binnielove:

Classic

upnorthtrips:

BACK IN THE DAY |4/9/93| The movie, The Sandlot, is released in theaters.

nbaoffseason:

‘Sheed to the Lakers?

You know what that means…

*phone number being dialed*
[phone rings three times]
[‘Sheed] Yo!
[Kobe] Yo Big wake up wake up baby
[‘Sheed] Mmm, yo…
[Kobe] Yo Big wake yo’ ass up c’mon
[‘Sheed] I’m up! I’m up. *mumbling* I’m up I’m up
[Kobe] Big, wake up!
[‘Sheed] I’m up baby, what the fuck, man? What’s up?
[Kobe] C’mon now it’s a quarter to six we got the 7:30 flight
[‘Sheed] Mmm, *mumbling* yeah
[Kobe] Yo Big Big, Big
[‘Sheed] Yeah I hear you dogg, I hear you, alright, 7:30
[Kobe] Yo take down this information
[‘Sheed] Ain’t no pen
[Kobe] Tell your girl then to remember it or somethin
[‘Sheed] Aight honey, yeah write this down
[Kobe] Aight, ummm, flight five-oh-four
[‘Sheed] Five-oh-four
[Kobe] Leaving Kennedy
[‘Sheed] mumbling Kennedy
[Kobe] On the L-A-X
[‘Sheed] Oh! Cali??
[Kobe] No doubt baby, you know we gotta get this paper
[‘Sheed] Ahh, no doubt, aight
[Kobe] You aight?
[‘Sheed] I’m up, I’m up
[Kobe] Yo Big
[‘Sheed] I’m UP man
[Kobe] Flight five-oh-four
[‘Sheed] Alright 7:30 I’ma meet you at the airport
[Kobe] California
[‘Sheed] Yeah
*phone clicks*

I’m going going, back back, to Cali Cali

binnielove:

2 For 1 Special Black History Month X Birthday !!!

• Birthday Shoutout To The Greatest & My Favorite Basketball Player All-Time Micheal Jordan (MJ, G.O.A.T., JO, Air Jordan, ETC)

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.” Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels’ national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA’s Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames “Air Jordan” and “His Airness”. He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a “three-peat”. Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards. Jordan’s individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press’s list of athletes of the century. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. Jordan is also noted for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of Nike’s Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1985 and remain popular today. Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam as himself. He is the majority owner and head of basketball operations for the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats, having won a bidding war to buy controlling interest in the team from founding owner Robert L. Johnson.

Honors & Achievements 

• Michael Jordan and Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill game honoring the 1957 and 1982 men’s basketball teams.

• Jordan won numerous awards and set many records during his career. The following are some of his achievements:[1][166][167]

• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2009

• 2 Olympic Gold Medals – 1984, 1992

• 6× NBA Champion

• 6× NBA Finals MVP

• 5× NBA MVP

• 10 NBA Scoring Titles

• 3× steals leader

• 3× minutes leader

• 14 NBA All-Star Selections

• 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP

• 11 All-NBA Selections

• 9 All-Defensive First Team Selections

• 2× NBA Slam Dunk Contest Champion – 1987, 1988

• NBA Rookie of the Year – 1984–85

• NBA Defensive Player of the Year – 1987–88

• NCAA National Championship – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1981–82

• ACC Freshman of the Year – 1981–82

• 2× Consensus NCAA All-American First Team – 1982–83, 1983–84

• ACC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year – 1983–84

• USBWA College Player of the Year – 1983–84

• Naismith College Player of the Year – 1983–84

• John R. Wooden Award – 1983–84

• Adolph Rupp Trophy – 1983–84

• Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year – 1991

• Named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996

• Ranked No.1 by SLAM Magazine’s Top 50 Players of All-Time

• Ranked No.1 by ESPN Sportscentury’s Top 100 Athletes of the 20th century

• Elected to North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

nicekicks:

Out of this world. #foamposites (Taken with instagram)

nbaoffseason:

This week, the Miami Heat are transforming into the Miami Floridians. Will they rock the shorts front that era as well?!

Check the whole set over on the team’s Facebook page.

Who rocks the throwback best?

You have bowl full of gummy bears and then you fill the bowl halfway with the alcohol of your choice. Put it in the freezer or fridge, your choice. But the gummies will soak the alcohol and you eat the gummies and get faded.

They increase by ten times the size

Doing it!!!!!!!

fuckyeanba:

2012 USA Olympic Basketball Team 20 Finalists Roster

Important players missing from the roster, according to a couple articles:

• Stephen Curry [Yahoo! Sports] &
• Amar’e Stoudemire [New York Post]

Uhh, Amar’e, you need the time off bro. Same for your Stephen. Heal your bodies before you complain about a snub. 

defjamblr:

Young Jeezy’s TM-103 Gets 4 Mics in The Source!

Snowman Bitch!!!!!

binnielove:

Blue Ivy Carter becomes the youngest person in history to appear on the Billboard Charts.

gotemcoach:

If you look at the back of your hand, you’ll notice muscle.  Some tendons, ligaments.  Probably a vein or two.

Now, look at the above photo again.

From Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports:

With those torn ligaments in his right wrist – an injury that should’ve required surgery and three months of rehabilitation – Bryant is forever one collision from serious seasonal consequences. When he fails to keep the wrist moving during a game, it will swell significantly.

Kobe tore the lunotriquetral ligament in the wrist of his shooting hand.  The lunotriquetral ligament is a series of bands of connective tissue that link the lunate and triquetral bones.  Since Kobe’s lunate and triquetral bones did not displace during his fall in the Lakers’ preseason game against the Clippers, Byrant eschewed surgery, leaving him with what I jokingly refer to as “fat-hand.”

Kobe’s bad wrist and “fat-hand” restrict his movement, weaken his grip on the ball, and drastically affect his shot.  The injury is no more evident then when Kobe is on the free-throw line.  Kobe’s made over 7,000 freebies, and taken almost 8,500.  His stroke has been refined over 16 seasons.  Nowadays, every Kobe free throw is accompanied by an overt, nervous body English.  He leans, bends.  His arms flail as he tries to will the ball into the basket.

You:  Well, Neil, if Kobe’s wrist affects him that much when he’s just standing still taking free throws, doesn’t it affect everything else he does, from dribbling to the difficult jump shots he takes, even more so?

Me:  Yes.

Yet he persists.  Kobe Bryant’s ability to play through pain and significant injury is admirable, dare I say inspiring. 

From Bill Simmons of Grantland:

Kobe is a tough dude. Gotta hand it to him - he plays with legit injuries about as well as NBA player I can remember.

We’re at the point in Bryant’s career where any non-catastrophic injury is written off as a relative non-factor - never to keep him from missing playing time - and all of his catastrophic injuries are written off as non-catastrophic. 

He’s an absolute warrior.  Our memories of Kobe scoring, and winning titles, on a myriad of injuries will balloon like a tall tale.  “Remember the time Kobe scored 44 with two left arms?  Yeah, his right arm got shot off by a bazooka, so he bought a left arm on the German black market, had it sewn on, and hung 44 on Ruben Patterson.”

Of course, Bryant’s willingness to battle while wounded is, in part, a pointed strategy in his ongoing Résumé War with Michael Jordan.  Kobe’s legacy will undoubtedly benefit from every injury he has played with, and will play with, over the course of his career, but the best way for Bryant to pass Jordan on the All-Time list will be to pass him in championship rings.

We’re certain the Lakers can’t win a title without Bryant, but can they hang a banner with Bryant so clearly not even close to 100%.  Last season’s knee and ankle injuries never hurt Kobe more than when he walked off the floor in Dallas, a victim of the Mavericks’ Playoff sweep.  This year, I can promise you, Bryant’s wrist will not be getting better.

According to the Orange County Register’s Kevin Ding, Bryant is receiving a numbing injection before every game with the hopes of performing normally.  Head Coach Mike Brown admits the injury “could be hurting Bryant more than he is letting on.”  Take it from Kobe’s personal trainer (also, famously, Michael Jordan’s personal trainer), Tim Grover:

“I’ve never seen anyone do what Kobe’s doing right now.”

Maybe that’s not a good thing?  We’ll never know because Kobe Bryant is playing tonight.  And every other night the Lakers have a game.

Did you hear about the time Kobe blocked a shot with his anger?

@gotem_coach

S/O to Kobe

shoothoopswithme:

World Trade Center - Lawrence Shainberg took this picture 29 days before the buildings went down.