padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
Andrea Bargnani. The great white hope. I would start a basketball thread but I don't think there is enough people here with an interest to warrant one.
no way start one anyway man, you & I at least...if all these dudes can have their footie threads then we can have a basketball one...playoffs coming up & that - tho I reckon they'll be quite dull unless someone can upset the Lakers...I suppose a LeBron/Kobe Finals has its appeal but the Cavs are just dreadful to watch, as ever...Zydrunas Ilgauskas & Pau Gasol mucking about in the post game after game, ugh...tho I guess it can't be as bad as Spurs/Cavs or Spurs/Pistons for that matter...
when I was living out in Oakland (still a Warriors fan - more cause they rep the city hard than for the team itself) we had an Italian great white hope of our own, uh Marco something...I don't think he panned out but he was perfect Nellie material, a long athletic wing with a great shot who couldn't play defense to save his life...still that team a couple yrs ago of Baron/S-Jax/Monta Ellis/Mickael Pietrus/goofy Latvian dude was so much fun...
EDIT: Fucking hell this Free Darko blog is immense. Z-graphs?!
EDIT: Fuck music blogs, sports blogs all the way
yeah but most sports blogs are not like Free Darko...yeh it's pretty nuts I guess the original concept was to write stuff & then translate it via Babelfish into Russian & then back into English, or to emulate Babelfish translations, or something like that...actually they used to get accused all the time of being Billups knockoffs...as mentioned tho the main guy Shoals is alright - I remember him telling me he was well into the hip hop tape trading circuit back in the late 90s for like post-Freestyle Fellowship stuff a la Radioactive Anti-Mc, Eligh, early MURS & so on...which totally made sense...