A Very Vlade Christmas

This was my Christmas card last year and the inspiration for my Christmas Card posts this year. I hope everyone enjoyed them and had a wonderful holiday.

Now Happy New Year's Eve! As for me, I'm going to go see the Clippers and the Spurs tonight!! Timmy! Manu! Pop!! AHHHHHH!!!

Pistons vs. Wizards

Following Chauncey's game-winning basket, Wizards coach Eddie Jordan referred to the game as being "very close to [playoff-type basketball]." Easy there, partner. Yes, your team is 15-12 and yes, you play in the Eastern Conference but damn, there are still 55 games left in the season. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

PS. Free Jim Jackson!

Andrei Kirilenko

The real reason AK-47 isn't playing.

"The I Can't Wait Cookbook features international gems--just like our team--and covers everything from soup to dessert."

Which team is cheesier - the Memphis Grizzlies or the Utah Jazz?
Coincidentally, both teams changed to the same color over the summer.

Jim Jackson: Dissed Again

My boyfriend J.J. was traded to his ELEVENTH team today. And for whom? David Wesley...of the Hornets. I don't understand. Is it the water in Texas that makes everyone so crazy? Do only the GMs in San Antonio get enough oxygen to their brains? So sad.

Anyway, this is a tribute to the underappreciated, very handsome Jim Jackson.

Q and D: The Boppsey Twins

So at what point do we acknowledge the quasi-homoerotic relationship between Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles manifested in their for-us-only headbop?

Just kidding. I'm not calling out Q or D. I'm calling out that headbop. I mean really, what is going on here???

Is this cute?

It was one thing when both Q and D were on the Clippers and it showed how tight they were. But now that Q's on the rise in Phoenix and D's...well, D's in Portland, it just makes me sad. I read on a review for The Youngest Guns DVD that Q and D don't talk that much anymore. (Brandy. Slut.) That was after the initial shock of actually seeing a DVD on Q or D. But beyond that, the headbop just looks stoopid stupid. Minus the millions of $$$, the muscles, and the skillz, this is what the headbop truly looks like:

It ain't pretty.

So until Q and D are doing their Jay and Silent Bob thing again, NO MORE HEADBOP!


See, it really does exist.

Link to article on The Youngest Guns:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/1205suns1205.html

NBA Kids

Guess which one is Allen Iverson II and which one is TJ Kidd. Take your time on this one because I know it's hard to tell. In 20 years, they'll both be going for the title that neither Dad got.

But look how cute they are! Say it with me: Awwwwwww!

NBA Coach I Love: Don Nelson

3 reasons why I love Nellie:

1. Named his son Donn instead of Don so that he wouldn't be a "Junior"

2. Has the best Buddha Belly in the league

3. Has the best, most consistent response to bad calls/calls he doesn't like (hands on hips, Buddha Belly out, face enraged). The Rasheed Wallace of coaches if you will.

3a. Who else can get himself kicked out 93 seconds into a game? C'mon!


After Mark Cuban fires him for that little idget Avery Johnson, I think Nellie should remake himself as the John Madden of the NBA. He already has the look and the coaching pedigree. Plus he's funny as hell and, more importantly, willing to laugh at himself. He's the most dynamic coaching personality in the league and it's about time he sells his soul to Nintendo and is immortalized in Nellie 2005 for PS2.

How could you not love this man??


He even makes a Brick Wall laugh.


C'mon Cuban - make one of your patented "Nash isn't worth that much"/"Van Exel for Jiri Welsch" moves and fire Nellie so we can get this ball rolling.

Christmas Card #5

Since today is Christmas, I won't take a cheap shot at Doug here...the refs already did that Thursday night. I'll just say...

Merry Christmas!!

It's T minus 5 hours til the Pistons-Pacers game and I'm so juiced to see Jermaine O'Neal back. Damn the NBA for scheduling the game so freakin early though. I'll write more after Shaq Daddy lays the smackdown on Staples. Until then, good night and Happy Holidays!

PS. No beer in Indy on Christmas so eat, drink, drink some more, and be merry that you ain't in Indy!

Christmas Card #4

Daddy Dunleavy must be so proud.

Name That Coach

Oh look, they gave that homeless man a Nets sweatshirt. Wait...that's the coach! Shows how much pull he has in that organization - he can't even get team gear that fits him properly. Oh how the mighty have fallen from the days of "the best start for a coach in history."