Flight Time: DeAndre Jordan

R.I.P. Brandon Knight.

Kryptonate vs. CP3

Apparently Nate Rob is on a mission to take down all the NBA superheroes. First he took out Dwight Howard and it looks like Chris Paul is next on his list. The only difference is that he wants to literally whoop Paul's ass.

This would be a great cage fight but as much as I like CP3, I'd have to put my money on Nate Rob in a fist fight. The replay at the end shows how much pushing the refs let go before calling the blatant foul on Robinson.

New Jordan Brand commercial

I'm not sure why, but commercials like this get my amped up.

Featuring Chris Paul, Joe Johnson, Rip Hamilton and Melo.

Air Jordan Six Rings Baby Blue

CP3 broke these beasts out for his game against the Cavs. I'm guessing these will never drop in stores, they're too ill for Jordan to do that. He seems to be looking at completely fugly colorways to drop for the public.





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Chris Paul charity bowling tournament

Here's some footage from the Chris Paul charity bowling tournament, which featured Paul, Lebron, D. Wade, Durant, and Rudy Gay along with professional bowlers that they were matched up with.

From the looks of this highlight reel and the quick minute that I caught it airing on ESPN, I think Lebron took the title down. What a surprise. Elite super athlete wins bowling tournament against elite super hoopers.

The best thing about bowling is that anyone can get a strike, say to themself "that was easy, I could do this for a living," and then somehow get stuck with a 127 score.

Greg Oden doing N'Sync

This is terrible, but admirable. G.O. seems like a great personality and has already made his mark on the Portland fans without playing a single minute. I'm looking forward to watching the Blazers next year, especially with their draft pick of Bayless.

I actually wasn't going to post this because the singing is so harsh, but because he's wearing a Barack shirt and was getting negative feedback for it on the Portland site, I decided to put it up in support of our next Prez.



Here's some footage that I just stumbled upon of Team USA celebrating after their gold medal victory, with Lebron and CP3 breaking out into the National Anthem, just in case Oden's singing left you thirsty for more NBA singers.

2007/2008 NBA All Defensive Teams

1st Team:

Kobe Bryant
Marcus Camby
Bruce Bowen
Tim Duncan
Kevin Garnett

2nd Team:

Shane Battier
Chris Paul
Dwight Howard
Tayshaun Prince
Raja Bell

Hm...pretty solid. Will only argue with one of the picks. Although I've jumped on the CP3 wagon on the Hornets play-off run, I just don't see how he's managed to make 2nd team. Billups, D. Williams and Andre Miller are all better defensive point guards, in my opinion.

I think it's one of those instances where his offense helped him make the team. Sort of how Pujols and Jeter keep winning gold gloves year after year. Sure they're good on defense but their offensive numbers factor into the equation whether or not they should.


Voting panel consist of all 30 NBA Head Coaches. They are not allowed to vote for players in their team.

Happy Birthday CP3

After crushing Jason Kidd and the Mavs, forcing Mark Cuban to realize he made the most ridiculous trade of them all, and abusing Tony Parker for the first two games of round two, Chris Paul turns 23-years-old today.

The 'Deron Williams or Chris Paul?' debate is over. Only one of the two has shown the true potential to become the best point guard that basketball has ever seen. And he wears turquoise and yellow.

Besides getting shafted for the regular season MVP (not that Kobe wasn't deserving, but Paul was the better candidate), Paul has locked up the starting PG spot for team USA in the playoffs while averaging 24 points, 50% FG shooting, five rebounds, two steals and a 9-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.

The man is a six-foot beast.

Here's to 23 years.

J.A. Adande on CP3

3/4 NBA MVP

This is pretty pointless because we still have nearly 1/4 of the season left, but at this point the MVP race is pretty damn good. To be honest, I think Kobe will win easily because of the fact that he hasn't won one yet despite being one of the top three players in the league for nearly the past ten years.

Not only is he the best player in the league this year, but he's finally on the best team (Sans Shaq). Granted, the Lakers would definitely not be in this position without the Pau acquisition, but Kobe kept them close enough to reach the top once Pau got there. Last year Lebron got the edge from the critics because everyone said he made his teammates better and Kobe didn't. That's not the case this year as Sasha, Farmar, Turiaf and even Odom look a lot better than they did last year. Give the Lakers front office a lot of credit as well because the Derek Fisher signing seems to have gone unnoticed but was a huge piece to the seemingly complete Lakers puzzle.

Last year, in Chris Paul's rookie season, the Hornets were 39-43, this year they're 42-20. Who's running the team? Paul. He's averaging 21 points, is second in the leage with 11 assists, first with 2.7 steals and is shooting nearly 50% from the field. He's got a young supporting cast that is looking better every game. If the Lakers weren't out in front in the standings, I'd give the nod to Paul.

Oh, what 19 games can do. From 10th place to third place. A month ago, the Rockets looked like they were ready for the lottery draft. Now they look like they won't lose a game until they're playing at the Boston Garden in the Finals. When Yao went down, someone woke not just McGrady but the whole team up. Dikembe's looking good and the young supporting cast in Houston is following McGrady's lead. His numbers aren't nearly as good as they've been in the past but he's definitely taken two steps forward in career growth this year.

30.8 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 7.4 apg. His team has quietly slid into the four seed in the east...and his name is Lebron James. Ladies and gentlemen, your future eight-time MVP.

His points are way down, his rebounds are way down and his assists are down. But his team is in first place and making travel plans for the NBA finals. He obviously has no shot to win the MVP award with his numbers, but what he has brought to the Celtics can't really be measured on paper. I don't think there's anyone in the league that would trade $3 mil/year to play with Garnett. Just ask Sam Cassell.

Orlando is twice as good as last year when they finished 40-42 and the main reason is the growth of Dwight Howard. He had his cape on long before the dunk contest and is averaging a measley 21.8 ppg, 14.5 rpg and 2.4 bpg. It's pretty sick to think of the MVP battles that Lebron and Howard are going to have in the next 15 years.

Honorable Mention: Paul Pierce, Steve Nash, Chauncey Billups, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Memphis Grizzlies GM.