Pretty demonstrative, there, Coach. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, J.R. does the fandango.

Never knew you could hit the high notes, Coach Woodson. We're learning all kinds of things about you this year.

Best caption wins a ride with Wayne and Garth, who I like to think of as proto-bloggers, basement communication-wise. Good luck.

In our last adventure: Oh, Tony Parker, you've got mischief in your eyes.

Yep. (Image via www.terezowens.com)

"Get chicks or die trying." It's almost like newly minted Sixth Man of the Year and (reported) free-agency-tester-to-be J.R. Smith has always been on the lookout for new and interesting ways to make time with the ladies. Who would've thunk it?

Hat-tips to Terez Owens and Deadspin.

The Boston Celtics went 7 for 36 from the floor in the second half of their 87-71 Game 2 loss to the New York Knicks on Tuesday night. That's 19.4 percent. That sounds bad. It looks even worse:

That's a loooooot of red. (Shot chart via nba.com/stats)

Yikes.

The misery was spread throughout the roster, with Brandon Bass, Jeff Green, Avery Bradley, Jason Terry and Terrence Williams missing every shot they took after halftime, leading scorer Paul Pierce missing six of his nine tries, first-half spark-plug Jordan Crawford missing five of seven and Kevin Garnett missing four of six. All that red translates into a 23-point second half for the Celtics, tying the NBA record for fewest points in a half of a playoff game, held by the 1997-98 Utah Jazz (who scored 23 in the second half of their loss to the Chicago Bulls in Game 3 of the NBA Finals) and the 1999-2000 Phoenix Suns (who managed 23 in the first half of a postseason-ending loss to the Los Angeles Lakers). And that translated into a deficit too large to overcome, a hole dug by a massive 24-4 New York run from the beginning of the second half through the 4:25 mark of the third quarter that permanently tilted the game away from Boston.

[Adrian Wojnarowski: LeBron going back to Cleveland is only a fantasy]

Tuesday's drought came one game after Boston put up just 25 points (including a dreadful eight in the fourth quarter) in Saturday's Game 1 loss, making the Celtics the first team in the shot-clock era to score 25 or fewer points in consecutive halves, according to Hoopsworld's Tommy Beer. We're guessing that stat won't be given too prominent a place in the annals of Celtic lore.

Losing is frustrating; losing in the playoffs is miserable. Losing to a team you think you can beat is hard, but losing to a team that won a Game 7 on your home floor and has beaten you 11 out of the last 16 times you've squared off is deflating. Getting blown out stinks, but falling on a well-defended, double-tough buzzer-beater is even worse. We hold these truths to be self-evident.

When confronted with the sobering reality of one's nemesis prevailing, it's difficult to know what can soften the sting of defeat. So we applaud you, Outdoors Inc. of Memphis, for thinking of just the right words to say to the Memphis Grizzlies and their fans as the team looks to come back from an 0-2 deficit to the Los Angeles Clippers:

Poetry takes many forms. (Image via r/NBA)

If calling the Clippers wieners doesn't change the complexion of this series, then I don't know what will.

Also, I certainly won't participate, but if you're sitting there at your desk doing mental power rankings of which Clippers are most wiener-y, and you'd like to let me know who your choice would be in the comments below, I mean, I GUESS I can't stop you. It's a free country, after all.

Hat-tip to Reddit user UofMTigers2014.

The better Chris Andersen plays, the more Birdmen we'll see.

The Miami Heat's midseason acquisition of Chris Andersen has been an unqualified success, with the athletic big man providing just the right combination of offensive rebounding, shot-blocking, running the floor, half-court defensive activity and power-dunking panache to make him a perfect fit off the bench for Erik Spoelstra's top-seeded squad. And as strong as the high-flying Andersen has been on the court, he's proving to be just as big a hit in the stands, as Heat fans — young and old, big and small, garden-variety and national-broadcast-governing — have taken quite a shine to the uniquely coiffed and decorated "Birdman."

We saw the "big" side of the spectrum during the second quarter of Game 2 of the Heat's opening-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks, after Andersen snuck up from behind to erase a Marquis Daniels layup that would've cut Miami's lead to two points:

We here at BDL hope that gentleman had fun at his postgame toga party.

But, as one might expect given Bird's extremely colorful look, he's been a hit with younger fans, too — and this young Heat fan, rightly celebrated in the stands during a recent game between the Heat and Chicago Bulls at the AmericanAirlines Arena:

Mike Dunlap hitches a ride out of Charlotte. (David T. Foster III/Charlotte Observer/MCT/Getty Images)The first thing I thought of after news broke Tuesday afternoon that the Charlotte Bobcats had fired head coach Mike Dunlap was the scene in "Major League II" in which radio announcer Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker) narrates the aftermath of pitcher Rick Vaughn (pre-the-worst Charlie Sheen) convincing manager Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger) to let him pitch to slugger Jack Parkman (David Keith), who was hitting "a shade under .900 against Vaughn."

"Obviously, Taylor's thinking ... I don't know what the hell he's thinking," Doyle says.

Firing Dunlap isn't some grave sin in and of itself; it's not like he'd proven himself to be a Coach of the Year candidate in waiting during his lone season at the Bobcats' helm or anything. No, it's more the "lone season" thing. Wasn't the whole point of veering away from the retread path to try something different? To acknowledge that just trying to get back to being good enough to get wiped out in the playoffs wasn't a goal worth striving for? To accept that rebuilding takes time, commitment and clarity of vision?

If so, then what does changing course after one year accomplish?

[Also: Pacers swingman Paul George wins Most Improved Player award]

Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins made the firing, which was first reported by Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer, official in a brief Tuesday statement:

“[General manager] Rich Cho and I conducted our season-ending review and met with Coach Dunlap to reflect on this season. As an organization, it was decided that we needed to make a change with the head coach position,” Higgins said. “We want to thank Mike for his contribution and wish him the best in his future endeavors.”

Higgins was a bit more forthcoming in an email sent Tuesday to season ticket-holders. In that email, which was obtained by Steve Reed of The Associated Press, the team president wrote that he and Cho "'ultimately decided that [Dunlap] was not the right fit to lead our team into the future' and that 'in order to reach our goal of reshaping this franchise into one that can sustain long-term success, we needed to make this change.'"

"We believe our head coaching position will be an attractive one to potential candidates," Higgins said in the email. "This offseason, we will have an excellent opportunity to acquire a quality player with a top-five pick in the upcoming NBA Draft and we could have up to $21 million in space under the salary cap to add players via free agency or trade, so the foundation is solid for someone to come in and continue to build on our on court performance.

"With a young core that includes Kemba Walker, Bismack Biyombo and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, we feel positive about where our team is relative to our plan."

At long last, Chris Bosh's origin story can be told. (Screencap via Borscht Corp.)

Back in November, we told you about "Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse," an animated film produced by Miami arts collective Bleeding Palm for the Borscht Film Festival. The film — which grew out of an April Fools Day joke that the Miami Heat center/forward had agreed to sponsor the festival and a website redesign that "began to depict Bosh as a character in a larger mythology with an intricate system of rules [...] sort of an MMORPG combined with NBA fan fiction," according to Borscht Corp.'s Chris Quinn — was initially kiboshed by representatives for Bosh, who sent the film festival a cease-and-desist letter on the grounds that neither the film's makers nor the festival had "been granted any right whatsoever to use the Identity of Mr. Bosh."

Now, after five months of back-and-forth involving Bleeding Palm, Borscht Corp. and lawyers from Creative Artists Agency (Bosh's representation) and the NBA, the flick is finally free to see the light of day, just in time for Tuesday's Game 2 of the opening-round playoff matchup between Bosh's Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks.

"We hope it will inspire Bosh tomorrow night," Borscht's Lucas Levya told BDL on Monday.

The short is 11-plus minutes of sensory overload that mixes traditional and digital animation with live-action elements and features an anthropomorphic wolf shaman (the Mystic Wolfman Barfar, duh) plus plenty of space lasers and a tour-de-force cameo from Bosh's Heat teammate, Mike Miller. It also includes some bits of weirdness that might not be suitable for your workplace, like a couple of instances of animated nudity, some animated violence (specifically related to last summer's "Causeway Cannibal" incident in Miami) and a not-so-nice term for an aspect of male genitalia. There's nothing SUPER objectionable in my view, but I fully understand that my taste isn't everybody's taste and that your mileage may vary. (For the record, I think this is hilarious, brilliant and delightful.)

If you're up for the mind-jarring journey, you can watch the full short after the jump.

"[...] In all my years in this, one thing has never changed: You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes."

— Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau, to Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski, after his team's grind-it-out masterpiece of a 90-82 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday.

Yeah, but maybe not too serious. This is way more fun. (Also: "More like Excite-a-Bulls.")