Point Guard: Baron Davis (Los Angeles Clippers)Baron pretty much single-handedly inspired the idea of an All-Cool Team after he led his Warriors in the epic playoff series against the Mavericks. Well, and of course his beard too. Since then Baron has become a superstar. Baron went to one of the cooler teams in the league this off-season, the Los Angeles Clippers who are cool because the have always been so bad and no one actually cares about them. Things looked so good with Elton Brand set to sign a contract and at least with the two of them make the playoffs and see what happens. Instead, Elton was like naw Boom-Dizzle, got to go to Philly and the Eastern Conference for more money bro, good luck signing Marcus Camby. The Clippers did do that and after some pre-season hype have started the season terribly. Winning matters little to the All-Cool though. So, with that intro to Baron let’s talk about all the cool things about him. Look at the picture; look at the style on the court. He rocks the red. white, & blue so well, has his own shoes with a number one on them, two pairs of socks of different appropriate lengths, a headband, and that stretching thing. Off the court, he is cooler; he rocks The Hundreds and looks fresh when he watches the Lakers in the playoffs. He is all over the Internet. He has his own blog (http://www.yardbarker.com/users/barondavis), doesn’t update it too often, I mean all the cool bloggers don’t really. Calls himself Boom-Dizzle on it, then has another site where he just makes videos and is currently engaged in a Skit Competition with Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors, who made a Samurai video! He made this video with Steve Nash this summer, which made me like both them infinite amounts. I’m sure he is the greatest person in the world to be friends with and someday I hope I run into him in Los Angeles and we become besties! Until then though, Boom always has a place on the All-Cool Team, this year taking the role of ultimate floor general making sure to spread the coolness around and keep everyone looking fresh.
Shooting Guard: Brandon Roy (Portland Trail Blazers)This is without a doubt, a hundred million percent for sure Brandon Roy’s year. Like a breakout superstar amazingly awesome good year, because that is what he is, people know him and love his game, but everyone should because he is filthy good. Two problems: Greg Oden isn’t good as he somehow doesn’t score the basketball & the Blazers are starting or play Steve Blake & Joel Przybilla way too much. But, the Blazers everyone knows will be great for many years because they have so many awesome cool young guys: Bayless, Batum, LaMarcus & Rudy Fernandez. Back to B-Roy, he won the starting spot on the All-Cool Team for his performance against the Rockets: this clip is still fun too watch. He hit two huge shots in the final ten second & committed a terrible foul, obviously making up for the foul by making an impossible rainbow shot. Only problem I have with him is that the celebration was lacking, no beating of his chest, maybe he isn’t self-absorbed like some players, which may be a good thing, but isn’t the best thing for this team. All he does is pull up his jersey and yell “Fuck man!” or something like that. Needs a little work. As far as style goes, he’s always got a fresh haircut, I like his sock length and he definitely rocks some nice kicks. The Blazers jersey is pretty sick too; I’d like to have an old Rasheed Wallace Blazers one ya dig?
Small Forward: Paul Pierce (Boston Celtics)PP34 was amazing in the playoffs & when he went down with his “injury” in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, I was so upset because the series was over if Paul couldn’t play. Everyone knows the story, PP pulled off the Willis Reed, coming back later in Game 1, sparking a Celtics run and eventually leading them over the Lakers to win the NBA Championship making me sooooo happy!! Also important to mention how huge Paul was in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals when he out did the best played in the NBA, LeBron James, in an amazing fourth quarter. This year, the Celtics lead by Paul Pierce, the self-proclaimed best player in the league, look good and look like they have something to prove. They want to win another one and win every game they play, lknowing every team they play is coming after the defending champs. The highlight of the short NBA season so far for the Celtics and All-Cool Team starting Small Forward Paul Pierce is his game winning buzzer beater to beat the at the time very decent Atlanta Hawks. How good does Joe Johnson look? Good! Back to PP, the buzzer beater wasn't no B-Roy but still it was so clutch, so smooth, so beautiful, so yummy!! Paul has always been so deceptive because he looks fat, but somehow has a good quick first step, can finish with both hands, and shoots real well. Definitely not the best player in the NBA, but he is often overlooked & I respect the confidence he has, because he outplayed some people’s proclaimed best NBA player – Kobe Bryant – in the NBA Finals. Paul’s shoes have never been that impressive, but he wears those weird shin guard things some times, and always got that headband and “The Truth” wristband which I like.
Power Forward: Al Jefferson (Minnesota Timberwolves)Al Jeff isn’t the coolest due out there, no fresh kicks and no mid-calf socks, but he is a beast on the court. He is undersized height wise, but his Kevin Love like girth helps him hold his own. He is putting up 23 & 10 so far this season for one of the worst teams in the league, the Timberwolves, who for some insane reason decided to change uniforms this season even though the had some of the best ones last year. They also have Kevin McHale running everything and traded O.J. Mayo for Kevin Love (who I actually like too, outlet pass!). Al is the only really good player they have right now and they have a lot of young guys with some potential: Corey Brewer, Randy Foye, & K-Love. Not a bunch of cool big guys roaming around the NBA, there are some weirdos like Robert Swift, but there aren’t actually a grip of talented & cool ones. Al takes the role for now.
Center: Sun Tzu Stoudemire (Pheonix Suns)Officially, without a doubt in my mind, the absolute coolest player of all in the NBA, first let’s start with the nick name: "Sun Tzu,'' Stoudemire said. "His motto is, the way he prepares for battle, he uses deception. So, like, let's say we go out to play a game, right, and the New Jersey Nets say Amaré can't go to his left; he's going to go right. But I know what they're thinking, that I'm going to go right. So I go left… because I'm a master of deception.” Amazing. Perfect. Cool. Second, the brief stint of Antoine Carr Oakley sunglass looking goggles. If he had kept them for the rest of the season or like suggested the rest of his career, I wouldn’t know what to do because it would be so fucking awesome. Thirdly, Sun Tzu, unlike the trend to go to the Ray-hawk full Mohawk thing that Rudy Gay got, stuck with the convention hip hop Mohawk getting it on his birthday and keeping him looking fresh. Fourthly, he continues, as always, to rock the freshest shoes and keeps his socks at the perfect height, sometimes even wearing two pairs of long ones to ensure that they look good. Lastly, maybe most importantly he is an abslute beast on the basketball court. He, along with LeBron, is superhuman. He gets up so quickly and dunks so viciously and always finishes and never gets blocked and never misses a lob and looks so ridiculously awesome dunking on anyone and everyone. He can take it to the basket and dunk on Jeff Foster, he can shoot the mid range j a little too, if he worked on his 3-ball supposedly he could hit that with consistency. He is a good free throw shooter, far better than Dwight Howard, and just amazes me every time I see a highlight or game because he is amazingly, disgustingly good. He is without a doubt in the LeBron, Kobe, D-Wade, CP3, Top 5 discussion and probably doesn’t get enough notoriety for it. Him & Chris Bosh as free agents in 2010 should be interesting along with that other dude that the Knicks threw away two seasons to maybe get even though they were doing exponentially better than last season with Mikey D coaching.
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