Wishing you all the best against the Lakers tonight Mr. Griffin.  Oh wait, you’re not playing!  And not for weeks.  God the Clippers are brutal.

And for all of you wishing to know what Blake Griffin thinks of you?

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Have you ever cried when the competition was so intense?  Sometimes the emotions simply get the best of you.  And crying as a reaction is certainly OK.  In fact if I were a coach I’d want players who cried on an occasional basis.  To me it’d mean they care about the game.

And even at the professional level in leagues like the NBA, players get emotional.  Whether it’s because they worked so hard to win and finally do win, or it’s because they’ve worked so hard only to lose, even these big guys get tears.

But sometimes it’s just the competition itself that can get a player rattled and cause him to lose his nerve.

Here are 8 videos of NBA players crying.

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I’m sure you all noticed I put the word “trash” in quotations.  Why? Because trash talking doesn’t always mean talking talking.  It could very well mean a gesture too.  Sometimes all it takes is a look, a finger wag, or a simple smirk to get your message across.

The bottom line is that players in the NBA have been talking trash for years.  Sure it wasn’t nearly as disgusting and “on purpose” as it is today but it was still talking trash nonetheless.  Back in the 80s it was guys like Larry Bird who used to say things like “I’m going to dribble to that exact spot, hit my shot, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Today it’s “tell me how my ass tastes.”  But hey, trash talk is trash talk I guess.

Here are 10 awesome trash talk videos

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From LAtimes

The Quentin Richardson era lasted barely a weekend as the Clippers sent the veteran to the Minnesota Timberwolves today in exchange for forward Craig Smith, point guard Sebastian Telfair and forward Mark Madsen.

Richardson came to the Clippers from Memphis in the Zach Randolph deal, and that only became official on Friday

Let’s break this down:

Mark Madsen is perhaps the biggest loser in the NBA.  Yeah he works hard but the only way he gets attention is by working really hard and having cooler better players laugh at him on the sidelines.  But then he knows the only way he can hang out with those guys is by being known as the loser who works hard.  It’s a real conundrum.

Telfair?  Who the hell cares.  Guy is never going to be good, ever.  Oooh, he’s related to Marbury.  Yeah like that’s a good thing.  He’s too small.

Who the hell is Craig Smith?

This guy here is dead!

From Yahoo

According to the New York Post, Jefferson was scheduled to marry former New Jersey Nets dancer Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols. Alas, a few days before the big day, Jefferson called off the ceremony and broke up with his fiancée.

Unfortunately, nobody told a significant number of guests. Many showed up at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City expecting to see a bride, a groom, some vows, and a kiss. Instead they found that Jefferson had gone MIA. However, he did lend his friend his AMEX Black credit card and told him to treat the guests to a fun night without him.

Bottom line.  I applaud RJ.  Why?  At least the guy has the common sense to know he’s going to be having sex with TONS of women in his remaining years in the NBA.  Also, come on man.  The dude just got traded to San Antonio.  You don’t think he’s aware of the Southern tushies down there?

At least he’s not cheating on his wife which is what I’m guessing 75% of married professional athletes do.  Either that or Jefferson is gay and he finally realized he couldn’t go through with it.

I’ll take the former.  And it would have been pretty awesome to have a free night on Richard Jefferson don’t you think?

Man his ears are funny.

For any of you that are on Twitter you’ll more than likely recognize a profile called “The Real Shaq.”  It is what is presumed to be the real Twitter profile of NBA star Shaquille O’Neal.  It contains more than a million followers and I can’t really see a reason why it’d be fake considering the amount of celebrities that are on Twitter.

Whether it’s real or fake isn’t that much of a big deal.  The reason is because the profile contains some awesome personal pictures of the real Shaq just doing what he does best: goofing off.

I would have to think that hanging out with this guy would be a great time.

Here are some  great pictures of the giant

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The Alley Oop play.  It’s a great play.  It’s an entertaining play.  It’s a challenging play.  It’s one of those plays that can literally change the tempo of a game.  Notice I didn’t say momentum.

Did you know that momentum is 100% used the wrong way by sports announcers?  There’s no such thing as momentum in a basketball game.  Momentum is a scientific term used to describe the relationship between mass and velocity.  So I’m not sure how that term got into the mix.

Tempo of a game on the other hand is acceptable.  It’s a term describing speed and rhythm.  In any event, here are some awesome alley oops.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Phoenix Suns center Shaquille O’Neal, multiple sources involved in the talks told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday night.

Cleveland will send Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, the 46th pick in Thursday’s draft and cash to the Suns for O’Neal.

By no means am I downplaying this trade and saying that Shaq shouldn’t be happy joining Lebron for what might be a decent shot at a title run.  What I’m saying is that the guy was essentially traded for a broken down defensive has been, a European shooter who will strive to be mediocre at best, and cash.  In other words, he was traded for peanuts.  Put it this way, it will suck knowing one of the top centers ever will have gone down in history being in not one, but two ridiculous trades.

Originally people thought the O’Neal for Odom, Butler and Grant deal was one of the most lopsided deals in history (which now may not prove to be so because Gasol came out of all of this so it’s really O’Neal for Gasol and Odom).  And at the time it probably was because Shaq was still an elite player.

But now?  Now Shaq is gonna have to live with knowing he was traded for feces.  I mean that just has to sting a little doesn’t it?  I guess it won’t matter if he can bring Cleveland a championship.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all rooting for a Cleveland/L.A. series.  I’m going on record right now saying that if we see these two teams in the finals it will be one of the highest rated sports events in history.

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As the Lakers took game 2 last night in a much closer battle with the Magic, I couldn’t help but come back to the same creepy thought I’ve felt all year about the Lakers….how can I keep watching Pau Gasol?

I mean I didn’t used to feel this way about the guy.  He was a clean cut dude when he entered the league.  Much shorter hair.  It seems as though he at least cared about his grooming back then.  And trust me, I’m taking nothing away from his game.  He’s truly an all star and is easily the second biggest reason this team should win it all this year.

But now, every single time this guy makes a big shot, gets a rebound, or does anything that would elicit him to scream and do a chest bump with teammates seriously gives me the willies.

And he has to smell awful.  I mean just look at the hair and beard.  I feel for Kobe.  I’m sure he’s all shits and giggles on the outside, but inside he must be so conflicted having to touch Pau.

Come on Pau, you’re a great player but clean it up, just a little…please?