Hooped Up

During the Super Bowl, Charles Barkley tried to sell me some Taco Bell by dropping lyrics with Lamar Odom and a dreadlock backing him up on the mic / teleprompter — it didn’t really rock.

While I was knee deep in my database and you were out laughing, dancing, drinking and watching the Super Bowl. LeBron James and Dwight Howard remixed a class much better than Will.i.am could and it made me almost want to eat McDonald’s — okay maybe it wasn’t that good, but it was still pretty good is all I’m saying.

Respect the 1993 McDonald’s original after the jump.

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I am a huge NBA basketball fan but,  running a close second is definitely NFL football.  I can hear John Madden already with the “BOOM!”, “NFC, NFC” and Horse Trailer talk already. So with a new NFL season kicking off today, let’s get a look at who in the NBA could play in the NFL today and I mean for real…”BOOM!”

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Okay, after some poking around the net and some patience here is the Dwyane Wade Super Bowl commercial I was talking about in yesterdays post. So how bout them Giants? If you dared to make that bet yesterday, you are really loving Peyton’s little bro aren’t ya!

On Sunday, National Basketball Association All-Star guard Dwyane Wade will try to lure Super Bowl viewers into becoming T-Mobile cellphone subscribers.

The ad extends a current series in which Wade tries to get into the “MyFaves” list of former NBA star Charles Barkley. With the “MyFaves” service, T-Mobile subscribers can select five favorite contacts — T-Mobile subscribers or not — and get unlimited calling to them.

Wade says he’s “pumped” to be on the world’s largest advertising stage: “Everyone knows that it’s one of the biggest days to be on TV.”

Last year, T-Mobile bought into the Super Bowl at the last minute and ran an existing ad featuring Barkley and Wade. This year, the wireless provider created a humorous ad just for the game, as well as a 60-second video featuring Wade and Barkley that it seeded on websites such as Google Video.

Wade’s T-Mobile connection is just one enterprise for his expanding brand name. The 26-year-old Miami Heat player, who’s been a GQ magazine cover model, also endorses Converse and Gatorade. His name is on sneakers (such as the Wade 3 from Converse), a mobile handset (the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 D-Wade Edition) and restaurants (D. Wade’s Sports Grills).

USA Today

New T-Mobile myFaves Commercial, Who’s in your 5? Charles Barkley Dwyane Wade. “T-Mobile stick together” Super Bowl Commercial 2007.