With stat-stuffing playoff debuts like this, a ratchet like this, (The commentator is on some Life Alert steez. Hilarious.) and a highlight reel like this, it’s no surprise that yearling Bulls point guard Derrick Rose conquered the NBA’s coveted Rookie of the Year Award. Rose received 111 first-place votes (574 points) from a panel of 120 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada.To commemorate DRose’s accomplishment, The Brand With 3 Stripes released a celebratory “ROY” t-shirt in his honor. The tee is available beginning today at the adidas Sport Performance Store in Chicago at 845 North Michigan Ave, at the United Center and online at NBAStore.com.
When I was younger, I loved dribbling on the streets of Upper Manhattan making
moves on approaching women with shopping carts, spinning on the kid skateboarding,
and going behind my back on two kids walking together and splitting them with a low
place dribble. Reckless you say? I was inspired by the “Harlem Globetrotters” cartoon (1970) – the first time African-Americans were featured in a cartoon. Read More »
Becoming the leading scorer in any state’s basketball history is a fairly impressive thing to do, but it is an illustrious position when the state is North Carolina. Outside the Midwest, it is difficult to find any place in the country that appreciates the round ball more than NC. Scoring 3,037 points during his career at Eastern Alamance High School, JamesOn Curry became NC’s all time leading scorer in 2004. A scholarship to UNC was in place and chance to certainly crack the Tar Heels rotation as a freshman was only months away. Curry’s career seemed so high, yet it would take some drastic turns that ultimately led to his current position of being out of basketball (for the moment) in 2008. Read More »
There’s a number of adjectives I could implement here to describe exactly what Jamal Crawford did to Kirk Hinrich, but I think humiliation will suffice. JCraw vaporized the Chicago Bulls on-court quarterback with an inside-out-hand-change, behind-the-back, jumpstop combination that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before!
Knicks fans: is Jamal really that bad? He looks good here!
