Hooped Up

Just sit back and enjoy this extra serving of — served, courtesy of this Chauncey Billups alley-oop pass that connects with J.R. Smith  who finishes with a 360-slam dunk on the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Hey Kurt Rambis, might I suggest that your squad play, oh I dunno — that thing called defense.

You should never get credit for something you’re supposed to do, so really the news that Chauncey Billups was named an all-star should really be old news at this point. That’s right, I said it!

Sentimentality had nothing to do with his (David Stern) decision Wednesday to add Nuggets point guard Chauncey Billups to the Western Conference All-Star team. It was more about logic and common sense.

“Chauncey Billups should feel like Obama in the presidential election. This, to me, is a fairly lopsided vote,” Denver coach George Karl said before the decision became official. “There’s some great guards out there. But we have the second-best record (in the West) and the man, in the last six weeks, has played better than the guys on the All-Star team. I think it’s somewhat of a no-brainer.”

Mr. Big Shot is having another stellar campaign as a floor general, averaging a healthy career-high 19.2 points and 6.1 assists with the 33-16 Denver Nuggets. The addition of Billups to the western conference all-star squad, fills the void left by an injured Chris Paul.

H/N Aaron J. Lopez

Much like every single album that has come out in the last 10 years, the 2010 all-star reserves list has been leaked and Yahoo! Sports has obtained the list to be reveled Thursday night in their NBA logo sports mug.

The Eastern Conference reserves include Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo from the Boston Celtics, Toronto’s Chris Bosh, Charlotte’s Gerald Wallace, Chicago’s Derrick Rose and Atlanta’s Joe Johnson and Al Horford.

The Western Conference reserves include Utah’s Deron Williams, New Orleans’ Chris Paul, Los Angeles Pau Gasol, Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki , Zach Randolph from Memphis and Brandon Roy from the Portland Trail Blazers.

David Lee, Carlos Boozer, Marc Gasol, Josh Smith, Chris Kaman, Monta Ellis and Chauncey Bilups will all have to wait for next season.

H/N Yahoo! Sports

When you shoot an Xmas promo at a high altitude, a variety of things can happen.  Uncoordinated dancing, the inability to hit a note and channeling that guy from Boyz II Men with the deep voice. If they shoot their next Xmas promo in Mexico City it’ll be legendary!

The season is running up fast and the kicks we’ll be seeing during the ‘09-10 season have been getting more shine as opening night approaches. Without a doubt, one of the nicest sneakers we’ll all see this season is the Adidas TS Cut Creators worn buy Gilbert Arenas, Derrick Rose and Chauncey Billups.

After the jump, check out the Derrick Rose and Chauncey Billups TS Cut Creators commercial, but just don’t touch that All-Star shoe.

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In order of championships won and not appearance. Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Chauncey Billups, Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose, Josh Smith and Tracy McGrady.

All have themselves cloned to sell you cool shoes made my Adidas because ”it’s on me for we” — not me in particular, although I’m a rather responsible guy, but on them meaning the rich guys dunking basketballs on the Apple commercial set above these words .

Chauncey Billups isn’t worried about his Denver Nuggets not picking up any big-name players this offseason. But he is worried about a teammate who hasn’t exactly been helping his name lately. With that in mind, Billups will fly Sunday to Las Vegas, where embattled guard JR Smith has relocated. Billups will spent the final three weeks of August working out with and mentoring Smith. “We’ve got some talking to do,” Billups said in an interview with HoopsHype.com. Smith last month spent 24 days in jail after pleading guilty to reckless driving in connection with a 2007 automobile accident in which a friend, Andre Bell, died.

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The Nuggets are heading back to Denver with a split after defeating the Lakers 103 – 106 in LA last nite and I fully expect this series to go the distance based on Chauncey Billups leadership. As young as Bryant is, he’s already a 12 year NBA veteran and he’s seen it all, still Billups was able to trick “The Black Mamba” with the oldest trick in the inbound book.

Game 3 happens Saturday. Don’t turn your back on it like Kobe, it’ll be good!

The NBA has had some snazzy playoff spots this year and the NBA Chess commercial is another humdinger. Basketball is way more of a chess match, than you would think because creating mis-matches, changing defensive sets and manging the clock for 48 minutes are very cerebral acts. So enjoy this spot while I eat some grub and since we’re comparing the NBA to the chess world, LeBron James would be the Garry Kasparov of the league and everybody else is Deep Blue.

Yes, I am aware that Kasparov was the first world chess champion to lose to Deep Blue, but come on!

King James would never lose to a bucket of bolts.

Chauncey Billups returned to The Palace of Auburn Hills last night for the first time since being traded to Denver, and the Detroit fans and announcer John Mason prove to be all kinds of classy!

If you don’t like this moment, you don’t like NBA basketball!

Via Need 4 Sheed