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Brilliant Irony?

My 11th grade gym coach who was the wrestling coach called doing bicept curls was for Beach Bodies and didn't do anything real strength wise other than look good.

With the 26th pick of the second round, The Great Mazto selects out of Georgetown. Patrick Ewing * Voted one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History" * Named an NBA All-Star 11 times, including a span of 10 straight seasons from 1988-97 * Earned All-NBA First or Second Team honors seven times * Named to the All-NBA First Team in 1989-90 and All-NBA Second Team in 1987-88, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1996-97 * Earned NBA All-Defensive Second Team honors in 1987-88, 1988-89 and 1991-92 * Named NBA Rookie of the Year in 1985-86 and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team * Two-time Olympic gold medal winner with 1984 (Los Angeles) and 1992 (Barcelona) U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Teams * Earned NBA Player of the Month five times and NBA Player of the Week 12 times * Entered the 2001-02 season as the 13th leading scorer in league history (24,425 points) * Stands as the all-time leader in New York Knicks' history in games (1,039), points (23,665), minutes (37,586), field goals made (9,260), field goals attempted (18,224), free throws made (5,126), free throws attempted (6,904), rebounds (10,759), steals (1,061), blocks (2,758) and 40+ scoring games (30) * Led the Knicks in scoring and blocked shots in every season from 1985-86 to 1996-97 and led the team in rebounds in 1985-86 to 1987-88, 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1994-95 to 1996-97 * Inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame on 10/29/96 * Recorded his first career triple-double, with 28 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists, against the Charlotte Hornets on 4/19/96 * Appeared in the 1994 NBA Finals against the Houston Rockets, establishing an NBA Finals single-series record for most blocked shots with 30 * Matched the NBA Finals single-game record for most blocked shots with eight against Houston in Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals * Finished fourth in 1992-93 NBA MVP voting after leading the Knicks to a 60-win season * Scored a Knicks' franchise record 2,347 points during the 1989-90 season and was the only player to rank in the top six in the NBA in 1989-90 in scoring (career-high 28.6 ppg), rebounding (10.9 rpg), blocked shots (3.99 bpg) and field-goal shooting (.551) * A member of the 1984 NCAA Champion Georgetown Hoyas

SHIT! There goes my Short Shorts Backcourt of Awesome.

We had those for behavior subgrades, like Pays Attention, Plays Well with Others, type rulings underneath our actual grades. My story is in violation of the rule, since it's 6th grade, but it needs to be told. I was in a Spanish Immersion program where I got to learn Spanish from 1st grade on, and so we actually had the same teacher for two year blocks in 3-4, and 5-6 once our school went to a split schedule (Core Room with your main teacher then an Art-Science Block for half a year, Music-Social Studies block for the other half) depending on which grade you where you'd do Core in the morning or afternoon. Anyways, I digress, I had the same teacher for 5th and 6th grade. I always was good at reading, and liked books, so I was reading more advanced stuff than most of my classmates, so when I was asked to write stories they tended to be a little more advanced than my fellow students. For like a month of my 6th grade year my teacher was on some trip to Mexico or something with our sister school in Mexico City, so we had a perma-sub who was working towards getting a full time position as a teacher. She assigned us to write a Halloween story that was at least two pages long. Not a big deal, I did my assignment, but the story took off in my head and wound up being like 7 pages long. I'm not saying it was great, but it went that long. I think I befriended Frankenstein's monster and then we had to fight off a bunch of zombies or something. The teacher said I couldn't have possibly written the story myself and said I had to write a different story after school or she wouldn't accept it and I'd fail. Fortunately, we had library that day, and the Head Librarian was a neighbor and she noticed I was sad and asked me what was going down. She told me to go pick out a book and she'd talk to the teacher, after that I got my story handed back with a B plus on it with no markings at all. I got in trouble once for using the term Bastard Sword in a story once too. The best is the student teacher had to explain the word bastard to me, so I could understand why it was bad, she was all awkward, it was funny.

Also check your server pop. My main guys are on a shittastic server and it sucks getting groups together. I usually would run instance after instance for leveling. Hell, I went through the 40's with my Paladin in like 6 days running Zul'Furrack on endless loop.

I haven't played in about a month, after the last big patch with new endgame stuff it just got blah.

On the plus side our next game is against what appears to be an expansion team with level 4 defenders.

The Bare Naked Granola crap is expensive for a small amount. I could make my own but Im not really a granola person. Last year at the Delaware State Fair I got a deep fried Moon Pie. This year in July when I go for 3 Doors Down/Staind concert Im gonna man up and get a deep fried twinkie, deep fried oreos and a deep fried snickers bar. The only problem is they are all outrageously expensive ($4 for a (as in 1, one, uno) deep fried twinkie..I could fucking make 2 boxes myself for that price but it wont have the atmosphere I guess..) Hopefully I wont die of a heart attack up there. Skip the Snickers, it's going to be a gooey inedible mess if it's anything like the one I had at last years North Carolina State Fair. You would think it's good, but it totally isn't. Deep Fired Twinkies are the shiznit. Haven't tried an oreo.

Actually, they've beaten the everliving shit out of their last 3 opponents. We did well holding them to field goals... 6 of them.

I laughed too long at that.

WHAT YOU CRAPPIN' KOBE?

Still if you lose to an 8 seed, I think that's more memorable than a Finals appearance to most people. Particularly since you could argue that it him inheriting a team to the Finals and just a few tweaks here and there that got them a bit further, but after a prolonged tenure under him you can really see what they can do. It's like when LaVell Edwards retired as the BYU head football coach, the new guy came in and won a shitload of games the next year with Edwards' players, but after Crowton had the reigns for a few years the program was back to mediocre.

Also for the long run a D-Wil/CP3 duelling Point Guard rivalry would be more interesting over a longer period of time than a Bryant/CP3 rivalry. And NO would be the more favorable match up since SA AXE MURDERS Utah all the God damned time.

D'Antoni never choked in the first round against an eight seed either.

Quick someone get this guy in touch with EHME. EHME, tape it so we can get a giggle.

I think he meant that everyone is pretty much going for a Big to start off their drafting, there's only a couple of really dominant centers left.

You are going to be messing up my draft the whole time aren't you? Also I edited in Stock's Career Highlights I copy and pasted from NBA.com.

I'm glad Stevie didn't take him, since my back up plan was Olajuwon.

With the 13th pick in the first round, The Great Mazto selects out of Gonzaga. The Lord of the Short Shorts. John Stockton * Selected in 1996 as one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History" * NBA's all-time leader in assists (15,806) and in steals (3,265) * Two-time All-NBA First Team selection (1993-94 and 1994-95), six-time All-NBA Second Team selection (1987-90, 1991-92, 1992-93, and 1995-96), and three-time All-NBA Third Team selection (1990-91, 1996-97, 1998-99). * Five-time NBA All-Defensive Second Team selection (1988-89, 1990-92, 1994-95, 1996-97). * Ten-time NBA All-Star selection who played in nine consecutive games from 1989 to 1997, averaging 7.8 ppg, 8.2 apg and 1.67 spg * Named co-MVP with teammate Karl Malone of the 1993 All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, dishing out 15 assists, with nine points and six rebounds * Holds the league record for most seasons with the same franchise (19; 1984-85 through 2002-03) * Finished the 2002-03 season with 19,711 points * Ranks second on the NBA's all-time list in games played (1,504) * Broke John Havlicek's record of 1,270 games played with one franchise when he suited up for the Jazz vs. Detroit on 11/26/00. * Played in every game in 17 of his 19 seasons. * Missed only four games in his first 13 NBA seasons, all in 1989-90, before missing the first 18 games of the 1997-98 season while recovering from off-season left knee arthroscopic surgery. * Played in 609 consecutive games from 2/13/90 through 4/20/97, the eighth-longest streak in NBA history. * Holds record for most seasons leading league in assists (nine, 1987-88 through 1995-96), most assists in a single season (1,164 in 1990-91), and highest single-season assists-per-game average (14.5 in 1989-90). * Accounted for seven of the nine seasons of 1,000 or more assists in league history (Kevin Porter and Isiah Thomas) and posted the top four single-season assist totals. * Served up the 15,000th assist of his career at Houston on 3/10/02. * Became the all-time NBA steals leader in a 112-98 victory over the Boston Celtics on 2/20/96, breaking Maurice Cheeks' record of 2,310. * Led the NBA in steals in 1988-89 (3.21 spg) and 1991-92 (2.98 spg) * Finished 2002-03 with a career field-goal percentage of .515, the fourth-best percentage by a guard in NBA history behind Lewis Lloyd (.524), Maurice Cheeks (.523) and Magic Johnson (.520). * Participated in the NBA Playoffs in all 19 of his seasons. * Appeared in the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals against the Chicago Bulls, averaging 12.3 ppg, 8.8 apg, and 2.0 spg, while shooting .495 (55-111) in 12 contests. * Hit the game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer in a 103-100 victory over the Houston Rockets in Game Six of the 1997 Western Conference Finals to propel the Jazz to their first trip to the NBA Finals. * Matched the NBA Playoffs single-game record with 24 assists against the L.A. Lakers in Game Five of the 1988 Western Conference Semifinals * A member of the men's basketball "Dream Team" that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Dream Team that won gold in Atlanta. * During career, named NBA Player of the Week six times and Player of the Month once (February, 1988).

OI! Utah is only down 1.

12 Hours. I'm getting all antsy to pick as well.

Why? That's so random. I say this not knowing if there's some "Great Athletes" statue museum at the Staples Center.

*insert snarky comment here*

This is true. At least living in Utah, people sorta started chatting about the Hawks some and they are looking bright. Down the road when the Hawks are a viable threat in the East people will look at this series as a turning point. By all accounts the C's should have blown the Hawks out by 30 in a series sweep instead of having to drop the big hammer in a game 7.