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    • Video: Dwyane Wade takes his eye off the ball, Heat drop Game 4

      With 6.7 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of Game 4 and the Miami Heat trailing the Dallas Mavericks by three points, Dwyane Wade came off a Chris Bosh screen, ran free into a wide-open space and received an inbounds pass from Mike Miller. If you're a Mavericks fan, this sight probably scared the crap out of you.

      Because Jason Kidd was trailing the play behind Bosh's screen and help defender Shawn Marion had to quickly close the gap to get out on Wade, the Heat star looked like he'd have enough room to get away a clean (if deep) look at a 3-pointer. Under normal circumstances, you'd be fine with Wade hoisting a long ball — he's only a 29.2 percent career shooter from distance, after all — but he'd made two 3-pointers in each of the first three games of the series, hitting at a much-better 35.3 percent clip under the bright lights of the Finals and showing a penchant for knocking down jumpers (and all manner of other shots) that he seems to have no right making. So, still,

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    • C-a-C: The poster for JaVale McGee’s buddy cop flick looks great

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      You already know that Pierre is a smooth operator in search of a girl who will swallow change for him. But did you know that he's also a hard-driving, butt-kicking detective? Well, he is, and he's hell-bent on cracking the big case wide open — even if it means traveling halfway across the world and enlisting the help of one of Chengdu's Finest.

      OK, so it's basically just a reboot of "Rush Hour." But don't sit there and tell me you wouldn't see JaVale McGee in "Rush Hour." I don't believe you, Truffaut.

      Best caption wins important information on why no one should swallow coins, and especially not children. Good luck.

      In our last adventure: Coming soon to 3D and IMAX: "J.J. Barea and the Biggest Brain Freeze of All Time."

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      cac_jjb_nbaf_g3_smWinner, Kamaliel23: "¿Por qué? ¿Por qué? ¿Cuantas veces más voy a fallar?"

      NOTE: Always appreciate the effort of using Google Translate to find out how to say "Why? Why? How many times will I fail?" in another language. Well done, Kamaliel23.

      Runner-up,

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    • President Obama asks if Cleveland’s over that whole LeBron thing

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      Take it from me, America's foremost authority on politics: Being smooth is an important part of being a successful elected official.

      You've got to know how to talk to people. You need a finely tuned sense of what to say to make them feel good, what will inspire them, and what will convince them to give you money/vote for you instead of the guy who loves "Twilight"/think of you as a chill bro who loves ping-pong. You need fingertips. A deft touch.

      Which is why it's no surprise that, while sitting down for a television interview with Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS-TV about important national issues like the state of the automotive industry, high unemployment rates and urban education, President Barack Obama asked WEWS reporter Leon Bibb if Clevelanders still hate LeBron James.

      But before [the interview] got officially started, the president — unsolicited — brought up the topic most Clevelanders have chosen to forget, LeBron James.

      "Is Cleveland still rooting against [the Miami Heat]?"

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    • Create-a-Caption: J.J. Barea is the most anguished man alive

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      I'm not 100 percent sure what's torturing J.J. Barea at this moment, but I think I've narrowed it down to the two best choices, like I was taught to do in SAT prep courses in the waning years of the 20th century. It's either:

      A. That he has missed 18 of 23 field-goal attempts in the NBA Finals, including seven of eight 3-point shots, and had four turnovers with only one assist in Game 3, turning in another poor performance that contributed to the Dallas Mavericks handing home-court advantage of the series back to the Miami Heat;

      OR

      D. That he just saw the trailer for "Real Steel" and can't believe someone else not only thought of the EXACT SAME IDEA he has been telling his family about for the last seven years, but also got it through the development pipeline before he even had a chance to pitch it.

      Talk about your impossible-to-answer questions. I think I'll just leave it blank and come back to it later if I have time. Strategy!

      Or maybe J.J.'s pained by something else entirely. What

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    • Create-a-Caption: ‘Yep, I see it — there it goes’

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      OK, LeBron James — spotting the lead is a good start, for sure. But what you're really looking to do is hang on to the lead, and keep it from getting away in the first place. Once you get that part down, everything else'll be cream cheese and jelly.

      Best caption wins fresh carrots for great eyesight and a healthy start to your weekend. Good luck.

      In our last adventure: Chris Bosh has some possessiveness issues.

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      cac_cb_nbaf_g1_smWinner, Tyler: Chris Bosh takes time during Game 1 of the NBA Finals to deliver a very important public service message, demonstrating the correct way to administer the self-Heimlich maneuver using his natural surroundings.

      Runner-up, Mr. Jones: Deleted scene from the NBA's "talking basketball" commercials: Chris Bosh and Spalding share an "intimate" moment.

      Second runner-up, Isaac M: Bosh, mishearing a teammate's joke, flops "like a bass."

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    • Five non-celebration things that mattered late in Game 2

      After Dirk Nowitzki hit that game-winning lefty layup to cap a furious fourth-quarter comeback that gave the Dallas Mavericks a stunning 95-93 victory over the Miami Heat on Thursday night, there was a rattled rush to pinpoint when, how and why everything turned around.

      It's totally understandable — for the first 41 minutes of Game 2 (and really, for most of the first 90 minutes of this series), Miami had looked like a clearly superior unit, capable of operating on athletic and defensive levels that Dallas just couldn't match. Behind a dominant turn from Dwyane Wade, the Heat looked like a top-heavy doomsday machine set to simply overpower their more execution-dependent veteran opponents.

      Then, with 7:13 remaining in the fourth quarter, Wade hit a 3-pointer from the corner right in front of the Mavs' bench that pushed Miami's lead to 15. The AmericanAirlines Arena crowd erupted, everyone told everyone else they were watching with that the game was over, Wade held his hand in the air

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    • Video: Blindfolded busboy bests Blake Griffin at Pop-A-Shot

      The Los Angeles Lakers came away from last year's NBA Finals hoisting the Larry O'Brien Trophy, but perhaps the biggest winner of the 2010 postseason was Ricardo Reyes, a 41-year-old busboy who became an NBA giant-killer on national television.

      Reyes, who works at the West Hollywood, Calif., restaurant Barney's Beanery, became a minor luminary last summer by using his seemingly preternatural penchant for Pop-A-Shot to demolish a who's who of NBA greats in the bar basketball game on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live! Game Night" broadcasts. The bald, diminutive table-clearer wiped the floor with the likes of LeBron James, Charles Barkley, Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom and Carmelo Anthony, as studio audiences cheered on the unlikely underdog.

      Thanks in part to coverage on sites like this one, Reyes' story seemed to pique the interest of Internet audiences, as well; clips of the busboy demolishing the five pros have totaled nearly 3 million views on Kimmel's YouTube channel. Reyes' prowess even served

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    • Video: A look on the bright side of Brendan Haywood’s blown dunk

      1. You did a nice job operating within the offense, Brendan Haywood. Taking a step away from the paint created a little more room for Dirk Nowitzki to drive the lane, and it also put Joel Anthony in a position where helping on Dirk's drive left you open for the dump-off pass and created a high-percentage field-goal attempt (which, unfortunately, you missed). Way to execute the game plan.

      2. You followed your miss, which is something your Dallas Mavericks teammates didn't do too great a job of in Game 1 of the NBA Finals — as ESPN Stats and Information noted, the Miami Heat collected 16 offensive rebounds to the Mavericks' six on Tuesday night, the second-highest total grabbed by the Heat and allowed by the Mavs this postseason. When the team is struggling a lot with something — Dallas has only gotten the better of the offensive rebounding battle five times in 16 playoff games — someone's got to step up and work for a change. Way to remain upbeat and lead by example.

      3. You drew the

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    • Create-a-Caption: What do you want me to do? It’s his ball

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      I mean, I know. It's totally ridiculous. It's Game 1 of the NBA Finals, and he's being SO selfish. But Chris Bosh brought the ball, guys. If he goes home, we can't play; if we don't let him have first pick and decide the rules, he's just going to lay on the ball, put it in an MMA-style armlock and start playing Fishmouth. And it's not even like we can play Fishmouth. It's a one-player game, like "Space Invaders." He can do that all night.

      What do you want me to do, get into a fight with him? I've known him since preschool. We used to play freeze tag, like, every night during summers. Our parents go golfing, like, all the time. Just let him have his stupid ball, OK?

      OK, fine, Chris. We fouled you. Take it out up top. ... Yeah, sure, that was one was practice. Do-overs are totally a part of the NBA Finals. ... Yep, definitely. Re-check. Here you go.

      Best caption wins some basic tactics for teaching the art of sharing, which some people clearly never learned. Good luck.

      In our last

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    • Video: LeBron James beats the third-quarter buzzer and the Mavs

      With his remarkable combination of size, speed, athleticism and savvy, it's often felt as though LeBron James can do anything on the basketball court. Everything, that is, except consistently hit long-range shots.

      To be fair, James has improved his touch over the years, moving from a sub-par mid-range shooter to above-average between 16 and 23 feet this year. But he's always been at least a tick below the mark from deep, having never averaged more than 35 percent on 3-point attempts over a full season in his illustrious career. When his detractors aren't slagging the absence of an advanced low-post game, they're ragging James for not using his physical gifts to find a high-percentage look on every possession, for taking too many shots that he too infrequently makes.

      Well, now — or over the last couple of weeks, at least — it looks like he makes them. Including Tuesday night, from 27 feet out, in the waning seconds of the third quarter, to give the Miami Heat a four-point lead and

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