Memo to JORDAN: Let’s see how much of that $150mil settlement ends up in one of DAVID FALK’s accounts.
It might appear that I don’t like basketball as much as your average jig but that isn’t entirely true. Sure, I like baseball and football more than basketball, but I still represent my Blackness with a familiarity of roundball goings ons. I jacked the pic above from Nerditry. They were the winners of this years inaugural DP Dot Com NCAA FINAL FOUR Pool. I wanted to run another pool for the NBA Playoffs but I didn’t have the time to administer a pool and continue my charge to world domination via the internets.
The Association seemed a bit more compelling last year with RON ARTEST in the mix. The league just looks like its been neutured to the point that I wish there was another cocaine scandal to make these kids look more interesting. If not for GILBERT ARENAS and KOBE BRYANT the NBA would be the perfect cure for insomnia. Thank GOD the playoffs finally arrived. Maybe there will be some drama on TNT this week. In the meantime and in between time leave it up to your boy DP to spice up the post-season.
I’ll use this post to run a contest for the overall Association champs. Whoever picks this years’ NBA Finals winner will get a DP Dot Com prize pack. Make sure that you include the following info…
Out of the sixteen teams that have begun the playoffs I see five or six possibles to own the NBA crown this summer…
DALLAS MAVERICKS
By virtue of their league leading record I have to put them at the top of the heap. This Mavericks team doesn’t seem as explosive to me as last years group and I would never have picked last years bunch to make it to the Finals. So what do I know?
PHOENIX SUNS
Forget all the this and that about KOBE BRYANT being the M.V.P. for the Association this year. STEVE NASH had the hottest NIKE hoe this year and he will get the BOB COUSY trophy or the PETE MARAVICH trophy or whatever trophy is named after that white that kicked ass on the hardwood. Don’t sleep either when Phoenix gets all the lose calls during these playoffs. The league needs for their M.V.P. to at least play in the Finals.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS
TIM DUNCAN has been the best player in the league for the last ten years for being able to make TONY PARKER and MANU GINOBILI All-Stars in the league. Similar to OLAJUWON he just does his thing quietly and efficiently. San Antonio needs another player on their roster for them to be the dominant team in the league again, but they are still good enough to come out of the West if the Suns or the Mavs get caught slipping.
DETROIT PISTONS
The Pistons are one of the few championship caliber teams where the weed carriers might be better than the weed owners. CHRIS WEBBER and RASHEED WALLACE offer glimpse of their former weed owning days, but the Detroit engine is powered by their guard play. RIP HAMILTON and CHAUNCEY BILLUPS are the sparkplugs.
MIAMI HEAT
By virtue of being last years’ champs do the Heat make this list. So much shit would have to happen in order for Miami to make it to the Finals this year we should discount these dudes automatically. They are really an 8-seed playing in the 4-seed slot.
CHICAGO BULLS
The Bulls are my sleeper pick for this years’ Finals trophy. True story, I was at the NIKE I.D. Design Studio working on a pair of Dunks over the summer and SMUSH PARKER and BEN GORDON were up in there chillin’ doing the same. BEN GORDON’s shoes looked better than mine only because NIKE gave him access to their VIP materials like ostrich leather and gold-plated laces, but let’s see BEN create the amount of content that has him working on four websites simultaneously. Yeah, I thought so.
I’m rooting for T-Mac, Yao and Skip to My Lou. But I’ll go with the chalk —Mavs.
I don’t know. But here’s my guess. Detroit will take the East this year. Chris Webber surprisingly made an impact. They will face the Mavs and lose it 6 games. Dirk & the General with the serious accent will be excused for last years farce. Win or lose Jason Terry will continue to smile.
Some one will cancel out the Phoenix Suns with pinpoint accurate defense. That’s my word. I’m not 100% confident in the Mavs ability to beat either the Suns or the Spurs because all three teams are some what evenly matched. I do see the Bulls beating the Heat. They definitely have the ability.
You’re correct the league has been neutered but it was neutured around the time when they first began changing the rules to help bring a faster high scoring game. That was around the time they started saying that hand-checking is a foul. Slowly more and more rules have been put in place that influenced the way the game is played. Which is why it is some times difficult for players from other leagues to adjust to the NBA rules. Note, during the international games, Dwayne Wade did not average 20+ foul calls like he did during last years Finals. The refs now act as a judge of character and emotional response as I posted a while ago. The rules allow certain kind of players to thrive. But as we know, sports is gay and no one watches the UFC. Mayweather or De La Hoya? What say you?
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Golden State Warriors to win it all, they’ll roll on the Pistons in the Finals in 6 games. “Throwin up W’s and bringing trouble to, any crew.”
Healthy Duncan and the Spurs beat The Pistons in a hard fought 7 game series where Chris Webber sloughs off his naysayers and comes out on some Bill Russell in his twilight years shit…
Golden State?!? uhmm . . . ok
When the dust settles the Big West 3 will win the trophy.
Mavs|Spurs|Suns.
I am rooting for Detroit, but they’re not the defensive stalwarts they once were under Larry Brown and don’t have Wallace holding down the center.
That Warriors-Mavs game made me SICK!!!!!! Don Nelson has them throwing the W!!! Damn!!!
Detroit in the East. Phoenix in West (I like the Spurs but I don’t know if they can make it past Denver)…..Detroit in 7.
as long as the dodgers are still in brooklyn, i’ve got a shot at this. they’re not?
then here are my picks:
champ: dallas
losers: detroit
7 games in the finals.
sorry about no pics for my fly williams-fly harlem rens dunk customs. yellow and blue colorway. thanks dp dot c for the prize, again and the shout.
Winners: Detroit – Rasheed Wallace will give Dirk the same business Antoine Walker did.
Runner ups: Dallas
7 Games
I hope to dear god Phoenix runs through this shit and shows what 80’s basketball was like……I was hella young but my memories of 80’s Showtime Lakers was Fastbreaking great Point Guard play and a ton of Talent feel me on this.
Steve Nash= Magic
Barbosa = Michael Cooper
Bell = Byron Scott
Staudamire = Kareem
Marion = Worthy
Diaw = Mcadoo, Thompson or Rambis
Feel me, of course they would have to win the Chip a couple of times, but this is their year…Plus San Antonio and Dallas’s first rounds are going to be grouling………Yo Dallas I never got your email for the Crap Fantasy…. Shwaniaram@gmail.com ……….. I tried to create some dunks on Nike ID but its not the same when I want to use exclusive materials and Colors ……….Your Boca Junior/Brazil colored Joints were bananas, No Donkey Kong ………I got the 1 pack this past weekend two pair of Jordans for 200 hun is a deal ……..
here it 7 games Phoenix beats Chicago ………..I roll with Phoenix teams on occasion spent two years at ASU made me fond of the city …………… but its Southeast Diego till I die…….ask Mitchy Slick, Reggie Bush, Rashaan Salaam, Ricky Williams, Marcus Allen, Kevin Mitchell and my boy Adam Jones in AAA waiting to get called up, just a couple of people that grew up in a 5 mile radius in San Diego ………….that has to be a record on Hiesman Trophy Winners
Phoenix will be the NBA champions this year. Steve Nash is the general and he gonna lead his team to the trophy. Plus, with Amare back in the line-up its a wrap. Barbosa, Diaw, Marion, and Bell are all effective role players but on any given night can step up to become the go to guy.
And Dirk is a fucking Pussy.
Runner-ups will be the Pistons. Aint nobody in the east fucking with this squad. In the finals though, they aint gonna be able to keep up with the Suns. Rip fast than a mofo, but Barbosa faster. The big match up will be Nash and Billups.
Oh yeah Phoenix in 7 games against Detroit.
^Marion = Worthy, Nash = Magic, ok I’ll mess with that. But Stoudamire is a beast in his own right and has a different game than Kareem. Amare’s game is going to get better with the years (pending sidelining injuries).
1. I don’t see the Suns sweeping the Lakers. Kobe’s competitive spirit will not allow such a feat.
2. The Suns will need more than their offensive might to beat the Spurs.
3. The Mavs will take them to the final seconds of Game 7 in the Western Conference and beat them.
. . . either way, it will be interesting to watch. RASHEED is looking so focused. Let’s see how long that will last. Pistons are a really hard team to beat when he’s motivated.
Dallas you a fool for that headline. LMAO!
I got a light skin wife look just like Micheal Jackson.
Remember that video they did back in the day? Jam.
Biggup to everyone effing with Dallas. I want a Dallas – Deetwah Finals. When I was a kid everyone called me Detroit or Denver. Well now that I’m all grown and shit I have a fucking website.
Who’s laughing now bitches?!?
I Fux, I wanted to holler at you to tell you that there will be second round of cRap Music Fantasy League. I send the invites out in May.
Dallas – Champs (best team on NLA Live EVAR!!!)
Detroit – Runner up (gulliest team out known to man)
7 games in the finals (cause it’s entertaining like that and White must stay getting payed, jigs must stay getting played)
Nope, Runnin Suns over Baby Bulls in 6. Chicago is shootin the lights out from the perimeter so I ain’t countin them out against anybody right now