Jリチャードソン

リンク: J-Rich Blog.

Mi amigo Barbosa va a ser esta bien muy pronto. Muchos gracias a todos mis “fans” se habla espanol.  No puedo practicar mi espanol aveces y todos me ayudaan.  Adios!

Jリチャードソンは外国語が使えるらしい。俺の友達のバルボサが・・・なに？

Jリチャードソン（はげてねぇ）

リンク: Twitter / Jason Richardson: Alando Tucker played a jok ....

Alando Tucker played a joke on me. He sent me some rogaine to my room cause my hair is thinning. I need some suggestion to pay him back lol

twitterで、リチャードソン「Aタッカーにからかわれた。俺の髪が薄くなってるからと言って俺の部屋にロゲイン（育毛剤）を置いていきやがった。何かやり返す方法を教えてくれ。」

CV

リンク: Periódico 7 Días - Charlie Villanueva quiere jugar en Premundial.

ヴィラネヴァさんは次のFIBAのトーナメントにドミニカ代表選手として出るつもりらしい。それよりこの記事は何語や。

Lジェームズ

リンク: Cavaliers top Mavs 102-74 for 12th straight win - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

On Saturday, James was in Columbus cheering on his alma mater, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, which won its fifth state basketball title. James sat behind the bench but spent much of the game nervously pacing and chewing his nails. “That’s what I live for,” he said. “

レブロンは母校である高校の試合を観戦した。その観戦中、ずっと爪を噛んでいたことについて、レブロン「これが生きがいなんだ。」

Mキューバン

リンク: mcuban (mcuban) on Twitter.

can't say no one makes money from twitter now. the nba does )

Mキューバンはtwitterで「JRスミスはうちの選手に暴言を吐いたのにテクニカルを取られなかったのはなぜだ」とか「JRスミスとAライト事件のときと同じ審判だ。」と書いたせいで罰金をくらった。それについて、twitterで、キューバン「twitterで金を稼いでいるやつはいない、とは言えないな。NBAがやってるんだから。」

モー・ウィリアムズ

リンク: CAVS GUARD GOT BIG ASSIST FROM SLOAN - New York Post.

"I'll never forget Sloan's reaction," Williams said with a shudder. "He came storming onto the court screaming, 'Damn you, Kirilenko, you think just because you've got an $84 million contract you can do whatever the bleep you want to do out here! Well, I've bleepin' news for you . . .' "

Williams said Sloan's earthy message was the best thing that could've happened to him . . . and the team, a consensus pick to go nowhere fast, yet finished 41-41.

"Man, if Sloan was gonna get on Kirilenko like that, I knew damn well what I had to do," Williams said. "I was like Speedy Gonzalez. I did exactly as told and then some. The funny thing is, everything I'd heard about Jerry turned out the opposite."
"A lot of bad words come out of his mouth. But, if you do it right the next time, in his next breath, he'll praise you just as heatedly. A lot of coaches don't understand; they beat you down without picking you back up," Williams said. "Jerry taught me how to be a point guard," he said. I asked him what that entails: "To think versus rely simply on instincts . . . time and possession . . . teammates needing to be spoon-fed . . . not giving the ball to a big man on the break unless he has a free lane . . . creating space --separation -- which is the object of the pick-and-roll, and then reading and reacting."

ジャズ時代について、モー「キリレンコがさぼっていた時の監督の反応は一生忘れない。「おいこら、キリレンコ！！8400万の契約をもらったから何してもいいと思ってるんじゃないだろうな！！」って言ったんだぜ。キリレンコでこれなんだからな。俺は自分のしなくちゃいけないことがよーく分かったよ。俺はスピーディー・ゴンザレス（アニメに出てくるネズミのキャラ）みたいな速さで言われたことを実行したものだ。」

「でも彼に関するうわさは全部間違っていたのがのちにわかった。汚い言葉を使うが、怒られたあとに正しく実行すれば同じくらいの熱意で褒めてくれる。他の多くの監督はしかるだけでそういうところができていない。・・・彼からはPGのプレーを学んだ。」

Aジェイミソン

リンク: Gilbert Returns - D.C. Sports Bog.

"Damn, we ain't had this much media since...." Nick Young said 90 minutes before tip.

"People I ain't seen before, people got smiles on their faces," Antawn Jamison added when he entered the locker room. "Y'all need anything? Y'all want a cold drink?"

記者が大勢来たことについて、Nヤング「こんなのはいつ以来だろう。」

ジェイミソン「知らない人もいるね。みんな楽しそうだ。・・・なにか飲み物でもいるかい？」

今日のアリーナスのコメント

リンク: Gilbert Being Gilbert: Best Of Return Quotes - D.C. Sports Bog.

On his nerves: "I don't get nervous. No, I don't get nervous. That's some old days when I got nervous. Now I was just out there to see how the knee felt."

On the day that was: "You ever heard that expression, 'If you want it to rain, wash your car?' You know, that's what happened this morning. I got here, knee's been feeling fine this whole time, as soon as I got here it started aching. And I'm like awww, man, see I knew this was gonna happen. So I said I wasn't gonna play. And then once I got home it felt better. I was like man, that's just nerves kicking in, and once I went out there it was just all basketball from there. I don't know if the building was cold. I don't know what happened, it just all of the sudden started aching. I just got in the house and I was like, oh, my knee feels better. Once I said I wasn't playing, the knee feels better."
On being introduced fourth, in front of Caron Butler: "That was a little different. That was awkward. But, you know, it's basketball. It's just introductions. It's not like the last person wins a car or anything."

Gilbert, on the fans' reaction: "Oh. You know, they miss me, what can I say?"

On scouting the NCAA Tourney: "No, I don't watch the JV. My Arizona boys got put out. So it's no point in even watching that."

On why he already broke his no-media pledge: "You know how I am. You know, I'm wishy washy."

以下、復帰後初戦についてのアリーナスのコメント。

久しぶりで緊張したか聞かれて、アリーナス「いや、しないよ。緊張なんてとうの昔に忘れている。」

ブザービーターを狙ったもののよりによってクワミなんぞにブロックされたことについて、アリーナス「飛行機の中で考え込むことになりそうだ。タイムアウトを取るべきだったのかドライブするべきだったのか・・・でも結果は結果だ。受け入れないと。どうすべきだったかよくわからない。」

試合前に一度足が痛くなって家に帰ったことについて、アリーナス「雨が降ってほしいなら車を洗え（注・・・「車を洗った後に限って雨が降る」、「希望と逆のことが起こる」という意味かと）、という表現を聞いたことはあるか？今朝はそんな感じだった。これまでずっと大丈夫だったのにアリーナに来ると膝が痛くなった。「ほら見ろ、こうなると思ってたぜ」と思った。だからあのときは「今日はプレーしない」って言ったんだ。でもそのあと家に帰ったら調子が良くなった。プレーしないって言った後によくなったんだ。」

選手紹介のとき、5番目ではなく4番目に紹介されたことについて「いつもと違ったので変な感じだったが、選手紹介だからな。最後に紹介されたからといって景品がもらえるわけじゃないからな。」

NCAAトーナメントについて「見てない。俺の母校はトーナメントにいないから見る意味がない。」

メディアにはしゃべらないと言ったのにインタビューを受けていることについて「俺の性格を知ってるだろ。ころころ変わるんだよ。」

Mバーンズ

リンク: Out-of-position Barnes now an issue.

"It's tough," Barnes said. "I'm outweighed by 40-50 pounds every night. I just got to keep fighting.

"It's no excuse. I've got to bring a better effort."

毎試合標的になっていることについて、体が小さいのにPFをやらされているサンズのMバーンズ「きつい。常に40ポンド以上の差がある選手を相手にしている。でも戦い続けないといけない。いいわけはしない。いい結果を出すだけだ。」

Mジェームズ

リンク: NBA.com: Wizards' James out for season with broken pinkie.

"I've never had a broken bone before," James said. "When the doctor showed it to me, I'm like, 'That's me?'"

小指を骨折して今季絶望になったことについて、ウィザーズのMジェームズ「今までに骨折なんてしたことなかったのに。医者が診察結果を見せてくれたときに思ったよ、「俺が骨折？」ってさ。」

このチームはなんでこんなにけが人が多いのか。誰か地獄通信でも使っているのか。

シャック

リンク: Courtside Blog.

"No," Shaq said when asked if he could share about his conversation with Przybilla that landed them both T's.

"He said I threw the ball at him and I said, yeah. That's what I did. So what? Do something about it. I'm not much of a talker."

When asked if he could receive a fine for admitting he "threw the ball" at Przybilla, Shaq quickly corrected himself.

"I didn't throw it. I dropped it. Hey, it doesn't matter to me - whatever they do. It's been done before. You move on. I just dropped it. He was in the way. If he wouldn't have flopped and been on the floor, he wouldn't have been down there."

You don't like the floppers do you, asked one reporter.

"No. It just shows you are giving in. The referees are probably going to go for that every time. You've got to now (flop). It's the only way you can stop a person. It's kind of crazy the refs go for that."

So what did Shaq think of Oden?

"I don't. I'm a Shogun. You can't ask me about a low level ninja. I still have to worry about Yao Ming, Dwight Howard."

プリズビラと喧嘩をしたことについて、シャック「あいつが「ボールを俺に向かって投げただろ」と言ったから。「そうだ」って言ってやっただけだ。で、ダブルテクニカルだぜ。これがたいしたことか？なんとかしてくれ。ったく、俺はおとなしいほうなのに。」

「というか俺は投げたんじゃない、ボールを落としただけだ。・・・あいつらがフロップをしようと俺は気にしない。ずっとされてきたことだからな。まぁ、あいつはフロップしなきゃこれまで生き残れなかっただろうがな。」

「フロップをするやつは嫌いだ。フロップをするってことは「降参」てことだ。レフェリーさえ認めてるなんてクレイジーだ。」

オーデンについて「俺は将軍だぞ。そんな低レベルの忍者の話を俺にするな。ヤオやドワイトならともかく。」

レブロン（伝説再び）

リンク: James, Williams lead Cavs to 11th straight win - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

During his “60 Minutes” profile, James sank an underhand shot from 50 feet. And, yes, he did it on the first try. “One take,” he said with a laugh. “That’s me.”

下手投げで50フィートのシュートを決めた様子が写っているこの動画について、レブロン「一発で決めた。当然だ（笑）」

Kコーバー

リンク: Kyle Korver (KyleKorver) on Twitter.

コーバーがTwitterで女性とチャットしてた内容がだだ漏れなんですけど。「君、きれいだね」とか「カイルって呼んでよ」とか。相手だけに見えるメッセージで送んなさいよ。

Mゴルタット（空も飛べるはず）

リンク: Magic beat Bucks to keep pace for East's 2nd seed - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Marcin Gortat scored Orlando’s first six points of the fourth quarter on a dunk, an alley-oop from J.J. Redick and a layup after being fouled that put the Magic ahead 88-72. Orlando’s reserve center, not known for his dunking ability, even shocked his own teammates.

“I’m surprised he jumped,” Redick joked. “He’s been known to jump as high as a phone book on dunk attempts.”

大男のゴルタットがアリウープをたたきこんだことについて、JJレディック「彼がジャンプしたんで驚いたよ。あいつは電話帳の高さくらいしか飛べないことで有名なんだぜ（笑）」

Rアーテスト

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews » Blog Archive » Ron Artest, A Changed Man?.

On why the Rockets are better off than they were in last year’s postseason:

“People gotta understand that last year when Houston played the Utah Jazz, who was it, Yao Ming didn’t play in the playoffs.  And, Rafer got hurt, Rafer got hurt, make no mistake, the Rockets are for real.  Make no mistake about it, the Rockets are for real.”

On what makes the Rockets who they are:

“The good thing about the Rockets is we don’t care who shoots the ball - if you feel like you got an advantage, go take advantage of it.  But, the young fellas gotta learn, they gotta learn when to back it up, when to slow it up.  We gotta get used to that…we gotta pick and choose our spots better, and that’ll change in the future.”

On the way he records his music:

“Yeah, yeah, got a studio in the car.  Sometimes you get multi-idea in the car, you get multi-ideas in the shower.  That’s the next step, put a studio in the shower.”

音楽のレコーディング場所について「ああ、車の中にスタジオがある。アイディアは車の中とかシャワー中なんかにうかぶ時もあるからな。・・・次はそれだな。風呂にスタジオ設置でいこう。」

ロケッツのいいところについて「シュートを打つ選手は誰でもいい、というところだ。優位な状況にあればそれを生かせばいいんだ。若い奴らはテンポを落とすことなんかを学ばないとだめだがいずれよくなるだろう。」

去年と今年の違いについて「去年はヤオやラファーがけがだった。そこを理解しないと。ロケッツは強いぜ。本物だ。」

マーリンズ（抜き打ち断髪）

リンク: Marlins find themselves in a hairy situation with Hanley Ramirez - Big Leag... - MLB - Yahoo! Sports.

What's the beef? Well, Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez recently forced all of his long-haired players, including Ramirez, into an impromptu date with the clubhouse hairdresser. He also banned any jewelry worn onfield by Ramirez or any of his teammates. 

"We want to look professional," Gonzalez told the Sun-Sentinel. "Nice and neat."

Only problem was that Ramirez, ranked first overall in Yahoo!'s fantasy baseball game, didn't take kindly to having his shortish dreads shorn off or his chain yanked off his neck. Once the media entered the Marlins' clubhouse on Thursday, Ramirez made sure he was seen sporting a strong message — "I'm sick of this ****" — written in Sharpie across his chest.

"I'm angry," he told reporters. "I want to be traded ... It's incredible. We're big leaguers."

マーリンズの偉い人は髪の長い選手や貴金属をつけた選手が気に入らないらしく、急きょ、そういうことを禁止したらしい。

2項目とも当てはまっていたため無理やり散髪させられたチームの希望の星、Hラミレス「トレードしてほしい。信じられない。俺たちはプロだぜ。」

最近覚えた単語

・What a disgusting wench.
「いけすかん女ですねぇ」

・I am Maki the spiral shellfish, who even silences crying babies.
「わしは泣く子も黙る巻貝のマキちゃんやぞ。」

・Rejoice.
「楽しみなさいよ」

・Growth through puberty
性徴

・white sandbar
お白州

・Restrain yourself!
「ひかえよろう！」

・My blade thirsts for blood tonight.
「今宵の虎鉄は血に飢えている」

・They seem meaninglessly cool.
「無駄にかっこいい！」

・Seconds!
「おかわり！」

・ventriloquism
腹話術

・boil
おでき

・Evildoer who threatens the peace of the land
「天下お上に仇なす奸賊！」

・I will make the chrysanthemum flower bloom!
「咲かせて見せます菊の花！」

最近覚えた単語

・Prepare yourself!
「覚悟しろ」

・Just as I wished.
「望むところだ。」

・Be like the carp and go against that swift stream!
「鯉になったつもりで激流に立ち向かえ」

・What a life-force.
「なんという生命力」

・CPR！
「人工呼吸！」

・I've been eyeballed.
「睨まれてるよ・・・」

・Breathing Via Gills
「エラ呼吸」

・I'm a goner.
「あっしはもうだめでさぁ」

最近覚えた単語

以下、主に瀬戸の花嫁のこの動画から。

★今日覚えた単語
・The small evening waves that flow into Seto,
瀬戸に流れて夕波小波

・where are these sakura petals coming from?
「この桜の花びらはどこから？」

・BLOOD AND TEARS!
「血の涙！」

・Chivalrous spirit！
「漢気！」

・Sea louse.
「フナムシ野郎。」

・F-o-r-c-i-b-l-y
「無理やり・・・」

・As the father of that thing, I feel like killing myself.
「自分があれの親かと思うと死にたいよ・・・。」

・I want fried crab and soy sauce.
「私、じゃこ天と醤油がほしい！」

・I won't lose to the mole.
「私、モグラには負けんよ！」

・I'll cut out your intestines, sea louse.
「はらわたぶちまけたるでぇ、フナムシ野郎・・・むにゃむにゃ。」

・She is "The Demon Prefect", Zenigata Mawari !
「あいつは鬼の風紀委員！銭形巡！」

・Humans have a sense of chivalry too.
「人間の中にも義侠心は生きちょるでぇ！！」

・You scum samurai!
「かかってこんかい！このドサンピンがぁ！」

・This sword is The Blowfish Slayer.
「これは名刀「ふぐ刺し」ゆうてのぉ」

・Let me bring bombs to blast through Sakurada's Gate!
「いざというときには私がマイト抱いて桜田門に飛び込みますからね♪」

・The management fees ratio per month for the new field are as follows: salutation fees 20%, cheering fees 20%
「新しいシマにおける毎月のみかじめ料の割合は、挨拶代2、ショバ代2・・・」

・moral code
仁義

・You'll be shackled.
お縄頂戴

・Today, Everyman was mesmerized by my singing again!
「今日も私の歌にみんなメロメロ。」

・Millet dumplings at his hip....eh
「お腰につけたきび団子か・・・くぅっ・・・！」

・Fine by me!
「上等じゃぁ！」

★一言
・日本人の自分ですらこういう業界の単語の意味がよくわからん。

・「何の因果かマッポの手先」とか「ドサンピン」とか「哭く」とか。

アリーナス（ブログ界の巨匠引退）

リンク: NBA.com: Arenas says he's 'retired' as a blogger.

"I retired," Arenas said in the home locker room before Washington's game against Charlotte. "No more blogging for me."

Really?

Why not?

"It's just like the double-(edged) sword thing: Eventually your words is going to kill you," Arenas said with a smile.

Asked to explain his thoughts further, Arenas smiled.

"I started looking at it as, before, it was fun, and everybody has fun reading it. And then it's like everything I said, everybody started using it as firepower, instead of saying it's just entertainment. You know, people started using it, trying to take bits and pieces instead of enjoying the blog," the three-time All-Star said. "So once I started seeing that, I just started visualizing, eventually, this is going to be the double-(edged) sword thing. It made me and it's going to kill me, so I might as well stop."

もうブログは書かないことについて、アリーナス「俺は引退した。もうブログはやらない。もろ刃の剣なんだ。自分の発言にやられるはめになるんだ。・・・最初は楽しかった。みんなも楽しんでくれた。だがそのうち俺の言ったことが相手のやる気のもとになっていった。単なるエンターテイメントではなくなった。単に読んで楽しむのではなく、都合よく使い始めた。・・・そういうことに気づいてから、これはもろ刃の剣になると思うようになった。だからやめたほうがいいと思った。」

ドガーン(￣□￣；)・・・

怪我さえなければこういうことにはならなかっただろうけど・・・また絶妙なタイミングで怪我しましたからね・・・シューズの企画、アニメの企画、全部始まりかけたところでしたからね・・・で、またチームが見事なまでにぶっ壊れましたからね・・・自主規制というか自粛したくなりますよね・・・。

まぁその何というか・・・・その・・・このヴァカめ。早く戻ってこい。

4コマ漫画・・・シーズンMVPは誰？（子安武人風で）

Joakim Noah

リンク: Joakim Noah on Boys, Boredom and Griminess - D.C. Sports Bog.

People say, "How come NBA players lose all their money?" It's because we're making money like a 40-year old businessman would make. If a 40-year old businessman made money like us, he's very successful. Right? But at 40 years old, you're established, you have a family, you don't have people pressing you for money, you know what I'm saying? We're 23. Single. A lot of people are single. A lot of people come from areas where they don't have the means, and don't understand the whole money situation. They don't understand that when it says $1.5 million, half of that goes to taxes, and the house, and the agent. I mean, it goes.

So your friends will actually just come up to you and ask you for money?

Oh, all the time. All the time.

And you give it to them?

I mean, it's hard to say no to somebody that you grew up with your whole life and you know they're in a situation. That would be a good story to ask players.

Do you remember your first check?

I remember it was negative. I remember it was negative. I had some fines. I had a lot of fines. I didn't see a lot of it.

Aブルックス

リンク: Q&A with ... Rockets PG Aaron Brooks.

MC: Seattle has produced a lot of guards lately, too (Brandon Roy, Jason Terry, Jamal Crawford, Nate Robinson, Martell Webster, Brooks). What's going on with that?

AB: We're pretty good. Most people don't know who's all from Seattle. When they say there's not too many basketball players from Seattle, then you start naming them, they're like, "We didn't know all those guys were from Seattle." We've got a nice chunk of guys.

MC: Do you guys get together and play in the offseason?

AB: Occasionally.

MC: Who's the best out of them?

AB: Me.

MC: No question?

AB: Why not?

ロイ、Jテリー、Jクロフォード、Nロビンソン、ウェブスター等、シアトル出身の選手が意外に大勢いることについて、シアトル出身のブルックス「たいていの人はシアトル出身の選手を知らない。・・・でも名前をあげてあげれば「ああ、彼らはシアトル出身なのか」って感じで驚く。」

シアトル出身の選手で一番はだれか聞かれて、ブルックス「俺さ。・・・別にいいじゃん。」

レブロンの体重

リンク: LeBron James - Cleveland Cavaliers - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Weight: 250

レブロンの体重は113キロもあるらしい。これはどうなの。バレジャオとイルガウスカスがともに260で4キロぐらいしか違わんというのはどうなの。　パパッと他のチームの選手の体重も見たけど、250超えてるのは本当に一部のセンターしかおらんぞ。250というとダンカン（255）、アマレ（249）、ガーネット（253）とかそのクラス。

しかしとある情報筋によると「レブロンの体重は272ポンド」という説もあるらしい。その情報が正しいのかはともかくそこでの「やつはアイバーソン並にスピードのあるKマローン」というコメントは正しい気がする。

サンズ

リンク: YouTube - 'Take that LeBron!' Shaq bowls over Suns..

最近のサンズはこんな儀式をしているらしい。

Rアデルマン

リンク: TrueHoop By Henry Abbott - ESPN.

Is Rick Adelman in the Coach of the Year conversation now? Second in the tough west without Tracy McGrady?

ロケッツの監督就任1年目で22連勝したり、2年目の今シーズン、アーテストを飼いならしマグレディ抜きでウェスト2位を記録しているアデルマンはすごいのではなかろうか。

チアリーダー

リンク: Nuggets Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Cheerleaders are getting benched.

Kroenke Sports Enterprises recently announced layoffs. Among those affected has been the Denver Nuggets Cheerleading team, whose performances have been scaled back from all home games to only weekend games.

The cheerleading team is not to be confused with the Denver Nuggets Dancers, an all-female group that continues to perform at all games. The cheerleaders, made up of 36 men and women, provide college-type cheers during breaks in the action.

不況のせいで、ナゲッツのチアリーダー（ダンサーではない）は休職日が増えているらしい。

シャック

リンク: Hill, Richardson lead Suns to fifth straight win - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“That’s what I do, baby. I’m Shaq-ovich,” said O’Neal, who made seven of eight free throws in the game. “We needed them. I’m known that when you really need them, I’m going to make them.”

フリースローが好調なので、ヨーロッパの選手になった気分のシャック「いつものことだろ。俺はシャコビッチだぜ。どれも大事なFTだったからな。大事な時には決める選手と言われている。」

OJメイヨ（静かな町です）

リンク: Year after USC, Mayo enjoys relative peace in NBA.

No paparazzi. No celebrity treatment. Just a man and his ribs.

"It's been the most relaxed and ... comfortable I've been since maybe the fifth or sixth grade," said Mayo, who spent part of a typical off day with The Associated Press recently.

"It's not high expectations you know," Mayo said. "The city understands we're a young team, we're still trying to get better. The city enjoys our young team and enjoys our talent, looks forward to watching us grow as a team and get better throughout the years.

"When we go out, they show us all respect."

メイヨは静かなメンフィスでの暮らしを楽しんでいる模様。最近は兄弟が大学でプレーしているのでそれを見に行くのが楽しみだとか。メイヨ「こんなにゆっくり過ごせるのは小学5年生か6年生以来かな。期待も高くない。町の人は僕らが成長していく様子を楽しんで見ている。」

バークリー（クリーブランドはつまらない）

リンク: Cavaliers shrug off Barkley's 'dreary' comments about Cleveland - Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball NBA News - cleveland.com.

Barkley: If you were to swap the people in Cleveland and Milwaukee, it'd be the same dreary ass city. They are both dreary places. C Webb, would you agree? Cleveland and Milwaukee, other than Perkins Soul Food joint, they are the same dreary ass city.

Webber: I agree.

Johnson: I was born in Milwaukee, they are not the same city.

Barkley: Ernie you were born in Milwaukee?

Johnson: I was born in Milwaukee.

Barkley: Milwaukee is a very nice city.

Barkley: There's nothing happening in Cleveland, trust me, other than the Indians.

Johnson: They are the number one seed right now.

Barkley: They've got LeBron James who is spectacular. There is no reason to live in Cleveland, that's why the call it the mistake by the lake. They didn't come up with that for no reason Ernie.

キャブズは退屈な街だと主張する、Cバークリー「クリーブランドに住んでるやつをミルウォーキーに住んでるやつと交換したって結局同じ退屈な街のままさ。Cウェバー、そう思わないか？違いと言えば、ミルウォーキーにはソウルフードの店「パーキンス」があるってことだな。」

Cウェバー「そのとおりだね。」

Kジョンソン「俺はミルウォーキー生まれなんだけど。」

Cバークリー「ホントに？そうか・・・ミルウォーキーはいい街だよな。」

・・・省略・・・

バークリー「クリーブランドは本当に何もないぜ。インディアンズがあるけどな。レブロンは素晴らしいけど、だからって住みたくなるわけじゃない。あいつらも「ここに住むのは間違いだ」って言ってるよ。」

ニックス（ドラフトでも負けてます）

リンク: Kings Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Gallinari is likely going to have back surgery, which would a disappointing conclusion to an underwhelming rookie campaign for the former No. 6 pick. Meanwhile, Thompson—who was taken 12th overall out of little-known Rider University in New Jersey—entered play ranked 10th among rookies in scoring (10.4 per game), fifth in rebounds (6.9) and first among all players in one fascinating category: fouls.

While Thompson continues to routinely struggle on the defensive end, his habit of getting in foul trouble isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The improvements on that end will continue to come, but he refuses to be embarrassed every time out and that often leads to hacking away at would-be scorers. All in all, it appears they found a good player with their pick.

ニックスのドラフト6位新人、ガリガリ君よりも、キングスの無名の新人Jトンプソンのほうが活躍してるぞ、という内容。ジャージー生まれだから人気もこっちのほうが高そうだ。

ニックス

リンク: Kings Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

The Knicks deserved the boos they were hearing from their fans at the Garden during the loss for a number of reasons. But their inability to out-rebound the league’s worst rebounding team most certainly was one of them. The Kings—who entered play with the league’s worst rebounding differential (minus-5.42)—won the battle of the boards 52 to 36.

ニックスはいまだにファンからブーイングされているらしい。ちなみにこの日ブーイングされた原因のひとつは、リバウンド最低チームのキングスにリバウンドをもぎとられまくったから。

サンズ

リンク: Suns Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

• G Leandro Barbosa is out one to three weeks with a hyperextension of the left knee.

• F Amare Stoudemire (detached retina) is out for the rest of the regular season and playoffs.

今のところサンズで元気なのは、超若手たちと超おっさんたちだけらしい。

シャック

リンク: Suns Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“It shows I’ve been consistent at what I’ve been doing, and the next guy is my illegitimate father—Wilt Chamberlain—so just like in ‘Star Wars,’ hopefully I can catch up to my father.”—Phoenix C Shaquille O’Neal, on passing Moses Malone as the fifth-leading scorer in NBA history (27,412 points).

前の記事の続き。チェンバレンの記録を抜きたいことについて、シャック「次は俺の父と言っていいウィルト・チェンバレンか。スター・ウォーズみたいに父に追いつけるといいな。」

シャック（フリースローがもっと決まってればなぁ）

リンク: Suns Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“I would say (being in the top five) was really important,” he said. “But my thing when I first came into this league, I always said to myself, ‘When I leave, I will be remembered,’ and I’m up there with some pretty good company. But if I didn’t have three years worth of injuries and 5,000 missed free throws, right now I’d probably be at least No. 3. … So I’m a little disappointed in myself right now, but it’s a good milestone.

“On the other hand, I’d rather be in the third or fourth position for the playoffs—if I could trade that, it’d be better. Milestones don’t really mean anything unless you win the whole thing.”

通算得点が歴代5位になったものの若干不満があることについて、シャック「3年分の怪我や5000本のフリースローミスがなければ3位にはなってたよな・・・。」

Dウィリアムズ（ルーキーめ）

リンク: Jazz Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“The young fella was trying to come at me in the first quarter a little bit.”—G Deron Williams, apparently an ancient at 24, on Thunder rookie G Russell Westbrook. Williams attacked the 20-year-old Westbrook in the third quarter, scoring 12 points and driving for four lay-ups, before the Thunder switched the defensive assignment over to Thabo Sefolosha.

Dウィリアムズはルーキーのウェストブルックに挑戦されたので、ぼこぼこにやり返した模様。それについて、年配のウィリアムズ「1Qにルーキーが俺に挑戦してきたからな。」

ジャズ

リンク: Jazz Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

• G Ronnie Brewer celebrated his 24th birthday Friday and finished with eight points against the Thunder. Rookie Kosta Koufos had to sing “Happy Birthday” to Brewer while doing a little Greek folk dancing at the morning shoot-around.

Rブリューワーの誕生日祝いとして、ルーキーのクフォス君はギリシャ風ダンスを踊らされたりいろいろさせられた模様。

Cブーザー（大統領・・・）

リンク: Jazz Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

• Through his connection with former Duke teammate Reggie Love, F Carlos Boozer had the chance to meet now-President Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Miami last summer. That almost made it more painful as Boozer watched Obama pick Pittsburgh to beat Duke and advance to the Final Four and North Carolina to win the championship as part of his ESPN bracket. Boozer said he got in touch with Love, Obama’s personal assistant, to ask what he was doing.

“I said, ‘Reggie, what’s up with President Barack picking the Tar Heels to win the whole thing?’” Boozer said. “He said, ‘I know. He stabbed us both in the back on national TV.’”

大統領の側近レジー・ラブとブーザーはデューク大学の同級生だったので、オバマがデューク敗退を予想したことをむなしく感じている模様。ブーザー「レジーも言っていた。「全国放送で僕ら2人は大統領に裏切られたね」と。」

選手の傾向

リンク: The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com.

Battier learns a lot from studying the data on the superstars he is usually assigned to guard. For instance, the numbers show him that Allen Iverson is one of the most efficient scorers in the N.B.A. when he goes to his right; when he goes to his left he kills his team. The Golden State Warriors forward Stephen Jackson is an even stranger case. “Steve Jackson,” Battier says, “is statistically better going to his right, but he loves to go to his left — and goes to his left almost twice as often.” The San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginóbili is a statistical freak: he has no imbalance whatsoever in his game — there is no one way to play him that is better than another. He is equally efficient both off the dribble and off the pass, going left and right and from any spot on the floor.

Sジャクソンはディフェンダーの左側に行きたがる模様。右側に抜いたほうが得点の確率がいいのに。

ジノビリはどこからでも決めれる万能スコアラーらしい。

Jトンプソン

リンク: A Bond Unlike Many Others | Hoops Addict.

キングスのJトンプソン兄弟特集記事。同じ学校に行っていたらしい。弟はドラフト2順目あたりで指名される可能性が高い模様。

TNT Soundoff

リンク: TNT Soundoff: Pregame Introductions - NBA Videos and Highlights.

シャックの空中浮遊は儀式になってるのね。

未来のトレーディングカード（Kデュラント）

リンク: Supersonicsoul: The unofficial blog of the SEATTLE Supersonics..

カードの裏の解説文「10代のころにプロになって以来、スターとして活躍している。その爆発的得点力と奇妙なシュートフォームから「The Durantula」と呼ばれている。バスケットボールでの活躍と同様、サウスカロライナで展開している彼のレストランチェーン「Jumpshooters」も絶好調である。2018年に彼がシアトルに帰ってきたことは、感動的な話題だ。」

「知っているかな？・・・オクラホマはかつて、いいマーケットだと考えられていたんだ。」

「おもしろい事実・・・彼はいまだにプレーオフに出たことがない。」

シアトルファンの愛と憎しみが混ざった素晴らしい作品。

未来のトレーディングカード（Gアリーナス版）

リンク: Supersonicsoul: The unofficial blog of the SEATTLE Supersonics..

カードの裏の解説文「2000年代、ギルバートはその得点能力と魅了するプレーメークでリーグに旋風を巻き起こした。「Hibachi」は、インターネットが使用されていた時期に流行した「ブログ」における、彼のニックネームだ。最近は怪我により彼の成績は落ちている。彼へのサラリーはチームの将来において重大なものとなっている。」

「知ってるかな？・・・「Agent 0」は元々、いいあだ名だとみなされていたんだよ。」

「おもしろい事実・・・2億5000万ドル。チームがこれまでアリーナスとジュワン・ハワードに払ってきた金額。現在のオリバー・ミラーの一週間分の食事代としては十分な額だ。」

Pops Mensah-Bonsu

リンク: Pops Mensah-Bonsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Nana Papa Yaw Dwene Mensah-Bonsu, generally known as Pops Mensah-Bonsu (born September 7, 1983), is a British professional basketball player, currently with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association.

In the Ghanaian language Twi,
Mensah-Bonsu's name means King (Nana) Father (Papa) Thursday Born (Yaw)
Three (Mensah) Whale (Bonsu). In several interviews Mensah-Bonsu has
suggested that his family earned its surname when an ancestor slew a whale.^[8]

現在、このサイトで彼のあだ名開発計画が進んでいるので気になって。個人的にはいきの良さを表現したあだ名、Run-PMBがお気に入り。

Nコリソン（指二本折れてます）

リンク: Thunder Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

F Nick Collison apparently isn’t happy with just one broken finger. Playing with a broken left thumb for two months, he added a chip fracture to the middle finger on his right (shooting) hand Monday against San Antonio. The injury happened while blocking a shot and slapping the backboard in the fourth quarter. He played Wednesday, racking up a double-double (12 points and 13 boards) against Chicago.

モーリー（滅べスタッツ）

リンク: The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com.

(“Someone created the box score,” Morey says, “and he should be shot.”) How many points a player scores, for example, is no true indication of how much he has helped his team. Another example: if you want to know a player’s value as a ­rebounder, you need to know not whether he got a rebound but the likelihood of the team getting the rebound when a missed shot enters that player’s zone.

Sバティエ（レゴ男）

リンク: The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com.

“I call him Lego,” Morey says. “When he’s on the court, all the pieces start to fit together. And everything that leads to winning that you can get to through intellect instead of innate ability, Shane excels in. I’ll bet he’s in the hundredth percentile of every category.”

Sバティエ（できすぎ）

リンク: The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com.

Before one game, Shane Battier asked Coach Rick Adelman (right) if he could come off the bench to be able to guard the high-scoring sixth-man Manu Ginóbili. “No one in the N.B.A. does that,” says the Rockets’ general manager Daryl Morey.

Dジョーダン

リンク: DeAndre Jordan’s Early Exit to N.B.A. Leaves Time to Regret - NYTimes.com.

At predraft workouts, he battled illness and was outplayed by lesser-known prospects. On draft night, teams with early picks passed on him. Jordan did not work out with many of the teams that picked later in the round because he had thought he would be selected earlier.

Finally, the Clippers took him.

“My mind just went blank,” Jordan said. “I thought I should have went a lot higher than I did.”

Mエバンス（のり男）

リンク: News | Hawks Insider.

he doesn’t screw up, he’s versatile enough to defend several positions, and he’s money on that set-shot three.

The more I’ve watched the NBA (and it’s my job, so I kinda have a built-in excuse), the more I’ve learned the value of what Hubie Brown calls “glue guys.” No, not guys ready to be taken to the glue factory, but guys who do all the little things well without disrupting the balance. They are the hustle and flow, and every great team has a glue guy. I’m thinking maybe we finally found ours.

Mウェスト

リンク: News | Hawks Insider.

Mario is like a live wire dangling near a puddle. Sometimes the wire connects and shoots sparks and fire all over the place. And sometimes it just dangles there. Woody has to figure out which Mario is going to show from game to game.

Dジョーダン（次回はWiiでボクシング！お楽しみにね）

リンク: News | myClipper NATION.

I know what I'm going to videotape next. I'm going to go home, I'll have Mike Taylor come over and we'll record us boxing each other with the Wii. If you haven't tried the boxing game on the Wii, it is a workout! I'll get home from practice and take a shower and then I'll start playing. After a few minutes I have to turn the fan on. Then a few minutes later, I'm starting to sweat. The Wii is pretty intense. My neighbors go crazy when I box on the Wii because I scream at my TV.

Dジョーダン（ボーリング下手な人）

リンク: News | myClipper NATION.

Here's a little trivia for you, Clipper Nation: Baron Davis is the worst bowler on the team, by far. I think he bowled a 34 in his first game. He kept trying to put a crazy spin on the ball, but then the ball went BOOM! Right into the gutter. The best bowlers on our team are probably Coach or Fred Jones. I think Coach bowled a 191. I didn't see him bowl, but on the score sheet it said he had a 191. I don't know how much money he gave the scorekeeper, but...

Tチャンドラー（シャックにアタック）

リンク: Britney Spears, My Man D-West, and Chasing the Big Twitter in NBA Player Blogs in Fan Voice.

I was thinking about dissing Shaq on his Twitter. Something to make him come back to mine. That's how it happens on the street. I feel like when rappers start a beef that their album sales go up. So I'm going to start a beef with Shaq and maybe I'll get more Twitter hits.

I hope he doesn't take it personal though. Rappers just talk. I actually have to see Shaq in a couple weeks.

Tチャンドラー（Dウェストはすごい）

リンク: Britney Spears, My Man D-West, and Chasing the Big Twitter in NBA Player Blogs in Fan Voice.

He doesn't get a lot of recognition because he's a quiet guy and keeps to himself. I don't know how many interviews he does. He kind of stays out of the public eye. But I feel like he's definitely one of the best. You would definitely have to put him in your top four power forwards in the league right now.

What makes David so good is that he has an unbelievable jump shot. I think outside of maybe Dirk that David has the best jump shot, from the college three-point line and in, at the power forward position. Nobody shoots as good as him, he's just money.

Mキャンビー（カリパリ頑張れ）

リンク: NBA.com: Marcus Camby: Remembering the 1995 Final Four.

Who I'm Watching This Year: I've got to go with Memphis, that's just, you know, me and Cal [coach John Calipari] we're tight and I'm always going to roll with him. They've been playing pretty good basketball of late, they've won like 25, 26 in a row, so that's the team I'm going for. [Editor's note: Calipari coached at UMass from 1988-96.]

Lウォルトンの祖母

リンク: Changing roles to help team in NBA Player Blogs in Fan Voice.

Playing for the Lakers has so many benefits. One of my favorites is the close proximity between L.A. and San Diego, my home. I couldn’t ask for any better support from my family and friends. One of my biggest supporters, if not best supporter, is my Grandmother Gloria, whom everyone calls Great Grandma Glo.

How passionate is Great Grandma Glo about the Lakers? Well, for starters, she never misses a game. I mean never. She watches them all on NBA League Pass. She’ll be at home with one of my uncles or a bunch of her friends or visiting my dad’s house watching. And when she tunes in, she’s decked out all in Lakers gear. She has the necklaces going, the jersey or L-u-u-u-u-k-e t-shirt.

Secondly, Great Grandma Glo surfs the internet and checks out all of the articles about the team the next day and after she reads them, she’ll send e-mails to her friends. She has quite a distribution list.

Reading this blog, you might be, ‘Yeah, right, Luke.” But trust me, she’s diehard.

Great Grandma Glo will call me about something she read in the L.A. Times or the Orange County Register or the L.A. Daily News. I mean, she reads them all – Riverside Press, Long Beach Press-Telegram, you name it.

Jダドリー（断髪式生中継）

リンク: Twitter / jrich23.

・Taking votes to see if jared dudley should cut his braids. I told him since the president of the braids club (AI) cut his u got to yours.

・Finally convince
Jared Dudley to cut his braids. He's going to cut them next week. Go
give u the world premiere pics when he does lol.

・Its happening today jared dudley is cutting his braids off @ 8pm tonight. Will send pics later.

・The cut has begun trying to send pics but they r not going thru.

・Pics not going thru. Almost done, told JD he should donate his hair. It almost a 1/2 of trash bag full.

キャブズの儀式

リンク: YouTube - Lebron James Pre-game Camera work with Teammates 3/14/09.

いいなぁ・・・チームの調子がいいという証ですね。

Jスローン（携帯とかパソコンのことはよくわからん）

リンク: Tribune Blogs -- Jazz Notes: Ross Siler and Steve Luhm.

Growing up in McLeansboro, Ill., Jazz coach Jerry Sloan's family didn't get a phone for the first time until his junior year in high school. So you can only imagine the fun Wednesday in trying to explain Twitter to the soon-to-be 67-year-old.

    One of the local television stations asked Sloan about Charlie Villanueva sending a tweet (update) from the locker room at halftime of Milwaukee's game Sunday against Boston and the resulting fallout with Bucks coach Scott Skiles.

    "I don't follow that," Sloan said. "I don't even have a computer. I don't know how to turn one on. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to be totally honest. How would you do that?"

    Sloan was told that Villanueva could do it through his cell phone. This brought more confusion. "I have a phone, but I don't know how to use it that way," Sloan said. "I wish I did, but I didn't want to be aggravated. I've just kind of been that way all along."

    Sloan has had a no cell phone rule on the team bus - - the Jazz's p.r. staff often has to text us with updates about practice times and whatnot - - but is realistic about how closely his players are adhering to it.

    "I know they're back there on the bus, hiding around, doing that stuff," Sloan said.

    Deron Williams walked by and was told we were trying to explain Twitter to Sloan. "Coach doesn't like it when we text," said Williams, who claimed to know little about Twitter. He said nobody would even think about doing it at halftime as long as Sloan was coach.

    The Jazz did have a moment earlier in the season, Sloan said, when a player's phone went off during a meeting. "Years ago, I would have put my foot on it and squeezed on it," Sloan said. "I'm too old to do that. I'm afraid I'll slip off it and hurt myself."

モー（レブロンにフィット）

リンク: LeBron James’ Ideal Teammate | Dime Magazine (www.dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers.

After LeBron zipped a cross-court pass to Mo Williams on the opposite wing for his third of six three-pointers last night, Doug Collins credited Danny Ferry for bringing Mo in, calling him “the ideal fit for LeBron James.”

シャセフスキー（大統領、仕事をしてください）

リンク: Duke Coach to Obama: Worry About the Economy, Not NCAA Picks - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com.

"Somebody said that we're not in President Obama's Final Four, and as much as I respect what he's doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, probably more than the brackets," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said from the Blue Devils' first-round site in Greensboro, N.C.

オバマの予想（ノースカロライナ）

リンク: Obama stirs NCAA basketball pot with his picks.

The president has some sentimental ties to Carolina.

During last year's March Madness, he picked the Tar Heels to go all the way, though the team ended up losing to Kansas in the semifinals. In the days before his win in North Carolina's climactic Democratic primary in May, Obama played a pickup game with the team.

During the interview, he addressed the players directly.

"Now, for the Tar Heels that are watching, I picked you all last year — you let me down," the president said. "This year, don't embarrass me in front of the nation, all right? I'm counting on you. I still got those sneakers you guys gave me."

Gウォレス（病院に行かない人）

リンク: SLAM ONLINE | » Gerald Wallace Really Hates Hospitals.

“I think I kind of forced them’’ to let him play, Wallace said after coming back from a sprained left knee to push the Bobcats to a 104-88 victory over the Sacramento Kings.

“They wanted me to go to the hospital. I’m sick of hospitals. The only time I want to go there is to say hi to the doctors.’’

Rボークマン（ロドマンになりたい）

リンク: I Want My Rocky » Blog Archive » Nuggets’ Balkman earns praise as ‘the new Rodman’ | Home of the staff of Colorado's oldest newspaper.

Renaldo Balkman would like to work out with Rodman before his European tour begins in November in Belgium.
The Nuggets forward, who grew up idolizing Rodman and believes his game is similar, wants to work out this summer with Rodman. The only problem is locating the vagabond former rebounding whiz.

Buck then got Rodman’s number, and the plan was to keep in touch.
By the following summer, when Balkman was in Las Vegas for summer
league with the Knicks, he met Rodman for the first time.
“Just
meeting him felt great,’’ said Balkman, who believes his energetic game
and defensive skills conjure up some images of Rodman, who played in
the NBA from 1986-2000, leading the league seven times in rebounding.
“He just told me to never give up.”

Balkman then told Rodman he would like to work out with him some day, and Rodman apparently was agreeable.

“He’s a crazy guy. I’m a crazy guy. I’m not as crazy as Rodman, though, with all those tattoos.’’

“Renaldo is the new Rodman, but he can score better,’’ said Dahntay
Jones while bantering with Nuggets teammate Carmelo Anthony.

Anthony then agreed, saying, “He’s an offensive Rodman. I’ll take that. I’ll go with that.”

昔のシャックのコメント

リンク: Joel Przybilla - Shaq Speaks His Mind - Photos - SI.com.

O'Neal has gone out of his way to single out the Blazers' backup center, who plays a physical style against Shaq. "Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47," Shaq said in November 2008.

昔のシャックのコメント

リンク: Jerry Buss - Shaq Speaks His Mind - Photos - SI.com.

The Lakers' owner said in May 2005 that Shaq got in shape only because he was motivated by his trade to Miami. "I didn't need motivation," Shaq fired back. "I needed a real owner, not a guy that parties with girls three times (younger) than him. When you're 60, hang out with 60-year-olds, not 20-year-olds. You can quote me on that. I've got nothing else to say about Jerry Buss."

昔のシャックのコメント

リンク: Mike Bibby - Shaq Speaks His Mind - Photos - SI.com.

Shaq took issue when Bibby of the "Sacramento Queens" -- as O'Neal was fond of calling one of the Lakers' main rivals from their championship seasons early this decade -- was named to the 2004 Olympic team "Any Cub Scout [Bibby] with Boy Scouts [the Kings] can do Boy Scoutish things," Shaq said. "But when the [bleep] was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When the [bleep] was in Vancouver, nobody hears about his punk [butt]. Now since he's on Sacramento ... That's some [mess] that he's on the team."

昔のシャックのコメント

リンク: Erick Dampier - Shaq Speaks His Mind - Photos - SI.com.

Shaq has referred to the Mavericks' center as "Erica" and said he'd dominate in the WNBA. (In a running theme for Shaq, he has called Nets coach Lawrence Frank "Laura Frank," characterized George Karl as a "woman" who "cries all the time" and described the Spurs as a "great WNBA team.") When he was struggling with a leg injury with Miami during the 2005 playoffs, Shaq said, "I've been playing like Erick Dampier."

Jスミス

リンク: Hawks' streak at 6 after 119-97 win over Kings - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“We didn’t want to lose to a team like Sacramento,” Smith said. “No offense to them, but (after) beating New Orleans and Utah, teams who are on top of the Western Conference, we didn’t want to let ourselves down by losing this game. We’re just trying to separate ourselves from the pack. Miami’s right on our heels still.”

Kマクヘイル

リンク: Duncan sits as Spurs beat Wolves 93-86 - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Don’t count on Wolves coach Kevin McHale joining Popovich in the record books for coaching longevity. A night after Popovich coached his landmark 1,000th career game, McHale was coaching his 79th. “I can’t imagine 100,” McHale quipped.

最高の医者

リンク: O'Neal credits trainers for resurgence.

"I thought I was done (last season) because those doctors didn't know what was going on," O'Neal said. "When I got here, it wasn't even a hip problem. Those guys, Nellie and Mike Clark, they saved me."

Clark is president of Mesa-based National Academy of Sports Medicine, a Suns partner. O'Neal is not the athletic training staff's only beneficiary, with Nash, 35, still at a high level and Grant Hill, 36, closing in on his career's first 82-game season. With career-best shooting, O'Neal is 38 points from passing Moses Malone as the NBA's fifth all-time leading scorer.

Rアーテスト（あのころはわざとやってました）

リンク: Tribune Blogs -- Jazz Notes: Ross Siler and Steve Luhm.

    Remembering Ron Artest's altercation with Matt Harpring last season, I thought Houston coach Rick Adelman made a smart move (and probably didn't even know it) when he sat Artest only 25 seconds after Harpring came in to start the second quarter.

    Of course, Artest's outburst last season with Sacramento might have been more contrived than we originally believed. He said as much after Wednesday's game.

    "Unlike when I was in Sacramento, I had to get the crowd riled, all rowdy, just to make it a fun, entertaining game," Artest said. "When I come here, the Rockets are already entertaining."

今年騒ぎを起こしていないことについて、アーテスト「キングスにいた時とは違う。あのころは試合を楽しくするために観客をあおったりしないといけなかったが、ロケッツは俺が来た時から魅せるチームだったからな。」

コスト削減

リンク: Hard Times! With economy tanking, 2009 NBA free agents may come up empty.

This could be the beginning of a league-wide drive to reduce salaries over the next few years. The collective bargaining agreement can be reopened by the owners after two more seasons, and more than a few can't wait for that day to come. There is already talk that the NBA will try to eliminate the mid-level exception, currently with a starting salary of $5.6 million, while also putting an end to the veteran minimum of $1.2 million.

このまま不況が続くなら、ミッドレベル例外条項とかなくそうぜ、という話があるらしい。とにかく今年のFAが買いたたかれるのは確実っぽい。

旅の注意事項

リンク: For NBA players, packing presents challenge - Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball NBA News - cleveland.com.

Lorenzen Wright's rules of the road

1. Find the nearest Cheesecake Factory or P.F. Chang's. You can never go wrong when you have those.

2. Never leave home without your phone.

3. Never be late for the bus.

アウェー戦の旅にでるとき、Lライトが心掛けていること。

・着いたらチーズケーキ工場かPFChang's（アジア系レストラン）を探す。この2つさえ押さえておけば食事に関してトラブルは起きない。

・電話を忘れない。

・バスに遅れない。

・・・これに対して記者が心掛けていることは

・空港で持ち物検査されなくていいようにする。

・旅先ではよく知っている物を食べる。

・ホテルに多少お金を払うことになってもいいから、持ち物は可能な限り少なく。

・・・どっちがプロだよ。

Lライトの持ち物

リンク: For NBA players, packing presents challenge - Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball NBA News - cleveland.com.

What Cavs player Lorenzen Wright packs for a West Coast trip, in three suitcases: Five dress suits and one casual suit; seven belts; six dress shirts and six pairs of cuff links; five ties; five pairs of jeans; three long-sleeve T-shirts; four casual T-shirts; one vest; two sweat suits; nine pairs of shoes; 14 pairs of sunglasses in a case; underwear, undershirts, socks; one dop kit with toiletries. In a Louis Vuitton backpack: computer; cell phones; DVD player and movies; jewelry; iPod; headphones; Bible.

キャブズでおしゃれな部類に入ると言われている男、Lライトがアウェーのときに持っていくもののリスト。そして画像。高価な宝石とか服とか14個のサングラスとか。ドレスコードなんて定める前に、宝石など高価なものを持ち歩かない、とかのルールを作ったほうがいいと思います。

Bカーディナル

リンク: the Blowtorch: I Saw Your Dad Play Basketball Last Night.

I stopped by Wizards/Wolves game last night because I didn't have
anything to do and they were giving out tickets in exchange for canned
food. Something about Y2K, I guess. Seemed pretty legit, but maybe they
were planning on deploying some kind of horrible weaponry and needed a
stocked bomb shelter. Either way, I took my can of peaches with me down
to the gym and got a seat.And dude, your DAD was playing for the Timberwolves. Yeah, seriously, your dad.

I'm sure it was him. He was bald but had that little bit of side hair like Scott Skiles and the flesh-colored beard. It had to have been your dad. You said he's been able to get back in the gym after the heart thing, right? Yeah, I thought so. It was definitely him. He had the knee braces on and everything.

このブライアン・カーディナルの画像を見て、とあるブログの管理人「俺さ、暇だったんでウィザーズとウルブズの試合に行ったんだ。缶詰を持っていけばチケットと交換してくれるらしくてさ。シェルターでも作るのかどうか知らないけど話は本当らしかったんで。桃の缶詰を持って行ったんだけどさ、俺見たぜ。お前らのオヤジがプレーしてた。絶対そうだった。サイドに髪が残ってるSスカイルズ系のハゲ頭だったし。絶対お前らのオヤジだって。「心臓の病気が治ってプレーできるようになった」とかお前ら言ってただろ？絶対そうだ。」

ウィザーズ（2行）

リンク: Wizards keep Kings in NBA cellar with 106-104 win - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Washington won without making a field goal in the game’s final 8 minutes, nearly blowing an 11-point, fourth-quarter lead.

キングス戦、ウィザーズはラスト8分FGなしだったらしい。よく勝ったな。というか4Q・・・よく19点も取れたな。

Mコンリー

リンク: Big road trip.

We are on a very long road trip starting tonight against the T'wolves, i've been playing really well and feeling good since I fractured my tooth in LA. I have to wear a mouth piece from now on, when I first came into the league I wore one but its tough to breathe with and talk on the floor so I stopped. I'm back to it now but maybe its a good thing since I've played pretty well since.

コンリーは歯を折ってから、調子が非常にいいらしい。あのとき口中血まみれになってましたよね。

Sナッシュ（NBA屈指の男）

リンク: TrueHoop By Henry Abbott - ESPN.

Steve Nash -- the NBA player most ready to perform a half-time show.

この動画を見て、ESPNブログの管理人「Sナッシュ・・・選手の中で今すぐにでもハーフタイムショーに出演できそうな男。」

Bデイビス

リンク: Not a banner year for Baron Davis - Los Angeles Times.

"This has been the worst year of my NBA career, and the least amount of fun I've ever had," said Davis, a 10-year veteran, his head shaking, his voice low, his eyes partly shaded by a black Dodgers cap.

He bit off part of the doughnut. He may possess a five-year, $65-million contract, but his face is a mask of sadness. "I've had seasons where I haven't had great numbers, but at least I have had fun. But this year, it's all just spiraled downhill from the start."

He said he had imagined a brilliant homecoming, not this. That this is happening in front of family and friends in an arena a few miles from his childhood home in South L.A. weighs on his heart.

せっかく故郷でプレーすることになったのにひどいシーズンを送っていることについて、バロン・デイビス「最悪のシーズンだ。楽しいこともほとんどない。これまでのキャリアでは、成績が良くない時もあったが、そんなときでもなんらかの楽しさはあった。今年は最初から下り坂だ。」

Bグリフィン

リンク: Villanueva bucks up this year - The Boston Globe.

An Eastern Conference scout recently gave the Globe his top five NBA prospects to keep an eye on during NCAA Tournament time:

1. Blake Griffin, Oklahoma, sophomore, forward, 6-10, 251.

"He can affect a game from two dominating standpoints in rebounding and scoring. He's a poor man's Karl Malone."

今年のドラフトの目玉、Bグリフィンはリバウンドと得点で貢献できるという意味でしいてたとえるなら「劣化版カール・マローン」らしい。

引っ越しの季節

リンク: Villanueva bucks up this year - The Boston Globe.

According to an NBA executive, there is growing concern inside the Kings organization that if their arena issue isn't resolved, they could end up moving to Anaheim. Anaheim has been hoping to get an NBA team for years, has filled its arena for Lakers exhibition games and Clippers regular-season games, and could attract fans from as far south as San Diego. The Lakers and Clippers, however, could challenge for territorial rights fees, and it could be hard for the Kings to find a spot on television in LA, too. The financially strapped Pacers, who reportedly have lost $200 million since 1983, also could be on the move eventually. San Jose, Kansas City, Seattle, and Las Vegas are potential future NBA homes.

ソニックスの次に移転しそうなチームは、アリーナ問題を抱えるキングスか赤字のペイサーズらしい。候補地はベガスとかサンホセとかカンザスとかシアトルとか。ベガスがどこかのチームをゲットするのは時間の問題のような気が。

レイカース（緑色）

リンク: Villanueva bucks up this year - The Boston Globe.

The NBA put out a St. Patrick's Day clothing line at the beginning of the year for all 30 teams that included green jerseys, T-shirts, hoodies, and hats. An NBA source said the Lakers were quietly not in favor of it, since the green and the shamrocks are associated with their heated rivals, the Celtics. But the green Lakers gear actually sold well when it first went on the market.

レイカーズは緑色が嫌いらしい。セルティックス色だから。聖パトリックデーバージョーンの服も嫌いらしい。売れてはいるが。

Pジャクソン（残業について）

リンク: NBA.com: Lakers' Jackson marches on toward 10th title as an NBA coach.

"The balance has always been there for me," Jackson says. " I got a note from [former Marquette University coach Al] McGuire before he passed away and it said, 'If you can't get it done in eight hours, you ain't gonna get it done.' So that was one of the things that I try to remember about basketball. I've always had outside interests. That's been no problem."

Pジャクソン「バランスを大事にしている。元マーケット大学の監督、故Aマクガイアが「その仕事が8時間でできないなら、それは一日では終わらない」と彼は言っていた。この言葉を忘れないようにしている。仕事の分野以外のことにも興味を持つようにしている。」

Pジャクソン（動物にたとえるなら）

リンク: NBA.com: Lakers' Jackson marches on toward 10th title as an NBA coach.

Jackson has a propensity to compare players to animals, as if he's telling stories around a campfire. Jackson described Michael Jordan as having "a pit bull's mentality." He made a cameo in the 2005 film Harlem Globetrotters: The Team that Changed the World and labeled one of the Globetrotters a "jack rabbit." This season he illustrated Trevor Ariza's defense by saying, "He's a cobra out there and he just strikes and takes the ball and he's terrific at it."

Which leads to the obvious question: What animal is Jackson?

"A fox," says Derek Fisher, who has played for Jackson for seven of the nine seasons that Jackson's been in L.A.. "He's really sly. He doesn't make a lot of noise when he's around. He just kind of comes and does what he wants to do and needs to do and then he disappears back out into the woods. He's just chilling amongst the trees."

PジャクソンはMジョーダンのことを「ピットブル的な性質がある」と言い、Tアリザのことを「コブラのようにボールを奪う」と言ったことがある。

Pジャクソンについて、Dフィッシャー「狐のようだ。目立つことなく行動する。あまり声をあげることがない。ただやることをやって、終わればさっさと森に帰る。森の中で一人でいるのが好きなのさ。」

Dスターン

リンク: NBA.com: Lakers' Jackson marches on toward 10th title as an NBA coach.

Stern used to joke with friends that he felt his real first name was "Stupid" because of all the times Auerbach addressed him that way. Jackson and Stern have had their spats, too, over scheduling, officiating, cameras in the locker room and, most recently, Jackson's reluctance to assume All-Star coaching duties.

"This is a tough league," Stern said during All-Star weekend in Phoenix. "We've got lots of unhappy people. They get unhappy if they don't get elected, they get unhappy if I don't select them if there's an injury ..."

And then came the zinger:

"Sometimes they get unhappy if I do select them -- oh, no, that's Phil Jackson."

RアワーバックはDスターンのことをよく「バカ」と呼んでいたらしい。

Pジャクソンについて、Dスターン「オールスターチームに選ばれると嫌がる人たちもいる・・・「人たち」というか、まぁ、Pジャクソンだ。」

Tマーフィー（ノートルダム大学の生徒の実力）

リンク: Murphy's Blog Earns Two Thumbs Up - Indy Cornrows.

マーフィーのブログより

I go to look out the window and there is a foot draped over my seat by the person behind me. I turn the other way and notice another foot about 3 inches from my ear. This is not a normal foot, mind you, it's about the size of a roll of paper towels. I turn around and see Roy with his feet on my chair and one of those neck pillows that is the shape of an inflated horseshoe around his neck. On his head is a Phillies cap that is 2 seconds away from falling off.

He's sitting next to Travis, which I find very interesting. You have to watch Travis because he can be very tricky on flights. Roy has an expensive bag he uses as a carry-on and on our last flight from Boston, Travis thought it would be a good idea to hide a meatball in it.

Now, this was not a meatball in tin foil or anything but a meatball with pasta sauce and parmesan cheese on it. Roy was not amused, to say the least. He looked like he was going to stuff Trav in an overhead compartment for the flight.

以下、このマーフィーのエントリーについて、とあるブログの管理人

So then at the Fieldhouse last night, I found out Murph DID labor
over the words. When I mentioned to Pacers.com maestro, Conrad Brunner,
that Murph could always fall back on blogging when his playing days are
over, I was informed that Murph pounded out the nearly thousand-word
entry on his Blackberry with no additional editing.

After the game, Murph confirmed the story considering it no big deal
since the flight was so long. He also seemed genuinely excited to have
his writing receive a favorable review, so hopefully he'll churn out a
few more posts before the season ends. But, please Murph, grab a laptop. I don't want to hear about your double-double streak (currently 11) ending because you have to leave the game with severe thumb cramps.

TマーフィーとTディエナーがRヒバートの高価なバックの中にミートボールやパスタを入れていたずらをしたという話。それに対してヒバートが「荷物入れの中にトラビスを詰め込んでやる」と言ってあきれながら怒った模様。

マーフィーのブログを管理しているNBA.comの人によると、マーフィーはこのバカ長い記事をわざわざ携帯電話で投稿している模様。編集もしてないから誤字脱字が激しいらしい。元ノートルダム大学生なのに、とペイサーズファンブログの管理人はバカさに驚嘆している模様。ファン「せっかく11試合連続ダブルダブルをしてるのに、メールで指を痛めて途切れる、なんてはめにならないよう、パソコンを買いなさい。」

お絵かき・・・18（OJメイヨ）

★OJ土方マヨ郎

シャーロット（金融危機）

リンク: The Columbus Dispatch : Wall Street's woes trigger jobs, identity crisis in Charlotte, N.C..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The financial collapse has hit the city known as Wall Street South.

For years, Bank of America Corp. and Wachovia Corp. helped turn Charlotte into a financial powerhouse. Now, the big banks have thrust it into the same predicament as the real Wall Street -- the city is losing thousands of jobs and an unquantifiable amount of prestige. Residents who invested heavily in the banks have seen their wealth dissipate and lifestyles change radically.

シャーロットは南部のウォールストリートとして知られているが、この地域を代表する会社であるバンク・オブ・アメリカやワコビアがえらいことになったせいで、失業者が激増している模様。

ワコビア

リンク: 就職セミナーに長蛇の列　失業率８・１％で - MSN産経ニュース.

労働省が６日発表した２月の失業率は８・１％と１９８３年以来、約２５年ぶりの高水準となったが、自動車産業の拠点であるデトロイト（ミシガン州）のほか、バンク・オブ・アメリカやワコビアなど経営不振金融機関が本拠を置くシャーロット（ノースカロライナ州）では、失業率が全米平均を上回る状態にある。

ワコビアはボブキャッツとかシクサーズ、ロケッツ、スパーズのスポンサーらしい。あとNFLのジャイアンツ、ジャガーズ、ドルフィンズのスポンサーでもある。注目しておこう・・・。

シクサーズ（さらばスペクトラム）

リンク: 76ers Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

The Sixers celebrated the final game at the Spectrum, which will be torn down later this year, by introducing members of the 1982-83 championship team (Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Bobby Jones, Marc Iavaroni, Earl Cureton, Franklin Edwards, Clemon Johnson, Reggie Johnson) and the 1966-67 champions (Wali Jones) before the game. Noticeable no-shows were Maurice Cheeks and Billy Cunningham. The Sixers earned their first sellout of the season at the Spectrum, which is across the street from the team’s current home, the Wachovia Center.

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Quote To Note:   “Wow. It was all I thought it would be and more. The fans were very intense. You could feel the energy. It was great to play in that building.”—G Willie Green, after Friday’s 104-101 victory over the Bulls in the team’s Spectrum finale.

1967年から1996年まで使ってたホームコートが取り壊される模様。

ニックス

リンク: Knicks Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

It’s kind of amusing, but when the Knicks show up on a nationally-televised game, it’s news. They were not scheduled to appear on ABC, TNT or ESPN this season, but were added when executives decided against showing Toronto-Washington. Now the whole country will be able to watch the Knicks on April 10 when they play the Orlando Magic on ESPN2.

正しい判断（泣）

Urban Dictionary: funcooker

リンク: Urban Dictionary: funcooker.

funcooker

n. refers to pulling down your pants to reveal your balls and ass to the world to fill time during a slow period. Before being done, you must say "Here comes the funcooker!"

怪我対策

リンク: Evening Scoop: The "Ariza Rule"? - Basketball News & NBA Rumors -.

The most recent case involved Lakers forward Trevor Ariza, who caught Blazers guard Rudy Fernandez on a break and drilled him to the floor after nearly taking off his head. Don't get me wrong - it was a clean play. Ariza was clearly going for the ball and missed . . .resulting in Fernandez's injuries and subsequent hospital visit. Ariza was assessed a Flagrant 2 and ejected from the game, and the NBA didn't feel the need to pile on any other penalties. But this is just the latest in a series of similar plays that have resulted in significant injuries for the players involved.

The last time the NBA got this physical we saw an intervention at the league level. The "Derek Harper Rule" was the direct result of the 1994 NBA Finals series, in which knock-down-drag-out defense was taken to a new level. Houston Rockets guard Kenny Smith wore New York Knicks guard Derek Harper as a jacket for most of the series, inspiring the new hand-check rules that have made defense above the free throw line somewhat of a lost art. Perhaps it's time for another, similar adjustment. . .before any more players wind up in the hospital.

Actually. I've had 4 different NBA GMs tell me
that's why we're seeing so many more injuries of late than we've seen
in the past. No kidding!

選手が超人化してきて、昔に比べて怪我が増えてるからなんとかしようぜ、という意見。一部のNBAのGMたちもその気持ちはわかるらしい。

でもどうしろと？鎧的な物でもつけろと？・・・量子変換式多環境対応型強化装備略してキューテクターでも装備させようぜということか。

オークション

リンク: NBA Auctions Listing #103094655.

Nate Robinson 2009 Slam Dunk Competition Game Used Green Basketball
Current Bid: $ 8,650.00

ついでにいうと、もうすぐDハワードがダンクコンテストのときに使った電話ボックスのオークションも始まるらしい。アリーナスあたりが買いそうな気がする。

Kマローン（共和党）

リンク: SportingNews.com - Your expert source for NBA Basketball stats, scores, standings, blogs and fantasy news from NBA Basketball columnists.

Malone's statement was a response to this quotation by Hannity: "But I think what happened with Bush Derangement Syndrome -- this is important -- is that they so went after the president. They accused our troops of being Nazis, compared them to the gulags, said they were terrorizing women and children in the dark, and accused them of murder without even any evidence." He continued, "These are congressmen and senators doing this."

Malone replied, "Well, first of all, the Congress and the senators need to be slapped around for saying it. These are our kids." He went on, "Look at me. Turn the cameras off, and I'll slap them. OK."

Conservative commentator Tony Blankley then said, "I'll hold your coat for you."

Malone is a Republican who made contributions to George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign, as well as other conservative politicians and organizations.

Rアレン（フリースローの秘訣）

リンク: Free and easy - The Boston Globe.

"That dude's having a super career year, Ray Allen," Pierce said. "He's never shot over 92 percent. I thought I'd get within like 6 or 8 percent of him, but he is just running away with it. That's little stuff we do to push each other. Dang, he's got his career year. I didn't know he was shooting 95. He's killing me."

Allen ranked fourth in the NBA in free throw percentage last season at a career-best .907. The 13-year veteran is now shooting a stunning .954 from the line (206 of 216). The franchise record is .932 (342 of 367) by Bill Sharman during the 1958-59 season. The NBA record is .958 (206 of 215) by Houston's Calvin Murphy during the 1980-81 season.

Despite Allen's free throw prowess, he is second in the NBA. Toronto's
Jose Calderon has shot nearly 100 fewer than Allen but is hitting at an
amazing .983 clip (117 of 119), and once made 84 straight this season.
Moreover, he was one of seven players who had shot at least .900 from
the line entering last night.

"The top four, that's probably some of
the highest free throw shooting in the league," said Allen. "Normally,
91 [percent] is pretty much leading it. That's some pretty good free
throw shooting."

While he says he had great teachers while growing up, he mainly credits
his college coach, Connecticut's Jim Calhoun. At the beginning of every
practice, Allen said, Calhoun would pit the players in free throw
shooting contests. Once the competition was over, the losers would have
to go on the opposite side of the floor from Calhoun to be seen by
everyone before running to the coach. Calhoun would almost make a point
to let everyone know when the usually sharpshooting Allen lost.

ペイサーズ（赤字）

リンク: NBA.com: Financial troubles put Pacers' future in limbo.

Among the key issues for the struggling franchise is its operation of Conseco Fieldhouse. The building where the team plays its home games belongs to the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, and the Pacers have been paying its $15 million operating cost. Pat Early, the board's vice president, said the Pacers have made it clear that they no longer can pay that amount, in part because they could lose $30 million this season.

"It's possible they could move the team," Early said. "It's possible
they could sell the team. It is also possible they could shut the team
down. What's not possible is the Pacers losing the kind of money
they're losing this year indefinitely."

"We can handle the team," he said. "It's the operation of the
facility that's causing us the problem. We're not asking anyone to pay
for us. It's just the operating of the facility."

The Pacers and
the Capital Improvement Board struck their current deal 10 years ago,
and Early said they are in the early stages of renegotiating. He said
the board can't pay the operating cost because it already faces a $43
million shortfall, and he's unsure who would.

ヤリッチ

リンク: SLAM ONLINE | » Marko Jaric Is in Big Trouble.

    A Philadelphia woman has accused Memphis Grizzlies guard Marko Jaric of sexual assault, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told SI.com. The incident allegedly occurred in March when the Grizzlies were in Philadelphia to play the 76ers.

コメント欄「I thought it would be OJ spreadin’ some Mayo where he shouldn’t…」

Tチャンドラー

リンク: Q&A with ... Hornets C Tyson Chandler - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

SN: Turf toe, ultimately, was the reason the Thunder failed you in the physical and rescinded the trade. Did that surprise you?

TC: Honestly, I was very surprised. I was shocked. My toe is fine.

そう言えばチャンドラーは何事もなかったかのようにプレーしている・・・

Rウェストブルック

リンク: Westbrook, Thunder showing signs of growth - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Q: Kevin Durant was saying he gets recognized around town sometimes, but only because he is tall. Do you?

A: I get it sometimes. But not as much as Kevin. I am tall, but not that tall. That will come the more we get seen on TV and stuff.

クリッパーズ

リンク: Clippers Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

In most NBA organizations, there would be a coaching change, if for nothing else than to bring a fresh voice and new approach to the forefront.

But here is the Clippers dilemma: Dunleavy still has two years remaining on his contract, after this year. At over $5 million per year, he is one of the highest-paid coaches in the league, despite having only one season in his six years at the helm in which the Clippers finished above .500 and made the playoffs.

If Dunleavy is fired, not only would Sterling have to pay Dunleavy those remaining years, but Sterling would have to hire and pay a new head coach, not to mention a general manager, too.

ダンリービーのせい・・・なのか？

グリズリーズ（移転はなし）

リンク: Heisley reassures commitment to Grizzlies : Grizzlies : Memphis Commercial Appeal.

On selling the franchise: "If I could find a Marc Cuban (Dallas owner) type for Memphis, it would be wonderful for Memphis. ... If it doesn't happen then I guess my kids will end up running the team."

Kロウリー

リンク: Former Grizzly Kyle Lowry steps up play to fit in with Rockets : Grizzlies : Memphis Commercial Appeal.

"I'm glad to be here and glad to have this opportunity," said Lowry, who also lauded Griz point guard and former counterpart Mike Conley.

The pair sat together for a pregame interview during the Grizzlies' television broadcast.

Truth is, Lowry and Conley remain close and text each other regularly. They happen to be in similar situations on the court, too -- both no longer have to look over their shoulders.

"I'm happy for Mike," Lowry said. "He's showing his potential. With me there, it was competitive, but we were back and forth. Now, he's playing great and you have to be excited for him."

Sスウィフト（おめでとう）

リンク: Thaddeus Young on steady course to stardom with Sixers : Columnists : Memphis Commercial Appeal.

The Phoenix Suns make Stromile Swift's fifth NBA stop. Swift played just six games this season for New Jersey, spending about six weeks away from the team as his mother turned gravely ill from kidney disease after a horrible string of other health problems.

She passed away Jan. 27.

Then, a contract buyout last weekend in time to make him eligible for the Suns' possible postseason berth happened. Swift signed a prorated deal that will pay him about $289,000 for the remainder of the season.

Swift should have no problem with the Suns' system -- run, jump, dunk.

"I was a little bit nervous at first," Swift said. "I didn't know what to expect. After talking to coach (Alvin) Gentry, I feel comfortable with the style.

"I still feel like I have a lot of potential. There are still some things out there I can do. I've got to be more consistent at the things I do well."

Dローズ（ディフェンス磨きなさい）

リンク: Thaddeus Young on steady course to stardom with Sixers : Columnists : Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Up until recently, Chicago coach Vinny Del Negro has benched Derrick Rose for long stretches in the fourth quarters of games. Del Negro has defended the move by saying the team benefited by having Kirk Hinrich on the court because he is a better defender.

The rookie, Rose, hasn't complained, but general manager John Paxson publicly criticized sitting the point guard at the end of games.

"I've talked to Vinny about this," Paxson said. "And our future is Derrick. There's no secret of that. There are times that I personally feel -- and Vinny knows this -- that I feel he should be on the floor at the end of games.

"I do think he's sitting over there a lot of times and there are reasons he plays Kirk for defensive purposes, but we've talked about the fact in order for Derrick to learn and grow as a player, situationally he's going to have to go through some things. And he's not always going to succeed, he's going to have some failures along the way, but every player does."

Tヤング（メンフィスのスター）

リンク: Thaddeus Young on steady course to stardom with Sixers : Columnists : Memphis Commercial Appeal.

What makes Young exceptional, too, is that he always took education seriously. He graduated from Mitchell with a 4.3 grade point average, proving he was ahead of the curve and shook the haters by his actions early on despite intellectually lazy critics.

"I did motivational speaking in high school," Young recalled, smiling as he spoke to Philadelphia media. "They'd send me to talk to sixth graders. I was the success story around Memphis, (called) the best since Penny Hardaway. They were writing stories like 'Books Over Ball,' because I was a great academic student in high school. I always felt that, if basketball didn't work out, I'd have something to fall back on.

Bディオウ

リンク: Bobcats Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Quote To Note:   “Now that we’re used to him, you might see all four of us cutting (to the basket) when the ball is in his hands.”—Gerald Wallace, on Boris Diaw’s passing skill.

4人て。

Sホウズ

リンク: Kings Team Report - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“(Finding the right spots for three-pointers is) one of the things (Kings consultant Pete Carril) and I have been working on,” Hawes said. “I remember when I was shooting threes in grade school when they didn’t even count as threes just to prove I could do it, so I don’t think I’m going to stop shooting them anytime soon.”

小学生のころから！

シャックなんて嫌いツアー

リンク: BULLS: Sam Smith: 2010 free agency economy’s latest victim.

This was the best of Shaq, though we saw and heard the worst of him last week in as he called it "The I hate Shaq tour" as the Suns played the Lakers, Magic and Heat, all former Shaq career stops.

スパイク・リー（コービー映画、ジョーダン映画について）

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews » Blog Archive » Do The Right Thing - Listen To Spike Lee.

On how much coverage he got from the Lakers organization, Kobe and Phil Jackson:

“Oh we had complete access. We had thirty cameras. Kobe wore a mic. And Phil Jackson allowed us to bring a camera into the locker room before the game, halftime, and after the game. Phil Jackson never does that.”

On how much editing the Lakers or the NBA did demanded?

“There was not any change suggested. And also, the method of broadcast, when it comes out on the DVD that’s out on Tuesday - it will be uncensored so there’s a lot of language. You really get a feel for what these guys are saying out there. And they’re not mincing words either.”

On his pending documentary project about Michael Jordan
(things are currently still in the negotiations process for rights) and
what might be in it that people don’t already know about MJ.

“Any time you get lawyers involved it gets stuck. It’s not Mike.”

“In Michael’s last season in Chicago, a camera was with him
every single day during that season. And the NBA has been sitting on
this footage for years. I mean, phenomenal stuff. There’s just so much
amazing material and they’ve been sitting on it. And they finally
realized they needed a filmmaker to make it into a film. So I’m going
to go back, cut that stuff, then interview the players, the people that
were a part of that great run. So it’s a fascinating look at one of the
greatest athletes of all time.”

On whether or not he thinks Larry Bird was overrated:

“I never ever denied that he was a great player. What I was
talking about was at that time in the league, the way the press and TV
talked about the guy was like the second coming of Jesus and there was
nobody else. Larry Bird this, Larry Bird that. I mean Dennis Johnson,
Robert Parish, they were on that team too. And Larry Bird wasn’t doing
it alone. The man’s a great ball player. I’ve always just disliked
every team from Boston anyway.”

変化したMウィリアムズについて

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews » Blog Archive » The Atlanta Hawks Have Been Under the Radar All Season Long.

On Marvin Williams improvement:

“He has changed, he might not want to admit that.  I thought after our run last year with the Celtics, we had our exit meetings and I told him he had to go home last summer and really work on extending his shot.  It would really help us tremendously where they won’t be able to sag on Joe and he could help us on the backside when the ball is swung around and he did that.  He’s come back this season shooting the three ball consistently and his game has gotten better too overall.  He’s defending better, he’s rebounding the ball better for us and you know that’s just the sign of a pro that’s taking his job seriously and he’s working.”

Rジェファーソン

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews » Blog Archive » Richard Jefferson Has The Bucks Movin’ On Up.

Bucks forward Richard Jefferson joined WSSP in Milwaukee on Thursday to discuss the season:

“We’re extremely confident even though a lot of people haven’t had confidence in us all season.  For some reason we’ve been in this spot all season long regardless of the injuries that we had early in the season and then regardless of two of our main players going out for the season we’ve still held on and still have continued to played well.”

On Coach Skiles:

“I think Coach he’s a little different in the sense that I haven’t played for a coach that played.  For me it was good to be a part of a coach that has been there on both sides.  He’s been a sixth man, he’s been a starter, he’s been the 12th guy on the bench.  When he sits down and talks to you or gets pissed off or frustrated you understand where it’s coming from.”

Mジョーダンがほしかった選手

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews.

MJ drafting Kwame Brown got brought up as a joke and this is what Falk said:

“That was not his decision.  That was someone else’s decision.  Kwame Brown was the first high school player ever drafted (#1 overall) and certain people in the organization thought that would have tremendous promotional value on ticket sales.”

On who Michael Jordan really wanted:

“Michael wanted Elton Brand.  They wanted to make a trade, he wanted to bring in Elton Brand.”

Jファーマー

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews » Blog Archive » Jordan Farmar Is A Playboy (Blogger).

On getting the gig with Playboy:

“It has a lot of benefits, but probably not the ones you’d think.”

On what he blogs about:

“Every Tuesday I do something, whether it’s about current events, what’s going on with myself, the team, what’s going on in the world. My take on fashion, women, movies, all types of stuff. Playboy’s been great to me. They get it done; they’re a very classy, business magazine. You know there’s a lot of corporate heads that read it and a lot of people in high places that can definitely help.”

A business magazine? Interesting, I had no idea.

After finding out that Farmar uses other social media tools like Facebook, he was asked if he used it to help him get laid in college:

“Not a chance.”

The biggest techno-phobe on the Lakers?

“I probably would say Adam Morrison.”

Adam Morrison’s nickname, in case you were wondering?

“We call him Buckets McGee because he has a knack for scoring.”

On his team heading down the stretch:

“We still feel we’re the only team who can beat us, and when we play how we’re supposed to we can’t be beat.”

On the strangest motivational tactic Phil Jackson has used on Farmar:

“Well it was my rookie year when I wasn’t playing much. I ate a hamburger at halftime because I was starving. I wasn’t playing, I wasn’t getting any minutes. So I didn’t think..it had been like ten or twelve games where I didn’t see the court. And he saw me eat the hamburger, he fined me, he got mad at me. It was a close game up in Seattle and he put me in and said I hope you blow it.”

KG

リンク: Sports Radio Interviews » Blog Archive » He May Have To Be A Doc To Get Inside Marbury’s Head.

Celtics are 16-4 without KG, what does that mean?

“It means that we’re playing well and that’s about it. It’s brutal without him, I can tell you that.  Especially defensively.  One of the things, he’s a run stopper if you guys know what I mean.  The one thing I’ve always loved about Kevin, he’s a great guy to throw it down to the post and stop a run.  Not having him we’re relying on a lot of jump shots and that’s very dangerous.”

一緒にプレーしたくない人

リンク: Knicks Blog.

Stephon Marbury has won something. He topped the SI Players Poll in this week's magazine. The question was "Which player would you least like to have on your team?''

Marbury got 22 percent of the vote, winning in a landslide. (Quentin Richardson must have stuffed the ballot box).

Ron Artest was next with 9 percent. Kobe Bryant even made the list, at 5 percent.

ウェイド

リンク: What a Wade! 3-pointer at end lifts Heat - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“Mr. Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr., if he’s not legitimately considered for an MVP candidate, I don’t know what he needs to do,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “We are currently a playoff contender and night after night, he’s making incredible plays like this.”

“He comes in every day and says ‘I’m tired, I don’t feel like doing it
right now,”’ Beasley said. “If 40 points, 46, 47 points is tired, I’d like to
see him fully energized.”

Notes

It was Latin Night—“Noche Latina,” part of the NBA’s annual tribute
to fans and players from Latin America and Hispanic cities—Miami wore black
uniforms with “El Heat” across the chest. The Heat will wear the jerseys again
Saturday at home against Utah

Jベイレス

リンク: Behind the Locker Room Door: A (very) late postgame report - Behind The Blazers Beat - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com.

Item #2: Bayless vs. Telfair: A budding rivalry?

As the rest of the media horde listened, people starting trying to guess which player asked, but was not given, Roy's shoes.

"...Sebastian (Telfair)?" came one of the guesses.

"(Bleep) Sebastian," a disgusted voice said nearby.

That voice was Blazers guard Jerryd Bayless, whose locker is next to Roy's.

There were a few "oohs" when he said it, and jokingly I turned to Bayless and said "Quote, unquote", playfully threatening to quote him.

"I don't care,'' Bayless said, cinching up his tie.

Later, I went back to Bayless and made sure I could quote him.

"As long as you don't use the cuss word,'' Bayless said.

Bロイ

リンク: Behind the Locker Room Door: A (very) late postgame report - Behind The Blazers Beat - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com.

Item #1: Parting gifts

Remember earlier this season when I wrote about Martell Webster asking for LeBron James' shoes last season, and how the coaching staff and his teammates rode him unmercifully for doing that during a game?

Well, the only player on the team who vehemently stuck up for Webster was Brandon Roy.

Happens all the time, Roy said. He said opponents ask him for his jersey or signed shoes nearly every game.

So on Saturday night, after Roy scored 31 points to lead the Blazers to a 95-93 win over Minnesota, he came out of the showers and immediately signed his Nike shoes. As he was getting dressed, a clubhouse attendant came over and asked for the shoes.

"They are right there,'' Roy pointed. "But hey, who are they for?''

The clubhouse attendant said he didn't know, only that the request came from the Minnesota locker room.

"Mark Madsen,'' another attendant said. "The shoes are for Mark Madsen.''

Roy looked up at me.

"See. Told you. Every game.''

I said it must not have been during the game - Madsen didn't play - but Roy said he was asked by a Timberwolves player for his shoes during the fourth quarter.

"And it wasn't the player I gave the shoes to, either,'' Roy said.

すこし（NFL、NBA、NHLなど）

★いろいろ
・CクーリーがTオーウェンスの移籍について書いた記事より。「今回の移籍で、TOより喜んでいる人を4人挙げられる。①ビルズファンの俺の友達。②ビルズの第3QB、Gibran Hamdan③ビルズのストレンスコーチ④Jウィッテン」

・Cクーリーがオべチキンとの賭けに負けて腕立てをしている動画。

・ワシントン・レッドスキンズが1億ドルも使ってヘインズワースを取った。こういうアメリカ人アスリートとの高額契約はアメリカ経済を活性化させる、というCクーリーの意見。クーリー「アスリートと高額契約をすると、とんでもない額の金がアメリカの市場に流れるんだ。高額契約を手にしたアスリートはのんびり長期投資でもする、なんて君らは思ってるかもしれないが、とんでもない。彼らは使いまくるんだ。」

・バロン・デイビスはLAの2大ギャングについての映画を製作中だが、もうかなりできあがってきた模様（公式サイト）。動画がいくつかある。

ジャズ（カーメロについて）

リンク: Monson: Sloan would kick Carmelo's ... - Salt Lake Tribune.

"There's always got to be an established respect for the coach," Matt Harpring said. "Without that, the inmates would be running the asylum. I guess you can't actually make a guy come off the floor. I don't know …"

Harpring turned to veteran teammate Brevin Knight and asked: "What would you do?"

"If I'm in charge," said Knight, "you get your ass off the court."

"I don't even want to know what would happen if anyone tried that
with him," Kyle Korver said. "That only happens when someone thinks
they're bigger than everyone and everything else. And that's not going
to happen here."

"It wouldn't be pretty," said C.J. Miles, half-laughing,
half-shuddering. "You either wouldn't play the rest of the year, or
you'd get kicked off the team. And if you didn't come out, he'd
probably go out and pull you off the floor."

Said Ronnie Brewer: "You don't really touch a subject like that
here. There's too much respect for [Sloan], and for the game. You don't
embarrass the coach like that. If you embarrass him, he'll embarrass
you. There's too much character on this team for anybody to do that."

"We'd come out," Miles said. "No doubt."

"Wheeeeewww," added Paul Millsap.

トラッシュトーク（オバマと）

リンク: The Wizards Fan Who Talked Trash to Obama - D.C. Sports Bog.

"Heckling and having a good time are two different animals," he explained. "I wasn't heckling the President and I don't heckle the players. I talk about their weaknesses. We was having a good time. He was talking trash and I was talking trash. I couldn't believe he was that laidback and real. I loved it."

And while they talked through much of the game, Rawls--who had never met a President--said no lines were crossed. "I wasn't disrespectful," he said. "I know my limits."

"We was just going back and forth," Rawls said. "Once Chicago started
coming back, he told me, 'Now I think you need to sit down.' When Tyrus
Thomas dunked on somebody, he turned around, was talking smack. Then
JaVale McGee had that alley-oop, and he gave me the high five. We was
just supporting each others' team, having a good time."

"Where can you do that, sit there and talk smack with the President
of the United States face to face?" he asked me. "He's the President,
but he's subject to my fun too. I have a no-holds-barred rule."

"But he enjoyed it," Rawls added. "Trust me."

最近のアリーナス

リンク: Gilbert Arenas Channels the Caps - D.C. Sports Bog.

"That's the word, disappear," Arenas said. "Disappear out of everybody's mind. Two things people don't respect any more: people who play through injuries and people who come back from injuries. We don't respect that like we used to."

I asked Brendan why Gilbert had adopted such a different media strategy during their recent rehabs; "See, me and Gil are different," Haywood said. "Gil's trying a lot of that Superhero, Superman, Change-in-the-phonebooth, Come-out-of-nowhere-and-shock-the-world type stuff. Me personally, I'm just trying to get healthy, make sure I don't get re-injured, do any more damage, and come back when I'm at full strength.")

Dウェイド

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“The thing now is I get to look at other teams that are getting to go through what we went through. So I look at a team like Boston and I think, It’s great while them guys are together, but there’s going to come a time soon that they’re not going to be together. And that’s when things change. But when you’re together, enjoy it, because it’s an unbelievable experience when you’ve got a veteran group of guys who are successful.”

何歳だよ。

Gデイビス（シャックについて）

★Gデイビス
Shaq jokingly calls Davis, who followed in his footsteps at LSU, "my son."

"I was 14 or 15, and I went to his house and I was hanging with Shaq," Davis says. "He says to me, 'Let's go outside and wrestle.' We started wrestling. I pinned him down. He couldn't budge me."

The 7-1, 325-pound O'Neal confirms the story.

"He picked me up and body-slammed me," says Shaq. "That's when I knew he was for real."

Davis and the Celtics recently beat Shaq's Phoenix Suns at the Garden. At one point, Davis planted himself in front of the basket in front of a runaway Diesel to get the charge call.

"I was thinking, 'I'm going to die,' " says Big Baby. "He later told me how proud he was of me. Shaquille and Kevin [Garnett] are my best all-time players. To be on the same team as Kevin Garnett is such a privilege."

Rアーテスト（今年、やっと大人になりました）

★Rアーテスト（今シーズンはまじめです）

After several seasons of controversy ranging from legal issues to on-the-court altercations that led to mountains of suspensions, Artest is finally figuring out how to keep his nose clean.

"This is the first season I've had where I can just let the story happen instead of me creating the story," Artest says. "That's been different for me. I can just go out there and play basketball and not worry about how people will look at me after the suspension, or how people will look at me after getting in trouble at practice.

"It's been an adjustment," he admits. "A good adjustment."

The way Artest tells it, his success this season has been all about maturing. "When I was young it was just a new environment and I didn't know how to adapt. I wanted to do things how I was used to doing them, and getting used that was hard.

He adds, "Getting into the NBA I had some coaches, some players, some veterans help me with that. Where LeBron James is at age 23, it took me years and years to get to that point. I wish I could've been like that."

"When we lost when I was in Chicago it did not sit with me well," he recalls. "Now that I'm older, when I lose games I just go to the gym and work out. Before I'd get mad at a coach or a player, or get mad at myself and get frustrated. That just wasn't working."

Now, with Tracy McGrady out, Artest has been pegged as the offensive and defensive heart and soul of the team. This opportunity in Houston has been godsend for him, and he's not lost on valuable this break is.

"I got a lot of second chances," he admits. "That's the good thing about living in America is you get a lot of second chances. I've had five chances, nine lives, more lives than a cat."

Even nine lives run out eventually, though, and Artest explains that he has no desire to push limits anymore. "I don't want to use [those lives]. I don't want to feel like I have the option to use them. I'm a good place right now with my game, my career, my life."

Jオニール

リンク: Miami Heat center Jermaine O'Neal allowed to wear headband - Basketball - MiamiHerald.com.

''I can't tell you,'' O'Neal said when asked to disclose details after Tuesday's practice. ``But we made an agreement on things I need to do to keep the headband. I plan on keeping the headband. I don't want people to think Coach Riley is getting soft.''

''After wearing a headband for 10 years, you feel it's a part
of you,'' O'Neal said. ``It's like coming out of the house with no
underwear. You feel naked. I appreciate [Riley] for allowing me to wear
it.''

シャック（Dハワードについて）

リンク: Past (Shaquille O'Neal ) and present (Dwight Howard) take center stage tonight at Amway Arena -- OrlandoSentinel.com.

What has Shaq said?

Well, it's all pretty much a variation on the same adolescent theme: I'm the original NBA Superman and Dwight can't carry my, er, cape.

"You know, it's normal for a kid to copycat his idol, but you know he can never be this good," Shaq has said.

Shaq was asked by CBSSports.com's Ken Berger recently if Howard was the closest thing to being the next Shaq. O'Neal scoffed.

"No. Not at all. He's a good player. He can jump. But no," he said. "I was the type of player that they had to have secret meetings and change the rules and do all that. Probably never be another me. He's a good player, but everything he's done, I've invented. So I'm not impressed."

Sports Illustrated asked O'Neal — who sports a Superman tattoo and often wears Superman pajama bottoms to practice — whether Howard's Superman shtick bothered him.

"Doesn't bother me. I can't be impressed by something I invented in '92 [his first year in Orlando]. I mean, you look at what he is doing, I've been there and done that," O'Neal said. "Every street he is driving down in Orlando, I have been on that street. Every nightclub, every restaurant. ... I have been there and done that.

"Until he wins three, four championships, then we can talk about him. But right now, he is just like every other big guy: 'You can run and jump, but you haven't won yet.' "

Ouch. Ouch. And ouch.

いろいろ（経済対策など）

★いろいろ
・ネッツのBロペスとRアンダーソンが、アニメのフェスティバルではしゃいでいる動画。

・レブロンは、オールスターイーストのメンバー全員に、選ばれておめでとうトロフィーを贈呈したらしい（画像）。

・マグレディは水切り（水面石飛ばし）が得意らしい（動画）。

・シャックは監督に「今年のMIP候補」と呼ばれたらしい。

・オバマの一日の様子がなんとなくわかるサイト。右端の欄で、誰に会ったとかがわかる。

・キューバンが「ビジネスを始める人にはお金を貸してあげよう」と言っている記事。90日以内に利益をあげること、広告収入に頼るのはダメ、などなど要件がいろいろ厳しい。コメント1900件てすごいな。

・1900件のコメントを読んだ結果、とりあえず、キューバンは2人にはお金を貸してあげることにしたらしい。この2人のプランを世界中の読者たちがまねして、経済を活性化させるのがキューバンの狙いらしい。で、その2人のコメントってどれ？

・キューバンは、携帯電話でもっと快適にネットが見れるようになったら、パソコンを捨てるらしい。

・ドワイト・ハワードの、試合前にうんこをするという儀式について、デビン・ハリス「例の動画を見たけど、普通のことだと思うよ。みんなそのことを公表してるかは知らないけど、普通のことだ。公表するなんてドワイトらしい。・・・俺に関して言えば、この3試合では儀式をした。3試合目では、チームには運がなかったけど、俺としてはいい結果だった。」

・生徒たちに知らせず、小学校を訪問してみんなを喜ばせたことについて、ドワイト・ハワード「経済がこういう状況なので、子供たちはまともな食事すらするのが難しくなっている。みんなの笑顔が見れてよかった。つらい日もあるからね。この10分ほどの訪問で、この日が子供たちにとっていい日になるなら、こうする価値はあると思う。」

お絵かき機能テスト・・・17（Zランドルフ）

ドラゴンボ●ルの映画第2弾あたりで出て・・・くれないか。

お絵かき機能テスト・・・16（キリレンコ）

ソウルイーターに出てくる月の絵（画像）を検索してたら、キリレンコに見えてきたので。

ホーネッツ特集

★Cポールの兄
Cポールの兄、CJはクリスのことを熱心にサポートしている模様。ビジネス関連全般の管理はもちろん、熱心に試合に応援に行ったり、応援席から飛び跳ねて叫んだり、クリスと一緒に住んだり。

Cポールの兄、CJがとても熱狂的に応援してくれることについて、Tチャンドラー「彼は監督のようなものだ。とても情熱的で、勝ちたがっている。話しかけてくれるので、助けになっている。後ろからスクリーンが来てるぞ、とかね。リングの近くにいつもいるから助かる。サイドラインにいる監督の声はいつも聞こえるものではないからね。彼が叫んでいる内容は野次ではなくて、アドバイスなんだ。」

Cポールについて、彼の兄「あいつが新人の時の体重のままなら今のシュートは決めれなかっただろうな。175ポンドから191ポンドになったから、ああいう接触のあるプレーも決めれるようになったんだ。」

兄について、Cポール「ワン・オン・ワンでは俺が勝つけど、でも兄はたいていのリーグの選手よりはバスケをよく知っているよ。・・・僕は世界で一番彼のことを信頼している。この組織で僕のことを一番考えてくれているのは彼だ。僕に関することは全部彼がしてくれている。」

★その他
・絶好調のRバトラーについて、ホーネッツのスコット監督「彼はとても自信に満ちているし、チームメイトも彼のことをとても信頼している。ペジャと彼が絶好調ならうちに勝つのは難しい。どちらかが不調でも、まだうちに分がある。シーズン中はずっと彼らに頼っていくつもりだ。」

・Dウェストは、背中にかかる負担を減らすため、座るときは椅子ではなく大きなやわらかいボールの上に座るらしい。そうするようになってから絶好調らしい。

・ペジャは通算3pt数がリーグ歴代5位になったらしい。

・Mピーターソンの復帰が近いらしい。

ピアース（ピストンズについて）

リンク: Pistons beat Celtics 105-95 in East final rematch - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

“You can tell they’re playing the system they played before Iverson got there,” said Celtics forward Paul Pierce, who scored 26. “When Iverson is out there they’re still trying to figure out how to use each other, how to all be successful. But that group that’s out there is definitely comfortable because they’ve played together for years.”

アイバーソンのいないピストンズに負けたことについて、ピアース「ピストンズは、アイバーソン獲得前のシステムでプレーしてきた。アイバーソンが試合に出ているときの彼らはまだ手探り状態といった感じだ。だが今日のメンバーで試合をしているときは、間違いなくかみ合っている。何年もプレーしてきたメンバーだからな。」

コービー

リンク: Shaq, Suns overcome Kobe to beat Lakers 118-111 - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

Bryant made two 3s and converted a three-point play on a driving layup and foul by O’Neal during the surge.

Bryant had a tooth knocked out of place when he was hit in the mouth during that run.

“Don’t ask me nothing funny. I’m not smiling. You’re not seeing my tooth,” he said afterward. “It feels foul. It feels like I can’t chew anything, like Roger Rabbit or something.”

サンズ戦で、シャックにファールをされたせいで歯が抜けたことについて、コービー「おもしろい質問をするなよ。・・・笑わないぞ。口は見せない。・・・いやな気分だ。なにも噛めない。ロジャーラビットみたいな感じだ。」

シャック・・・レイカーズ戦

リンク: Shaq, Suns overcome Kobe to beat Lakers 118-111 - NBA - Yahoo! Sports.

After his 45-point game against Toronto on Friday night, O’Neal has consecutive 30-point games for the first time since March 5-7, 2004, when he and Bryant were teammates in Los Angeles.

“It’s what I do,” O’Neal said. “I’ve been doing it since 1992. If you don’t believe it, Google me.”

O’Neal, who turns 37 on Friday, is the fourth player over 35 in NBA history to score at least 33 points in consecutive games. The others are Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Alex English.

“A lot of people thought I lost it,” O’Neal said. “It’s kind of funny to me, when I say ‘I’m injured,’ no one believes me. Last year I was injured and this year I’m feeling pretty good.”

レイカーズ戦で大活躍したことについて、シャック「こんなことは1992年からずっとやってきたことだ。信じられないなら、ググれ。・・・大勢の人が、俺の力が衰えたと思っていた。馬鹿げた考えだ。・・・俺が「怪我をしてるんだ」と言っても誰も信じないんだからな。去年の不調は怪我のせいだった。今年の俺は調子がいい。」

オバマ対ゴードン

リンク: President Obama, Johnny Kerr, Norm Van Lier: Day of reflection for Chicago Bulls -- chicagotribune.com.

Obama cracked a joke about wanting to stand next to the 6-foot-3-inch Gordon during a photo shoot and invited the team back for pickup basketball when he converts an outdoor tennis court.

"I'm just amazed at how personable he is," Gordon said. "He's way above average, but he just seems like an average guy. He made everybody feel comfortable in the room."

Center Brad Miller said he had a red dress shirt sent via overnight mail just so he could break out a red-white-and-blue ensemble for the visit. The players took a tour of the White House that included a stop at the one-lane bowling alley, where guard Derrick Rose said he threw a gutter ball.

"I was too nervous," Rose said.

Hinrich joked about Obama wanting to post up Gordon. Did Gordon talk smack back to the leader of the free world?

"Nah," Gordon said. "I just laughed. It's good to know our president has a sense of humor.

"Plus, he invited us back to the White House, so I didn't need to talk any smack back to him. I'll probably just dunk on him in the summertime to get him back."

オバマがブルズをホワイトハウスに招待した時についての記事より。

・オバマがジョークとして、背の低いベン・ゴードンの横に立ちたがったことについて、ゴードン「別に言い返さなかったよ（笑）俺は笑っただけだ。ユーモアのセンスのある人だってことがわかってよかったよ。ホワイトハウスに招いてくれたんだから悪口なんて言う必要がない。でも夏になったら彼と試合をして、彼の上からダンクしてやり返すよ。」

・ちなみに、オバマはテニスコートをバスケのコートに改修して、ブルズと試合をしたいらしい。

・ついでにボーリングもしたらしい。

Tommy Heavenly6など

ベストアルバム買ってよかった。セカンドアルバム出てたの知らなかったのが逆に良かったというかなんというか。

★現在、ヘビーローテーション中の曲
・Hevy Starry Chain・・・買ってよかった。というか、前にあわてて買わなくてよかった。

・paper moon・・・やっと漫画で読んでない部分までアニメが追い付いてきた。

・lucky me・・・さわやか～。

・just tune・・・フォイヤー！・・・Tommyの曲じゃないけど。こういうこともある。

★入学
・えー、このたび、「ゴシック・メルティング・アイスクリームス学園ナイトメア組」に入学いたしました。休職日の多い会社よりもまめに出席して頑張りたいと思います。

・ブログも最近できたらしく。

・生徒になったということでブログパーツも貼り付けてみましたが何が起こるのやら。

いろいろ（鶏肉、すしなど）

★いろいろ
・Dジョーダンがロッカールームの中を映している動画。

・キャンビーとかゴードンが散髪屋にいる動画。

・Dジョーダンファンになろうと思ったマニアックな人はまずここからチェック。

・ウィザーズ対ブルズの試合を見た翌日、オバマは2時間もバスケをしたらしい。

・シャックは6日に37歳になるらしい。で、明日からレイカーズ、マジック、ヒートと対戦するらしい。なにこれ。過去を振り返る旅？6日が故郷のNJ戦とかだったら完ぺきだったのでは。

・あのGヒルが今シーズンは全試合に出ているらしい。やっぱりサンズのスタッフは恐ろしい。

・ヒートの練習が、いつも2Pacの歌で始まるのは、スポルストラ監督が2Pacのファンだかららしい。

・Aジェファーソンが戦線離脱して以来、ウルブズのメンバーの成績は上がっているが、なかなか勝てないこともあってみんな疲れているらしい。

・Dエインジがマーブリーを獲得する前、ウルブズのKマクヘイル監督がかなり助言したらしい。この人、結局マーブリーもガーネットもセルティックスに取られたことになるんすね。

・ラプターズ戦で爆発したことについて、シャック「俺はリーグのすべてのセンターを見てきたただ一人の男だ。そして「また相手を丸焼きのチキンにしたぞ」と今も言っている男だ。」

その試合について、ボッシュ「シャックはずっとゴール下にいてさ・・・もし3秒を審判が取ってくれたら・・・俺は3秒ルールってルールだと思ってたけどなんか違うようだ。」

★キリレンコ
・好きな食べ物について、キリレンコ「食べることは大好きってわけじゃないけど、すしはとても大好きだ。なぜって？好きだからだよ。」

キリレンコの昔のあだ名はKiraらしい。キリレンコ「子供のときから今までこう呼ばれ続けている。キリレンコのKirと、アンドレイのAから由来している。」

A.K.というあだ名について、キリレンコ「最もシンプルなあだ名だ。アメリカについてすぐのときはこう呼ばれた。アメリカではイニシャルで呼ぶことがある。」

Dreというあだ名について、キリレンコ「Dr.Dreというラッパーがいるんだ。ジャズの選手の中に、こう呼ぶ人がわずかだがいる。」

AK-47というあだ名について、キリレンコ「アメリカ人くらいしか思いつきそうにないあだ名だ。銃の名前だ。背番号の47番はここから由来している。最初にこう呼んだのはQルイスだ。」

★ファンタジー一言
・Jテリーが拾える。ククク、来週復帰ということを誰も知らんのか。ダメなリーグだ。
・ソーントンが取れた。
・Jキッドは昔からこんなに点を取らない人だったのだろうか。
・ケイマン復帰はもうちょっと先だろう。
・Cアンダーセンをとっとくべきだった。
・今シーズンのルーキー、スタメン多すぎじゃね。
・ペイサーズの主力が怪我したということは、恒例のマーキスタイム！
・ビードリンスが戻ってきたので、トゥリアフタイム終了。
・ホーネッツのRバトラーの覚醒は本物なのか。
・ウィザーズの若手で覚醒したのはブラッチェでもヤングでもなく、マクガイア・・・に見える。
・ハインリックは今年はもうずっと控えなのだろうか。
・キングスのSホウズが平均40分ほど出場するようになったら一体どんなスタッツになるんだ。20点20R4ブロックとか？
・アイバーソン、マーブリー、アリーナス、クロフォード・・・監督としては、ディフェンスがアレなこういうタイプの選手は本当は控えで使いたいのかもしれない。
・早く覚醒するんだ、キリレンコ。早くしないとシーズン終わるでしょーが。

Dジョーダンのブログ・・・4

リンク: News | myClipper NATION.

If you haven't noticed, I like to talk. A lot. And especially to the fans during games.

ジョーダン「気づいてない人がいるなら言うが、俺は話すのが大好きだ。とても。特に試合中にファンと話すのが。」