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More FS Southwest News ». View all Southwest Sites. More FanSided News ». More News Around the Network ». View all Our Sites. Tweet Share Pin. To me, the ridiculous offensive pace that the Nuggets play at always reminds me of this fast-paced ditty by Queen. They are an out-of-control offensive machine that only an explosion will stop, and even then sometimes they'll keep on going.
Don't worry guys, this is the saddest song that I've picked out of the bunch, so you don't have to get down and depressed anymore from here on out. However, Sam Cooke's song about trying ineffectively to break away from the past while moving into the future couldn't describe these Detroit Pistons any more.
They've tried to rebuild, but at the same time they've made moves that don't make any sense for their future. I chose the poppier version that The Byrds sing over the mellow crooning of Bob Dylan because I feel like the Warriors are an easy, poppy team, compared to a complex, multifaceted team that would be represented by a Dylan song.
However, this song is about not meeting expectations and realizing that as a young fellow the thoughts you had were a bit out there. That kind of sounds like Mark Jackson trying to turn this Warriors team into a defensive team, does it not?
The quirky sound of the Talking Heads always reminds me of the Rockets for some reason, probably because they are an interesting team that plays different than most others.
The Houston Rockets were doing one of the most difficult things leading up to this season, trying to turn their team into a contender with a swap of players. Most Representative Lyrics: But can you still recall the time we cried? Jim Morrison's crooning voice and the Indiana Pacers have a lot in common when it comes to this song. The Pacers were still feeling the effects of the brawl in Detroit even just a few seasons ago.
Their team had fallen apart and they were in the throes of rebuilding. However, now they are looking like a very good team and even though their past still looms close behind them, they're trying to break through that lower-level playoff team plateau, which can be dangerous, and get into the mid-level range. Most Representative Lyrics: Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin' in front of that called the police on me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my daughters.
See, you guys were starting to think that the only hip hop I got down with was the funky fresh stuff from the '80s, but I like me some strong '90s stuff as well. The intro to this song really speaks to what the rest of the song is going to be about.
Biggie is remembering all he went through to get to this point, and if we're talking about NBA teams as a platform of comparison, no team was struggling quite like the Clippers. My favorite part of this song speaks to the Clippers' bandwagon filling up quicker than expected with this line, "Now honies play me close like butter plays toast.
Damn right. And yes, even I can see the irony here using Biggie, and not Tupac as the theme song to an L. A team. I hope I don't get shot. Besides the crazy antics of Christopher Walken dancing in this video and flying, which I'm pretty sure he can do without a harness , it's a smooth tune from Fatboy Slim that feels like the Lakers playing ball.
Obviously, the weapon of choice is Kobe Bryant here, and then the chorus You can go with this, or you can go with that is the two options the Lakers have down low in Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol. The Lakers just need to remember that if they walk without a rhythm they won't attract the worm. I've never been much of a Kanye fan he's a bit of an off-putting man , but this song is too cool to dislike. This track is about all of the terrible things going on around the world, but in the end the best thing to do is grit your teeth and bear it, keep faith and everything will work out in the end.
Just as the Grizzlies are dealing with injuries, fiddling with their lineup and dealing with front office blunders, Kanye is dealing with his "haters" and staying true to himself. In the end, he decides that the best thing he can do is be true to himself and play the game his way, just as the Grizzlies have done to win games this year.
We get to the bottom of it. And then we move on. So those are the things that I keep with me to this day. Every chance I get, I take a glance at it, just reading. And, again, my lessons have been keeping me so sane over these past couple of years.
I can tell you that. That struck me as a really New York thing, the Five Percenters. When you were young, you had relatives in Baltimore, so you would visit there sometimes, but you were really rooted in New York.
You write about how your mother was the best mother in all of Red Hook. Was it a special pressure coming back to play in New York, for Syracuse and then the Knicks? I never looked at it as pressure, because if anybody knows how to handle this, I know how to handle this. This is a part of me. This is my true DNA right here.
I felt like I was coming back home. I left New York at ten. I would always come back every summer. Spent holidays in New York. I always tell people, I was born in Red Hook; I learned how to survive. Baltimore is what made me, and I was refined on the basketball court. But I had a great time here in New York because, for one, I embraced it.
I knew what the people wanted. I knew how people were perceiving me and what they wanted to see. I was ahead of the game when it came to that. When you came, there was a lot of talk about you telling the Nuggets that you wanted to come, and the team trading you because you had expressed that. Do you feel like the conversation around that has changed, around a player trying to control his own destiny?
I think the players do have control now. Some use it in the right way; some use it in the wrong way. They were in a revamp stage. So that was more of the conversation. And then it was only a couple of teams that they were willing to trade me to. Let me just pick a city where I want to go, because you guys is coming with Utah and these other places.
I gotta tell you, they still seem mad about it. George Karl is still talking about you and how you play years later. I mean, did you see his most recent tweet about you? That man is miserable, man.
And I think some people in life just hate to see how people grow. I know what was going on with the Denver Nuggets and me and George Karl. And people who was there know. I played for him when I was twenty-five years old. What are you talking about? A lot of those moments I forgot about. Some people are just miserable.
Some people want attention. Whatever it is, good luck to him. Oh, for sure. You got to learn that, though. But you have to really learn how to move like that. What were you thinking watching those guys this summer—if you did watch?
Yeah, I watched a couple of games. I mean, honestly, I missed it. I do miss the Olympics. I know what it takes to be an Olympian, what it takes to win gold medals. I also know what it feels like to lose as an American. I miss it. We write people off so quick. We love comeback stories so much that we write you off just as quick.
But I enjoy watching. And I enjoyed my time with the U. One of the funniest parts of your book is when you go through a growth spurt and your knees are hurting—it seems almost like basketball hijacked you, took over your whole life. Does it feel different, or even like a relief, to be an older player, and to be thinking about what else is out there?
That motivates me, though. Because I know what I can do. Because I do it. This is what I do. Does something amazing like that give you any satisfaction?
It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. No one really knows how the healing will go. The playoffs are assured, but there very well may be playoffs and heartbreak. There very well may be something more. One Classical read on the Medusa myth is that to rush in and be all masculine action is to become a statue.
Perseus must shuffle and sidestep into the cave where the battle awaits. He must look for the feminine monster in the mirror. He must see a reflection in the mirror to vanquish the Gorgon sister. And chances are he would also see himself in that same mirror. Have you seen the Chloe Bailey video?
Much like Medusa, she is surrounded by listless statues in it, but they are all whole and polished and outside in the bright sunlight decorating a green lawn. Having failed to vanquish the feminine power that Medusa so often embodies, those who failed their heroic auditions pretty much vanish from sight and memory.
The darkness takes them. Admittedly, none of this really has anything to do with Jamal Murray in any literal sense. I expect he has seen the Chloe Bailey video, though. In fact, I suspect much of the NBA has seen it. The video is, in large part, a hybrid thing — half art and half clickbait — and something that either Kawhi Leonard or James Harden could surely love.
And then there is the fact that both the offseason and rehab from injury can be occupied by such things because something has to occupy all that time in-between games that count. Moreover, rehabbing from injury can be a time when time stands still, when the body becomes brittle from lack of use, when muscle turns to marble.
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