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the best obama shirt of all time.

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on August 28, 2008
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this is the only obama shirt i endorse. while everybody rushed their half-baked ideas for tee’s out, the dudes at undrcrwn chilled, waited for a great idea, and let it loose. bladaow.
revealed at the democratic national convention in denver this weekend. available at boston’s own karmaloop.

[props: hypebeast]

confused? not sure what a young barry is doing dunking on an unsuspecting mccain? we can explain.

WOW. that french guy was 7′2. vince at the 2000 olympics, in his prime. now you understand why this shirt is genius. do you remember those olympic games!? they were great. speaking of the olympics, these just left without much of a bang.

battle of the dream teams.

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on August 12, 2008
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who would win if the 1992 dream team competed against 2008’s olympic roster?

before you answer, let’s look at the facts talk about what i think i know. i’m pretty sure the dream team came to be after a rule change by FIBA, the dudes who essentially run international basketball allowed the national teams competing in the olympics to recruit professional ballers. the US was probably sick of racking up bronze medals, so coach chuck daly decided to stack the team. who was on it?

those guys. i’m sure you know them all, but:

charles “sir charles” barkley, larry bird, clyde “the glide” drexler, patrick ewing, earvin “magic” johnson (he had just made his HIV announcement. and was still frying bammas on the court), michael “air” jordan, christian laettner (he was still studying at duke university at the time!), karl “the mail man” malone, chris mullin, scottie pippen, david robinson, and john stockton.

the OG dream team. no shaq’s or reggie’s here, although they definitely wouldn’t have hurt. i’m almost 100% sure they were all NBA all-stars, and the majority of them have championship rings on one (or more) fingers. i need my homie from SLAM online to verify those facts, though. these guys won the gold medal, going 8-0 in competition. their average margin of victory was 44 points, and they never used one timeout throughout the entire olympics.

it’s 16 years later, and generation X has taken over the universe. basketball has become a widely played sport, secondary to only soccer, and we now have young gunners across the globe learning how to dribble as soon as they learn how to walk. maybe that’s why the US teams were getting manhandled in the past few world games. these guys, at least in the US, have multi-million dollar contracts that make michael jordan’s money from back in the day look like chump change. they also have the medical advances to play through and recover quickly from injuries that would have sidelined somebody with MVP potential for weeks.

the squadron: kobe bryant, dwight howard, lebron james, chris paul, carmelo anthony, carlos boozer, jason kidd, dwayne wade, chris bosh, tayshaun prince, michael redd, and deron williams.

not the absolute best from the NBA (like where is trillbert arenas!?), but definitely not too shabby. the roster has it all: convicted rapists, drunk drivers, and wife beaters. don’t get it twisted though. they can definitely ball.

the US team of 2008 hasn’t lost yet, and they’re rocking people left and right. but really…with all that’s known about these two squads, i am not sure who will win if they went at it. let me know your thoughts, and why. and shout out to the dudes at slam online, especially my dude ryne. got me hyped on the NBA again!

obama the baller.

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on August 4, 2008
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barack obama is the man. a left-handed assassin who dons a #23 jersey in an attempt to mirror the best who ever did it on the court, he has the essentials of cool running through his veins.

do you know how many more african-americans are watching CNN and MSNBC now that a black man who happens to be an eligible candidate (meaning he’s not al sharpton or jesse jackson) is running for president? a whole lot.

what african american besides michael jackson (and possibly lionel richie…he’s an overseas phenomenon, especially in europe) can go to germany and attract 200,000 people? nobody.

and did anybody else catch how mccain and the stupid republican squadron put out an ad comparing our future president to paris hilton and britney spears?

did his campaign team not know that the hilton family, loyal mccain supporters, had donated the maximum of $4600 to his campaign? they better ask for their money back. ASAP.

shaq rocks kobe.

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on June 24, 2008
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you’ve probably already seen this somewhere. but i don’t care, at all. shaq’s freestyle roasts kobe, and is so smoothly delivered. i can now at least partially understand how the man has a platinum-selling album.


shaq freestyle (Kobe Dis)
brought to you by DC to BC

on top of the world.

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on June 18, 2008
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that’s how we go. sure, i’m not from the bean, but i’ll rep it if we win a championship. fair weather fan? nope. already collected money on these dudes, and i said they’d win it all from the get-go, if the wizards weren’t a contender. and guess what. they won it all, at home, too. they deserved it more than anybody else. kobe already has his rings, and so does phil. plus, that gasol trade wasn’t even fair. they had an all-star player sent to their front door in a basket, talking about “take care of me, and i’ll take care of you.” nobody gets those handouts in the league! i wish it went down to a game 7, but they didn’t even need it.

and kevin garnett’s interview afterwards? certified classic moment. you can’t say he didn’t work hard for it.

say it ain’t so, gil.

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on June 10, 2008
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the washington post reported today that my fake-me-out ace boon coon and the superstar of the dc wizards, gilbert arenas, is opting out of his contract.

what does this mean exactly!? agent zero is now free agent zero. any team can scoop him up starting july 1st. i really think that wiz administration needs to get some money together to throw in arenas’ face so he can continue to be a DMV representer. he has done us so well, besides this past season.

‘07 was his best year. ever. he did kobe dirty and dropped 60 all over him. AND won the game. that’s why the celtics are winning this year. because gilbert put a curse on him that night. i put that on everything. i’ve already won a flight to cali off this series, and i’m willing to take bets from anybody else out there. test me.

and who doesn’t remember gil’s b-day party @ love?! i don’t. but i heard about it though, and $1.5 million on a celebrity-studded 25th born day celebration sounds like he’s a boss.

gil, please reconsider. and i still will read your blog wherever you go. just know i won’t have you on the blogroll or anything. and please, PLEASE, rehab that knee or whatever made you botch things up this past playoff run, man. we coulda used that to get away from cleveland. that’s 3 in a row against them, IN THE PLAYOFFS. i’m just saying though.

i’ll leave you all with a quotable from his last entry, though.

My dad is getting oldddddd! I don’t know if I’m the only person to look at his parents and just think, “Man, you’re getting old!” He came for the playoffs and he has the gray and black mustache, and a little hint of a beard, you know he cut it but you can still see gray coming out of his face. He had the little afro that wasn’t combed. He had the same old leather hat on and it was hot out, and I’ve told him about wearing a leather hat when it’s hot before.

I looked at him like, “Mannn, you’re getting old!

hit your free throws.

Published
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modi
on May 15, 2008
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you should never miss them. i’m biased. in my junior season, i shot 15 free throws, and made all of them. and i was a benchwarmer. (editor’s note: don’t get it twisted. ask around, i will rock you in some pickup. give me like a week to practice my lay-ups though.)

tony parker’s the only guy who gets a pass.

a life-size, cardboard cutout of his own desperate housewife. he missed both, and they eventually lost the game. now they’re down 3-2 to new orleans, and on the verge of losing the series. blown.

look how happy homeboy with the sign is, too. judgement day is today, though. 9 pm on ESPN to see chris paul and the hornets rock them.