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Recently I realized that the NBA in comparison with other professional sports leagues, easily has the greatest variety of player “names”. There is Dwight, where now his name is easily recognized by many people, but when you first heard it you thought of Kanye West saying “ight”. Then we have Kobe and Lebron. We have Yao Ming who knows his first name is cool, so he chooses to put it on the back of his jersey where your last name normally goes. There is Carmelo, where a noun and a verb combine. The Lakers have Pao Gasol and Sasha Vujacic which makes me wonder if I spelled those names correctly. What about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ players Mo Williams, Zydrunas Ilgaskas, and Delonte West? Zydunas Ilgaskas sounds like a curse word or better yet should become one. And if you noticed I’m really just pulling names from teams that are still involved in this year’s playoffs. Just a side note.
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It’s always fun to know how much money professional athletes pull in every year. After all they have their dream job as well as mine and earn a ton of money for it. It’s interesting to note that by comparison of their peers, not all professional athletes make what they should. For example some players earn more or less money than their teammates that are better or worse than them. Let me further explain by using the salaries of the Denver Nugget players. Chris Anderson A.K.A the Birdman, earns exactly the same amount as Anthony Carter A.K.A. the “oldest player in the league.” They both have a 2008-2009 season salary of $797,581 and they both are crucial to the team’s success. Then there’s Steven Hunter who to most fans might as well be an imaginary friend of mine, who earned $3,862,600 for the season. Now how can or more importantly why would the Nuggets pay Hunter that kind of money when they should be paying the fan-favorite of Denver, the Birdman, those millions? Another great example: Kenyon Martin earns more than Carmelo Anthony. It seems team owners need to consider long term contracts more carefully in the future…
that the Magic did steal the first game in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals against “King James” and a Cavaliers team who was winning by 16 at half, but I beg the question: Did Orlando really steal home court advantage? It seems so, after all now if the Magic win their three home games in this series they will beat Cleveland no matter what. However it is interesting to consider that if the series does go to seven games it will be in the King’s court in Cleveland. How curious? “The Magic steal game one”… yet if it goes seven its where Lebron wants it to be. What are your thoughts?
No matter which play you found more exciting or enjoyable, you have to admit, they were both strange.
It started with the first round battle between Boston and Chicago which featured an array of ridiculous overtime Basketball and has continued with the shocking upset of the Lakers in the opening game of round two last evening against the Rockets. Jay-Z and P-Diddy who attended the game were even impressed with all the action and we all know they have seen a few things. Well maybe not P-Diddy, he does acne commercials for Pro-active but Jigga man for sure. Anyways, inevitably this match up between Houston and Los Angeles will be fantastic. Kobe will bring his team ready to play next time and will probably score more than in last nights game with half as many shots. Better yet I think in Game 2 we can expect play away from the ball to become even more physical than in game 1! That being said, it is recommended that the camera men and celebrities who will be sitting the first few rows Wednesday night for game two practice their “duck and cover” routines before the game so that in the event Derek Fisher gets thrown into the crowd again, nobody is injured.![View Dino Gomez [LION]'s profile on LinkedIn](https://i0.wp.com/www.linkedin.com/img/webpromo/btn_myprofile_160x33.gif){kind=small}
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