Friday, June 26, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Drake's Decision
Drake will announce which label he's signing toooo in 5 days lol
ay who he think he is a superstar athlete lol
this the site he said it on: http://www.ddotomen.com/?p=4329
ay who he think he is a superstar athlete lol
this the site he said it on: http://www.ddotomen.com/?p=4329
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Greys Anatomy
Actor T.R. Knight is leaving grey's. He's been rumored to be tired of the show and has received his wish.
EW.com reported that T.R. Knight's "Grey's Anatomy" contract was terminated Wednesday, and Knight's former "Grey's Anatomy" co-star Melissa George confirmed to Us Weekly that he is indeed leaving.
EW.com reported that T.R. Knight's "Grey's Anatomy" contract was terminated Wednesday, and Knight's former "Grey's Anatomy" co-star Melissa George confirmed to Us Weekly that he is indeed leaving.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
SHAQ n MMA
The big shaq-tus (soon to be a cavalier), challenged a mma fighter to a match!! lmao
he challenged da guy that tko'd Jose Canseco in da first round.
he challenged da guy that tko'd Jose Canseco in da first round.
Kobe calls on an unlikely scout
Across several months of late-night emails thick with scouting reports and statistical analysis, with thoughts complex and simple, Kobe Bryant(notes) had come to trust a most improbable basketball sage. They weren’t deep into this partnership, when a grown man called Sweet Chuck felt obligated to make a confession.
“You know that you’re getting your information from a guy who scored four varsity points and looks like Uncle Fester, right?” Mike Procopio emailed Bryant.
As Procopio remembers, this was 3:30 a.m., in his Chicago apartment, and Bryant had asked him to get to work on studying San Antonio. Bryant had devoured the research that Procopio had done on the Houston Rockets in mid-March and enjoyed one of his most efficient games. Now, he wanted Procopio, an assistant to Bryant’s trainer, Tim Grover, at Attack Athletics, to go back to the tape for him.
There had been a long New York Times magazine story on the Rockets and how their general manager, Daryl Morey, uses a Moneyball-esque formula in basketball. They had statistical theories on how to defend Bryant, how to best limit him and Procopio wanted to make sure Bryant read the story.
Bryant already had. He misses nothing. Bryant wanted Procopio to dig up everything he could on the ways opposing coaches and scouts – in Houston and beyond – believed Bryant could be vulnerable.
“If these people think this stuff works, then I want to see what they’re looking at and make my adjustments accordingly, if this is how they decide they want to play me,” Bryant told Yahoo! Sports in a private moment last week. “I’ll willingly accept that, to see if I can’t shut that down. I wanted him to take a look at the research and see if there’s anything that’s anything worth me preparing over or studying.”
Bryant’s physical dedication is unparalleled. Grover made his reputation as Michael Jordan’s trainer and somehow elevated it with Bryant and Dwyane Wade(notes). This season, Grover traveled city to city to work with Bryant. After Kobe scored 61 points at Madison Square Garden in February and spent his late hours doing the voice-over for a documentary with Spike Lee, he met Grover in the hotel gym at 5 a.m. the next morning. After Game 4 of the NBA Finals, they were back at work at the crack of dawn.
What had been far less public was Bryant’s reliance on the reports that Procopio shipped him for every regular-season game past mid-March and through the clinching game of the Finals. As Bryant hits his 30s, he’s stayed true to the Jordan blueprint of working as hard on his mental preparation as his physical.
“To have someone as dedicated to the game as [Procopio], it was great for me,” Bryant said. “He could see things from the outside looking in that sometimes get a little cloudy when you’re in the moment of the battle.”
“All the time he would send me things that I hadn’t thought about.”
“You know that you’re getting your information from a guy who scored four varsity points and looks like Uncle Fester, right?” Mike Procopio emailed Bryant.
As Procopio remembers, this was 3:30 a.m., in his Chicago apartment, and Bryant had asked him to get to work on studying San Antonio. Bryant had devoured the research that Procopio had done on the Houston Rockets in mid-March and enjoyed one of his most efficient games. Now, he wanted Procopio, an assistant to Bryant’s trainer, Tim Grover, at Attack Athletics, to go back to the tape for him.
There had been a long New York Times magazine story on the Rockets and how their general manager, Daryl Morey, uses a Moneyball-esque formula in basketball. They had statistical theories on how to defend Bryant, how to best limit him and Procopio wanted to make sure Bryant read the story.
Bryant already had. He misses nothing. Bryant wanted Procopio to dig up everything he could on the ways opposing coaches and scouts – in Houston and beyond – believed Bryant could be vulnerable.
“If these people think this stuff works, then I want to see what they’re looking at and make my adjustments accordingly, if this is how they decide they want to play me,” Bryant told Yahoo! Sports in a private moment last week. “I’ll willingly accept that, to see if I can’t shut that down. I wanted him to take a look at the research and see if there’s anything that’s anything worth me preparing over or studying.”
Bryant’s physical dedication is unparalleled. Grover made his reputation as Michael Jordan’s trainer and somehow elevated it with Bryant and Dwyane Wade(notes). This season, Grover traveled city to city to work with Bryant. After Kobe scored 61 points at Madison Square Garden in February and spent his late hours doing the voice-over for a documentary with Spike Lee, he met Grover in the hotel gym at 5 a.m. the next morning. After Game 4 of the NBA Finals, they were back at work at the crack of dawn.
What had been far less public was Bryant’s reliance on the reports that Procopio shipped him for every regular-season game past mid-March and through the clinching game of the Finals. As Bryant hits his 30s, he’s stayed true to the Jordan blueprint of working as hard on his mental preparation as his physical.
“To have someone as dedicated to the game as [Procopio], it was great for me,” Bryant said. “He could see things from the outside looking in that sometimes get a little cloudy when you’re in the moment of the battle.”
“All the time he would send me things that I hadn’t thought about.”
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Summer Jam
Jeezy called out Drake and Jay-z at summer jam. Then afterwards they hit da 40/40 club to see the rest of the nba finals lol
Jay, Drake, Jeezy, n Kanye supposed to tour very soon!!
Jay, Drake, Jeezy, n Kanye supposed to tour very soon!!
Miss Cali
yo she finally got the boot. Carrie Prejean is no longer da lady of California, after controversial pics n heated argument.
she look better then da girl who replaced her!!! lol
she look better then da girl who replaced her!!! lol
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Shaq... He's a ?
The greatness of Shaquille O’Neal demands that his name, his legacy, never drifts far from an NBA Finals. Even when he’s long out of the league, that’ll still be true. For the immortals, the lifetime benefits include the exhaustive examination of the next generation’s stars to your standards.
How does Tom Brady measure to Joe Montana?
Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan?
And, yes, Dwight Howard to Shaq.
Mostly, here’s how a burgeoning talent is born: A gifted young star emulates his idol and eventually becomes his peer.
So why does Shaq get such glee out of belittling and ridiculing those centers who came before and after him?
“Sometimes I wonder about his maturity,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told Yahoo! Sports on Friday. “He doesn’t need to do that. He’s achieved so much.
“I don’t know why he stoops to that.”
Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t need Shaq’s approval, but Howard is 23 years old and Shaq owes it to the league, to common decency, to be civil with this kid. His treatment of Howard has been kind of sad, especially considering that Howard grew up wanting to be him.
Howard marveled at Shaq’s strength and roared at his comedy and tried to emulate him in every way. They were drafted into the NBA as the No. 1 overall pick to the Orlando Magic and turned losers into NBA finalists. Howard always seemed to crave Shaq’s counsel, his respect, but Howard long has been the target of humiliating insults.
In the past year alone, Shaq called Howard an “impostor” and insisted that, “Everything he’s done, I’ve invented,” and on and on. On opening night of the NBA Finals, Shaq posted a goofy photo on Twitter of what a Dwight Howard and Stan Van Gundy child would look like. After five years of this, Howard still doesn’t get the reason that Shaq revels in ripping him.
“I can’t tell you why he’s said a lot of discouraging things,” Howard said Friday at the Staples Center. “I wish he wouldn’t say it because he’s one of the few guys that we all look up to.”
For most, O’Neal’s motives are transparent. Somehow, Shaq thinks it diminishes his own legacy if Howard achieves something significant sooner than he did.
“That’s why Shaq wants [Howard] to get swept in the Finals,” a league source close with Howard and O’Neal said Friday. “He doesn’t want Dwight to win a game because he didn’t win a game in the Finals when he got there at a young age with Orlando.”
It’s funny, but Jordan never takes offense that Bryant and LeBron James and Dwyane Wade emulate him. To Michael, it was an honor. He embraces it. He always believed that was his responsibility to pass wisdom and encouragement to the next generation’s icons. Julius Erving did it for him. And Michael does it for them.
Nevertheless, Shaq mostly has been about, well, Shaq. Now, at 37, Shaq still has a chance to get back to a contender, to get back into the championship chase. He was surprisingly spry for the Phoenix Suns this season, and with his expiring contract of $20 million next season, he will be an intriguing possibility on the summer trade market. Many league executives believe that Cleveland will revisit its trade deadline discussions with Phoenix and consider making a deal for Shaq this summer. Cavs general manger Danny Ferry knows his team needs a bigger, stronger force to guard Howard, especially in the final season before LeBron James’ free agency in 2010.
Where does Shaq want to go? Multiple league sources, including with the Lakers, believe Shaq wants a return engagement with the Lakers. They think that’s why he has spent this season trying to repair the damage done to his relationship with Bryant. He tried to buddy up on All-Star weekend when they were co-MVPs, but give Bryant credit: He refused to engage with Shaq on a revisionist make-believe about how it never was so toxic between them.
There’s little chance the Lakers would make a move for Shaq, and no chance Bryant would accept a return to that hell. Shaq’s rap last year about Kobe ended any chance at reconciliation. Bryant is three games away from winning his first title without Shaq, and all he’ll want to do next season is win another – without him.
Lost in that rap was the line, “That’s like Kareem saying to himself that he’s better than me.” Well, remember this: Abdul-Jabbar averaged 22 points and eight rebounds on a Laker championship team when he was 37 years old. When I asked him how that lyric made him feel, Abdul-Jabbar said, “The gratuitous insult? I considered the source and I slept very well that night.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t need Shaq’s approval, nor his validation. Yet all Dwight Howard ever wanted was to be the next Shaquille O’Neal, and when did that become a crime for a young basketball player? Michael Jordan always had been secure enough in his legacy, his greatness, to embrace Kobe and LeBron.
So, yes, you have to wonder: Will Shaq ever be?
How does Tom Brady measure to Joe Montana?
Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan?
And, yes, Dwight Howard to Shaq.
Mostly, here’s how a burgeoning talent is born: A gifted young star emulates his idol and eventually becomes his peer.
So why does Shaq get such glee out of belittling and ridiculing those centers who came before and after him?
“Sometimes I wonder about his maturity,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told Yahoo! Sports on Friday. “He doesn’t need to do that. He’s achieved so much.
“I don’t know why he stoops to that.”
Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t need Shaq’s approval, but Howard is 23 years old and Shaq owes it to the league, to common decency, to be civil with this kid. His treatment of Howard has been kind of sad, especially considering that Howard grew up wanting to be him.
Howard marveled at Shaq’s strength and roared at his comedy and tried to emulate him in every way. They were drafted into the NBA as the No. 1 overall pick to the Orlando Magic and turned losers into NBA finalists. Howard always seemed to crave Shaq’s counsel, his respect, but Howard long has been the target of humiliating insults.
In the past year alone, Shaq called Howard an “impostor” and insisted that, “Everything he’s done, I’ve invented,” and on and on. On opening night of the NBA Finals, Shaq posted a goofy photo on Twitter of what a Dwight Howard and Stan Van Gundy child would look like. After five years of this, Howard still doesn’t get the reason that Shaq revels in ripping him.
“I can’t tell you why he’s said a lot of discouraging things,” Howard said Friday at the Staples Center. “I wish he wouldn’t say it because he’s one of the few guys that we all look up to.”
For most, O’Neal’s motives are transparent. Somehow, Shaq thinks it diminishes his own legacy if Howard achieves something significant sooner than he did.
“That’s why Shaq wants [Howard] to get swept in the Finals,” a league source close with Howard and O’Neal said Friday. “He doesn’t want Dwight to win a game because he didn’t win a game in the Finals when he got there at a young age with Orlando.”
It’s funny, but Jordan never takes offense that Bryant and LeBron James and Dwyane Wade emulate him. To Michael, it was an honor. He embraces it. He always believed that was his responsibility to pass wisdom and encouragement to the next generation’s icons. Julius Erving did it for him. And Michael does it for them.
Nevertheless, Shaq mostly has been about, well, Shaq. Now, at 37, Shaq still has a chance to get back to a contender, to get back into the championship chase. He was surprisingly spry for the Phoenix Suns this season, and with his expiring contract of $20 million next season, he will be an intriguing possibility on the summer trade market. Many league executives believe that Cleveland will revisit its trade deadline discussions with Phoenix and consider making a deal for Shaq this summer. Cavs general manger Danny Ferry knows his team needs a bigger, stronger force to guard Howard, especially in the final season before LeBron James’ free agency in 2010.
Where does Shaq want to go? Multiple league sources, including with the Lakers, believe Shaq wants a return engagement with the Lakers. They think that’s why he has spent this season trying to repair the damage done to his relationship with Bryant. He tried to buddy up on All-Star weekend when they were co-MVPs, but give Bryant credit: He refused to engage with Shaq on a revisionist make-believe about how it never was so toxic between them.
There’s little chance the Lakers would make a move for Shaq, and no chance Bryant would accept a return to that hell. Shaq’s rap last year about Kobe ended any chance at reconciliation. Bryant is three games away from winning his first title without Shaq, and all he’ll want to do next season is win another – without him.
Lost in that rap was the line, “That’s like Kareem saying to himself that he’s better than me.” Well, remember this: Abdul-Jabbar averaged 22 points and eight rebounds on a Laker championship team when he was 37 years old. When I asked him how that lyric made him feel, Abdul-Jabbar said, “The gratuitous insult? I considered the source and I slept very well that night.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t need Shaq’s approval, nor his validation. Yet all Dwight Howard ever wanted was to be the next Shaquille O’Neal, and when did that become a crime for a young basketball player? Michael Jordan always had been secure enough in his legacy, his greatness, to embrace Kobe and LeBron.
So, yes, you have to wonder: Will Shaq ever be?
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
KANYE...dope as usual
KANYE WEST "PARANOID" feat: RIHANNA Dir: NABIL from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
Rihanna look effin great yo!!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Drake; semtex
DRAKE INTERVIEW - LIVE FROM HYDE PARK, LONDON [PART 1] from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.
THAT NIGGA PAUSED DA INTERVIEW TO POINT OUT A GIRL WIT TIGHT PANTS LOL
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