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12
Aug
09

Don’t Mess With James Johnson

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James Johnson is now one of my favorite NBA players. Drafted #16 overall in this year’s draft, the sophomore from Wake Forest checks in at 6’8″ 235 pounds, making him quite the sturdy power forward. What makes him so exciting to me though starts with this video of him break-dancing while at the rookie photo shoot.

Pretty nice, nothing extraordinary but still dope. Then I found out that Johnson is from Wyoming and I’m more intrigued. Next I learn that he is one of 9 children, that his father Willie is a 6th-degree black belt who used to win karate tournaments under the nom de guerre Tuqik (pronounced Too-Quick). Pretty awesome! But wait, there’s more! Of the 9 children in the family 8 of them are black-belts (including James), with the sole exception his 10 year-old sister Kiandra who is merely a blue belt. Slacker. Add in that James’ mother, Vi, began street fighting as a leader of the Krook City Bloods before switching to tournament fighting, going as Vicious and winning 5 national titles and you have the makings of a totally bad-ass and fun family.

James doesn’t just do all his bruising on the basketball court though, he has a 20-0 record as a kickboxer where his fighting nickname is  “Little Ali” and when he was 18 he fought 31 year old Damond Clark in a MMA fight. That contest lasted all of 90 seconds with Johnson CRUSHING Clark.

Fellow Wake Forest alum and New Orleans Hornets superstar Chris Paul was giving Johnson some ribbing for his fighting telling him,

“I keep hearing about your fighting, but you’re way too big to be a fighter.” Johnson told Paul to stand still directly in front of him, and said, “I’m not going to kick you; I’m that good.” Then he did a roundhouse kick within inches of Paul’s face, causing Paul to step back and say, “O.K., I believe you.”

Basketball may be Johnson’s new career, but “I’m not done fighting,” Johnson said in an interview in 2006, “I think about fighting all the time.”

In the meantime, I’ve found me a new binky. Mental note, keep out of a bench-clearing brawl with the Bulls…

[The Sporting News and Cagewriter]

11
Aug
09

Reggie Answers Back to Jealous Fly-By

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Yesterday we mentioned Reggie Miller getting called out via plane banner by Alex Von Furstenberg for hitting on AVF’s fiancee, Ali Kay. Today, Reggie is getting his side of the story out. TMZ, the epic smut-dealers of society have obtained from Reggie(?) two flirtatious photos that Kay sent the former basketball star, one of her in bed and another of her in a bikini. Sassy!

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According to Miller, the two began a flirtatious relationship in March, with theoretically nothing consumated. Reggie also insists that he ended the flirty texting by deleting her from his phone in April, because that sounds like something a normal dude would do, delete a ridiculously hot girl from your phone just cuz… Reggie’s version also has ALI reinstigating contact and wondering why he dropped off, which led to AVF getting jealous and angry, becoming threatening and then hiring people to follow Miller.

Being rich is tough.

That said, this Ali Kay girl is super hot but she better be worth all this fervor AVF, otherwise you just made a giant asshole out of yourself.

[TMZ]

10
Aug
09

Where the Married Women At?

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It’s not certain who hired a plane to fly around several southern California beaches trailing a sign reading “Reggie Miller Stop Pursuing Married Women,” but whomever it was has a great sense of humor. The expensive stunt likely was done by Alex Von Furstenberg (son of fashion designer Diane) who had a restraining order written up, but never filed, against the former Indiana Pacers star.

Reportedly, Miller met Ali Kay, Von Furstenberg’s fiancee, at a party last July, in March of this year he bumped into her in a grocery store and then waited an hour outside the store until she came out. I always thought that was CHARMING, not stalking…He then sent her 53 text messages over the period of 4 hours. In addition, Reggie stopped by the surf store that Von Furstenberg owns and, according to AVF, “‘[Miller] said he had friends with guns. He implied I would get hurt if I didn’t stop questioning him on his inappropriate pursuit of my fiancee and his attempts to subvert his efforts.”

In a later statement issued by Von Furstenberg and his attorney, Alex said, “I was very upset about Reggie’s behavior towards my fiancée. I think people in Malibu share my views that being a famous basketball player should not provide some sort of shield against inappropriate behaviour. Reggie sincerely apologized to me on a phone call with Ronald Richards, his attorney, and myself. I cannot comment further on the matter as I believe it has been resolved.”

So, perhaps it wasn’t AVF and instead was another (attempted) cuckold husband? Look out ladies of Malibu, Reggie’s on the prowl!

At least Reggie has really good taste, as evidenced by this photo of AVF and his fiancee Ali Kay. Yowzers!

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04
Aug
09

Mark Madsen, Would-Be Internet Mogul

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marksits_16Professional towel-waver, bench-warmer and occasional basketball player, Mark Madsen has a lot of free time on his hands. Especially when he doesn’t have to worry about playing in those pesky NBA games and so he has taken the opportunity to become something of an Internet entrepreneur by buying up various domain names.

For instance, he recently purchased the domain name P2P.com on eBay for $111,000. Unfortunately, it turns out the person he bought the domain from DIDN’T ACTUALLY OWN IT. OOOPS!

Using his eBay name thecollins2 and his self-started company, Woodside Technology Group, Madsen has bought and sold a number of domains, even getting involved on a message-board where domain name investors congregate. In July, 2006 he sold internetdating.com, as well as trying to sell FreeCreditChecks.com, carbohydrates.com and CaliforniaDUILawyers.com. Last year, he waded deep into the world of Canadian domain registration, with such winners as chocolatecandy.ca, accordians.ca, schooners.ca and, obviously, menstrualperiods.ca, reaping $21,000 from the sales.

[Fanhouse]

Weird.

04
Aug
09

Don’t Forget the Barbeque Sauce

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Delonte West is a marginally decent NBA player on the Cleveland Cavaliers and here is a lengthy, but worth-it video of him while waiting over 18 minutes in the drive-thru line for his KFC. I don’t know who Delonte’s buddy is, but he is a GREAT hype man, he’s on POINT with Delonte, anticipating his rhymes and just killing it. That’s a true friend.

The best part is that they are waiting on Delonte’s cousin who is supposed to be making them the chicken. Good to see that he’s taking his conditioning serious in the offseason…

Also, nice KFC aprons…

04
Aug
09

Pistons Rookie Takes on Porn Star in Epic Battle

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summersluxeDrafted 35th overall by the Detroit Pistons in this year’s NBA Draft, DaJuan Summers is a 6’8″ small forward who is spending the summer getting ready for his first foray into professional sports. Following in the footsteps of such other NBA Twitterati like Shaq, Summers has begun a race with a friend of his to see who can get 4,000 followers first. Not quite Ashton Kutcher’s race to a million against CNN, but then, Summers isn’t competing with a media giant, he’s competing with a porn star, Valerie Luxe.

According to her bio on Bangbrosnetwork, Valerie

has long awesome legs that leads to a full round glorious ass. She has a goddess like body that demands attention. As a radiant woman her presence is powerful and all eyers are on her. That freckled body of hers, those effulgent eyes, and full lips are irresistible.

I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d see “effulgent” on a porno site, but I appreciate it nonetheless…

dajuansummersThe stakes between these two twitter-fiends could be a bit more interesting, considering their occupations but, so it goes. If Summers wins, they go to a water park together, and if Luxe wins, he’ll take her out to dinner and give her an “amazing massage.” Seems like really, either way he wins.

I just hope his basketball career goes well, because he can’t spell for shit.


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If you’re so inclined to pick sides, or just want to see everyone happy, you can subscribe to Summers’ twitter feed here, or Luxe’s here.

[Detroit 4 Lyfe via Sports by Brooks]

03
Aug
09

That Was a Foul Eh

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When I think of hard-fought international basketball competition, I immediately think of Italy and Canada. Thanks to this bench-clearing brawl, the game wasn’t the only thing hard-fought.

28
Jul
09

The Kings Dancers Take the Floor

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The Sacramento Kings finalized their 2009 dance team the other day, whittling down the numbers from over 100 hopefuls to the chosen 15. It looks like they made some fine choices, I for one prefer Carly and the delightful cute redheaded Laura. You know, for their dancing abilities. And their brains! I’m a brain man.

21
Jul
09

The Laker Girls Want YOU

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Over 500 women came out for the opportunity to become a vaunted Laker Girl the other day and LAist was there, complete with camera crew to get all the hard news. It being LA, there was more plastic at this audition than a Lego factory.

[LAist]

20
Jul
09

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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While in China, newly acquired Cleveland Cavalier Shaquille O’Neil visited the Panda Breeding Research Center in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province and took the opportunity to get a photograph of him with a giant panda on his lap. Precious.

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08
Jul
09

LeBron Gets Schooled, Then Destroys the Evidence

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JordanCrawfordDunkLeBronWhen one of my good friends was a senior in high school in suburban Cleveland he played against an eighth-grade LeBron James. During the game, my friend was dunked on by LeBron. Twice. This is Doug’s Revenge.

At LeBron James’ Skills Academy, a basketball camp for high school players something out of the ordinary happened, Jordan Crawford, a junior from Xavier University who was there as an instructor, played in a pickup game against LeBron in which he caught an inbound pass and threw a two-handed dunk down on the King. Freelance photographer Ryan Miller was at the camp videotaping the game, he captured the moment in all it’s glory.

Unfortunately for all of us, LeBron called over Nike Basketball Senior Director Lynn Merritt who was on the sidelines and whispered something in his ear. A moment later, Merritt walked over to Miller and “He just said, ‘We have to take your tape,'” Miller said. “They took it from other guys, too.”

There wasn’t a policy prohibiting filming and Miller had been there all day without an issue until this. “There’s nothing I can think of besides LeBron just not wanting it online,” Miller said. “It’s a good story to tell people, I guess. But then again, I’m kind of pissed. I lost my tape.”

High schooler Dwight Powell who was there described it thusly:

They were split into teams, and LeBron had his own team. In all the college player’s eyes, I could see a little fire burning, with all of them itching to show what they have against arguably the best player in the world. One player in particular definitely left their mark in Jordan Crawford of Xavier. On an inbounds play, The King was a step slow, and Crawford put a two-hand dunk on him.

I was shocked, but nothing will change my opinion of King James. Jordan Crawford on the other hand has some bounce!

[CBS Sports]

01
Jul
09

Isiah Thomas Forces College Cheerleaders Into Bikini Car Wash

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In April, Florida International University made the questionable choice of hiring Isiah Thomas as their new men’s basketball coach. The hiring was idiotic; he’s never been a good coach, he’s been terrible in management positions and of course, his personal behavior can be a bit, er, erratic shall we say. Throw in that Thomas was given a 5-year $5 million contract, (although he has said he will donate his first year salary BACK to the school) and the decision makes zero sense. Now, thanks to adding in Thomas’ big money deal, the school is forced to make cutbacks elsewhere. First off, and most horribly, the cheerleading team is being scrapped!

In order for the program to be saved, the cheerleaders need to raise $50,000, which they have been attempting to do via bake sale, bikini car wash (yes!) and of course, a calendar. Now, if only the school had some money lying around, hmmm, if only they didn’t wastefully spend it on a basketball coach who will leave the program in tatters and produce zero success. If only!

Of course, if this turns out to be a move solely to prevent Isiah Thomas from being around cute college co-eds, I

wholeheartedly support it and retract all my criticism.

[Online Sports Guys]

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