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KEVIN DURANT IS THE NEW KING…

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

I stayed up ’til 5am watching the encore presentation of the Oklahoma City Thunder visiting the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. The atmosphere in the Garden was electric. Tracy McGrady was making his Garden debut along with Eddie House. Kevin Durant was in town with the Thunder. I should have gone to the Garden and scalped a ticket for this tilt. It ended up being one of this season’s classic contests.

The Knicks battled well with the Thunder all game long. They even had a lead at several points throughout the game including the final seconds of regulation play. That is when Kevin Durant sent the Garden faithful back into their seats for an overtime period. The Thunder needed a three point play to tie the game and put an overtime period into the books. Durant hit the contested shot straight and true. When I tell you he is the best player in the league right now I am not bullshitting you. Kevin Durant is the new King. BERNARD KING.

Bernard King is my favorite Knick of all time alongside Patrick Ewing. There was not a shot in the Garden that Bernard wouldn’t take, AND make. He was a forward with quickness and body control and a killer instinct. Bernard King used to wear Larry Bird’s ass out [ll] on the regular. Bernard used to wear everyone in the league’s ass out [ll] for that matter. Standing at 6-9 you could not guard him with a taller player. I remember watching Ralph Sampson attempt to guard Bernard and dude was looking like a mannequin as ‘Nard moved around him like a slalom gate. If you were shorter than Bernard he would just shoot over the top of your head like it wasn’t no thing.

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The only thing that did stop Bernard was his body. He tore his ACL and missed playing with Ewing during his rookie campaign. If Bernard had been healthy the Knicks with him and Ewing would have made New York jump like Rod Strickland. When I watched Kevin Durant play last night it was like watching the second coming of Bernard King. Durant can get his shot off anywhere on the floor. He can put the ball down on the floor and penetrate to the rim[ll]. Mainly, he can finish plays with a score. I’m calling him the MVP this season. Fux a LeBron.

The advantage that Durant has over my Brooklyn hero King is that Durant plays better defense on the ball. Last night Durant was matched up at times against Tracy McGrady (who found the bottom of the net quite often as well), but mostly against Wilson Chandler who was terribly overmatched by the league’s most dynamic player. Just wait until Durant starts going on those 40point streaks. Bernard would have a week or two of those. Just torching whichever teams came to MSG. I’m rooting for Kevin Durant to have as much success and more for his career. Word to Walt Whitman Houses and the King brothers from Fort Greene.

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Help The ICs Flourish…

Sunday, May 18th, 2014

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Casimir, Rafi and I have been given a second chance to put together a nice webseries about riding the subway and eating. You should have already seen some of the previous episodes of the Food Warriors webseries.

To this end we are creating a uniform of sorts for us to wear on days when we shoot video. You can’t name a winning team which doesn’t have a uniform. This should hopefully unify us in our mission to make the best damn videos you have ever seen.

We’ve decided to all rock the same New Balance kicks as our uniform. LOL. Nah, but seriously, New Balance sneakers are dope as hell, comfortable and oftentimes made in the U.S.A. Now we just need help in choosing which one to wear…

I’ve been visiting the Finish Line stores inside of Macy’s and they are catching str8 up bodies with their New Balance selection.

BODIES!

Chocolate Snowflake Reigns…

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014

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Happy new year to the CEO of DallasPenn.com and the sexiest boss a schlub like me could ever have

Get Ready For Combat…

Friday, March 21st, 2014

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“You think you know the history of New York Hip Hop? You really don’t know jack until you talk to Jessica Rosenblum. Hear her talk about her role in opening the downtown NYC nightlife scene to Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen, the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. Listen as she shares about her role in making a then unknown Sean “Diddy” Combs into a household name. Learn as she walks us through what really happened that fateful night at the tragic CCNY event and why she wasn’t responsible. Marvel at how she decided to build Funk Master Flex into the brand that he is today. Take in her close and meaningful relationship with the late, great Chris Lighty. We only scratched the surface as to this woman’s integral role in contributing to this culture, but this episode’s lessons is an important and mostly overlooked in this thing we call rap.

PLUS: Dallas Penn shares how he single handedly broke the Internets with his ingenious execution of Pologate.”

Combat Jack

Ace Of Customs…

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

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The first ever sneaker culture webseries kicked off this week via SneakerNews and the Complex Media Network. The series is called ‘Ace Of Customs’ and it pits three sneaker customizers against each other in a timed competition to see who can create the best looking shoe around a joint theme.

The premiere episode was filmed at SneakerCON in NYC and that was also the theme to be placed on the sneakers. The sneaker all the customizers worked on was the LeBron XI ‘Gamma Blue’