Buckets Over Broadway » Black Mamba http://bucketsoverbroadway.com A New York Knicks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sun, 19 May 2013 00:10:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Fwd: Kobe Makes His Team Win; Celtics Make Other Teams Lose http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/06/03/fwd-kobe-makes-his-team-win-celtics-make-other-teams-lose/ http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/06/03/fwd-kobe-makes-his-team-win-celtics-make-other-teams-lose/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:09:43 +0000 Alex David, aka Short White Boy http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/?p=1080 Many have already talked about how the Lakers and Celtics have taken two different paths to the Big Show. It’s more than just a West Coast/East Coast thang, or offense versus defense. It’s also about the psychological effects they’ve left on those in their wake. Kobe, the self-proclaimed Black Mamba, has been an unstoppable force [...]

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NBA Western Conference Finals, Game six, Los Angeles Lakers at Phoenix Suns

Kobe's so darn good, Alvin Gentry's fine with losing to him. Elsewhere, Stan Van Gundy and Mike Brown still can't sleep, wondering what they did "wrong" to lose to the Celts. (source: Yardbarker.com)

Many have already talked about how the Lakers and Celtics have taken two different paths to the Big Show. It’s more than just a West Coast/East Coast thang, or offense versus defense. It’s also about the psychological effects they’ve left on those in their wake. Kobe, the self-proclaimed Black Mamba, has been an unstoppable force since Game 5 in the first round against the Thunder (by the way, I kinda love self-proclaimed nicknames. They should be totally illegal, but I find it so humorous that someone would decide to make up their own nickname that I loooove to ironically call them that. Thus I’m thrilled that Sasha Vujacic’s started getting playing time so I can yell out “The Machiiiiiiine” every time he touches the ball. Of course the true irony is that I’ve now used the Black Mamba tag so much that it no longer seems ironic to me when it comes out of my mouth. …Wait, what am I talking about? Oh yeah, Celts/Lakes.)

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]]> http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/06/03/fwd-kobe-makes-his-team-win-celtics-make-other-teams-lose/feed/ 0 What Free Agents Could Realistically Come To NYC This Summer? Part II http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/03/05/what-free-agents-could-realistically-come-to-nyc-this-summer-part-ii/ http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/03/05/what-free-agents-could-realistically-come-to-nyc-this-summer-part-ii/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:51:59 +0000 Alex David, aka Short White Boy http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/?p=647 In Part I of this, I looked at what each team (that will have $) has to offer to this summer’s free agent crop.  In this section, I’mna go from the team to the player and try to understand a bit more what they want.  You may think, “Duh, what they want is to win [...]

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]]> In Part I of this, I looked at what each team (that will have $) has to offer to this summer’s free agent crop.  In this section, I’mna go from the team to the player and try to understand a bit more what they want.  You may think, “Duh, what they want is to win and make buckets o’ money.”  However, the truth is that, while none of theses guys are selfish, a lot of the determination comes down to ego.  I’d initially assumed that if the Knicks could free up enough cap space (which they now have) that they’d have a shot at getting any two big names, like LeBron James and Chris Bosh.  Then I read this article in mid-February on ESPN.com about interviewing Bosh:

Bosh revealed that he’s not necessarily interested in playing anywhere that he’s not the clear-cut franchise player.

“That’s a good question,” Bosh said when asked by ESPN The Magazine’s Ric Bucher if he’s bothered by the widespread perception that he’s determined to follow either LeBron James or Dwyane Wade by signing on with one of the teams they choose starting July 1.

“It’s funny you say that, because I was thinking about it. I was just looking at what people say and it’s like, ‘Chris is going to go here and play with him or this, this and that.’ I’m like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I feel like I should be built around. And maybe that’s just my ego talking, but I feel that I’m a very good player in this league and I’m only going to get better. So … maybe we should be getting somebody [in Toronto].”

Bosh would probably be outta Toronto in a sec if one of the three teams in home state Texas were in the running

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