Brandon Jennings Breaks Stephen Curry's Ankles

Over the weekend, we wished a farewell to the the ankles of Golden State's Stephen Curry who had them broken by Bucks guard Brandon Jennings.



(Courtesy of Real Talk NY)

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Brandon Jennings Will Protect This House

One of the nicer surprises this NBA season is the play of Milwaukee Bucks rookie guard Brandon Jennings.

In the above clip, Jennings does a commercial with the folks at Under Armour which chronicles his current career-path.

By the way, "I WILL"

(Courtesy of That NBA Lottery Pick)

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The Journey To The NBA: Brandon Jennings

From High School ball, to playing professionally in Italy, all the way to the NBA, watch the hard work this young phenon put in to make it all the way to the big show. This rookie can ball, he is already a beast.

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Bucks Have Last Opening Night

The Milwaukee Bucks are starting their season after every other team in pro sports have started their seasons beginning in '09. They are the only NBA team not to have played a game yet. Their season opener starts tonight at 7 EST. The Bucks have been shooting news out of the headlines the past week. Brandon Jennings will start, which bucks Scott Skiles' traditional beef against rookies, but Skiles says it's no big deal. Also this week, the New York Times ran a story about Jennings. They've been covering him since he trailblazed his way to Europe instead of college to wait out the NBA's age limit, and by the way it's really hard to describe an NBA player as ground breaking without calling him a trailblazer and feeling weird about it; I don't know why, but I've felt the same pull. In said story, Times writer Karen Crouse praised Jennings' frugal ways, as he opted to pick up a Ford Edge that runs about $26,000, thus bucking NBA spend trends like those of Antoine Walker (I don't know that I like the connection, but it's been made so I'm including it). Crouse also said the Ferrari in the Bucks parking lot belongs to Andrew Bogut, famed for his comments about NBA players irresponsibility. Bogut bucked the quick label of hypocrite that was lightly postulated at this news, and it turns out the Ferrari belonged to Michael Redd. Bogut criticized Michael Hunt (proceed to laugh at the real name) of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, who was Crouse's source. Crouse has changed her article. Hunt has not.

Anyway, the Bucks start their season tonight. I'm not sure if it's an auspicious thing to be beginning last. Does it mean they'll be playing longer this season too? Well, that's doubtful. Still, at least they start without controversy. I'm hoping for an exciting season for Jennings. You?

(Big Mahalo to Brew Hoop and, y'know, PTI)

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Operation Kobe: Rehabbing the Haters

A few weeks back, I wrote that the Kobe and the Lakers could get on to writing their own story now that the first title monkey was off their back. Recently, Kobe's been getting pub for his positive memories of the other MJ, Michael Jackson. I wanted to take the opportunity to drop a little lit on y'all. See, I figure if Kobe was able to shake off any semblance of prior demons with this championship, it would be a good time for Kobe-haters to re-think their perspectives as well. Kobe has held the title of Most Polarizing Player for years now, if indeed he can't be said to have created the position (retrospective awards could probably go to guys like Dennis Rodman and Wilt Chamberlain). Thus, I turn to Philip Roth's farcial Operation Shylock for a method of rehabbing any Kobe hate that might still linger. I present to you the TEN TENETS OF KOBE-HATERS ANONYMOUS

1. We admit that we are haters prone to prejudice and powerless to control our hatred.
2. We recognize that it is not [Kobe] who has wronged us but we who hold [Kobe] responsible for our troubles and the world's evils. It is we who wrong [him] by believing this.
3. [Kobe] may well have shortcomings like any other human being, but the shortcomings we are here to be honest about are our own, i.e., paranoia, sadism, negativism, destructiveness, envy.
4. Our money problems are not of [Kobe's] making but of our own.
5. Our job problems are not of [Kobe's] making but of our own (so too with sexual problems, marital problems, problems in the community).
6. [Kobe-haterism] is a form of flight from reality, a refusal to think honestly about ourselves and our society.
7. Inasmuch as [Kobe-haters] cannot control their hatred, they are not like other people. We recognize that even to drop a casual [Kobe-hateristic] slur endangers our struggle to rid ourselves of our sickness.
8. Helping to detoxify others is the cornerstone of our recovery. Nothing will so much ensure immunity from the illness of [Kobe-haterism] as intensive work with other [Kobe-haters].
9. We are not scholars, we do not care why we have this dreadful illness, we come together to admit that we have it and to help one another get rid of it.
10. In the fellowship of [K-H.A.] we strive to master the temptation to [Kobe] hatred in all its forms.

Because of the sensitive nature of the original tenets set out by Roth, I must make clear that it is a farcical work from which I lift these words and a farcical intent to which I direct them here towards Kobe-haterism. While I do not believe Kobe-haterism is as dire a perspective as anti-Semitism, I do hold that it must needs be addressed and have thus turned to Roth's work after which to pattern a cure for Kobe-haterism.

Other notes from the NBA:

• Sad news that Yao Ming's foot injury could keep him out the entire 09-10 season or even possibly end his career. At least Yao has a solid love life to turn to, unlike other international stars like Dirk or Pau.
• Brandon Jennings cannot be faulted for acting a fool in a private conversation. He can be faulted for maintaing a friendship with Joe Budden.
• Tyreke Evans has been confronting discussion of his involvement in the murder committed by his cousin. I don't think it's too much of a concern, as he's handling it maturely, didn't even know his cousin had a gun, and more over is going to be playing Sacramento (now if the Kings move to Vegas, we might have to look at it a little differently). However, I am concerned that he seems to play the Stan Rothenstein role from MY COUSIN VINNY.
  

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