RE: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

From: Erez Buki

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Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 8:48 PM
To: Smith, Jeromy
Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

We've discovered out band name.

The White Markers.

neo-Nazi's wouldn't know what hit them.

On 27 Jul 2009, at 20:43, Smith, Jeromy wrote:

Well, why go anywhere but the best. Guest teachers would be a great gig.

The White Markers

From: Erez Buki [REDACTED]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 8:43 PM
To: Smith, Jeromy
Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

He'll be going to Kobe B. Bryant Kindergarden School of R0ping.

On 27 Jul 2009, at 20:33, Smith, Jeromy wrote:

I’m so glad Henry will have 20 rings to read about on his first day of kindergarten.

From: Erez Buki [REDACTED]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 8:32 PM
To: Smith, Jeromy
Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

I just want you to savor it like Dwight did.

On 27 Jul 2009, at 20:30, Smith, Jeromy wrote:

Nothing Orlando happens this year, next year, or the Durant year.

From: Erez Buki [REDACTED]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:49 PM
To: Smith, Jeromy
Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

If nothing else, in reading your prognostications of Bynum I gain a glimpse into just how powerful hope can be.

Bynum, as a center is better then Amare. Jefferson cannot play D as well as Bynum but I love his O. Other then that, forget it. Bynum is clearly better then the rest of the list and one can argue better then the ones at the top of it..

I want Christmas NOW!!!

On 27 Jul 2009, at 18:34, Smith, Jeromy wrote:

Of what, a Western conference All-Star appearance next year? I think Oden could be more. I don't see it for Nene. I think Amare will qualify at C, so he'll probably start the ASG.

Amare/Jefferson/Kaman/Okur/Biedrins/Camby. Sure Bynum has more upside than all but the first two, but I just don't see him fulfilling it, even to the point he might have before. This injury is going to play with him emotions his whole life. Kid's done.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erez Buki [REDACTED]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Smith, Jeromy
Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

What center do you think will be more worthy?

Nene? Oden? Okafur?

E. Buki

On Jul 27, 2009, at 14:44, "Smith, Jeromy"
wrote:

I don't think he will have ab injry nor be an allstar next year.

Unless you count bruised ego or confidence.

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-----Original Message-----

From: Erez Buki

Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:38 PM

To: Smith, Jeromy

Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

Yes, signifigant. I figured you could understand the value of

attrition. I'll eat crow if he has another significant injury in the

next 2 seasons. If he's healthy he'll be an All-star this coming

season. Probably a starter.

E. Buki

On Jul 27, 2009, at 13:51, "Smith, Jeromy"

wrote:

6.3/3.7/0.9 is a significant role? 17 minutes a game baby.

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-----Original Message-----

From: Erez Buki [REDACTED]

Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:10 PM

To: Smith, Jeromy

Subject: Re: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

True about Parish. Let's see how this season goes before judging

Bynum

and how he returned from injury. Dude played a pretty signifigant

role

in a championship run.

E. Buki

On Jul 26, 2009, at 18:08, "Smith, Jeromy"

wrote:

Parish would not have been HOF without Bird/McHale. Nor did Parish

return from injury with a shockingly low amt of focus or effort.

With LO playing in Miami, he will get more than enough chance. I

still wouldn't trade Perkins for him.

Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.

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From: Erez Buki

Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:54 PM

To: Smith, Jeromy

Subject: Fwd: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

Begin forwarded message:

Date: 26 July 2009 11:29:02 PDT

Subject: Andrew Bynum vs Future Hall of Famer

Source: Forum Blue And Gold

Author: The Dude Abides

Hello, fellow FB&Gers. Kurt has given up trying to figure out why

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LeBron Gone?

Well fuck it. We live, breath and shit NBA. It's Pavlovian and anal fixation all rolled into a fat, jolly nut dripping down the triangle used both to call us to dinner and as rectal dildo. All that said, we are definitely going to be visiting the LeBron Sweepstakes and the rumors this event shall excite. Seeing that this is the first entry dealing with the stated purpose of this site(and please bear with us as we figure out our format. We will become rather more random in our prose but less random in presentation) and this story is bound to keep sprouting dual heads to every one that is cut off, I might as well explain our project as I discuss this LeBron FA hydra.

When a player's marketability leads a sports network to put the following piece up on cable and net alike, you know you are dealing with hype that requires no hyperbole to describe.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4205869

When a role player changes teams and can make a statement which excites the following commentary, you know you are dealing with someone desperately seeking words to fill a column and marketable images to put on screen.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4311174

When a basketball player is compared to football greats, excites comparisons to what the 2 basketball MJs could do in one body, wins his first MVP award on the merit of his supreme stat totals, commands interest even as he sits home during the NBA finals playing with his puppets, you might understand why his FA situation will be news worthy and you will certainly understand why the networds and sites built on sports hyperbol have exploded with commentary. But, it is up to us to hold said members of the press, and the sports world, accountable for their words. Just because some of the shit sticks, don't change the fact you've been slinging poop.

So, here is what we'll be exploring here on this site. With all the hype that surounds sports, with competition in the internet, with the exteme marketing of sport personalities (or their lack there of) one finds that writers have a vested interest in disproportionately reporting on hype inducing stories. They angle for story lines that can be easily piggy backed on previous stories and the hype they induced. This LeBron thing ain't going away until about this time next year. We are going to discuss the various attempts that media and the heads that reports it, the teams and the labors that support them, the players and the agents that represent them, use our ignorance to lend themselves a prop by which to forward even the most noble of agendas.

As Tacitus warned the Romans by contrast to this about the Germans, "No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted."


So, to the actual discussion that the Ariza comment and LeBron's denunciation brings up. Now, Ariza may or may not be telling the truth. He certainly has less interest in lying about that conversation then LeBron has in squashing the story. What does Ariza get out of pissing off the most powerful player in the NBA? Meanwhile LeBron gets considerable power by being the gatekeeper of information about his FA considerations. Broussard certainly has an interest in injecting some purr into the hype. So, with all the commentary on commentary this story excites, it is up to us to make note of the commentary and measure it up against what will happen come the FA period of 2010. This is what this site is about.

We'll not limit ourselves to the NBA 2010 FA frenzy. We are interesting in discussing and tabulating all the rumour mongering. I will definitely focus almost exclusively on the NBA as it's the NBA which I am almost exclusively interested in. But, if anyone out there wants to get involved in MLB, the major college sports, NFL or even NHL or tennis, then we will be happy to have a look and possibly post your work and keep tabs on those stories. In other words, we are looking for talent.

That said, who is the puppet, LeBron and Kobe or we who buy into the hype?

Dex a Dream

In all the blog a sphere, as in a room, a shout is a shout is a shout. They all sound the same and this is why a smaller room, some low proof beverage, and uncut sex appeal (sans the communal fetishized sex roles that lead to rock hard abs, silicon jabs, and scented wrinkle cream everywhere but on Dave Chappelle's balls) are the sorts of rooms that can hold a dozen folk and a quarter dozen conversations where talking the dozens can happen and no fights need to break out. You speak in your own voice.

Lo and behold, in the blog a sphere I find shouts and shouts and rarely a voice but let me introduce you to a site worthy of being called the voice of degeneration. Here is a voice whose obsession with Bill Simmons is made paletable by a crudeness come to through a careful comprehention of refinement. This same voice would, if I heard only this voice, knew more then his throat, more then his chest and the lungs, heart and other body parts, if I knew his face, his profession, his watering holes, his family, his friends, if I knew more about him then his voice and could see his BS obsession resided in all his parts, well, if I were his friend then this would be an intervention.

Since all I know is his voice, I will assume there is more to the man then his poetic constructions to Lakers Love and full blown BS diatribes full of fecal matter and gut shots. So, here is this voice, Dex, full blown Simmons critic, Lakers lover, a literate man whose work seems driven by prose pickled in the poetry of the mind and body.

http://www.k24-8.blogspot.com/

Lakers Fan / Celtics Fan

Here we examine the rumors put out by our favorite four-letter network. We examine each rumor by each talking head. We'll tabulate and display stats for our favorite information (wo)men.