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Post by quagmire on Feb 16, 2020 20:36:32 GMT -5
Couldn’t find a thread anywhere so I’ll post it here. Chaka Khan = the WORST version of the National Anthem I have ever heard! My ears still hurt!
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Post by cole on Feb 16, 2020 20:38:45 GMT -5
Chaka khan? Chaka Khan?
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 20:52:53 GMT -5
Yeah, she did prove that she could hit some notes that weren't intended for the anthem ... though not unlike "bombs bursting in air."
The usual game of fast breaks and ally-oops ... who can score 100 the fastest?
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 20:54:14 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 21:09:07 GMT -5
Q1: 53 - 41 West (LeBron)
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Post by puddin on Feb 16, 2020 21:11:44 GMT -5
I remember how proud I was when our own Gerald Green won the dunk contest (NOT!!).
That was likely the highlight of his career, at least in Celtic green.
Chaka and Genghis are surely related.
Pud
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 21:18:17 GMT -5
A time when these games were real and meant something: Larry’s legendary All-Star game performances started in his rookie season. Boston pulled into the 1980 All-Star Game break with a 40-13 record. Ironically in their last game on January 31 before the ASG, Boston beat Washington 119-103 at the Capital Centre, the site of the mid-season classic. Bird scored 24 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and dished out five assists to beat the defending two-time Eastern Conference champion Bullets. Three days later, Bird and teammate Nate Archibald represented the Celtics at the All-Star Game. Boston center Dave Cowens was also named to the team, but was unable to play due to injury. Still, Bird played sparingly in the 1980 All-Star Game as a green rookie forced to pay his dues. Bird played only 17 of the first 47 minutes. Inserted at the end of the classic game in Washington by 76er head coach Billy Cunningham, a cold Bird came off the bench into a 128-128 game after a long break on the sidelines. Amazingly, the East team left the game-winning shot to Bird - who launched an open 20-footer that bounced off the rim short just before the buzzer. Perhaps by letting Bird take the last shot it was the disgruntled veterans’ way of saying “hey you hyped-up rookie, if you are so great, let’s see what you have got.” Or maybe they also trusted him with the last shot, even as a rookie. Maybe both. His top of the key shot would have won the game, and when it misfired the normally unemotional Kareem Abdul-Jabbar raised both of his arms toward the sky in triumph, even though the game was only headed to overtime. Laker rookie Earvin Johnson also jumped up and down after Bird’s miss and punched his right fist into the air in celebration, dancing jauntily toward his West huddle. When he crossed paths with Bird seconds later as they walked to their respective benches, the Laker rookie prudently pulled his right arm down. But he continued prancing along like a little kid and had cut right in front of Bird in what appeared to be a bit of taunting. An obviously upset Larry gave him a little slap in the back as he walked by with a determined, angry gait to his East bench. Taunting Bird after a rare clutch miss was the wrong thing to do, and Larry was clearly motivated to make up for it and more in the overtime. A determined Bird responded by coming up huge in the overtime and led the East to a 144-138 victory, the first in a long line of clutch performances that would help make him a legend and help rebuild the league. In OT he buried a 22-foot left baseline jumper. After Johnson scored to tie it at 136-136, Larry answered his nemesis again. He drained a tie-breaking trey from the deep left corner to make the first three-point goal in All-Star Game history a memorable one. His gutsy bomb, at a time when few three-pointers were taken (1979-80 was the first season the rule was in effect in the NBA) gave the East the lead for good at 139-136. “It takes a special kind of player to want that shot at a time like this,” offered CBS analyst Bill Russell. He added two big rebounds and then put the game away with the assist of the year with his midair, basketball savant southpaw no-look rebound tip pass to George Gervin for the game-clinching layup. Thus was born Larry Legend in the clutch and his penchant for making dagger triples at critical junctures. Bird almost always seemed able to will himself to rise to the occasion and make miraculous plays of all kinds in order to help his team win. In just 23 minutes of play at the 1980 ASG, he dished out a team-high seven assists, grabbed six boards and scored seven crucial points. He did all this while taking just six shots and deferring to veterans most of the game until taking over in the crucial overtime. Bird highlighted his All-Star christening and clinched the outcome with that spectacularly memorable midair pass, arguably as good a pass as has ever been thrown in an All-Star Game. One of the great plays of his career commenced when Bird rebounded a missed three-point try by Seattle center Jack Sikma late in OT. Larry then led the fast break and as he approached half court, he fired a 40-foot lookaway pass to Moses Malone. Moses missed a short shot and then tipped the ball out toward the left elbow during a rebound scrum with Sikma. Bird had continued trailing the play after his pass, and with his splendid court vision and reactions, left his feet and lunged at the rebound with his left hand. He slapped a 12-foot, over-the-shoulder rebound/tip no-look pass – with his off hand - past a stunned Sikma directly to game MVP Gervin for a reverse layup. “That was phenomenal, that pass he made on the flip,” gushed CBS analyst Hot Rod Hundley, who was himself known for flashy play as a Laker 15-20 years earlier. “I DON’T BELIEVE he saw George Gervin,” marveled CBS announcer Brent Musburger. The true no-look lefty tip was slapped over his right shoulder just over the head of Sikma perfectly to a surprised Gervin. The improvised pass displayed Bird’s quickness of mind and hand, along with his creative flair for the dramatic. “This pass was just unbelievable,” added Russell. It was just a harbinger of things to come from Bird, and on top of the play’s sheer brilliance, it buried the West’s chances and clinched the East win. www.celticsblog.com/2020/2/16/21138754/larry-bird-epic-all-star-game-resume-boston-celtics
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 21:34:38 GMT -5
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Post by elvissurfs on Feb 16, 2020 21:35:44 GMT -5
A time when these games were real and meant something: Larry’s legendary All-Star game performances started in his rookie season. Boston pulled into the 1980 All-Star Game break with a 40-13 record. Ironically in their last game on January 31 before the ASG, Boston beat Washington 119-103 at the Capital Centre, the site of the mid-season classic. Bird scored 24 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and dished out five assists to beat the defending two-time Eastern Conference champion Bullets. Three days later, Bird and teammate Nate Archibald represented the Celtics at the All-Star Game. Boston center Dave Cowens was also named to the team, but was unable to play due to injury. Still, Bird played sparingly in the 1980 All-Star Game as a green rookie forced to pay his dues. Bird played only 17 of the first 47 minutes. Inserted at the end of the classic game in Washington by 76er head coach Billy Cunningham, a cold Bird came off the bench into a 128-128 game after a long break on the sidelines. Amazingly, the East team left the game-winning shot to Bird - who launched an open 20-footer that bounced off the rim short just before the buzzer. Perhaps by letting Bird take the last shot it was the disgruntled veterans’ way of saying “hey you hyped-up rookie, if you are so great, let’s see what you have got.” Or maybe they also trusted him with the last shot, even as a rookie. Maybe both. His top of the key shot would have won the game, and when it misfired the normally unemotional Kareem Abdul-Jabbar raised both of his arms toward the sky in triumph, even though the game was only headed to overtime. Laker rookie Earvin Johnson also jumped up and down after Bird’s miss and punched his right fist into the air in celebration, dancing jauntily toward his West huddle. When he crossed paths with Bird seconds later as they walked to their respective benches, the Laker rookie prudently pulled his right arm down. But he continued prancing along like a little kid and had cut right in front of Bird in what appeared to be a bit of taunting. An obviously upset Larry gave him a little slap in the back as he walked by with a determined, angry gait to his East bench. Taunting Bird after a rare clutch miss was the wrong thing to do, and Larry was clearly motivated to make up for it and more in the overtime. A determined Bird responded by coming up huge in the overtime and led the East to a 144-138 victory, the first in a long line of clutch performances that would help make him a legend and help rebuild the league. In OT he buried a 22-foot left baseline jumper. After Johnson scored to tie it at 136-136, Larry answered his nemesis again. He drained a tie-breaking trey from the deep left corner to make the first three-point goal in All-Star Game history a memorable one. His gutsy bomb, at a time when few three-pointers were taken (1979-80 was the first season the rule was in effect in the NBA) gave the East the lead for good at 139-136. “It takes a special kind of player to want that shot at a time like this,” offered CBS analyst Bill Russell. He added two big rebounds and then put the game away with the assist of the year with his midair, basketball savant southpaw no-look rebound tip pass to George Gervin for the game-clinching layup. Thus was born Larry Legend in the clutch and his penchant for making dagger triples at critical junctures. Bird almost always seemed able to will himself to rise to the occasion and make miraculous plays of all kinds in order to help his team win. In just 23 minutes of play at the 1980 ASG, he dished out a team-high seven assists, grabbed six boards and scored seven crucial points. He did all this while taking just six shots and deferring to veterans most of the game until taking over in the crucial overtime. Bird highlighted his All-Star christening and clinched the outcome with that spectacularly memorable midair pass, arguably as good a pass as has ever been thrown in an All-Star Game. One of the great plays of his career commenced when Bird rebounded a missed three-point try by Seattle center Jack Sikma late in OT. Larry then led the fast break and as he approached half court, he fired a 40-foot lookaway pass to Moses Malone. Moses missed a short shot and then tipped the ball out toward the left elbow during a rebound scrum with Sikma. Bird had continued trailing the play after his pass, and with his splendid court vision and reactions, left his feet and lunged at the rebound with his left hand. He slapped a 12-foot, over-the-shoulder rebound/tip no-look pass – with his off hand - past a stunned Sikma directly to game MVP Gervin for a reverse layup. “That was phenomenal, that pass he made on the flip,” gushed CBS analyst Hot Rod Hundley, who was himself known for flashy play as a Laker 15-20 years earlier. “I DON’T BELIEVE he saw George Gervin,” marveled CBS announcer Brent Musburger. The true no-look lefty tip was slapped over his right shoulder just over the head of Sikma perfectly to a surprised Gervin. The improvised pass displayed Bird’s quickness of mind and hand, along with his creative flair for the dramatic. “This pass was just unbelievable,” added Russell. It was just a harbinger of things to come from Bird, and on top of the play’s sheer brilliance, it buried the West’s chances and clinched the East win. www.celticsblog.com/2020/2/16/21138754/larry-bird-epic-all-star-game-resume-boston-celticsThat was a good read...
Not understanding the scoring on the all star game, thought I was watching a delayed feed...
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 21:38:54 GMT -5
Yeah, they are playing three 12 minute quarters then the 4th quarter will decide the winner by the first team to score 24pts moar than their total thru the 1st three quarters to honor Coby.
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 21:40:57 GMT -5
Tre' Young at the halftime buzzer hits from half court for team Giannis!
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Post by elvissurfs on Feb 16, 2020 21:58:49 GMT -5
Yeah, they are playing three 12 minute quarters then the 4th quarter will decide the winner by the first team to score 24pts moar than their total thru the 1st three quarters to honor Coby. lol, maybe we could honor the arrogant undeserving prick (sorta kidding, God bless him and his family and all those and their families on the helicopter) by spelling his name right...'Koby'
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Post by cole on Feb 16, 2020 22:01:21 GMT -5
Yeah, they are playing three 12 minute quarters then the 4th quarter will decide the winner by the first team to score 24pts moar than their total thru the 1st three quarters to honor Coby. ?? What a convoluted mess
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Post by elvissurfs on Feb 16, 2020 22:04:40 GMT -5
So basically the fourth quarter starts as a tie...
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 22:32:23 GMT -5
I'm sorry to friends, family & fans of "Coby" who morn his loss and it was a sad and horrific report but he'll always be the guy who cheated on his wife (despite all the times they talk about his devotion to his wife & kids) and raped a woman. I just can't put this guy on a podium of greatness and forget his past ... #unforgiven
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Post by elvissurfs on Feb 16, 2020 22:47:22 GMT -5
Crap, I even got it wrong... it is 'Kobe'...good grief...
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2020 23:47:55 GMT -5
Kemba not a glorious finish in the 4th qtr ... a few missed threes, a TO (kicked OOB off his dribble) and a blown layup.
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Post by puddin on Feb 17, 2020 8:13:07 GMT -5
Counting down the hours until the next game against the Wolves.....
I've got T minus 109 hours until blast off.
Lets hope that Kemba learns during the 2nd half of the season to take/make the big shot at crunch time, not something he practiced/learned with the lowly Hornets.
Pud
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Post by jdm894g on Feb 17, 2020 11:37:40 GMT -5
The 4th quarter was like a game seven. Charges, fouls, complaining to the refs, defense. It was a throwback game.
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Post by cole on Feb 17, 2020 11:43:22 GMT -5
I'd go back and watch it except it sounds like our representative played poorly. Tatum should have been the starter. The proof is evident nightly...Tatum is better on O and we can't even speak of D.
Get well soon Kemba, I guess.
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2020 0:53:38 GMT -5
Yet another reason to hate on D Wade ... word has surfaced that the judges of the Slam Dunk Contest decided it would be fair to have the contest end in a tie so both Gordon & Jones Jr could share the trophy. The judges decided that the two judges that gave Jones a 9 would also give Gordon 9's on his final dunk over Tacko Fall. This would result in a final round score of 48 for each contestant. But when the scores were revealed there were three 9's not two! Was there some miscommunication? How could they have screwed this up? It was obvious that Gordon's dunk was deserving of five tens but the fix was in and somehow Gordon ended up with just 47 pts instead of 48 giving the title to Jones Jr by 1 slim point. Ahh, but then word leaked out that there were only supposed to be two 9's not three and the third 9 came from old friend (enemy) D Wade of the Miami Heat. And why would Wade make such a faux pas? Jones Jr was representing the Miami Heat ... MOAR dirty work from D Wade!
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Post by kivancb on Feb 18, 2020 3:54:45 GMT -5
I despise Dirty Wade with all my heart.
One of my biggest regrets is that nobody broke his bones by a cheap-shot, as he did so to many others.
What a scumbag of a shithole he is.
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Post by cole on Feb 18, 2020 10:39:17 GMT -5
We've known a long time that the all star weekend was a fix all the way around. This weekend is about marketing, not sport. We learned it for sure when Nate couldn't be in the dunk contest because it was already decided Blake would jump over a kia.
that sure was a nice looking car though...
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Post by kyceltic on Feb 18, 2020 12:42:35 GMT -5
Yeah, they are playing three 12 minute quarters then the 4th quarter will decide the winner by the first team to score 24pts moar than their total thru the 1st three quarters to honor Coby. lol, maybe we could honor the arrogant undeserving prick (sorta kidding, God bless him and his family and all those and their families on the helicopter) by spelling his name right...'Koby' Genius at work!!
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Post by fierce on Feb 19, 2020 21:15:03 GMT -5
Joe Harris calls Jayson Tatum Team USA's 'best player' from 2019 FIBA World Cupwww.nbcsports.com/boston/celtics/joe-harris-calls-jayson-tatum-team-usas-best-player-2019-fiba-world-cup“I thought Jayson was probably the best player on our team this summer,” said Harris at NBA's All-Star weekend, per Joe Vardon of The Athletic. “Obviously there were a lot of talented guys there. Unfortunately he got hurt halfway through our trip, but he was leading us in a lot of different areas. It wasn’t this huge statistical thing, I think it was more the presence that he had. What I saw, what he brought every day to practice. It was one of those things where he is super young, but he didn’t act like it, he didn’t play like it, and I could’ve told you this summer that he’d have a pretty good chance to be here today as an All-Star.”
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