2011 NBA Champs!!!

Congrats to Dirk, Kidd, Jet, The Matrix, Citizen Pain, Chandler and dont forget Caron Butler!

Team > Individual

RESPECT!!!

Source: Getty Images

Hall of Famer - Dennis Rodman

One of my collection, autographed jersey card from the Worm!

NY Times - The Crossover on Display

Tim Hardaway, AI, D-Wade... what a impressive display of the crossover move!
See the masters of the crossover explains the move in the video from NY Times:

NBA 球星童年照

你認得幾多個?


(留意Chris Bosh的description!!)



Ref -
NBA Hoot - 1
NBA Hoot - 2

Don't Make it Rain, Man (Shawn Kemp "入樽聖手")

如果你不知道Shawn Kemp的話, 可能會get不到他們多重的comedy及好笑之處.

Shawn Kemp是90年代NBA的"入樽聖手", 他的花名是"Rain Man" (又稱"Reign Man")
他是NBA裡的Super star, 1995-96 年更帶領 Seattle Supersonics (現在已成為Oklahoma Thunder)進入NBA決賽, 大戰剛復出的Michael Jordan的Chicago Bulls.

但除了籃球技術好以外, 他的床上功夫也很不錯. 因為..
他最少是13個孩子的父親!!!

所以, 這個Undercrown的condom真的很好笑, 再用上Seattle Supersonics 以前的team color (綠跟黃), 真的很貼心啊~

Ref -
1. Shawn Kemp 的 Wikipedia
2. Sports Illustrated: This Week's SI: An Inside Look
3. UNDCRWN Don't make it rain condoms

Part II Heaven Cent - Penny Hardaway 夏達威

能再見到我最喜歡的球員打球, 真的感動不已 (淚)

Penny Hardaway Game-Winning Shot & Interview in Ultimate Hoops


神一般的"一分錢" 夏達威 - Interview: Penny Hardaway’s Legendary Signature Series
http://blog.eastbay.com/shoes/features/interview-penny-hardaways-legendary-signature-series/

Dime: The scariest photos you've ever seen

Oh Dennis... why oh why..?





Source: Dime

There's something about Rodman

Today I read an interesting about my man.

When he was with the Bulls, the team tried to find a way for Rodman to short-circuit his impulse to rail at any referee who made what he believed to be an unjust call. So they had him place a thick rubber band tightly around his left wrist with orders to sharply snap the band whenever he felt like yapping at a ref. The idea being that the flash of pain would derail his latest impulse. The tactic worked for a while, then to the staff's amazement Rodman took to continually snapping the rubber band even when he had no immediate beef with the refs.

What was that all about?

"It felt good," said Rodman.

Extract from Charlie Rosen's Rodman was a winner, but is Artest?
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Also, Sam Smith (author of the book "Jordan Rules") remembers Chicago’s 72-10 season:

Jordan was enthusiastic, though he’d later admit he rarely, if ever, spoke with Rodman those three seasons because it was so difficult to get Rodman’s attention. I used to get letters from a southern Illinois educator who said Rodman was a classic case of undiagnosed and untreated Attention Deficit Disorder.

Jordan would later say when he had to make a point to Rodman he’d grab him by both temples and demand Rodman look him in the eye and then ask him several times if he understood what Jordan was saying and to repeat if he did.

Extract from Sam's Jordan HOF article 72 wins and back on top

40 games in 40 nights

今年季後賽好像比往年更精采, 我的愛隊更自95年以來打入NBA Finals!
14年前我們以0-4被swept, 今年雖不被看好, 但我相信我們能put up a good fight!




Let’s go Magic, YES WE CAN!

"ANYTHING IS POSSIBUUUUUULLLLLLL!!!"

Thanks to the #1 pick of the draft that went to Portland which led to Ray signing with the Cs which led to KG signing with the Cs.
Thanks to the Western Conference for making the regular season meaningful.
Thanks to TNT, Ernie, Kenny and Chuckster for giving us the great great "Inside the NBA".
Thanks to Penny, I knew you tried, Heaven Cent.
Thanks to Dwight, Hedo, Jameer, Raw Lew and Stan for bring my Magic back to contender.
Thanks to Reggie for Reggie's mailbag, his commentary and his invention of new terms (eg. man-region)
Thanks to the Griz for donating Gasol to LA.
Thanks to CP3, Mamba, Bron and KG for making the MVP race so exciting.
Thanks to the Suns for the "SSOL" offense. RIP SSOL.
Thanks to the NBA for the great marketing this year. Truely "Where Amazing Happens".
Thanks to Dwight for bringing back the Dunk Contest.
Thanks to the Josh "ATLien" Smith for the non-stop highlights.
Thanks to JVG for the timely puns and great basketball insights.
Thanks to the great blogrolls like the FanHouse, TrueHoop, Ball Don't Lie, Sports Guy, Free Darko, Basketbawful, Third Quarter Collapse, Basketball Jones, Oden'zede, and all other great insights.
Thanks to the crowd for singing "Goodbye" with 4 minutes left, the song always give me chills and goosebumps.
Thanks to Ray for reminding people that he's not a shooter, he's a scorer.
Thanks to PP for being the motherf--king Truth.
Thanks to KG for refusing to accept Big Three as an appropriate term, it makes me like him even more (if that's possible).

Most of all, thanks for the great 07-08 season, I haven't thoroughly enjoy from preseason to ASG to playoffs since 97-98.

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You gotta love this Big Baby picture

馬拉松08

早上(六時)天氣不太冷
但由維園行至東廊城市花園的一段路很多很多人
而且加上路窄及要讓車輛行駛的關係
所以要走很久才到起步點

路線是簡單不過
由城市花園一直到筲箕灣然後折返至銅鑼灣油站再上橋回維園
沿途基本上沒有難度
上斜的路太少(好悶)
除了開跑時較多人拍照外, 其餘時間大家都很落力跑
可惜的是東廊不像西隧路線般附近多行人天橋
沒有觀眾在旁打氣加油好像有點失色
可幸最後銅鑼灣一段有很多觀眾在旁加油
感覺不錯

跑到2k時覺得腳跟有點痛
心想只是刮到, 所以沒有理會
賽後才發覺左腳腳跟磨損流血 (我可不是World Series Game 2的Curt Schilling)



弄得我的Air Max 95 有兩大攤血跡.. 殘念



原來上年的時間是65分鐘(我還一直以為是55分鐘)
我還心想退步了十分鐘... 最後發覺今年的紀錄是60分06秒

回家後看All-Star Saturday... Superman Howard!



肯定是史上五大最精彩的入樽.