You might wanna watch this on mute. They don’t say anything interesting the whole time. But just look at that rack \o/.
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Last month I linked you to adidas’ collabo with Diesel, now here’s a new collabo between adidas and the NBA entitled the NBA Home Cooked Collection which features nine different cities where apparel and trainers will be launched for each respective city. As a part of this past weekend’s NBA All-Star festivities, adidas and the NBA joined together in a soft launch of the collection. Here is a closer look at the New York EQT Jacket, which looks celebrates local culture and pride. The collection will be sold at a selection of adidas retailers and also the NBA Store. I want to get my hands on this NY jacket.
The NBA Home Cooked Collection 9 cities are as follows…
Chicago - aka The Windy City
Cleveland - aka The Comeback City
Denver - aka The Key to the Rockies
Detroit - aka The Motor City
Houston - aka The Space City
Los Angeles - aka City of Angels
Miami - aka The Great American Riviera
New York - aka The City that Never Sleeps
Usually whenever anybody says to me “oh you should check this out, it’s dead funny” I respond politely and never do. Thankfully when my housemate Danny said to me “check out Flight of the Conchords” he waited five minutes before following me to my room and watching over my shoulder as I looked up the Grammy award winning folk/pop/comedy duo.
Simply put, these guys make comedy records. Music you can laugh to. Each song is like a skit or a story, but they’re all hilarious. I’ve put a few of my favourites below. Believe me, they’re worth listening to…
“If You’re Into It”
“Business Time”
“Jenny”
Funny shit huh? I’m in the process of putting these songs(?) on my iPod at the moment. Still giggling from these vids and the others on youtube. Those are my faves though.
So Lindsay Lohan got naked huh? What do you mean you’ve not seen the pictures? Click “read rest of this entry” to see the shots of Lindsay posing ala Marilyn Monroe.
As the All Star weekend comes to a close, Knicks fans will have enjoyed seeing the best players from the league battle it out with enterprising basketball. This is something that, for the last five years, they have not seen in their home of Madison Square Garden. Why is the league’ssupposed marquee franchise statistically one of the worst teams in the league? There’s only one man to blame: Knicks head coach Isiah Thomas.
During his 13-year playing career Thomas was renowned for defying the odds. Although only 5’ 10”, despite what his official bio claims, in a game where big men dominate Isiah was a point guard that could control the court. He brought two NBA Championships to Detroit and is widelyregarded as one of the best players of all time. He is the Detroit Pistons’ all time leader in points, steals, games played and assists. He ranks fourth in NBA history in assists (9,061) and ranks ninth in NBA history for steals (1,861). So good was Isiah that he was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 2000, the same year that he was eligible.
But the New York Knicks head coach, nicknamed The Smiling Assassin in his playing days, has been with New York two years now and given the franchise nothing to smile about.
The team is currently 16-37 in the 2007-08 season, which is the fifth worst in the league but perhaps more embarrassingly is the fact that they are bottom of the Atlantic Division without a realistic hope of reaching any of their near rivals as the season draws to a close. In fact, it is only Miami’s self-destruction that saves New York from being ranked as the worst team in the whole Eastern Conference this season.
Compare this to New York’s bitter rivals Boston, who last season finished below the Knicks. They are currently 41-10 and leading the way in the East because they acquired 11 time All Star Kevin Garnett. In pre-season there were murmurings around Madison Square Garden that Isiah Thomas might master a trade that would see either “The Big Ticket” Kevin Garnett, or even Kobe Bryant, arrive in the Big Apple. However, the reality is that the Knicks franchise is far from attractive and players like Garnett and Bryant are chasing NBA Championships – something Isiah Thomas cannot deliver.
Knicks fans should be used to disappointment in Isiah’s transfer activity, as he has a history of mystifying decisions. Since Thomas took over Larry Brown’s coaching role in 2006 he has traded away multiple lottery first round picks, including a first rounder in the 2006 NBA Draft, which he forfeited to the Chicago Bulls in a deal to bring Eddy Curry to New York. While Curry is one of the few All-Star candidates at New York, he is also considered to be one of the players holding the team back. More disappointing still is that Thomas traded away their first round pick that year in a draft that was widely regarded as being filled with promising talent. As part of the trade, the Bulls’ received New York’s #9 pick, and Isiah Thomas’ Knicks? Well, they received Chicago’s #23 pick in the draft. Not a wise coaching move for a man who has been vocal about the importance of bringing in youth.
If that wasn’t enough, how about his decision on draft day 2007 to bring in Zach Randolph from the Portland Trail Blazers at the cost of Steve Francis and Channing Frye. The Knicks also received Fred Jones and Dan Dickau in that trade, but only Randolph has been a first team regular at the Garden. Just as he did with the Bulls in 2006, Isiah also traded away a number of draft picks that day, so despite being the fifth worst team in the NBA, the Knicks would have entered the draft lottery with a great chance to acquire the next LeBron James or Kobe Bryant – instead they have to forfeit that pick as they did the previous year.
Isiah Thomas has also brought a fair share of embarrassment and ridicule to New York too. Despite already being a laughing stock of the NBA for having the highest wage bill, some $20-30 million over the salary cap, and one of the worst teams in the league, it seems Isiah couldn’t do the franchise any more damage. Wrong. In 2006 Thomas was sued for sexual harassment, which resulted in a $11.6 million fine for Knicks’ owner Terry Dolan, one of the largest in sexual harassment judgements in history.
Thomas has also been accused of making racist remarks too. In his sexual harassment trial Anucha Browne-Sanders testified that Thomas had told her, he did not care about these “****ing white people” or these “****ing season ticket holders.”
Before joining the Knicks, Thomas seemed a fairly promising coach, he took Indianapolis to the playoffs every year between 2000 and 2003, losing in the first round each time, and he gained a reputation for being able to spot promising talent. Each season he led Indianapolis to 40+ wins, and never did they lose more games than they won.
If only that were the case for the Knicks.
In his first season as Knicks coach Isiah had a return of 33-49, which almost secured them a playoff place. This season, they sit at the foot of the Eastern Conference with a measly 16-37 scratching their heads without a clue what to do next.
The Knicks are supposed to be the league’s marquee franchise; instead they are footing a bill for an All Star team but playing some of the worst basketball in the whole competition.
The New York Knicks have not won the NBA Championship since 1973, and that statistic doesn’t look like it is going to change any time soon. The nightly chants of “Fire Isiah” are not a new phenomenon; in fact people have been asking when Isiah will leave rather than if he will leave for quite some time. This Knicks fan wonders why Terry Dolan persists with a guy who was clearly one of the greatest players of all time but far from a great coach? The franchise is going nowhere with Thomas – his team can’t win and his trades have prevented the team from acquiring any talented young players. It is all the more confusing because living in Britain we are used to the managerial merry-go-round of the Premiership, yet despite running this franchise into the ground Thomas just can’t seem to lose his job.
Why?
I have so many questions about last nights episode that I don’t even know where to start!
Ben is amazing.
Lost, in general, is amazing.
I need more!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me and the Mrs celebrated our third Valentines day yesterday with a meal in Newcastle.
Rather unusually for us we hadn’t planned anything in advance. I was expecting to be working so we didn’t really have any intentions of doing anything and just headed into Newcastle for a meal and a film at last minutes notice.
You know you’re not in for a good night when you pick three possible films to watch (Definitely Maybe, Jumper & Over Her Dead Body) and the following happens… only a few places away from the counter a customer announcement is made over the tannoy… “Customer Announcement - the 8.45 showing of Definitely Maybe is now sold out” … “Customer Announcement - the 8.50 showing of Jumper is now sold out” … “Customer Annoucnement - the 9.00 showing of Over Her Dead Body is now sold out”…
You gotta be kidding me?
And we’d booked our meal for 10.30 so we had just short of two hours to kill. Thankfully this wasn’t, and isn’t, a problem for the two of us. Especially when there is alcohol in reaching distance.
The meal was gash too. My meal was in a bucket of grease, and we were packed in so close to the other diners that we could tell you the courses they had and the major talking points from their meal. I hate that.
Oh well. We still had a good laugh. Hope you all had a good valentines day and that you had someone special to spend it with.
The buzz surrounding this video has been pretty crazy. And I have to say I’m a little disappointed… or atleast I think I am. I’m not sure. I was enjoying the video and then out of nowhere it just ended? I mean, it just ends? One minute the girl is going bat-shit crazy with a shovel and the next thing we know it’s over… I seriously thought this was the first half of the video, like a teaser or something, but it turns out it isn’t. Oh well. The song is awesome. Maybe the vid will grow on me.
In a rather puzzling story - it’s been revealed today that former Diff’rent Strokes actor Gary Coleman (what you talkin’ bout Willis?) got hitched last year… to a woman half his age and twice his height.
Story courtesy of the Daily Mail… (more…)
Just found this on Kanye’s blog… Made by French artists Francois Delaroziere and Pierre Orefice, the Mechanical Animals were started in 2007 starting with the massive mobile elephant. The project’s second stage, a collection of interactive marine life that will populate a massive multi-story carousel, is currently being constructed with a projected debut date of Summer 2009. Currently, the entire collection is housed in a turn-of-the-century warehouse that once served as the city’s shipbuilding hub and is open to the public for viewing daily.
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