Siete Derrotas
Carry On – It’s well documented that no team in NBA history has ever come back to win a playoff series after trailing 0-3. The “experts” will tell you it’s impossible in basketball. The thing is, according to the “experts” it used to be impossible in baseball as well. Until it wasn’t. The 2004 Boston Red Sox changed what is possible in baseball. Eventually, a team will change what is…
Read more...Tags:Boston Red Sox , Fun. , Golden State Warriors , Gregg Popovich , Manu Ginobili , San Antonio Spurs
Seis Derrotas
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Everyday People – Kawhi Leonard still drives a beat up 1997 Chevy Tahoe that he’s had since high school. Last year, the season after signing a $94,343,126 five-year contract, the All-NBA small forward was asked why he keeps a beater that he once nicknamed Gas Guzzler. His response? “It runs and it’s paid off.” I think it’s safe to say the San Antonio Spurs’ newest franchise cornerstone is as down…
Read more...Tags:Golden State Warriors , Jonathon Simmons , San Antonio Spurs , Sly & the Family Stone
Cinco Derrotas
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Until the End of Time – In their hearts, they know. Not to say that they care (vultures rarely do) but they know. The Golden State Warriors (the boastful sports ambassadors for a sinister darkness that has taken root in American culture, an epidemic that from here on I’ll refer to as the Gluttony of More) know that if Kawhi Leonard had not been injured…they would be peering up today…
Read more...Tags:2Pac , Golden State Warriors , Gregg Popovich , Joe Lacob , Kawhi Leonard , Kevin Durant , San Antonio Spurs , Zaza Pachulia
Best Friends Forever
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Friends S3:E25 – I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it. Yo… what is good, Mercedes-Friends. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Season 3 Finale of Friends 20/20. Considering that these posts are generally three to seven minute reads, you are mere minutes away from our summer vacation. As I mentioned last week, I’m going off the grid somewhere tropical as soon as I hand this column off to my…
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Faith – The “experts” were utterly dumbfounded. But why wouldn’t they have been? In their minds, what they had witnessed was impossible. After they found out that Kawhi Leonard had been scratched prior to Thursday’s matchup, the consensus among their ranks was that the Rockets would certainly force a Game 7. I mean, it was as close to a sure thing as comes around in the business of sports prognostication….
Read more...Tags:George Michael , Gregg Popovich , Houston Rockets , LaMarcus Aldridge , San Antonio Spurs
Siete Triunfos
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City of the Year – That was freaking insane. (No, I’m not talking about President Trump firing F.B.I. Director James Comey on Tuesday. While that was the desperate attempt of an unstable leader to cover up the high crimes and misdemeanors that could prove his illegitimacy and was unquestionably insane, luckily for the former reality show star who currently occupies the White House, this is a basketball blog series so,…
Read more...Tags:Danny Green , Houston Rockets , Lupe Fiasco , Manu Ginobili , San Antonio Spurs
Cuatro Derrotas
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All We Got – Condolences to Patrick Beverley and his family. The Rockets shooting guard found out about the passing of his grandfather an hour before the tip of Game 4. He proceeded to hit the first shot of the game, a three from the elbow, and set the tone for the entire night. In a game that was eerily similar to Game 1 in San Antonio, the Houston Rockets…
Read more...Tags:Chance the Rapper , Chicago Children's Choir , Houston Rockets , Jonathon Simmons , Kanye West , Patrick Beverley , San Antonio Spurs
You’re In Sample
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Friends S3:E24 – What’s good, Friendlies? Happy Monday to you. Welcome to the penultimate post of Friends 20/20, Season 3. Typing those words is music to my fingers. I won’t lie, I am readier than ready for summer vacation. In about one week and four hours from now I will be touching down somewhere tropical and dropping off of the grid faster than AT&T cellular service in a building with…
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Seis Triunfos
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Guess Who’s Back – Face it y’all, y’all Rockets playing basic-ball. We’re on the block like we’re eight feet tall. [Friday Afternoon] Yeah, I did it. Guilty as charged, Your Honor. There’s no denying it. Yes, I used a Scarface song against the city of Houston for the Game 3 theme of my San Antonio Spurs blog series. I’m not even sorry about it. Judge, I refer you back to…
Read more...Tags:Beanie Sigel , Dejounte Murray , Gregg Popovich , Houston Rockets , JAY-Z , LaMarcus Aldridge , Pau Gasol , San Antonio Spurs , Scarface
Cinco Triunfos
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Rocket Man – And I think it’s going to be a long, long time till touchdown brings me around again to find I’m not the man they think I am at home. I mean, come on. This is insanity. Kahwi Leonard just obliterated James Harden and in so doing…the way the “experts” framed this year’s NBA MVP race. You need to take your “best two-way player in the game but…”…
Read more...Tags:Elton John , Houston Rockets , James Harden , Kawhi Leonard , Michael Jordan , San Antonio Spurs , Tony Parker
Tres Derrotas
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Welcome to the Jungle – One of the great equalizers in military conflict is the element of surprise. Guerrilla tactics can often catch a superior army off guard to win a battle, especially in terrain as hostile as the jungle. Once the inferior army has successfully stunned the opponent through its initial guerrilla attack, it can use jungle terrain to its advantage to stay two steps ahead until the battle…
Read more...Tags:Gregg Popovich , Hakeem Olajuwon , Houston Rockets , James Harden , Kawhi Leonard , San Antonio Spurs
Cuatro Triunfos
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Victory – We’ve been hot for a long time burning like a candle. Much like Newton’s Laws of Motion, one would assume it safe scientific theory to postulate that if two basketball teams were to repeatedly play each other over and over again, it’s a statistical inevitability that eventually one of the two teams will win a game on the road. In the 2016-17 NBA season, the Memphis Grizzlies and…
Read more...Tags:Busta Rhymes , Kawhi Leonard , Memphis Grizzlies , Puff Daddy , San Antonio Spurs , The Notorious B.I.G. , Tony Parker
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