LeBron Who?

The Sixers may have collapsed in the 4th quarter, but that does not mean that The Other A.I., Andre Iguodala, had an absolutely amazing night. And by absolutely amazing, I mean he launched and connected on the longest shot in NBA history....just after time expired in the 2nd quarter. It's a shame that it did not count, but who cares, it's still amazing just to watch!



The Sixers may have lost, but this team really may actually be on to something with the signing of A.I. Younger guys on the team or not, the Sixers were going nowhere way too fast for a team that had aspirations for a bottom playoff seed and despite the loss yesterday in front of a TV crowd 300% more than the regular season average was before yesterday (not an exaggeration), and now they have a chance at a run if they can string together some wins.

Welcome Back To Philadelphia, #3, Allen Iverson!

What a scene in and what a moment in the Wachovia Center this was.



"ALLLLLLLLLEN IIIIVERRRRRRRRRRRRRSON!!!!!!!!!!!"

I love Matt Cord.

And here is his first bucket with Sixers PbP announcer and big-time homer, Marc Zumoff on the call.



Let me tell you what. This Sixers team is an entirely different team iwht him in the line up. Say what you will about him and his work ethic, he is making this team a million times better and it shows in the way they are beating Denver midway through the 3rd quarter. How can you not love this?

Update: Well that ended badly. After being up for 3 quarters, the Sixers completely collapsed and Chauncey Billups ran amok all over the Sixers in what turned out to be a 10-point win for the Nuggets. All in all, Iverson did not play bad and you have to feel that a lot of good will come from this. The Sixers have not exactly had an easy schedule and it does not get much easier down the road. If they can go .500 in the next 20 games or so, it will be truly amazing and the Sixers can say that they are poised for a playoff push.

NBA Playoffs Day 38 Open Thread (West Game 6)

Tonight's game.....

Game 6: Los Angeles @ Denver 9:00 (ESPN - Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy, SR: Doris Burke)

The champaign at ESPN/ABC/Disney is currently on ice. If the Lakers win, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be cracking it open and having a party tonight. Enjoy the game and leave comments!

NBA Playoffs Day 36 Open Thread (West Game 5)

Tonight's game....

Game 5: Denver @ Los Angeles 9:00 (ESPN - Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy, SR: Doris Burke)

Enjoy the game and leave comments!

Vincent Kennedy McMahon Confronts Enos Stanley Kroenke

I'm pretty sure that we can consider the owner of the Denver Nuggets as The Man Formerly Known As Stan Kroenke. Thanks to the hilarity of Mr. McMahon, he may have people referring to him by his real first name for quite some time....

(Sorry about the odd video set up, it is not my doing and it is all I could find at this hour. The good part begins at the 2:53 mark in the first video and ends at the 2:53 mark in the 2nd video)




Enos!!!!!!!! From now on, the Denver Nuggets' owner will be referred to as Enos! ENOS!!!!! All I have to ask is what in the blue hell did his parents' smoke??? Say what you will about the WWE and how it's "fake" and "scripted", but the owner of the Denver Nuggets and Pepsi Center was thoroughly embarrassed, humiliated, and PWN3D by Vince McMahon and the WWE and it will certainly be awhile before he lives this one down.

Hopefully I will find a better video tomorrow. If I do, I will replace what is up here now with that one.

Oh and one last thing, hello David Stern!

NBA Playoffs Day 34 And WWE Monday Night Raw Open Thread

Tonight's action.....

Game 4: Los Angeles @ Denver 9:00 (ESPN - Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy, SR: Doris Burke)

WWE RAW (starting at 9:00 PM ET) from the Staples Center
Vince McMahon confronts the one and only Enos Stan "Chicken Nugget" Kroenke.

AND

The Los Angeles Lakers (John Cena, Batista, MVP, Jerry Lawler, and a mystery partner) will battle The Denver Nuggets (Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase Jr., The Miz, and the Big Show)

I'll have all of the necessary videos from Raw up either later tonight or tomorrow.

NBA Playoffs Day 32 Open Thread (West Game 3)

Tonight's game.....

Game 3: Los Angeles @ Denver 8:30 (ABC - Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy, SR: Doris Burke)

Enjoy the game and leave comments!

NBA Playoffs Day 30 Open Thread

AAAHHH!!!!! The long time between the start of the NHL game and this game caused me to totally forget. So sorry.

Game 2: Denver @ Los Angeles 9:00 (ESPN - Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy, SR: Doris Burke)

Enjoy the rest of the game and leave comments!

/Like I mentioned in the NHL open thread, it's been a rough past 24 hours. Couple the seeing of something that I really wish I did not see (although the more I think about it the more it helped me realize what I truly need) with a rough day at work, and yeah, I'm a bit off right now.
//Wow, that was deep in abstraction.

It's Official: WWE RAW Won't Be Held In Denver; Finds Ironic Substitute

Even though it really should not have come down to this, it is now official and to no one's surprise WWE Raw has re-located for Monday May 25, the day that Game 4 between the Nuggets and the Lakers is supposed to take place. And the replacement venue: none other than the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California! From the Denver Post:

Fans with tickets to the Pepsi Center show can get a refund through Ticketmaster or exchange them for tickets to a new show set for Aug. 7 at the Denver Coliseum, said WWE chairman Vince McMahon.

More than 10,000 tickets were sold for the Pepsi Center event.

McMahon, still irked at Kroenke Sports Enterprises for double-booking the Pepsi Center, said he'll have some fun with the show at the Staples Center. He said there will be a confrontation between himself and an actor posing as Stan Kroenke, owner of the Nuggets and the Pepsi Center.

Kroenke Sports said today that an agreement had been reached Tuesday afternoon to move Raw to Sunday night at the Pepsi Center before McMahon had change of heart.

"Despite the propaganda campaign launched by WWE and chairman Vince McMahon, the (Kroenke Sports) team maintained a professional manner throughout this process," Kroenke Sports executive vice president Paul Andrews said in a statement. "We had hoped for, and worked hard toward an amicable resolution which we verbally had on Tuesday."

And I'm pretty sure that that change of heart included the WWE not returning to Denver anytime soon. Not settling for Sunday in Denver and moving WWE Monday Night RAW to the Staples Center in Los Angeles was indeed Vince's way of saying, "Fuck you and your ignorance, Stan Kroenke". And yes for the first time in a long time, I will be tivoing and watching WWE RAW Monday night and I will have the YouTube video up on this site of McMahon's mocking of Kroenke. That should be hilarious. And just because Stan Kroenke is a moron.....Go Lakers!!!

My Two Cents On The WWE And Denver Nuggets Double-Booking

Hardcore NBA fans everywhere have been upset that something as "stupid and scripted" such as the WWE won't just tuck their tail between their legs and find a new venue like some no-name concert or orchestra would for the NBA Playoffs, but what they do not realize is that that arena belongs to the WWE this Monday.

The contract was signed back in April. The WWE has the Pepsi Center on May 25. The WWE agreed to it. The Pepsi Center agreed to it. Stan Kroenke, the man who owns both the Denver Nuggets and the Pepsi Center, agreed with it. It was all set in stone. Is it the WWE's fault that Stan Kroenke is a complete moron who did apparently did not see his team still in the playoffs on May 25? Absolutely not. It's his error and he should suffer the embarrassment and humiliation that comes with not believing in your team.

As mentioned, legally the WWE does have the arena on May 25 and it should be theirs to give up. Darren Rovel on CNBC.com had this to say about this spat.

Even though the Nuggets are the main tenant of the building and the team is owned by the same guy who owns the Pepsi Center, Stan Kroenke, the lawyers representing the venue did not take into account that the Nuggets could still be playing the playoffs when they signed the contract with the WWE.

We know this because there is no sort of remedy provision that says that in the case of a conflict, this, this or that will happen. The only clause that is in most of these contracts is a force majeure, which basically would say that the venue and its operator is not responsible for any losses in the event something, like a force of nature, occurs.

But knowing how late the NBA makes its final scheduling of games in the playoffs, the folks at the Pepsi Center should have put in specific provisions for this happening.

For those who don't realize how big the WWE is, let me give you some numbers. "RAW" is broadcast in 30 languages in 145 countries. The WWE uses 12 tractor trailers, 2 TV trucks, a generator truck, a satellite truck and seven tour buses to carry the equipment (as much as 110,000 pounds of cargo) and crew to weekly events.

The last paragraph is in there just so you realize that we are not dealing with some local city circus, which would just completely forget that they are in the legal right and just bow down to The Great NBA Playoffs and just give them the arena because they are so Great and unscripted, you can't forget unscripted! How dare scripted wrestling even think about taking over the arena on a date that unscripted basketball was later scheduled for? Legalities be damned! The WWE is scripted bullshit and has no place in an NBA arena because everyone cares about basketball and no one the WWE!!!

Enough of the sarcasm and back to the point, the arena is the WWE's on that date! No ifs ands or buts about this. It is theirs to give up! Stan Kroenke's poor management skills and overlooking of the date has put everyone in a hole! He reported this date as an open date for the Pepsi Center! It's his mistake and he should pay for it. And this is not a minority opinion here. According to WWE.com, polls conducted by both CNN Headline News and Yahoo! Sports have said that fans believe that WWE is in the legal right and should have the arena on May 25.

Now Vince McMahon is by no means a stupid person. Au contraire, he is very smart and he knows exactly what he is doing here. As far as what should legally happen, the NBA works around the schedule and possibly swaps venues for games 2 and 4 or games 5 and 4 or something like that. What most likely will happen is that the WWE will take a whole lot of money (possibly millions) from Stan Kroenke and put their show on at either the Staples Center or Madison Square Garden, both of whom have offered to host WWE Raw on May 25. Vince McMahon knows this. But Vince McMahon will no doubt milk this and the publicity for all that it is worth. And I am sure he plans on making the NBA and Stan Kroenke sweat a little bit more before things are all set and done.

Oh, and as far as the future goes for WWE and the Pepsi Center, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be a long, long time before the WWE ever decided to come back to Denver after this.

"Stan Kroenke Should Be Arrested For Impersonating A Good Business Man"

Most of, if not all of you know about the conflict at the Pepsi Center on Monday, May 25 when WWE Raw and Game 4 of the Western Conference finals literally are scheduled at the exact same time at the same arena. And if you're an NBA fan and/or Nuggets fan, believe me, the last person and company you want an arena conflict with is Vince McMahon and the WWE. But that is what we have and Vince McMahon does not plan on just stepping aside from the NBA. Instead he went on ESPNEWS where he was interviewed by his old employee, Jonathan Coachman, and not only was he not afraid of taking jabs at Stan Kroenke, but he even challenged him to a steel cage match!



Hilarious!!! The Nuggets and the NBA are in quite the quandary and it should be real interesting to see how it all plays out, as Vince McMahon won't go down without a fight. What would be really hilarious is if there is no resolution and both companies and ticketholders of both shows show up at the same time and chaos ensues. Better yet, maybe Rey Mysterio could leap off the backboard and deliver a cross body to Chauncey Billups. That would be awesome!

The Links (Keith's Sports Journal)
Mr. McMahon does not approve of having Game 4 of the Lakers-Nuggets series in Denver (The O Files)

We Have A Buzzer Beater Sighting In The NBA Playoffs

And not only that, but it caused quite a bit controversy in Big-D! It's 105-103 Dallas with 6 seconds left. Cue Carmelo Anthony....



I don't think there is any doubt that there was a foul before the shot and Melo should have gone to the line instead of winning the game, but alas, what can you do? Although I must say that seeing as it is Dallas, the sympathy that I feel for them is very little to say the least. The Nuggets now lead the series 3-0 and will have a chance to sweep the Mavs on Monday.