Hooped Up

Screw voice activated apps! People want cell phones they can control with their mind, the ability to shoot/edit video like a Quentin Tarantino flick and mad techno music — tons and tons of techno music. Clearly Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors is aware of real consumer demands, but folks over at Google who created the Nexus One I guess aren’t exactly ready for what we the people want.

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A move made too often?
It was early in the game, first quarter if my chicken-scratch notes are to be believed, when Andrea Bargnani did it again.

He gets the ball about 18 feet from the basket, pump fakes to get his man in the air and when the guy doesn’t bite, Andrea still tries to lean in, draw contact and a foul and hoists some odd, flat, silly shot.

Didn’t get the foul – which was the right call by the officials – didn’t make the shot and it’s about the third or fourth time in the last couple of weeks I can remember him pulling off the same play. And I don’t remember it working too often.

It’s maybe something he only wants to pull out rarely, or work more often on in practice because he doesn’t quite have it down pat.
Toronto Star
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Featuring nine members of the gold medalist 2008 U.S. Olympic Team and a total of 11 Olympians who have captured a combined 15 Olympic medals (nine gold medals and six bronze medals), USA Basketball revealed today 27 players who have been named to the 2010-2012 USA Men’s National Team program. The selections were announced by USA Basketball Chairman Jerry Colangelo.

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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

I have no idea what Shelden Williams said or did to Chris Bosh prior to this play, but judging by the results. I don’t think “The Landlord” will say or do anything to Bosh again. This dunk had some stank on it!!!

A new season is fast approaching and you need you know, nay — you demand to know! Who’s the best at each position in the league on a nightly basis in the ‘09-10 NBA season. So with your mind and excel sheet ablaze trying to figure out that riddle to no end. I’ve decided to take one for the team, by putting together a  list of the Top 5 players in the league by position heading into the ‘09-10 NBA season.

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Another van glorious season of NBA basketball is about to begin and Hooped Up does a quick and dirty preview of all 30 clubs.

The Raptors appear to be heading north as an organization, making few mistakes to improve their roster along the way. Cool handed GM Brian Colangelo had another productive summer adding Hedo Turkoglu, Marco Belinelli, Reggie Evans, Amir Johnson, Rasho Nesterovic and promising rookie DeMar DeRozan to the mix and on paper things look like they’ll improve in Toronto. Read More »

If you have a domain name that shouldn’t be yours — Chis Bosh will find you. Then sue you, then perhaps dunk on you. Okay, maybe not the last one, but definitely the first two.

Bosh won custody of the names after winning a $120,000 (U.S.) award in April 2009 for the violation of his rights under the U.S. Federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in a California federal court.

The ruling came against Luis Zavala and his company Hoopology.com, who had registered the domain www.chrisbosh.com and displayed ads using Bosh’s name to generate revenue without having any association to Bosh.

I’m not a big fan of the CB4 nickname Bosh has, so with the release of this story I’ll table “Domain Santa” or “Domain Hood” as possible other nicknames Bosh can use. Who’s with me?

via Toronto Star

Just watching Dwyane Wade training to dunk all over fools, by jumping off something about 4 feet onto something about 4 feet, made me realize two things.

A) The NBA season is fast approaching and I still hate preseason basketball, but at this point I’m so desperate I’ll watch it.
B) I desperately need to get a gym membership, so I too can learn to jump onto tall objects to win many bar bets.

The workouts of Chris Paul, Brandon Roy, and Chris Bosh to make you feel lazy after the jump.

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When the Raptors are down with a few seconds left on the clock and Chris Bosh gets the ball. Any little girl with a staff the other team has guarding Bosh will get torched for a deuce for sure. You mark my words!