“Scola gives us a griminess and a crustiness that we need.” — Suns GM Lance Blanks, talking specifically about Luis Scola’s artfully disheveled hair, probably
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Archive for the ‘Phoenix Suns’ Category
The Phoenix Suns appreciate Luis Scola’s grossness
Posted by Trey Kerby under Luis Scola, Phoenix Suns on Aug 15, 2012
Manu Ginobili and Kendall Marshall form the League of Extraordinary Balding Left-handed Gentlemen
Posted by Trey Kerby under Manu Ginobili, NBA Fashion, Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs on Aug 07, 2012
“mannnn shoutout to Manu, puttin on for the balding lefties.” — Kendall Marshall, whose bald spot has its own Twitter
Get your Groupon for Shannon Brown’s summer music festival
Posted by Trey Kerby under Music, Phoenix Suns on Jul 24, 2012
Now that it’s summer time and the weather is fine, non-Olympic non-Summer League NBA players have a lot of free time on their hands. Even if they spend eight hours a day getting their skills up, there’s still another two-thirds of the day to waste. Maybe they’ll just watch TV or pose with assault rifles or do cannonballs in a pool. I don’t know, there are lots of options.
One of those options, apparently, is hosting a music festival near your hometown. That’s what Shannon Brown, who recently inked a 2-year, $7 million deal with the Suns and who I also recently saw walking around Midway Airport in Chicago while carrying a very ugly/expensive backpack, is doing with one of his August weekends. And since I know you all want to go, you might as well be aware of this fabulous Groupon that knocks 50 percent off the price of a two-day pass.
Two-day pass to Shannon Brown-founded outdoor festival featuring Monica, Robin Thicke, Slick Rick, and Naughty by Nature
Just from those four names, this is right up Tas Melas’ alley. He loves him some Thicke and gets angry if you call him a poor man’s Justin Timberlake. Then you dig a little deeper to find that Rakim, Fantasia and MC Lyte will be performing as well and you can tell that the Urban Fork network could easily serve as the title sponsor for this festival, if it wasn’t already backed by a multimillionaire.
Cool way to spend your summer, I guess, picking out musical acts for your own festival. It sure beats mowing lawns. Plus, whenever you can rope your wife in to performing while also (assuming here) using her contacts in the music business to fill our your festival, you pretty much have to do it, because there’s no way that could ever end badly.
And hey, now that it’s on Groupon, so many more people are going to know about this thing. I’m not sure if 2012 performances by Naughty by Nature and Slick Rick are going to bring the fans out in droves, but at least they’ll know.
Video: An instant classic Phoenix Suns poop joke
Posted by Trey Kerby under Animals, Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs, Score Video on Jul 03, 2012
Haha, suck it San Antonio Spurs. YOUR mascot is the one who made the big farts in the Suns’ bathroom. How did he get in there? Who cares, because it’s The Coyote who made the stinkies and not The Gorilla.
Totally got you, Spurs. Another resounding victory for the Suns in this totally-not-lopsided rivalry.
(via Dan Devine)
Grading the various Steve Nash fan signs from last night
Posted by Trey Kerby under Phoenix Suns on Apr 26, 2012
Sign: The Permissive Orangey
Concept: “Thanks for your eight wonderful years. We understand if you want to leave.”
Verdict: This is a wonderful sentiment, and one I think most Suns fans agree with. Steve Nash played eight great years in Phoenix, two of which are gravy. If he wants to chase a championship at age 38, I don’t think anybody would blame him. We’ll see what they have to say if he signs with the Miami Heat, but for now, this is how a lot of people feel. Points off, however, for taking maybe 90 seconds to write this sign. More points off for the superfluous 13 that seems thrown on for no good reason.
Score: 7.9 (out of 10)
Inside the torn knee ligaments club
Posted by Trey Kerby under Phoenix Suns on Apr 23, 2012
Whoa-oh-oh-ooohhhh for the longest time, ACL injuries were a death sentence on an NBA career. Just a few years ago, if a player tore a knee ligament, he might come back but he was never the same. Just ask Penny Hardaway.
Nowadays, however, a tear isn’t so bad. You’ll miss the rest of the season, but science and medicine has advanced so far that these injuries are no longer career-threatening. Plus, there’s a super cool club of people who always talk torn ligaments. From NBA.com’s David Aldridge:
Me: Did you become an ACL expert after all this?
MR: I talked to (Oklahoma City’s) Eric Maynor the other night. I’ve talked to a number of guys who had ACLs — Josh Howard, Perk (Kendrick Perkins). I know I’m missing some guys. We’ve all kind of talked about that experience. That’s almost a fraternity within a fraternity, guys who are playing with ACLs. Shaun Livingston, I’ve talked to him about his situation. Jamal Crawford did his early in his career. A lot of guys reached out to me when I did mine. We all kind of talk amongst each other to see how we’re doing.
I can’t decide if this would be the most fun club to be a part of or the worst. On one hand, you’d have to deal with a painful tear that could totally ruin your way of life. On the other hand, you get to reminisce about awesome basketball stuff with a bunch of great basketball players. I would need to know if there is a jacket with a crest involved to make my decision.
Joking aside, it’s really cool that there is a support group for injured players. Knee injuries are traumatic for basketball players, obviously, so it’s nice that they have other players to lean on. Even if a doctor has done a hundred ligament repairs, odds are the most of them aren’t for guys who need those ligaments because they are paid millions of dollars to use them. Being able to rely on fellow players for advice and encouragement is a luxury.
That being said, if these meetings turn in to a big “Remember when you used to be able to jump over people” session, then this is a huge bummer. I love the idea of Amar’e Stoudemire and Greg Oden talking about how to deal with knee injuries, but not if they’re being all sad about it.
Keep your heads up, guys. And maybe consider moving to Phoenix.
Are you ready for ‘Basketball Moms?’
Posted by Trey Kerby under Phoenix Suns on Mar 28, 2012
We are living in the Reality TV Era, a place where anything can be a TV show. People buying the contents of storage units that they’ve never seen? Yep. Guys driving trucks in the cold? Sure. Doug Christie and his wife helping couples learn about sex? Obviously. It’s 2012 — all the world’s a stage and all the men and women are merely being trailed by a camera crew while being fed lines by a team of producers.
So it should come as no surprise that Channing Frye’s mom is pitching a show called “Basketball Moms,” but ummm … Channing Frye’s mom is pitching a show called “Basketball Moms.” From NBA.com:
While she tries to find a permanent TV home for “Girlfriends,” she’s also developing another show, “Basketball Moms,” which follows six women who live together as they share stories about their sons and confront their own issues, including trying to lose weight and get in better shape. The demo featured Frye; Pam Long, Rip Hamilton’s mother; Thelma Harris, the mother of Heat forward Dexter Pittman; Monja Willis, mother of the Thunder’s James Harden; Queen Warrick, the mother of Suns forward Hakim Warrick, and Linda Shanklin, the mother of 76ers’ All-Star forward Andre Iguodala. [...]
OK, so it sounds like not as much insane stuff is going to happen as on “Basketball Wives,” but I would say that is probably a good thing. No offense to the “Basketball Wives” cast, but I can’t imagine watching another version of that show with the only difference being that the women are older. Not that I actually watch “Basketball Wives,” but you catch my drift. One “Basketball Wives” is enough and possibly one too many.
This show could be fun though. I imagine we’ll see a bunch of hilarious pictures of these players as kids, maybe catch some pleas for their beards to be shaved, and we’ll definitely hear stories of their childhood which usually turn out pretty great. I’m not saying I’ll be a regular watcher of “Basketball Moms,” but some good things could come out of it.
Or, I suppose, it could be exactly like “Basketball Wives,” which would be the real-life existence of that nightmare scenario I envisioned above. I really hope it’s not, but it’d still be great for relevant blog content. We can’t lose either way.
(via SLAM)
