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TNT’s “40 Games in 40 Nights” NBA Playoffs coverage continues on Tuesday, May 5th with the Atlanta Hawks @ Cleveland Cavaliers (Game #1) at 8 p.m. ET followed by the Dallas Mavericks @ Denver Nuggets (Game #2) at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Do you really think Kobe Bryant isn’t charged to win an NBA title now after the young King
from Cleveland stifled his march to MVP Mikedom?
Watch him now.
Ron Ron awaits.
Will he climb Mount Yao once again? Ooh, I wanna see it. I want to see the rage fire fury in Kobestack’s skeletal mind. Primitive professionalism with a sense of NBA current star crossed super heroic fantasy.
The stage was set during the season where Artest was giving it to Kobe verbally as Kobe was giving it to RA to the tune of 36.
How in the hell are the fans gonna let the league pull the wool over their eyes just because LeBron is taking real fake pictures pregame?
Are you forgetting the rings, the Phil chasing Red things, the Mike future Kobe mimicking scientifical [sic] madness oozing slow but succinct under the playoff radar?
Short but neat. How will the Celtics deal with the Magic spreading the floor?
The most recent seminal moment in Magic franchise history was the demolition of the
Philadelphia 76ers without Dwight Howard in Game 6.
Three players stood out: Rashard Lewis, Rafer Alston and J.J. Redick. There was fire in their eyes and they all matured just a little more in the span of a game.
Dwight Howard is a freak of nature. There are very few players in league history that can combine his size, strength and athleticism…especially at his age. He mos def needs a Shaq streak in him, but obviously there is time. I just want to see that gear we all want to see. Before Game 6, AG and I spoke with a couple of radio journalists from ESPN about Howard and what it would take for him to become that dude.
I didn’t think it was out of the ordinary for him to have a 40/30 game…mainly because of the absence of comparable big men. It’s my opinion that’s why Howard catches so much wreck. He is literally a boy (in age people, see the difference) playing amongst men. Straight Gulliver.
The world could be his.
Atlanta is a star obsessed city. When Fortune 500 CEO’s, Hip Hop and R&B royalty, and
numerous athletes across the sports spectrum call a city home, the residents become numb to celebrity. That being the case, it takes the biggest, brightest and most amazing to bring Atlanta’s influential out of seclusion and into daylight’s gleam. Dwyane Wade is a star. There was a fair number of Miami Heat #3′s in the crowd, and for good reason. The Olympian, All Star, and MVP candidate is one of the premier players in the league and he flashed that talent many times over. This game, and ultimately this series however, belonged to someone else.
Joe Johnson claimed his spot amongst the league’s elite Sunday afternoon and showcased a skill set that makes him the kind of singular talent teams long for.
After an entire season of speculation, LeBron James will be named MVP of the NBA.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Cowboys staffer paralyzed after practice facility collapses because of spring storm. (Dallas Morning News)
Denver puts the clamps on Dirk after hot start, defeat Mavs. (Denver Post)
Does a teacher’s race matter? (Philly.com) Get it Annette! 
Transcript of President Obama’s 100th Day Press Conference (NPR)
R.I.P. Jack Kemp. Nice to meet you sir (Forbes.com)
Freeway Ricky Ross to be released from prison today (Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner)
Just in case you didn’t see the knock out, here it is. Dude is a beast. Hits you before you ever know you were hit 10 times before.
Yeah there’s only been one round played (or yet to play), but there seems to be something special coming out of this year’s second season. Lakers vs. Cleveland? LeBron vs. Kobe? Chauncey Billups and to a lesser extent, Jason Kidd showing the young fellas what got them here, Dwight Howard elbows…is the Boston/Chicago series one of the best first round match ups of all time? Who knows? Ron Artest crackin’ brawl jokes, Skip and J.J. Redick’s pre May Day Sixers party crash, Derrick Rose…Ray Allen going 51? Melo getting out of the first round…Andre Miller underrated? Andre Iguodala a star? Hedo? Stan Van Gundy? Dirk and Josh? Detroit and San Antonio will watch? What? Talk to me.
Jeremy Tyler has chosen to shovel his way out of the sleazy world of youth sports. Whether this move proves to be audacious or audaciously stupid remains to be seen.