Last Night in Putting Your Hands on Your Head in Disbelief featuring JaVale McGee, a Utah Jazz fan, and Blake Griffin.
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Last Night in Putting Your Hands on Your Head in Disbelief featuring JaVale McGee, a Utah Jazz fan, and Blake Griffin.
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Yes that is Javale McGee planking in-game ON the court during their exhibition game vs. the PBA All-Stars in Manila. If you haven’t been keeping up with the NBA’s Plank Wars—and I don’t blame you because it’s kinda stupid—Javale McGee also did this.
Great job, JaVale!
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Wednesday Night Fight Night! John Wall squares off with Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and the Heat simply could not be softer at this point.
Wall took exception to some blatant elbows from Big Z, and punched him right in the ribs. Ilgauskas looked stunned by the attack, unable to figure out exactly how to hit Wall back. It was the opposite of a Kevin Garnett situation, where KG picks on a much-smaller European guard who he knows won’t fight back. Here, Ilgauskas picks on a much-smaller American guard, and when Wall fights back, Z has no idea what to do. KG would have already have been walking away with his arms up like a coward, but that’s the result of years of practice.
JaVale McGee runs in like a maniac once the action gets started, because he’s JaVale McGee, and that’s just what he does. Flip Saunders knows this, too. He ran on out on the court - not to the main skirmish, where Wall and Z were grappling - but directly to the craziest player on the floor. Even with his franchise player brawling with a man who outweighed him by over a hundred pounds, Flip knew that he had to head for the craziest player on the floor. Honestly, JaVale might have died, either due to a wild punch from Juwan Howard, or hitting himself in the face with a wild haymaker.
While all five Wizards step into the fray, Howard is the only Heat player who comes to Big Z’s defense. LeBron stays off in the corner, running his own personal isolation set during the skirmish. Why step in and help your teammate when there’s a broken-down 38-year-old to do it for you? James Jones stays away, clearly afraid McGee might again try to dunk on him 15 feet away from the basket, and Eddie House holds back for fear that Sam Cassell will attack him for stealing his “big balls” dance.
Ultimately, Ilgauskas, Howard, and Wall were both ejected, and JaVale McGee was returned to his specially padded cell in the Washington locker room.
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THIS MAN IS 7 FEET TALL! CAN YOU IMAGINE DIRK NOWITZKI DOING THIS???
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Ugh I so wanted Javale McGee to make this.
(Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
JaVale McGee delivered the entire JaVale McGee experience tonight. Insane creativity, ridiculous ambition, seven total dunked basketballs, a seeming lack of understanding of how basketball works, and a ton of missed dunks.
Unfortunately, Serge Ibaka’s toy rescue duplicated JaVale’s planned money-in-the-mouth dunk, or the final round could have been epic. JaVale was never going to win the popularity contest of the finals, and with the KIA and the gospel choir on hand, there was no way Blake Griffin wasn’t making the finals. Dick Bavetta was one of the five judges, right?
Unless McGee put on a Justin Bieber wig for his last attempt, he wasn’t pulling off a text-based upset. But he’s still the dunk champion in my heart. Now if he could devote the same amount of time to pick-and-roll defense and jump shots that he spends learning to dunk three basketballs at once, he might become a truly special player.
Your 2011 Dunk Contest participants:
It’s a big man jam on All-Star Weekend, with Brandon Jennings bearing the standard for dunking guards everywhere. Griffin is the clear favorite, with JaVale McGee having the most potential to go Birdman on the contest. I am very afraid that somehow, Nate Robinson is going to sneak into this contest at the last minute.
Once again, JaVale McGee tries to dunk from the free throw line, this time with James Jones in front of him. Once again, he fails, committing an offensive foul and nearly killing Jones in the process.
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Don’t miss Nick Young standing wide open under the basket, then trudging away in disbelief as McGee runs over Jones and then fires the ball at the rim, Dwight Howard-style.
Incidentally, the Wizards lost this game by one point.
![Andray Blatche and Javale McGee each returned from their one-game suspensions last night for the Wizards, though it wasn’t enough to beat the Rockets. Blatche and McGee got into a fistfight outside a nightclub early on Christmas Eve. Even though Blatche initially denied it via text - “Why would we fight we are team mates [sic]” - the Wizards concluded they were not in fact trying to avoid other fights inside, but actually brawling.
It’s the second Christmas Eve fight between Wizards teammates in as many years. That doesn’t speak well for Flip Saunders, though to his credit, Blatche and McGee did not draw guns. In fact, I’d be surprised if they even made contact with one another. Given how he plays basketball, Blatche probably tried to punch McGee from long-range, instead of risking physical contact by going inside. For his part, McGee probably lunged wildly to swat Blatche’s punches away, lost his balance, and then saluted for no reason.
Both players are all-athleticism, zero skill. So while the fight may have involved some impressive vertical leaps and quick moves, it was definitely light on technique. It’s not clear if a bouncer broke up the fight or if both players simply quit, since they’re not used to giving effort for more than a few minutes at a time. Regardless, expect Ernie Grunfeld to sign that bouncer to a five-year, $30 million contract sometime this week.
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Andray Blatche and Javale McGee each returned from their one-game suspensions last night for the Wizards, though it wasn’t enough to beat the Rockets. Blatche and McGee got into a fistfight outside a nightclub early on Christmas Eve. Even though Blatche initially denied it via text - “Why would we fight we are team mates [sic]” - the Wizards concluded they were not in fact trying to avoid other fights inside, but actually brawling.
It’s the second Christmas Eve fight between Wizards teammates in as many years. That doesn’t speak well for Flip Saunders, though to his credit, Blatche and McGee did not draw guns. In fact, I’d be surprised if they even made contact with one another. Given how he plays basketball, Blatche probably tried to punch McGee from long-range, instead of risking physical contact by going inside. For his part, McGee probably lunged wildly to swat Blatche’s punches away, lost his balance, and then saluted for no reason.
Both players are all-athleticism, zero skill. So while the fight may have involved some impressive vertical leaps and quick moves, it was definitely light on technique. It’s not clear if a bouncer broke up the fight or if both players simply quit, since they’re not used to giving effort for more than a few minutes at a time. Regardless, expect Ernie Grunfeld to sign that bouncer to a five-year, $30 million contract sometime this week.
John, JaVale & Elzhi.
via ESPN’s Chris Sheridan:
Team USA trimmed its roster to 15 on Wednesday by cutting Tyreke Evans, Gerald Wallace, O.J. Mayo and JaVale McGee.
The cuts left the team with six guards (Derrick Rose, Chauncey Billups, Russell Westbrook, Rajon Rondo, Stephen Curry and Eric Gordon); four wingmen (Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala, Rudy Gay and Danny Granger); three power forwards (Lamar Odom, Kevin Love and Jeff Green); and two centers (Tyson Chandler and Brook Lopez).
John Wall Summer League Debut Stat Line: 24 points, 8 assists and sadly, 8 turn overs.
Wizards fans, I think you’re all going to love the “Wall to McGee alley-oop”. I’m pretty passionate about it after one game. This is the start of a beautiful thing.
