About
Chronicling any and everything before, during, and after the NBA season. Basically.Off-Season Fam
Blogs of Note
Basketball Tumblrs
Sports Merch
Chandler Parsons will leave you hanging, and uses only the softest conditioner on his hair.
NBA Playoffs throwback: Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Seattle Supersonics, 1993, Game 7, Western Conference semifinals.
Way back in ‘93 Robert Horry showed flashes of his clutch-gene hitting this go ahead jumper with 0 seconds left on the shot clock and only 32 seconds remaining in the game. Unfortunately for Big Bob, the heroics don’t pay off as Seattle tied the game and won it in overtime. The Sonics advanced only to lose to Barkley’s Phoenix Suns in the Conference Finals.
The remix to this matchup begins tonight in Oklahoma City at 9:30pm EST on TNT.
The Shaken Admiral.
Side note: Hakeem would be the starting center on my beautiful dark twisted fantasy basketball team.
- Sha
(Source: zer0radiogifs)
James Harden and the Houston Rockets tied an NBA record with 23 three-points in a blowout win over the Warriors. At the end of three quarters, the Rockets were 18-27 from long-range, but shot “only” 5-13 the rest of the way. For the game, they were 57% on three-pointers, but only 45% on twos - they made as many three-point shots as two-point shots. Jeremy Lin made five, James Harden and Chandler Parsons each hit four, and even Donatas Motiejunas made one, the fourth of his career.
The hero for Golden State, if a 140-109 loss can have a hero, was Draymond Green. When Patrick Beverley tried to put up the record-setting three with 35 seconds left, Green knocked him down, earning an ejection, but also the respect of his peers. On a night where most of the Warriors didn’t show up at all, Green showed some real pride. The White Chris Webber should offer to pay his fine.
(AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
I am the eye in the sky
Dunking on yooooouuuu…
James Harden’s debut as a Rocket:
37 points, 6 rebounds, 12 assists, 4 steals, and 1 block while shooting over 50% from the field.
If the Oklahoma City Thunder were The Misfits, then James Harden is now entering his Samhain period (sorry had to throw a last minute Halloween reference somehow but the comparison kinda fits).
WOW. More on this later.
![Look at these [disgusting] Knicks fans.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d5vtEDzK1qc9n6mo1_1280.jpg)
Look at these [disgusting] Knicks fans.
A vendor in China—every vendor in China—upon the news that Jeremy will be a Houston Rocket.
(NYT)
Candy stores in the greater Los Angeles area, this is your lucky day! Candy enthusiast and former Sixth Man of the Year Lamar Odom is returning to the Los Angeles Clippers, in a four-team trade that will send Mo Williams to the Utah Jazz. In return, Dallas gets a trade exception (from Utah’s Mehmet Okur trade), while Houston gets a second-round pick from Utah, and sends cash to the Mavs.
Why was Houston involved at all? Because Daryl Morey is more addicted to trades than Odom is to Skittles.
It’s going to be a short season after an even shorter off-season. We had limited time to track player movement, team development and bring you in depth team analysis, like we did last year. So the bros and bro-ettes at NBAO decided we’ll follow in the footsteps of the NBA and provide you with abbreviated team previews in the best way possible, haikus.
Our last installment of NBA Haikus is dedicated to the Western Conference’s Southwest Division. Divorces, drama, veto’d trades, new coaches, suspensions, injuries, more trade talk, and that’s just the Los Angeles Lakers. Will the Lobs Angeles Clippers finally break their curse? Welcome to the Reality TV Division.
Western Conference - Southwest Division:
Dallas Mavericks:
Dirk saves legacy
Cuban steals the Candyman
Khloe does Dallas
__________
Houston Rockets:
Gasol trade falls through
Still no big men! McHale asks
“Can we sign Joe Smith?”
__________
Memphis Grizzlies:
See, the thing about
Darrell Arthur’s Achilles:
Memphis still has swag!
__________
New Orleans Hornets:
Meditate Dell Demps
Find peace and center your Chi
Basketball reasons
__________
San Antonio Spurs:
Time is a factor
Tim is on his final run
A great run it’s been
__________
Read more NBA Haikus: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Southeast Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Southwest Division
Penned by the undiscovered poets of the tumblrwebs:Kristin, Douglas, Mark,Thomas, Sean, Carlos, Michael, Keith, Parker, and Shane.
Lockout casualties continue to pile up. Today, Goran “White Magic” Dragic signed with Spanish team Caja Laboral for the duration of the lockout. The Slovenian Dragic chose Spain due to his European roots, the high level of play of la Liga ACB, and the fact that his tormenter, Sasha Vujacic, already signed in Turkey. Vujacic’s Besiktas team did not qualify for the Euroleague regular season, so Goran will enjoy a Machine-free year abroad, though he will face stiff competition for playing time from fellow lockout casualty Reggie Williams.
