I like Slam dunks take me to the hoop.  My favorite play is the alley oop.  I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go.  Cause it’s basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.  -Kurtis Blow

Ace may be the place with the helpful hardware but this is the place with the NBA hardware.  The place with the NBA midseason hardware.  The hardware that’s fun to wear.  More fun than a barrel of monkeys.  More fun than a clown on fire.  More fun than a sack of dead kittens.  More fun than all of that.  Like my main man the Big Fundamental always says:  “Good, better, best.  Never let it rest.  Until your good is better and your better is best.”  Who’s good?  Who’s better?  Who’s best?  After the jump, take a look for yourself.  Do it.              Read More »

Do you really want to live forever?  Forever and ever?  Forever young.  I wanna be
forever young.  -Jay-Z

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!   What’s crack-a-lacking sports fans?  I’ll tell you what’s crack-a-lacking.  Kevin Durant is crack-a-lacking.  Russell Westbrook is crack-a-lacking too.  Who says youth is wasted on the young?  Ok, ok, George Bernard Shaw said it.  Clearly, Mr. Shaw never saw Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook run the rock.  Every day these kids just get better and better.  Anything you can be, I can be greater.  Sooner or later, I’m greater than you.  I’m picking sooner.  In fact, I’m picking right now.  Don’t look now folks, the Oklahoma City Thunder have arrived.  Here I am baby.  Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours!            Read More »

Thunder 96  Mavericks 87:  Rookie rookie who gets the cookie?  Russell, that’s who.  Russell’s the big winner.  Russell wins.  Last night, Russell Westbrook had a triple-double.  Triple trouble.  Last night Russell Westbrook became the first NBA rookie to earn a triple-double since Chris Paul had two in the 2005-06 season.  How about that?  How about this?   Only two other rookies in Oklahoma City/Seattle franchise history had triple-doubles.  Only Art Harris in 1968-69 and only Gary Payton in 1990-91.  Now go pick up my laundry, rook. Read More »

Kid, gracious kid.  Your eyes are blue but you won’t cry.  I know angry tears are too dear.  You won’t let them go.  -Pretenders

Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go!  You are witnessing, first hand, a youth movement in the NBA, the likes of which, we haven’t seen in years.  Nine years to be exact.  First it was Eric Gordon and Al Thornton.  A rookie and a second year man.  Rookie Eric Gordon had forty-one points for the Clippers against OKC Thunder the other night.  Al Thornton filled it up for thirty-four.  Then, yesterday, apparently having learned their lesson, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant went for thirty-four and thirty-three respectively.  Read More »