- After Game 2, Ron Artest mentioned how one of his friends killed at a basketball game when someone on the opposing team broke off a chair leg and stabbed him in the heart due to a dispute over the score. MOUTHPIECE SPORTS did a little digging and it turns out Artest wasn’t exaggerating.
- NESW SPORTS has video of LeBron James’ 40-foot step-back jumper to close out the second quarter.
- DEADSPIN has funny video of Norm MacDonald telling a story about Bob Uecker on Letterman.
- SPORTSbyBROOKS tells us that Hawks’ big man Zaza Pachulia recently inherited about $100 million worth of real estate from a rich uncle, but there’s a catch. He has to get married and stay married for five years.
- MIDWEST SPORTS FANS has a few spoofs of those NBA “Where Amazing Happens” videos. Here’s one featuring Jeff Foster to get you started. (I almost started crying I was laughing so hard.)
Craig Sager conducted an interesting interview with Ron Artest on Wednesday. In it, Artest says that Brandon Roy is the “best player” he’s played against, including Kobe and LeBron.
Artest: “They are doing a good job, they are well coached. (Brandon) Roy is probably the best player I’ve played against, to me he is the best shooting guard. Not on defense now, defense is kind of suspect. He’s the best player I’ve played against.”
Sager: “He’s a better player than Kobe Bryant, better than LeBron James?”
Artest: “He’s the best player I’ve played against.”
Sager: “Are you saying that just because he’s your opponent in this series?”
Artest: “No, he is. He’s the best player I’ve played against, outside from a guy from my hood in Queensbridge, a guy named Mike Chafley. He went to jail a couple of years when he was 15 or 16 years old, but he was the best player I played against and now it’s Roy.”
You’ve got to love Artest’s flair. His team is primed for a matchup with the Lakers and he gives Kobe bulletin board material. (Like he needs the extra motivation.) And I love the reference to Mike Chafley in Queensbridge…did Artest play him before or after he went to jail? If it was before, then he’s saying that some 14 or 15 year-old is the best player he’s ever played against. If it was after Chafley got out of jail, why isn’t this cat in the NBA?
