A Few Final Thoughts on Pre-Season

Jared Cunningham knows how to “sell” an NBA Crossover

Much like in Professional Wrestling, to “sell” or “selling” happens when wrestler A hits wrestler B and wrestler B “sells” by reacting to the hit as believable as he can to make it seem real.

For instance, examine how The Rock reacts when he gets a Stone Cold Stunner from Steve Austin.

Watch how The Rock sells The Stunner by doing a black flip to the other side of the ring. No wonder The Rock is now one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. The man knows how to act.

Now watch Jared Cunningham sell the hell out of Eric Bledsoe's crossover.
 

Jared Cunningham's selling of Bledsoe's cross over made it appear like he needed a passport to come back from what just transpired.
 

Cunningham's sell job made it seem like the only time way we could contact him again was if we got tickets to “Crossing Over with John Edwards”.
 

Maybe Jared Cunningham will eventually become one of the biggest movie stars in the world while he makes connections playing in the Hollywood area.

Until then, Cunningham, Eric Bledsoe has these words for you...
 

Joakim wants to live man, Jeez

So Joakim Noah was asked how he was recovering after his knee surgery by a reporter and he responded, “Let me live man. Jeez”.

If you listened to “The Bench Podcast” this past week, you heard Donnie's story of how he witnessed a younger Joakim Noah tell a 10 year old kid to kick rocks when the kid asked Noah for an autograph.

Thus, this type of behaviour has been prevalent through out Noah's life.

Is this just a remnant of the 'Spoiled Rich Kid Syndrome' like Donnie says? Or is it something else? It can all be answered by this one tweet from the man himself:

Joakim Noah is not a brat. Channeling his inner 50 Cent, he's “just gotta (lot of) livin to do before he dies and he ain't got time to waste.”

He ain't got time for autographs. He ain't got time to answer questions about his knee.

He ain't got time to worry about his hot sister. He ain't got time to give Paul Pierce a two piece.

'Cause Noah's been hustling a long time, and he's got no ring. In College, he was the man homie.

Dwyane Wade is a Comedic Genius

Wade's a laugh a minute. Remember when he cartwheeled during Lebron's post game interview last year? Didn't you just bust a gut?

 

Remember when he wanted to be known as “WOW”? That was hilarious. Oh...wait, he was serious?
 

But this pre-season, Lebron-less, Dwyane has outdone himself. Wade videobombed himself!

Oh D-Wade, you rascal you! Your antics make us go “WOW”.
 

Greg Popovich doesn't Give a sh*t about the Pre-Season

 

In fairness, Popovich doesn't seem to give a sh*t about the regular season either. He's all about the playoffs.

But he really, REALLY, doesn't care about the pre-season.

Losing to ALBA Berlin would have made some coaches insane - with Pop it was probably done on purpose as part of some complex Spursian Motivational Tactic .
 

Then he sat half his team against the Suns driving Robert Sarver (Suns owner) so crazy it made him cluck like a chicken.
 

The Spurs won 2 out of 7 games and although Popovich feigns concern. He doesn't care. He shouldn't either because we'll see him and the Spurs again in mid-June looking for their first back to back. And
then, we'll all give a sh*t
 

Kobe Bryant gives too much of a sh*t

Kobe why are you breaking Nicky Azalea's hand because he reached during practice?
 

Kobe why are you trying to mentally breakdown a 20 year old rookie before he sees one minute of real basketball?

Kobe why did you put those dumb bells in Steve Nash's luggage to get him to...

 

Join us next time when guest writer Kevin Durant determines “Why 8 is actually the Loneliest Number”

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Hurry Back Nick Young!

Just when it looks like the L.A Lakers are getting their stuff together Nick Young goes and tears a ligament in his thumb. 

According to reports he'll be out for close to 2 months of action. Of course that does not include rehabilitation.  

It could be close to Christmas before we see Swaggy P back in uniform for the Lakers.

The team and city were looking forward to injecting some young blood into the team that has been in the stranglehold of Kobe Bryant for years. 

No one here wants to admit it but, all of us here in LA ... we're sick of Kobe.

Los Angeles is a city of larger-than-life personalities and that is something Kobe is not.

The last time three was anything note-worthy about Kobe that happened off court, was after his “visit” to Colorado - and all that did was shine a negative light on himself and the franchise.

He is the NBA's version of Derek Jeter (other than that pesky rape trial thing).

Kobe doesn't like to engage in public trash talk, rarely speaks out against the league or really lets you know what's on his mind.

Even when Shaq called out Kobe and asked him how his ass tastes, Kobe just took the high road and zipped his lip.

Nick Young is the cheerful burst of energy that this team needs. In many ways, he's the anti-Kobe.  Young, vibrant, out-spoken and happy to go against the trend. 

Perhaps that's why Kobe and Swaggy have been battling each other so hard during training camp.

What makes me nervous about Young is that he's bounced around the league quite a bit - and that is generally not a very good sign. 

I'm afraid that for the right amount of money he'll bounce, or his brash attitude will get his ass shipped out of town. And then I won't get to check out his hot girlfriend.

Yes, I'm taking about Iggy Azalea.

Young is dating this hot piece of thunder from down under and I was looking forward to seeing pictures of her sitting in the front row in short skirts. She's like Beyonce, Shakira, or the ocean to me: nice to look at but I don't want to hear them.

Hopefully his thumb heals up fine. I've broken a finger before but that just made it harder to write, draw, and bath. I don't do anything close to what could be considered a sport.

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