I’d just like to say for the record that this is not a made up story, and I will do my very, very best to not be biased.
The NBA made a phone call to new Dallas Mavericks F Caron Butler on Tuesday to tell him not to bring straws the arena. Sayyy whattt???

Yes, straws. Butler has had a habit of chewing on multiple straws throughout each game to calm himself down. It’s a habit he has said started as a teenager and he has gone through around 12 straws a …

That’s right, Dennis Rodman retired (for now) from his two game coaching career, undefeated.  Oddly enough Rodman coached the Elmira Bulldogs of the Eastern Basketball Alliance to victories over the New York Wizards in one of the games (both teams are now 7-1).  This move was obviously a marketing ploy for the EBA which I had no idea even existed.  Dennis Rodman (who is probably broke, just a guess) was paid $40,000 per contest and Charles Berch, the operations of basketball manager at Elmira, was hoping Rodman would draw a …

….and that is how the Orlando Magic went down the tubes.
Ok, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself here. But let me explain how a team that goes to the Finals one year, to remaining one of the top teams the first half of the next year, to losing in the first round in the playoffs.

Last spring, the Magic beat the favored Cleveland LeBrons to make the Finals for the second time in their history. The team was built around their all-star center Dwight Howard and terrific role players in SF’s …

It’s been a tough year for Glen Davis – completely at the fault of himself. But there is still one other thing that could make the year worse for him: a nickname that is worse than ‘Big Baby’.
To start the season, Davis missed the first 27 games due to an off-court fight that led people to question his focus and maturity. How he could jeopardize his season and career by being involved in a fight is beyond me, but I had certainly hoped he had learned his lesson. Looks like …

Mark Cuban, complain?
I know how weird that sounds, but by golly, he really did complain (again). This time, Cuban isn’t upset with the NBA, who he more or less thinks is out to get him, but he was complaining about the NFL of all things!
The NFL scheduled a first-round home playoff game for the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday night, which happens to be at the same time as the Mavericks’ home game against the Utah Jazz. So of course, he can’t just accept this:
“I know we’re just little pissants compared …

I am now a witness. The question is: a witness to what exactly…?
On Saturday, JB and I spent another day at the IZOD Center, this time to see the Nets play the Cleveland Cavaliers, or as I like to call them, the Cleveland LeBrons. This was the first time I’ve seen LeBron James play in person, so I figured this would be the perfect time to express my ‘frustrations’ with LeBron, from an on-the-court standpoint.
The category of this post is labeled ‘hrbl hoops’, but there isn’t much that is hrbl …

With New Years coming up, the holiday season is almost over.  I stumbled upon this video of Rockets players attempting to sing Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer.  Charles Barkley would say they were “trbl,” and while we think they were hrbl, it had me laughing while I was watching it.  Enjoy.

-JB