Hooped Up

Ginobili’s surge continues in Spurs’ win
Manu Ginobili doesn’t presume to know what it’s like to be Tracy McGrady. Ginobili has had injuries, but not a knee injury. He’s had surgery, but not microfracture. He’s missed months, but not an entire season.

Still, after watching McGrady feel his way around the AT&T Center in a New York Knicks jersey Wednesday night, during what became a 97-87 Spurs victory, Ginobili could sympathize with what McGrady was going through. This is what it looks like when a former star is just trying to be a basketball player again.

“He’s coming from a way worse situation than me,” Ginobili said. “It’s not an easy spot to be.”

The same McGrady who once scored 13 points in 33 seconds against the Spurs managed only six in 25 minutes Wednesday. If McGrady could take anything out of his 10th game of the season, it is this: People once wondered whether Ginobili could ever be Ginobili again, too…
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Face it, your seats aren’t that great for the All-Star game and you were unhappily ready to see tiny blue and red dots that represented your favorite players and thats it. Well, that was until now because I’ll tell you how you can meet Derrick Rose, Tim Duncan and Dwight Howard in person and get their autographs this weekend in Dallas for FREE.

Howard and Duncan will sign autographs at The Parks at Arlington Mall on February 13 – Howard at Foot Locker from 2-3pm and Duncan at JCPenney from 3-4pm. Rose will appear at Foot Locker inside Galleria Mall on February 14 from noon-1pm.

Get there early to secure a place in line, address details below.

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Since adidas is the official apparel maker of the All-Star game, that makes the best players in the world a brotherhood.

The snazzy 2010 NBA All-Star jerseys were inspired by the host city of Dallas and the symbolic Texas state flag. The star on the front of the jersey unites opposing east and west players forming one star when standing next to each other and the single star is divided into five pieces joining as one, representing five players on each team coming together.

Another nice tribute to the host city on these jerseys is the Dallas skyline pattern on the back.

Peep what the western brotherhood is sporting after the jump.

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Basketball Christmas aka the All-Star game is right around the corner and that means special edition kicks up the wahzoo.

This year in celebration of the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, uber shoe maker adidas will launch the all-new adidas TS Supernatural Creator and Commander in All-Star colorways for our shoe collecting enjoyment.

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Meet the rest of the Western Conference All-Star starters and see their highlight reel and stats for the ‘09-10 season thus far after the jump.

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The NBA is celebrating the decade that was, and you should too. It wasn’t that long ago that everything was Y2K mania and planes were supposed to drop out of the sky and the rise of the machines would actually happen.

Anyway, the NBA is kicking of the celebration by letting you pick who had the Best Individual Playoff Performance of the decade. Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Shaq, Tim Duncan, Dwyane Wade or LeBron James?

With out a doubt, my vote goes to Allen Iverson with his 48 point performance against the Lakers in Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals. Watching him step over Tyron Lue after nailing a trey bomb like Lue was an arthritic old guard dog napping was a classic moment.

Yesterday you got a look at the Adidas Cut Creators and today you’ll get another look at the Adidas TS Commander LTs. Not only are they light and made for big dudes, but they’ll have you pop lockin’ like a mutha in no time too.

Just ask Josh “O-Zone” Smith.

After they jump, watch a TS Commander wearing Tim Duncan pick on a plasticized Dwight Howard and a TS Commander wearing Michael Beasley getting sky high — on Adidas product.

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The 2010 Season can’t start fast enough and the anticipation is in the air and hidden throughout this NBA ad. Thing of this advertisement as a Where’s Waldo type exercise and see if you can find “Anticipation” in each shot.

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 .

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.

I’ll begin with the center spot, if you’re expecting to see Paul Davis in this group, please visit my Bizzarro world site.

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