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Danny Granger, a New Orleans native, has some thoughts on the league’s commissioner nixing the Hornets’ trade that would have sent Chris Paul to Los Angeles. (via Deadspin)
Due to the sabotaging of the LA/NO trade by david stern, and following in the footsteps of my athlete brethern Metta World Peace and Chad Ochocinco, I’m changing my last name to “Stern’s Bi#&h” #effectiveimmediately
Emma Carmichael of Deadspin took it upon herself to create the custom jersey.
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Pacers management was adamant that Frank Vogel would need a team of high-level assistants if they were going to hire him to run the team. Getting Brian Shaw, who had a decade of experience as an assistant, mostly under the most-accomplished NBA coach of all time, to sign up was a huge step forward in that direction. Dan Burke and his 16 years of NBA bench time also agreed to return.
And now, they have added Jim Boylen, who has been the head coach at the University of Utah for the past four years.
I don’t know much else about the guy other than some (perhaps true) facts listed on his Wikipedia page:
The University of Maine also happens to be in my hometown so you would think I would know a little more about one of the few basketball players of note who has ever attended the school. But I don’t.
Still … Go Blue.
And since we don’t have any video of Boylen ballin’, here’s another new Pacers assistant doing throwing an alley-oop to Shaq Kobe. In our lockout boredom states of mind the other day, some of us folks were passing around YouTube videos of great dunks. This was on shared by Myles Brown. And as someone who follows the Lakers closer than almost anyone noted after seeing the highlight, “Shaw was one of the best lob throwers.”
Hopefully he can teach a little bit of that to George Hill and Darren Collison.
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Not from me. I said all I have to say.
From Nathan S. of Indy Cornrows.
The Pacers have dropped three straight and two games below .500 for the first time all year. It’s not panic time yet, but given the effort the team has put forth these last three games, it sure feels like we should have our finger on the switch, given the recent efforts in the team’s losses. Indiana drops to 2-6 in December, and has done so with really poor offensive outings. The Pacers haven’t broken the century mark in any of the six losses.
Fortunately, the Pacers get a chance to tend to their wounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town on Friday. It’s important they come out and push the Cavs around the way they’ve done so far this season. There’s a lot of negative things happening right now, but the Pacers aren’t out of it by any means. Here’s to hoping they can get the ship righted, starting with the Cavaliers.
Discouraging December all around really. His notes on Danny and Roy’s struggles are the chief reasons.
And here’s this from Indy Star:
Gasol went 5 for 15 with five turnovers and five fouls in the previous meeting, but he set the tone in this one. Los Angeles made seven of its first eight shots and ran out to a 15-4 lead. The Lakers extended that advantage to 27-10 before Bryant even attempted a shot. They shot 73.7 percent in their best quarter of the season to lead 36-22 at the end of the period.
So … 73.7% for a quarter? Can’t blame this all on weak offense.
Plus …
The Lakers led 59-37 at halftime. They outrebounded the Pacers 27-10 in the first half and shot 61 percent.
And there’s more.
Indiana’s first offensive rebound came with 1:36 left in the first half.
Just a dreadful effort.
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Pacers vs. Lakers is by no means a rivalry. Honestly, I think the only cross-conference rivalry the NBA has is Celtics vs. Lakers. But Pacers vs. Lakers is steadily increasing on the overall interest side of things as more and more subplot threads unravel.
Most immediately, Indy beat LA earlier this year so … tonight … the Lakers … are … back … WITH A VENGEANCE. Plus, we know that Pacers great Chuck Person is now coaching in the City of Angels. And we had that whole NBA Finals match-up thing.
Best of all … remember this fight between Reggie and Mamba? I bet Kobe does. He never forgets. He is like a hiphopopotamus that way. Or is that an elephant? Who can remember?
The video comes to us from Complex’s blog, which included both Mr. Bryant and Mr. Knick Killer in its 50 Dirtiest Players in Sports History list. (They rank number45 and number 41, respectively. Your boy Ron Artest came in at number 22.)
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