Hooped Up

Bill Laimbeer has been on two NBA championship squads, coached the Detroit Sock to a championship and has Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball under his belt.  So why doesn’t he have the NBA coaching job that he wants so bad?   Well Chuck Daly has a theory regarding the former original bad boy .

“I think it must be because Billy made a lot of enemies when he was a player. But I tell you what. He is as smart as a whip. Someone is going to get darn lucky in this league,” 

Detroit Free Press

While receiving an honorary degree from his alma matter. Phil Jackson had this to say regarding the best athlete he has ever coached when asked as reported by the OC Register.

“No, the player Jackson called the greatest that he has coached is that wedding dress aficionado and Newport Beach police’s favorite basketball bad boy, Dennis Rodman. That’s right. No need to rub your eyes.

“He could probably play a 48-minute game and play the 48th minute stronger than the first minute of the game,” Jackson told the crowd at UND. “He was that terrific an athlete.”

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Some very sad news on the news wire today, as former All-Star and Portland Trailblazer great Kevin Duckworth passes away at 44.  

The Lincoln County sheriff’s office confirmed the death. He died Monday.

The 7-foot Duckworth spend six-plus seasons with the Trail Blazers starting in 1986-87 and was a Western Conference All-Star in 1989 and 1991.”

USA Today

The 45-year-old Barkley will undergo the procedure that screens for prostate cancer, on Friday. when Couric had her procedure in 2000, after the death of her husband, it was estimated that colonoscopy rates jumped 20% after the telecast.

USA Today

This will kinda be like the movie Being John Malkovich but with Charles Barkley @ss instead.

5. Oh *hit! (2003 Mavericks vs. Cavaliers)


Don’t give Tom Chambers credit for dunking over Marc Jackson.  At 6′10, that’s what you are supposed to do.  Say what you will about the Triple Double Jerk, this dunk was sick!  Steve Nash really thought he could get a charge call before Ricky Davis leaped over him.

Damn right, Oh $hit.   Read the rest of this entry »