Hooped Up

Derrick Rose is going home, and a record crowd of freshmen are following him to the NBA. The Chicago Bulls selected Rose, who grew up on the city’s South Side, with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft Thursday night, choosing the Memphis guard over Kansas State forward Michael Beasley.  Below are the rest of the NBA draft results.

Round 1 NBA Draft Results

Second round results after the jump Read the rest of this entry »

Team USA is official and here are the members selected by the USA basketball comitee.

Carmelo Anthony
Carlos Boozer
Chris Bosh
Kobe Bryant
Dwight Howard
LeBron James
Jason Kidd
Chris Paul
Tayshaun Prince
Michael Redd
Dwayne Wade
Deron Williams

This is an awesome squad but, who is going to take a back seat to who and who leads this team?

For somebody that’s an assist machine, Jason Kidd can sure make some bad turnovers. With that turnover being the very distracting Hope Dworaczyk . Jason Kidd with a kid on the way, pulled a Tom Brady with Hope Dworaczyk for May Anderson as I posted on the weekend. It’s maybe not a full “Brady” yet but, it’s about a 60% one. However this percentage could change, lets give it a few months.

Hooped Up

Jason Kidd has 99 problems but a hot model ain’t one. It’s been an adventures year for Jason Kidd who was traded from the Nets to the Mavericks. Kidd has made a trade of his own and traded pregnant model Hope Dworaczyk for model May Anderson (above).

Last year, Jason Kidd also filed for divorce from Joumana Kidd who of course at one time…was also a model.

Danish model May Andersen, who was linked to Kid Rock, is now dating Dallas Maverick Jason Kidd, according to the New York Post. Ms. Andersen has posed for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She also was in a 2006 dust-up with a flight attendant on a plane from Amsterdam to Miami. Mr. Kidd filed for divorce from his wife, Joumana, last year.

New York Post

Mike Bibby
Like fellow NBA star LeBron James, Bibby has been known to nervously bite and chew his nails during games. When relegated to the bench for a breather during games with the Sacramento Kings, Bibby would obsessively pick at his nails until he stumbled across a better solution: using fingernail clippers on the bench. The clippers became his superstition, and whenever Bibby came to the bench for timeouts, someone would hand him a set so he could go to work on his nails.

Caron Butler
When most of us want a glass of something heavily caffeinated that fluoresces green, we can just reach for a Mountain Dew. Sadly for Washington Wizards’ All-Star small forward Caron Butler, he can’t do the Dew whenever he wants anymore. As Butler told Dan Steinberg of the fantastic D.C. Sports Bog, he would guzzle a two-liter bottle of the sugary soda before and during every game dating back to his All-American career at the University of Connecticut. Butler would throw down half the bottle before the game, then finish it off at halftime. That is, until the Wizards clamped down and forced him to switch to a more traditional sports drink, water.

Jason Terry
Bibby and Terry, college teammates at Arizona, started another odd superstition while playing for the Wildcats. The restless pair slept in the uniform shorts the night before each Arizona game on the logic that it would make the game feel like it was starting sooner. When Terry broke into the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks, he decided to start wearing the shorts of the next day’s opponent, instead. This ritual is fairly tenuous, though, as it requires Terry to procure a pair of uniform shorts from each opposing NBA team. Although his network of connections with equipment managers and former teammates has helped him out, he had to wear Mavericks shorts before each game of the 2006 NBA Finals since he couldn’t find a pair of Heat trunks.

After months of paying attention to 4th quarters and cursing the Knicks for existing…again! The most holiest of times are upon us my friends. Here are my predictions for the first round. Now I could use my crystal ball to also predict how many games each of these match ups will go but, I left my crystal ball in the Thunder Tank.

Round 1
Western Conference
Lakers vs. Nuggests - Lakers
Jazz vs. Rockets - Rockets
Spurs vs. Suns - Suns
Hornets vs. Mavericks - Mavericks

Eastern Conference
Celtics vs. Hawks - Celtics
Cavaliers vs. Wizards - Cavaliers
Magic vs. Raptors - Magic
Pistons vs. 76ers - Pistons

Mavericks: The owner and the coach are bickering, which is either the norm or a sign of strain or both. The team is struggling, looking for some sort of spark. And the Mavericks had their annual charity gala Friday night. Sound just a little familiar? It was three years ago that Don Nelson decided at the team’s tuxedo-and-tennis-shoes formal to give up his coaching duties. The next morning, March 19, 2005, he turned the whistle over to Avery Johnson, ending his run as coach and his tumultuous working relationship with Mark Cuban.

Dallas Morning News

Back on the scene with a gangster lean! After being part of a major mid-season acquisition, Jason Kidd decided to make one of his own and knocked up model and current girlfriend Hope Dworaczyk. Kidd who is currently going through a divorce with his first wife Joumana Kidd, had no comment cause I never contacted him regarding his new baby moms. You can’t keep a good Kidd down I guess. Let just see if their kid will have a huge head like TJ, damn that kid had a big head!

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Keith Van Horn either has cold feet, or feels that a $2M payday for taking a physical is shameless and needs time to think it through, or he just doesn’t want any part of it. Falk won’t say which is closest to the truth. “I really can’t say,” the agent said. “He wants some quiet time to reflect on it. And that’s what he should be doing. “He’ll make a decision, but it’s not going to be ‘maybe,’ or 70-30. Either he’ll do it or he won’t do it. And we’ll all know in the next 48 to 72 hours.”

Newark Star-Ledger