Lewis played Webster on one of the greatest shows of the 80′s, Webster — at the time of this picture, and I’m totally guessing, I wouldn’t be surprised if Lewis was about 13 years old.
Ewing played center on the second greatest team of 1994, the New York Knicks — this was before the knee pads thing though.
Back in 2008 the New Orleans Hornets were an uplifting success story in the NBA. Chris Paul was making a strong case for the MVP and the Hornets won 56 games. They finished second in the West, and were only a game back of the first-place Los Angeles Lakers.
Even though they took a dip in the second round against the more experienced San Antonio Spurs — they were only one win away from the Western Conference Finals — the Hornets were finally making an impact in New Orleans, after leaving Charlotte in the early part of the decade.
The following season, the Hornets only won 49 games and lost in a downright embarrassing fashion to the Denver Nuggets in the first round and last season things took an even stronger turn for the worse.
Hornets General Manager Jeff Bower fired head coach Byron Scott just nine games into the season. The team finished last place in the Southwest Division, winning 37 games and missing the playoffs.
The Knicks announcement of coming to terms with Amar’e Stoudmire sure brought a star-studded cast out to dinner to celebrate in New York City on Monday night. Based on this photo that former Knicks’ guard Allan Houston (who is now the Assistant to the President of Basketball Operations with the Knicks) posted on his website, everyone who is anyone was at the dinner — or at least close to it.
Besides Houston, joining Stoudemire for dinner was Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni, actor/comedian Chris Rock, director Spike Lee, rapper Fat Joe and former Knicks legend John Starks, along with two other guys (but I don’t know who they are, but they’re cool because they’re at this dinner and I’m not).
I can’t even imagine the dinner that LeBron James gets if he chooses to play in New York. One can assume that in addition to the cast of the Stoudemire dinner, the James’ dinner would feature P. Diddy, 50 Cent, Jerry Seinfield, Kevin James, Abe Vigoda, the entire Yankees team, David Letterman, Patrick Chewing (Ewing can’t make it due to obligations with the Magic) and of course Naked Cowboy.
Even though he’s a prominent New Yorker, I’d have a feeling Jay-Z would be skipping out on that potential dinner.
The first few days of NBA free agency have been stories of speculation upon stories of little news at all. Of course there have been the few stories of players who have chosen to re-sign with their teams: Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce and Dirk Nowitzki have all made the choice to return to the cities that love them most.
As we continue to wait and find out what happens with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, one of the other premiere free agents, Amar’e Stoudemire has made his decision to play for the New York Knicks. Stoudemire has become the first big name player to switch teams, and for New York, they’re obviously excited for two reasons:
Their team didn’t get shutout during free agency, and they’ve landed a superb All-Star big man.
This could potentially increase the chances of a player like LeBron James coming to New York to team up with Stoudemire.
Though he can’t sign officially until July 8, Stoudemire and the Knicks have made no reservations about making his agreement to join the team official. Stoudemire merchandise is already available on Knicks.com. The deal between Stoudemire and the Knicks is reportedly set to be a five-year deal worth nearly $100 million.
Back in 2001, Jay-Z released arguably his best album, The Blueprint.
Today launches the New Jersey Nets’ campaign to convince LeBron James to come and join his friend Young Hov (Jay-Z’s nickname for you non hip-hop listeners), who is a minority owner of the team. Cleverly thought out, “blueprint” remains a theme in a massive mural that is near Madison Square Garden (remember how the Knicks want LeBron too?).
A bold move by the Nets, who are banking on the rap mogul’s relationship with James to obviously help leverage his decision. New owner Mikhail Prokhorov is going to pull out all the stops to make sure that James signs on that dotted line of his newest investment.
We’ve been hearing about the 2010 free agent class for far too long.
Seriously, this has to be the most overdrawn out, overhyped thing in NBA history. It only got zanier when ESPN had the audacity to put up a ticker counter in honor of LeBron James‘ upcoming free agency, the moment that his Cavaliers lost to the Celtics.
Well, today at 12:01 AM, the counter struck zero.
James is a free agent, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for — well at least people in New York, New Jersey and Chicago. As for people in Cleveland, they’re all crapping their pants right now and probably running around the city frantically.
Of course, LeBron isn’t the only free agent, but if you turn on ESPN, CNN or other outlets, you might get that feeling.
As far as breaking it all down, that’s another post, but let the speculation and rumors continue — the truth is about to come out very soon, and within the next two or three weeks the NBA should look quite different, or maybe not much different at all.
The greatest basketball player that has ever lived turns 47 today. Celebrate by watching highlights from Jordan’s huge 55-point game at Madison Square Garden in his comeback during the 1995 season.
Nobody, absolutely nobody will be better, so stop trying to find someone to take his place.
There is no way to get around it, All-Star Saturday was bad. I’m sure the after-party scene in Dallas was awesome, but unfortunately, TNT doesn’t cover that. Instead, we were forced to watch one of the worst dunk contests in years (maybe the worst) and an hour long event of Omri Casspi, Kevin Durant and Rajon Rondo playing H.O.R.S.E. in the most anti-climatic fashion.
The dunk contest needs charisma, personality and swagger. Obviously it relies on great dunks and acrobatics, but the flare is what makes the entire dunk. That’s why Howard’s Superman antics, and Robinson’s ‘Kryptonate’ swag and height disadvantage made for such a show.
During the 2004-05 NBA season, the Seattle Supersonics surprised a lot of people. Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis led the Sonics to a 52-win season, and they advanced to the second round. During the playoffs, Jerome James was huge for the Sonics, averaging around 13 points, seven rebounds and two blocks per night — a big stretch above his five points and three rebounds per game in 80 regular season starts.
His 11-game playoff outburst helped James he get paid. The following summer, James signed a five-year $30 million deal with the New York Knicks (adding to the legacy of the Isiah Thomas era in New York). Considering the fact that James never averaged more than five points or four rebounds per game his entire career, overpaid was an understatement.
Since signing the contract, James has been downright awful. In his first two seasons in New York he played in 96 games, only starting 20 of them — the last two seasons, he’s only played in four games combined. He was traded to Chicago last February and has yet to play a single game for the Bulls. In addition to barely playing these past five seasons, his numbers have also been pure crap. James never averaged more than three points, two rebounds or even a single block since he signed with the Knicks back in 2005.
Lastly, it looks like he may have gained some weight since he left Seattle for the big bucks. If that wasn’t the easiest $30 million ever earned by a human, I don’t know what is.
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