Hooped Up

The most famous Jamaican to play in the NBA and former New York Knicks legend Patrick Ewing says he would “love to coach the Nets”, who just axed Lawrence Frank. I’m still amazed that Ewing is an assistant coach because he doesn’t really say much, but with his experience this might be an idea worth tossing around if you’re the Nets brass.

In an interview with the New York Post after the Magic’s 112-104 win over the Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Sunday Ewing said that he hopes that New Jersey’s management will consider him for the coaching vacancy. Assistant coach Tom Barrise is filling in on an interim basis.

“I would be back home,” said Ewing, who has a home in Englewood, New Jersey. “I just want an opportunity. Yes, I would love to coach the Nets.”

Ewing has served as an assistant coach on both Jeff and Stan Van Gundy’s staff over the last seven years.

via Staten Island Advance

What the what??? Fittingly, the name of this track is called “So Yesterday” by Toni Braxton because I had no idea until today that it existed thanks to Mrs. Hooped Up. If your like me and you don’t have a Toni Braxton widget on your iPhone. It’ll be news to you too that when Toni Braxton gets her video heart broken by Shannon Brown who’s messing around on her with Brooke Hogan. Ron Artest is there to grab the defensive rebound aka her heart.

I’m just gonna go ahead and bi-pass the standard Dallas Mavericks jokes on this one, but if you have a few clever ones please share them with the class.

The Celtics forward, who knows as much about league-mandated fines as he does about technical fouls, learned after last night’s 92-85 victory against the Heat that he was fined $30,000 for his comments following Friday’s win against Toronto.

Here’s another thing Wallace knows a lot about: the appeals process. “I’m definitely taking this one to the appeals board,” he said. “I knew it was going to happen, but I don’t know why (it did). I didn’t talk about no refs. I’m going to get that one back for sure.”

Wallace was hit with the technical for protesting a call after he set a pick on Toronto’s Hedo Turkoglu. Afterward, he said, “I got a technical tonight for saying he’s a flopper.”

Boston Herald

Everytime I flex my NBA League Pass (get your mind out of the gutter), I end up watching the Oklahoma City Thunder if they’re playing at some point in the night because of Kevin Durant and his young band of upstarts. Eventually OKC ended up taking an L against the Houston Rockets (100-91) last night, but not before Durant got his shake n’ bake on and finished at the rim hard with a flush.

How’d that taste Trevor Ariza and Carl Landry?

The flu has been getting a bad wrap these days because of H1N1, but leave it to Nike to put a positive spin on it and package it with his Sickness Airness for your enjoyment. People that collect Jordan’s can never have enough and when the Air Jordan XXII “Flu Game” dropped, Jordan heads rushed these MJ’s too.

Of course these kicks are to celebrate MJ’s 38 point, 7 rebound, 5 assist and 3 steals performance against the Utah Jazz in Game 5 on the ‘97 NBA Finals.

Flash back to the game that created this re-release, after the jump

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The Colorado tale of Kobe Bryant is that infamous! Ever since word got out that Tiger Woods was possibly cheating on his wife Elin Nordegren with help from Rachel Uchitel. Things have been going downhill in a hurry, for the only golfer I’ll actually watch. A few tabloid front pages here, a few scratches on the face there and one smashed up Escalade later. According to TMZ, Woods is now hoping what worked for Kobe with Vanessa a few years back, will work for him too.

“Tiger Woods had a “Kobe Special” on his brain hours after what looks like a domestic dispute with his wife, Elin Nordegren — this according to someone who spoke with Tiger on Friday. During the phone conversation on Friday, Tiger told his friend, “I have to run to Zales to get a ‘Kobe Special.’” The person on the other end of the phone asked Tiger what a “Kobe Special” was. The reply — “A house on a finger.”

Given that Tiger Woods is the first athlete to be worth a billion dollars, he might have to step that “house on a finger” to an estate with an amusement park on the finger. Who’s with me?

To nobody’s surprise, the Lakers handed the Nets their 17th straight loss in convincing fashion (106-87) because much like Ice Cube. L.A. wanted Jersey to know, they ain’t the one and somebody else would have to help them snap their streak of futility.

Already down by 15 heading into the 2nd quarter, Rafer Alston thought surely the Lakers would let a lay up slide, but Jordan Farmar grew up in Los Angeles and he must have a stack of N.W.A albums.

The winless New Jersey Nets have fired coach Lawrence Frank with immediate effect. The Nets announced the move Sunday shortly after ESPN.com’s report that Frank would not coach the Nets in Sunday night’s road game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Despite playing hard for assistant coach Tom Barrise, the Nets matched the worst start to an NBA season with their 17th straight loss as the Lakers overwhelmed New Jersey 106-87. The Nets’ announcement said that Frank’s permanent replacement has not yet been chosen.

“I want to thank Lawrence for more than a decade of service to the Nets, first as an assistant coach and then as the head coach for the past six and a half seasons,” Nets president Rod Thorn said in a statement. “Lawrence always approached every day with a passion for his craft that was infectious, and his dedication to the game as well as his work ethic are to be both admired and appreciated. I wish he and his family only the best of good fortune in the future.”

Nets assistant coach John Loyer and general manager Kiki Vandeweghe are considered the internal co-favorites to succeed Frank for the rest of the season, although neither has ever been an NBA head coach
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Bahara Golestani is a model from Scottsdale, Arizona.

Bonus Bahara Golestani after the jump.

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I’m not too sure what was frustrating Carlos Delfino, but he sure took it out on Mickael Pietrus by nearing shattering the floorboards with this violent block full of angst. Can’t we all just get along?