In the latest account of NBA big man Eddy Curry’s never-ending money woes, this passage jumped out at us: On Friday, a Manhattan court ordered Curry to pay $75,000 a month to lender Allstar Capital Inc. to resolve a debt that swelled to $1.2 million with interest. The court also has issued an order letting [...]
Entries Tagged as 'basketball'
Where the Sharks Swim
May 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags:basketball·crime·economics·Eddy Curry·loan sharking·Nevada·sports
The Travesty in a Nutshell
April 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Until their 2010 first-round draft choice inevitably blows out his ACL before scoring a single point, we will not blog about our beloved Los Angeles Clippers again. But we couldn’t let this dismal season pass without dredging up an anecdote that sums up the franchise’s eternal woes in about as concise a package imaginable. It [...]
Tags:basketball·Donald T. Sterling·Los Angeles Clippers·sports
“Under My Heart, Three Clouds of Pain”
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Seriously, basketball gods? We finally have an inkling of hope that our beloved Los Angeles Clippers won’t totally self-immolate this season, and then you see fit to break Blake Griffin’s kneecap? Ah, cruel deities—can you do nothing to reward our years of steadfast devotion? Or are you so incensed with owner Donald Sterling’s botched facelift [...]
Tags:basketball·Blake Griffin·Donald Sterling·hip-hop·Los Angeles Clippers·music·Nice & Smooth·sports
But Do They Know About the Rubio Mess?
October 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments
The NBA fans in the audience are surely aware that the Minnesota Timberwolves are about as hapless as they come nowadays—an even less promising squad than Microkhan’s beloved Los Angeles Clipppers, a team once declared “The Worst Franchise Ever” by Sports Illustrated. But the T’wolves’ woeful prospects haven’t affected the loyalty of a certain Nairobi [...]
Tags:basketball·Kenya·Los Angeles Clippers·matatus·Minnesota Timberwolves·Nairobi·software
Severely Burnt French Toast
July 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments
We’re on a Wired deadline this afternoon, so we’re gonna outro early with a classic hoops clip: a young Vince Carter absolutely posterizing French center/stiff Frédéric Weis. Yes, we realize you’ve seen it before; trust us, it’s worth a second (or tenth) look, if only for the confused expression on Weis’s face at the end [...]
“Shoots His Basket Like a Star”
June 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After last night’s Now the Hell Will Start reading out in Bed-Stuy, we spent an exceedingly pleasant few hours knocking back pints of Carlsberg with our comrade Ryan Nerz. The NBA Finals were playing on the bar’s TV, and so much of our conversation focused on hoops. And given Ryan’s origins in the Hoosier State, [...]
Tags:basketball·Gene Hackman·Hoosiers·Indiana·sepak takraw·sports
“That’s Why They Call Him Easy J”
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Apologies for failing to ease your case of the Mondays with today’s offerings so far—first corruption, then civil war. So we’re gonna try and make it up to y’all with the video above, featuring several of the gnarliest dunks ever committed to digital memory. They come courtesy of Guy Dupuy, a man who views Romanian [...]
The Losers Club
April 16th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Those of you who read Microkhan’s debut post know that management reserves the right to veer away from estoerica on occasion, and delve into topics of a far more personal nature. Well, this is one of those times. Read on if you’d like a brief peek inside Microkhan’s troubled heart; otherwise, fear not, the polymathism [...]
Greatest Team Nickname Ever
March 20th, 2009 · 9 Comments
I’ll confess to getting a bit choked up when watching the closing seconds of any March Madness game. CBS always pans across the defeated team’s bench, revealing a bunch of dejected seniors whose careers have suddenly evaporated. Most will move on to high-level rec leagues, and to boring their children with exaggerated tales of their [...]
Tags:basketball·March Madness·nicknames·Philippine Basketball Association·sports
