TOP 5 RANDOM NBA THOUGHTS (1.26.07)

No B.S. Allowed!

5. It seems you never know who's watching. Apparently my "stop moonwalking" line (referring to Carmelo) from a few blogs back has been quoted in sportswriter Percy
Allen's Carmelo article in the Seattle Times sports section. My trash talking has gone worldwide! Big thangs! Shout out to Percy for mentioning me. Now if I can only get a job covering Sonics games (stop laughin, y'all know thats my team)....Heres the link:

Don't Blow It Melo!

4. Tony don't do it, don't be stupid!!!!! I know my Boston brothers are shaking their heads with this one. Tony Allen- arguably Boston's best player with Paul Pierce being out- has the ball and the whitle blows as he's goin to the hoop. He heard it, he had to. But did he stop? Nah. He figured "lemme get my And 1 mixtape on and do some Booger Smith/Ali Moe shit for the crowd even though it's uncontested and I won't get a score for it." Oh brother. 3 seconds later his ACL is blown and its over for Mr. Allen and the Celts. How many times have you shown off and it was regrettable? I can raise my hand for that. Oh boy can I, thats why I drink Redbull with no liquor at bars now! But as an NBA player you need to think about shit like that. There ain't much I can say, but maybe Ty Law, Benzino, Banacek, 7L & Esoteric or a cast member of Boston Public can pick up the scoring slack!

3. KG may be in the runnings for Melo's moonwalking title. "I'm a lover not a fighter". MJ would be so proud. KG tosses the rock at Antonio McDeyss and Bacsdafucup like Onyx. Both Melo and KG got talent, but I just don't get them. I swear, I feel like every NBA game nowadays is a "Thriller" video clip with all this moonwalking. Grown millionaires tryin to thug out on some Lean on Me opening scene shit. Unless you have every intention of cleaning somebody's clock, just speak your peace, get your technical and step off. Actin like your gonna put it on somebody then backpedalling is junior high shit. The need to maintain street cred by acting up in the NBA is pussy shit. Allen Iverson, Caron Butler and Quentin Richardson have more street cred than everybody else put together and you dont see that from them. Cause dudes that will really bring it would rather back off it and get money than prove to 12 year olds on the playground that they're ready to thump. The exceptions of course would be those involved in Auburn Hills. You wouldn't want it with none of them dudes, especially Big Ben!

2. OK the Atlantic division is as open as Superhead's legs. So are we looking at the unthinkable? Are the NY Knicks actually going to have a shot at making the playoffs by default? Lets's analyze. The depleted Nets were in first but dropped 3 nailbiters on the road. Boston and Philly are lower than the 808 frequencies on a Miami Bass record. Toronto is in first and I still tell my fellow New Yorkers (like my biased Knick fan Grandmother) not to get their hopes up. True, they won a few close ones to superior teams, but that's not hard. By than I mean finding superior teams. But the embarrasing blow out against Miami was NOT a fluke. I know the Knicks are bad. But after watching a re-run of Growing Pains for the first quarter of the game (even nerd ass Kirk Cameron is cooler than Isiah Thomas), I switched to the game actually expecting the seemingly improved Knicks to be killing the completely undermanned Heat. What do I see? A 40-12 Heat lead at the end of the first quarter. I thought my Caribbean food was spiked and this was surely the end. No. Antoine Walker and James Posey (who both just failed their body fat exams), Jason Kappono and a group of players that are old enough to have played in their prime alongside Detlev Shrempf and Trent Tucker were partly responsible for the second worst scoring quarter in Knick history. I'm not going to waste time with more Knick bashing because that seems to be "trans fat" of my blogs. So unnecessary and toxic but it's so good to the taste buds. Let's just say keep your hopes humble. Anything is possible in the Titanic (Atlantic) Division, but I think its safe to say a "Raptor Grip" or a "Net Revival" will edge out a "Knick Miracle".

1. All-Star Starting 5 are in. Predicatble to say the least. Of course I have a few beefs. Yeah I know Shaq is the leagues most dominant player cause the dude is a damn Brontosaurus. But after playing 6 games and making a lackluster return last week from injury, do you really believe that he's above Dwight Howard? Shaq is great, but its time to let that era go. Howard is a monster and when he's 26 you don't even wanna see the damage he will put on opposing centers. That was robbery. As was T-Mac getting in over Steve Nash. Although Nash will likely get the MVP and I doubt he cares about the All-Star game, T-Mac's back troubles have limited his game and I think if anything, he should take in the festivities and relax so he doesn't aggrivate that disc. The Rockets front office is sweating. Yao is hurt too. I'd put Amare in there over Yao. I'd pick Nash, AI or my personal choice, Ray Allen, over T-Mac. Haha, you know I had to sneak a Sonic in there, and I wanna see him and Arenas in a shootout. Anyway, all the celebrities better be glad I'm chronically injured and retired cause I woulda had 20 and 12 in the Celebrity All-Star game...unless they put Brian McKnight on me. THAT dude could play in the NBA for real. And I just have a feeling that somebody will get arrested in Vegas. I just know it. Til next time...