Thursday June 04th 2009, 4:13 pm
Filed under: mixtapes, music
this is one of those joints that should do me great work in the google search bar. let’s get it. the ever-so-prolific lil wayne raps about how he is essentially kobe bryant. don’t believe me? play/download it below to hear him plead his case, complete with sound bytes from interviews and quotes from #24 himself
. sounds like a soundtrack joint to me. not bad, though. i feel like he made it a few hours ago. know where you saw it first. oh, and kobaybay is officially the cover guy for the world’s greatest basketball video game. if you played live, convert to 2k sports, immediately.
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i rarely throw links around like this, but since my man who runs AverageBro.com is both an occasional reader and a supporter (as well as a DMV representer and a phenomenal blogger on all things, especially those having to do with black people), i figure i can cise him a bit.
vicious entry on his page about basketball player brandon jennings. in AB’s words:
a mcdonalds all-american point guard from compton, CA who is making the unprecedented step of skipping college to play pro basketball overseas. he was considered a potential NBA lottery pick next summer, but could not get a high enough SAT score to attend the University of Arizona. so his agent negotiated a deal to allow jennings to play for in italy, in hopes that learning the pro game rather than toiling away for one season in college would still result in jennings becoming a high NBA pick, while getting him pizzaid in the meantime.
definitely check out the post here , and chime in on the debate of whether or not he made a good move to hit europe to hoop for a little bit. and if you need to see how good this brandon jennings character is, you know i got you. watch below.
who would win if the 1992 dream team competed against 2008’s olympic roster?
before you answer, let’s look at the facts talk about what i think i know. i’m pretty sure the dream team came to be after a rule change by FIBA, the dudes who essentially run international basketball allowed the national teams competing in the olympics to recruit professional ballers. the US was probably sick of racking up bronze medals, so coach chuck daly decided to stack the team. who was on it?
those guys. i’m sure you know them all, but:
charles “sir charles” barkley, larry bird, clyde “the glide” drexler, patrick ewing, earvin “magic” johnson (he had just made his HIV announcement. and was still frying bammas on the court), michael “air” jordan, christian laettner (he was still studying at duke university at the time!), karl “the mail man” malone, chris mullin, scottie pippen, david robinson, and john stockton.
the OG dream team. no shaq’s or reggie’s here, although they definitely wouldn’t have hurt. i’m almost 100% sure they were all NBA all-stars, and the majority of them have championship rings on one (or more) fingers. i need my homie from SLAM online to verify those facts, though. these guys won the gold medal, going 8-0 in competition. their average margin of victory was 44 points, and they never used one timeout throughout the entire olympics.
it’s 16 years later, and generation X has taken over the universe. basketball has become a widely played sport, secondary to only soccer, and we now have young gunners across the globe learning how to dribble as soon as they learn how to walk. maybe that’s why the US teams were getting manhandled in the past few world games. these guys, at least in the US, have multi-million dollar contracts that make michael jordan’s money from back in the day look like chump change. they also have the medical advances to play through and recover quickly from injuries that would have sidelined somebody with MVP potential for weeks.
the squadron: kobe bryant, dwight howard, lebron james, chris paul, carmelo anthony, carlos boozer, jason kidd, dwayne wade, chris bosh, tayshaun prince, michael redd, and deron williams.
not the absolute best from the NBA (like where is trillbert arenas!?), but definitely not too shabby. the roster has it all: convicted rapists, drunk drivers, and wife beaters. don’t get it twisted though. they can definitely ball.
the US team of 2008 hasn’t lost yet, and they’re rocking people left and right. but really…with all that’s known about these two squads, i am not sure who will win if they went at it. let me know your thoughts, and why. and shout out to the dudes at slam online, especially my dude ryne. got me hyped on the NBA again!
that’s how we go. sure, i’m not from the bean, but i’ll rep it if we win a championship. fair weather fan? nope. already collected money on these dudes, and i said they’d win it all from the get-go, if the wizards weren’t a contender. and guess what. they won it all, at home, too. they deserved it more than anybody else. kobe already has his rings, and so does phil. plus, that gasol trade wasn’t even fair. they had an all-star player sent to their front door in a basket, talking about “take care of me, and i’ll take care of you.” nobody gets those handouts in the league! i wish it went down to a game 7, but they didn’t even need it.
and kevin garnett’s interview afterwards? certified classic moment. you can’t say he didn’t work hard for it.
the washington post reported today that my fake-me-out ace boon coon and the superstar of the dc wizards, gilbert arenas, is opting out of his contract.
what does this mean exactly!? agent zero is now free agent zero. any team can scoop him up starting july 1st. i really think that wiz administration needs to get some money together to throw in arenas’ face so he can continue to be a DMV representer. he has done us so well, besides this past season.
‘07 was his best year. ever. he did kobe dirty and dropped 60 all over him. AND won the game. that’s why the celtics are winning this year. because gilbert put a curse on him that night. i put that on everything. i’ve already won a flight to cali off this series, and i’m willing to take bets from anybody else out there. test me.
and who doesn’t remember gil’s b-day party @ love?! i don’t. but i heard about it though, and $1.5 million on a celebrity-studded 25th born day celebration sounds like he’s a boss.
gil, please reconsider. and i still will read your blog wherever you go. just know i won’t have you on the blogroll or anything. and please, PLEASE, rehab that knee or whatever made you botch things up this past playoff run, man. we coulda used that to get away from cleveland. that’s 3 in a row against them, IN THE PLAYOFFS. i’m just saying though.
i’ll leave you all with a quotable from his last entry, though.
My dad is getting oldddddd! I don’t know if I’m the only person to look at his parents and just think, “Man, you’re getting old!” He came for the playoffs and he has the gray and black mustache, and a little hint of a beard, you know he cut it but you can still see gray coming out of his face. He had the little afro that wasn’t combed. He had the same old leather hat on and it was hot out, and I’ve told him about wearing a leather hat when it’s hot before.
Thursday May 08th 2008, 12:40 am
Filed under: welcome to DC
i’m in the house right now. laying in my parent’s bed, watching kobe and the lakers rock kirilenko and the jazz. and it’s the 3rd quarter…looking something like this:
good grief. remember when everyone in the world hated kobe? he was public enemy #1…a rapist in the eyes of the WORLD. now he’s the NBA’s mvp, rockin’ bammas and stuff, young. and he’s even a family man. don’t believe me!?
told ya. easily the best player in the league. swag is similar to MJ’s. i’m calling the lakers champions right now, by the way. their starting five is ALL scorers.
can we talk about home though? damn. i finally made it. 3 suitcases, a backpack, and a U-Haul (thanks, marcel) later. first thing i did? burned some CD’s for the stereo downstairs, because i’m home alone like macaulay culkin. i have the entire house to blast the most bass-heavy joints i have in the iTunes. then i hit the diner. and tomorrow morning, i’m picking up grand theft auto IV from that best buy on rockville pike. then i’m done for the week. i heard the game is so good, you start walking around in real life, acting like you’re the main character. chappelle told me.
oh boy. nyc on friday to peep the apartment in brooklyn. holler at me if you’re around for the day. 3 days til glow in the dark tour in DC, 4 days til the glow in the dark in VA beach. yea, i got two ticket joints. let’s get it. i would bless you all with music, but i’ma leave it to my homies at 2 dope boyz. they got all the good stuff, anyway.
the game is 93-83 @ the end of the 3rd, with the lakers up. we aren’t losing this game. yea, i’m a lakers fan. cali trip? in a few weeks. whose tryna make the move?
