Despite the unfavorable final two minutes in the NBA marquee match-up on Christmas day, which included way too much Pau Gasol, way too many times Tony Allen thinking he could score the basketball & too many bad calls by Steve Jaffe & crew, NBA Christmas day is/was AWESOME. Five games in one day! The first sucked, I watched about 7 minutes of Orlando & New Orleans, then 11 minutes of Phoenix & San Antonio, then 46 minutes of Boston & Los Angeles, then 32 minutes of Cleveland & Washington, with one more game to go, Portland & Dallas (All times are real life time , not game time, nice clarification right?). A lot of basketball to watch in between opening presents, playing with presents, a family movie (Wanted, not good & not a family movie), trying to fix Lily's new cell phone & a long large family Christmas dinner get together. The best part of the NBA action of course has to be Craig Sager with his sweet Frosty tie, all the ridiculous outfits of inactive players & new basketball shoes!!! Shout out to BC and his awesome Christmas day NBA post & all of his web links.Gilbert Arenas for one was wearing an ascot, which is just awesome. Sam Cassel looked ugly as always & looks like he should remain a coach. And some dude on the Cleveland bench was wearing a red velvet suit!
The end of the Spurs & Suns game was sick with Roger Mason burying a three with time expiring when the Spurs were down two. I have watched a few Spurs games this break & find them much more likeable & easier to watch. They are playing players everyone hates – Bowen, Udoka & Oberto – less, giving way to Mason, Matt Bonner & George Hill. Pop’s beard helps a lot because it is awesome, he is awesome & he is my favorite NBA coach because every time they do a Mic’d Up segment with him, he is funny. Manu is also so good. With that said, they are still pretty boring, Tim Duncan still has Dungeons & Dragons tattoos & shoots bank shots. I was still rooting for Phoenix because they have Sun Tzu!! Speaking of Amare his sneaks were amazing:
So were Sugar Ray Allen’s & all of the Celtics with their red laces. Pau’s were gross & purple, but Lamar, Trevor & Bynum all had the kind of ugly kind of cool yellow & orange hyperdunks. Kobe broke out the low-tops, which looked better on George Lopez when they showed him on TV. Rajon was rocking some Blue Chip low-tops, not that great, but Big Baby’s hyperdunks made up for them. Nick Young has some great hyperdunks, too. But Brandon Roy & LaMarcus Aldridge, as I watch the game right now, may have the coolest sneaks all day. New sneaks like these are usually revealed during the All-Star game, but the NBA provided a nice surprising present on a for the most part great Christmas day of basketball.
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J, Is Roger Mason and his hair cool enough to be on the All-Cool Team, or at least a bench warmer on it?
It is not likely that Roger will make the final roster of 15, but he will be considered and as the season progresses it is possible he could be on the bench. Him, Bonner & Manu are by far the coolest Spurs.
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