rondo, Charlotte’s Wallace, Memphis Randolph, Atlanta’s Horford and Oklahoma City’s Durant.
Among the notable candidates left off the team are the Los Angeles Clippers Chris Kaman, New York Knicks David Lee and Denver Nuggets Chauncey Billups.
Former NBA Player Fired From ESPN For Haiti Letter
Disgusting
Former Atlanta Hawks,Chicago Bulls, and Phoenix Suns Paul Shirley has been fired from ESPN for his open letter to the people of Haiti.
Shirley had been an ESPN contributor since 2005 recently wrote arguing against donating to the Haiti relief effort.
In an article published Tuesday on the website flipcollective.com, Shirley bragged that he had not donated a cent to the Haitian relief effort,” and “probably will not” likening Haitians to homeless men on the street and questioning whether “much of the responsibility for the disaster should lie with the victims” of the disaster.
“Dear Haitians – First of all, kudos on developing the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Your commitment to human rights, infrastructure, and birth control should be applauded. As we prepare to assist you in this difficult time, a polite request: If it’s possible, could you not re-build your island home in the image of its predecessor? Could you not resort to the creation of flimsy shanty- and shack-towns? And could some of you maybe use a condom once in a while? Sincerely, The Rest of the World.”
– Paul Shirley
Shirley beliefs rub me the wrong way but he was born and lives in America and that gives him the right to voice his opinion as it does mine it’s just he an American without a soul. Shirley is a sorry excuse for a human being.
WTF: Atlanta Hawks Coach Mike Woodson
Uncle Leo?
Seriously, where is the dudes eyebrows. For some reason still unknown Hawks coach Mike Woodson shaved his eyebrows.
I wonder if he would have shaved them and gone with out the duct tape eyebrows would anyone have noticed?
A Game Winner & It’s Not Kobe
Jamal Crawford caps a three pointer at the buzzer to help the Atlanta Hawks win their third straight with 102-101 Phoenix Suns at home. Crawford scored 5 points in 3.5 seconds.
Atlanta Hawks Dancer Turns To Porn Star Route
Who Would Have Thought?
A question cheerleaders in the NBA are often confronted with is, “what will you do when you are done cheerleading?” For Briana, a former Atlanta Hawks dancer, the answer to that question was quite simple. Porn.
Four months after her contract with the Hawks ended, Briana, a.k.a. Brandy Blair as she is now referred to in the world of adult entertainment, landed herself a spot on the popular porn site Naughty America where her first scene was released on November 20th, titled My Wife’s Hot Friend.
“I’ve always been pretty open minded,” said Blair, “even though I had always been reserved sexually, I thought I’d give it a try. I had never even posed nude before, and all of the sudden I saw this whole other side of myself that I had never seen. It has been a very liberating experience.”
Now she can fulfill her dreams of being somebody.
Who Would Have Thought?
NBA Attendance Only Down 2% Despite Economy
Est. 1946
It’s fairly earlier so don’t shoot the messenger but the numbers are out for early attendance in the NBA and despite the economy and the earliness of the season they are only down 2% from this point last year. Also the statistic is skewed by two teams, the Philadelphia 76ers and Memphis Grizzlies, who are drawing less than 70 percent.
The 76ers averaged 15,802 in 2008-’09, in five home games this season they’ve averaged 11,377, and are down more than 20 percent of capacity from last year. The Memphis Grizzlies ranked 29th in attendance last year only filling 70 percent of their arena are now only filling 66 percent, only outdrawing the 76ers. The Detroit Pistons have cause for concern, dropping from first in average attendance to 16th, falling 19.6 percent. The Spurs, a team retooled and trying to avenge their first round playoff exit rank 12th but are down 8%
Not all is doom and gloom as the Chicago Bulls are up over 100 percent of capacity after filling 97.7 percent of the United Center last season. The Cleveland Cavilers are in a similar boat, selling out each home game so far after drawing 97.3 percent last season. The Atlanta Hawks have seen significant gains, rising from 89.4 to 95.4 percent. Even the Minnesota Timberwolves fans are showing support no that Kevin McHale is ruining their team by filling their stadium by 8% more than last season.
Source: SportsBusiness Journal
Average attendances and percentage for each team:
| Rank | Team | Average Attendance | % (+/-) from year prior |
| 1 | Chicago | 21,111 | +3.3% |
| 2 | Cleveland | 20,562 | +2.7% |
| 3 | Portland | 20,350 | -.8% |
| 4 | Dallas | 19,823 | -1.4% |
| 5 | New York | 19,625 | +1.7% |
| 6 | Utah | 19,611 | -1.5% |
| 7 | LA Lakers | 18,997 | (no chg) |
| 8 | Boston | 18,624 | (no chg) |
| 9 | Toronto | 18,131 | -3.2% |
| 10 | Denver | 18,039 | +4.3% |
| 11 | Washington | 17,975 | +6.7% |
| 12 | San Antonio | 17,957 | -.8% |
| 13 | Oklahoma City | 17,882 | +.5% |
| 14 | Atlanta | 17,862 | +6% |
| 15 | Golden State | 17,827 | -5.7% |
| 16 | Detroit | 17,541 | -19.6% |
| 17 | Orlando | 17,541 | +2.4% |
| 18 | Miami | 17,421 | -4.1% |
| 19 | Houston | 17,130 | -2% |
| 20 | Phoenix | 16,771 | -9% |
| 21 | Minnesota | 16,088 | +8.2% |
| 22 | New Orleans | 15,156 | -10.5% |
| 23 | New Jersey | 14,919 | -1.4% |
| 24 | LA Clippers | 14,748 | -7.4% |
| 25 | Milwaukee | 14,636 | -4% |
| 26 | Charlotte | 14,633 | +.4% |
| 27 | Indiana | 14,439 | +1.4% |
| 28 | Sacramento | 12,422 | -.9% |
| 29 | Memphis | 12,095 | -3.5% |
| 30 | Philadelphia | 11,377 | -23.7% |
Rumeal Robinson Rewards His Adopted Mother By Getting Her Evicted
Mr. Destiny Your Not
Who could forget the University of Michigan squad that was won the National Championship in 1989 on the overtime free throws of Rumeal Robinson. That squad lead by an assistant turned head coach Steve Fisher right before the tournament shocked the world that year. The 1989 Wolverine team still is the only team in Michigan’s history to host a banner to the rafters something that eluded the more infamous Fab 5 teams of the 1990’s.
Robinson who went on to be drafted 10th overall by the Atlanta Hawks, played with teammates who also made their way to being drafted into the NBA, like former San Antonio Spurs draft pick Sean Higgins, Terry Mills, Loy Vaught and the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament that year Glen Rice.
But it was Robinson who broke the 81-81 tie in overtime with three seconds left for the championship victory, it’s also Robinson who swindled his adopted mother out of her home. He was adopted by a Helen Ford at age 12 and taken into her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Back in 2003, Robinson tricked his foster mother into signing over the deed to her own home, on a street that’s named after him, and transferred the property to people unknown to her to hold the home as collateral. In Ford’s case, she thought she was signing was the mortgage so that Robinson could help her make the payments. Of course, it wasn’t.
Rumeal Robinson’s deception and possibly criminal activity have helped get his adoptive mother who raised him as if was her son evicted from her home at 2 Rumeal Robinson Place.
To top that off the FBI arrested him and charged him with a slew of crimes in an unrelated matter recently.
For Ford, the pain runs deeper as she has lost the home she raised five biological children and more than 15 foster children in, her eviction has displaced the grandchildren who were living with her.
Still, she says, “Even with all of this, I still love Rumeal.”
Who would have thought the script would have played out like this for Robinson back in 1989 when he stepped to the line to win University of Michigan’s first ever basketball title. I can remember being caught up in the moment of what was about to happen and cheering Robinson on that evening, now this makes me wish you would have missed the two shots.
Stephen Jackson Says He’s Done, Get Him Outta There
Golden State Warriors captain Stephen Jackson has confirmed that he has requested to be traded to a playoff contending team pronto and has provided a list of such clubs.
“Um…I don’t think I’ll be a Warrior next year. I’m looking to leave…at this point, I’m 31 years old. I have four or five years left, I want to be in a situation where I can continually be in the playoffs and get another ring. So that’s where my mind is at now.”
Jackson specifically mentioned Cleveland Cavaliers, any of the three teams in Texas and the New York Knicks as the teams he’d like to play for. I personally didn’t get the memo that the Knicks where a playoff team. It’s a good thing he chose to sign a $28 million dollar extension in November guaranteeing him: $8.4 million in 2010/11; $9.2 million in 2011/12; $10 million in 2012/13
In nine seasons he’s played with the New Jersey Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks, Indiana Pacers and the Warriors. But in the past five years Jackson has been charged with felony criminal recklessness and a number of other misdemeanors, including assault, disorderly conduct, and two counts of battery.
Glad to hear just three years removed from the playoffs, two years of missing the eighth seed but two games and nine months after signing your $28 million dollar extension you want to leave.
