With 0:24 to play and his team nursing a two-point lead, LeBron is on the sideline waiting to inbound the ball and this is what he’s doing.
He got fouled a few moments later, made his first free throw and then missed the second.
Update: Just looked on iTunes and the track is called “Forever” by Drake, and it’s on the “More Than a Game” soundtrack. Now it all makes sense…
Prince, Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings – those three things just fit together. That’s why it just made sense for Prince to write a new Minnesota Vikings theme song.
From Myfoxtwincities.com:
Prince said he hadn’t seen the Vikings play in a very long time, until he went to the game against the Dallas Cowboys last week.
“I saw the future,” said Prince.
He said he went home that night, wrote the song, “Purple and Gold,” and said the song came easy and fast.
The Vikings love it and plan to put it on their website.
If the Saints aren’t terrified after listening to that song, then they must have a higher power on their side. Because no sane man could listen to that song and not tremble in fear.
The Cowboys are trying to lock up restricted free agent receiver Miles Austin to a long-term deal.
From ESPN.com:
On the day DeMarcus Ware signed his six-year deal, executive vice president Stephen Jones expressed hesitation about entering negotiations with Austin. Of course, at the time, Austin had just finished setting an NFL record with 421 receiving yards in his first two starts.
“Some of the biggest mistakes that are ever made are when you pay a guy off one year,” Stephen Jones said then.
One could argue that it’d be a much bigger mistake for the Cowboys to risk losing a humble young star who led the NFC in receiving yardage despite being a reserve for the first five games.
That’s apparently Jerry’s line of thinking at this point.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Austin’s representatives could use Roy E. Williams’ five-year, $45 million deal as the starting point for their negotiations.
Austin proved that he wasn’t an early season fluke when he tore up the second half of the year. The 25-year-old has the size, speed and playmaking ability teams covet in a receiver and there’s no way Dallas can allow another team to outbid them now that he’s a restricted free agent.
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I’m not a professional lip reader, but after LeBron James took five or six straight jumpers in the fourth quarter (hitting most of them), Shaq came up to him at a timeout and said, “Go to the f**kin’ hole.” On the next possession, LeBron did just that and threw the ball out of bounds. But two plays later with under a minute to play in a tie game, LeBron attacked the glass in secondary transition and gave the Cavs a two point lead.
Kobe Bryant sat for the first seven minutes of the fourth quarter, and when he finally came in, he was ice cold, missing four of his five shots in the final period. Pau Gasol also played weak inside and missed several shots from close range. After LeBron’s driving layup, Gasol had a chance to tie the game with 0:24 to play, but missed both free throws. (He’s an 86% shooter on the season.) Cleveland just showed more toughness down the stretch.
It was an impressive win for the Cavs, who were playing without (arguably) their second best player, Mo Williams, who will be sidelined 4-6 weeks with a separated shoulder.
One thing that struck me as odd: After Gasol missed those free throws, LeBron was on the sideline lip-syncing all of the lyrics to a Eminem song — almost to the point when the ref threw him the ball. I realize he’s just trying to have a good time, but the old schooler in me just shakes his head. A few moments later he went to the line and missed one of his free throws.
Still, it’s hard to complain about a guy who just posted 37-9-5 against the defending champs.
Update: Here’s video of LeBron doing his rap…
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Sigh.
Sparing the NBA an embarrassment, Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash(notes) overtook exiled Houston Rocket Tracy McGrady(notes) in the final days of balloting to secure a Western Conference starting spot in the 2010 All-Star game, league sources told Yahoo! Sports on Thursday. McGrady played just six games for a total of 46 minutes until he and the team decided to separate from each other until the Rockets can work a trade for him.
The Philadelphia 76ers’ Allen Iverson(notes) was also voted into the Feb. 14th game in Dallas as a starter for the Eastern Conference, sources said.
At least Nash overtook T-Mac. This is the problem with having the fans decide the starting five. Allen Iverson has started 19 games and is averaging 14.4 points, 4.4 assists and 2.6 rebounds for the fourth-worst team in the league. In no way, shape or form does he deserve to play in the All-Star Game this year.
You can see my picks here. With Iverson’s inclusion, someone far more deserving is going to miss the game.
The starters will be announced tonight on TNT.
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