Dwyane Wade made Anderson Varejao look like Frederic Weis when he dunked on him and his whole family last week. They felt that down in Santa Teresa. The Lakers’ Shannon Brown tried to come with the thunder on the Pistons’ Jason Maxiell and well…
That is how you maintain your dignity and protect your family.
This here is one interesting video to watch. I guess if you’ve been as persecuted as Allen Iverson has been throughout his high school, college and professional athletic career, you would become a pretty sensitive guy too. If you take as many shots as the Answer has, eventually you have to show a little pain as A.I. did in front of a group of students while discussing his scholarship program.
AI hasn’t exactly tried to endear himself to mainstream (ie: white) America through his career and for that, I guess there is a price and burden to pay. There’s no doubt he has paid steep prices for any of his past transgressions and doesn’t get enough praise for the positive things he has done throughout his life. Of course all of this comes with the territory of being a multi-millionaire all-star NBA player, he chose the life, he has to accept all that comes with it, so sympathy from anyone, including me is a little hard to obtain.
All that being said, he is human and this is quite a glimpse at the “real” Allen Iverson that he so rarely shows to the public after being beaten up by it for so many years. Check it out below.
Having to play 3 games in 4 days was tough for the Orlando Magic and it showed in their loss to the undermanned Detroit Pistons last night, 98-94, but the real culprit behind the loss might have been the fact that a bunch of them were praying for their lives and puking their guts out last night.
The team plane taking the players to Detroit on Sunday seemed to encounter a bit of turbulence, like about 40 minutes of turbulence, the Orlando Sentinel notes. It was so rough, the flight crew told the team to use the shoulder harnesses if their seats had them…if not, oh well. Here’s some quotes from the team:
Coach Stan Van Gundy said several players vomited and he quipped, “I was about one bump away.”
PG Tyronn Lue said, “It was unbelievable. Man, I was like, ‘I’m going to be like John Madden and take the bus.”’
“That was the worst flight I’ve ever been on,” veteran PG Rafer Alston said. “Forty straight minutes of turbulence.”
As if these guys don’t have it rough enough, shuttling across the country for a rough stretch of games, but they had to deal with that. That kind of flight would knock anyone off their game, even Dwight Howard who, despite tallying 27 points, did the unforgivable and allowed Kwame Brown to drop 10 points on his ass. His shame is real.
Juwan Howard, the last remaining member of the Fab 5 in the NBA was released yesterday by the Denver Nuggets . Long live the Fab 5.
The Detroit Pistons have no interest in winning the next two seasons. Hopefully they have cases of French dressing on hand.
Rasheed Wallace is known for being an ejection magnet. His ability to attract technicals and flagrants knows no bounds. He could be one of the most prolific athletes when comes to getting bounced. Botafogo’s Andre Luis might have something to say about that.
Luis was sent off after receiving a second yellow for a foul. Instead of leaving peacefully, he flipped off the crowd, kicked a bottle into the stands, rumbled with the riot police causing his teammates to get involved and was re-arrested only after the police had to use batons and pepper spray on him and his fellow players.
Nice to see the coppers have time for an interview while beating and arresting players. Cops em Brasil could be a hit. The bar has just been raised, Sheed.
Rasheed Wallace, like a few NBA players, enjoys rapping. He got caught on film entering the arena by ESPN rapping recently, but did you know that that isn’t his first rap caught on tape? Watch below, we’ve got the ESPN video, then some other YouTube video that claims to be Rasheed’s rapping on an album. Every motherfuckin’ baller wants to be a rapper and every motherfuckin’ rapper wants to be a baller. Its the same old story, G.
Peanuts and gum. Ashford and Simpson. Paris Hilton and the herp. Chris Webber and souvlaki?
Webber will be getting familiar with all end products of the meatapotamus if Olympiacos of Greece has its way. The Greek team is offering Webber a two-year deal worth between $10-$12M. The deal would make him the highest paid player in Europe.
The Detroit Free Press implies that Webber is considering the deal. Soon he will know all the street meats and visit the street meat cart on high on Mt. Olympus. He’ll also be able to hit up Club Parthenon. Shaq loved that spot.
Lebron James went in to have his vision corrected with some Lasik eye surgery last week and stop the freakin presses…Lebron will now be able to scorch the opposing D with 20/15 vision now. That’s right, his eyes are now superhuman. He can see like a freakin eagle! Talk about performance enhancement, this is worse than the urban legend that Tommy John surgery actually makes your arm stronger because his eyes are now not just normal, they’re better than normal. Next maybe he’ll get some springs inserted into his legs to add another 6 inches to his vertical. Great news for Cavs fans out there, horrible news for the rest of the league.
He went to the same eye surgeon that Rip Hamilton went to, Dr. Kerry Assil of the Assil Eye Institute in Beverly Hills, California. Lebron must’ve caught one of Rip’s commercials for eye surgery while playing in the motor city one day and thought it was a solid idea.
From Detroit Free Press
