Real Deal

Haha, okay.

See it for yourself, and listen to Mark Jackson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxgTJQvzXg And I absolutely love the ball fake, right in Kobe's face, and Bryant doesn't even flinch. Foreshadowing to him dominating Barnes' life the next time they meet.

Bryant = jersey-holding Artest = arm-tapping Garnett = illegal screens Yeah, combine all three and you're correct. Barnes got away with all of that, more than twice for each, today.

The rest of the Magic weren't like Matt, though. I did see the Dwight and Gasol incident, but that's just something that happens every game. Barnes was a mess.

Three Kansas players (meaning Kansas AND K-State) in the Big 12 first team. Sick.

Hardly ever complain, but the refs let Barnes get away with way too much. He set FIVE illegal screens in the game, should've been tossed after two techs, and he was grabbing at Kobe's jersey and holding him twice, hit his arm two times (that I can remember) on jumpers. WEAK. Kobe is going to light him up if they meet in the Finals. You already know it.

Epileptics usually have more seizures than anyone else (that's what epilepsy is), but they have to control it with meds, or else they won't live long. Diabetics have seizures when their blood sugars drop too low, but that's not good at all. I've had six seizures in 16 years from it. Seizures will kill you. They do damage to your brain and/or heart every time. If nobody is around when someone has a seizure, that person is in deep trouble, and you might as well say they would be on their death bed at that point.

Oh well.

Why whine about the calls? The goaltend was legit. It hit the glass first. Two angles, Jermaine's fingers bent at the point of impact after the ball changed direction. It's a goaltend off the glass. The charge was legit. He was there in time, waiting for it, and Kobe went for the foul on the layup. The out-of-bounds call against the Heat was actually out off Gasol's knee. But, the following foul was legit, even if Artest stuck his arm out. They drew contact first. The refs did a great job. On the other hand, Kobe and Artest were the only ones to do a great job in this game. Everyone else needs to practice their defense or go shoot 1,000 shots in the dark tonight.

I think Bryant was already #1 in jersey sales right before he switched to #24. Bryant's reasoning behind the change was because if it being another chapter in his life, to drop the eight that he wore during the worst of times in his career (minus the championships, of course, but you know what I'm referring to) and to dedicated 24 hours a day to the game. And I don't see the big deal with the change for LeBron, either. It's a number, and it's his Olympic number, at that. The way I see it, LeBron thinks Jordan's number should be retired throughout the league. By picking his own number, he's hoping to earn that same respect 20 years from now. And, as far as him changing the number early and indicating he's staying with Cleveland, that's not what it means. He could be undecided right now (as he has stated before), and because of that, he has to request the change when he can, just in case he does stay in Cleveland. Doesn't mean much, so don't look too deep into it, fellas.

Who Will Win? Kansas Who do you want to win it all? Kansas We lost to Tennessee and Oklahoma State. We'll be fine.

If you're going to be here again, don't start out the way you ended.

A sign that Kevin just needs to pass the ball sometimes. http://i50.tinypic.com/ip47ld.jpg

...lol.

It'll be his site the day I die saving the Earth, in 2012. He's in the admin group because he's far less active right now, but still needs that access for multiple reasons.

Probably not. Good point. Right, but I really don't think players care about that if they are in Battie and Simmons' positions. They just want to hold the trophy and sport the ring. If HOF'ers Karl Malone and Gary Payton could, they'd run to a team and play 10 minutes a game just to get a ring.

The Thunder and Bobcats. One has an offensive player that is too difficult to contain and a point guard too athletic to ignore, and the other is dominant defensively. I don't know if the Lakers would have trouble against OKC, given that we have a dominant frontcourt and the best scorer since MJ...but Phoenix would struggle with Durant and Westbrook, and I'd imagine Dallas would find them a tough play in a seven-game series, as long as Green is doing his job against Dirk. Charlotte can beat any team out East if they are at home. Unfortunately, they won't have a top four seed, so you can expect them to look like the Bulls of last year's playoffs, in need of just one more home game.

I'm in.

People have sex in Canada?

GIVE US THE LINK.

I know I was pissed because LeBron dominated him, but looking at everyone else who Artest has defended...he's got to be right there with Dwight Howard as the best defender in the league.

I wouldn't trade Rubio that quickly. He could turn out to be a better player than Flynn.

You mean Charles Manson? Yes.

You take Wall, doesn't matter what you do after that. John Wall is a future superstar, a better prospect than what Rose was when he came out of Memphis. You don't pass it up. Every team takes Wall.

Prostitute fees build up quickly.