Jay-Z is firmly in the Galaxy camp. The rapper, perhaps the most commercially-savvy musician out there these days, spent the evening on a series of NBA Finals commercials announcing a new album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” with the help of Samsung, which is paying the rapper $5 a pop for a million copies to be given away in advance through an Android app. (Sorry Apple users.) If you’re gonna sell out, sell out with more planning and better savvy than everyone else, so it doesn’t look like selling out.
He has lawyered up. Their attorney is flying in from out of state.Clayton County, Ga. State Solicitor Tasha Mosley • Discussing the situation with Mookie Blaylock, the former NBA player who was involved in a serious crash over the weekend. Blaylock was seriously injured himself, but a passenger in the other vehicle, a mother of five, was killed. Blaylock now faces charges of vehicular homicide, as well as driving with a suspended license, among other charges. While Blaylock’s family says he has a history of seizures, Mosley emphasized the charges wouldn’t change if that was the case. “If that’s true that’s not going to mitigate,” she said. “We have no indications of seizures. We have no medical records.” (via parislemon)
Honoring an inspiration: Over the weekend, former NBA star Mookie Blaylock was seriously injured in a car crash and is currently on life support. Upon hearing this news, the band Pearl Jam, which originally named itself after Blaylock, wished the player a get-well-soon after the crash. During the band’s heyday, they actually got a chance to play basketball with the point guard, the group’s Jeff Ament told The New York Times. “I went and played basketball with him, and he said: ‘You do have game! You have a good shot; you have a nice rotation,’” Ament explained. “I was like, ‘Awesome.’ That was all I was looking for.”
Daily Beast media writer Howard Kurtz tries to expose a major hole in the Jason Collins story, fails miserably, gets called out for it on Twitter. Fun.
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“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay,” - Jason Collins
“The recent Boston Marathon bombing reinforced the notion that I shouldn’t wait for the circumstances of my coming out to be perfect. Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully? When I told Joe [Kennedy, a Massachusetts congressman and Collins’ college roommate] a few weeks ago that I was gay, he was grateful that I trusted him. He asked me to join him [at Boston’s gay pride parade] in 2013. We’ll be marching on June 8.”
If she is the best on the board, I will take her.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is considering drafting Baylor women’s basketball star Brittney Griner. (via andrewgraham)
Griner would love the opportunity. “I would hold my own! Lets do it.” she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night in response to Cuban. (via apsies)
This could be really awesome.
He said, ‘If you can Dennis, I don’t want to do war, I don’t want to do war.’ He said that to me.Dennis Rodman, playing diplomat between North Korea and the United States on ABC’s “This Week.” The Worm suggested that common ground could be met on the basketball court. ”He loves basketball,” Rodman said, referring to Kim Jong-un. “I said, ‘Obama loves basketball.’ Lets start there.”
Dennis Rodman is in North Korea for “sports diplomacy,” a trip that actually garnered a “no comment” from the State Department. Fantastic.
Dennis Rodman’s contribution to diplomacy: Teach Kim Jong-Un how to rebound.
Jerry Buss, the longtime owner of the Los Angeles Lakers who proved a major force behind the team’s success, has died at the age of 80. ”I really tried to create a Laker image, a distinct identity,” Buss said of his team. “I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.” Buss’ Lakers were by far the most consistently-successful team in the NBA during the 34 years he owned the team, winning 10 championships since 1979, most recently in 2010. (photo by Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
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Roughly a month after he was traded to the Lakers, former Orlando Magic superstar Dwight Howard pulled out the ol’ full-page-newspaper-ad thing to tell his former fans how much he loves them. Not everyone’s a fan, however …
He’s managed to stay out of trouble for almost two years, but Marcus Jordan finds himself back in headlines after his weekend booking for obstruction, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. Jordan was in Omaha to support a high school friend and his training partner during the 2012 Olympic Swim Trials. While we think the college athlete is certainly under more scrutiny than most, because of his relation to one of basketball’s all-time greats, do you think Marcus’ history of questionable decisions will prove to be an issue if he hopes to join the NBA? (Photo via BigLeadSports) source
Kevin Garnett has reportedly decided to re-sign with the Boston Celtics when NBA free agency begins on July 11th — a 3-year contract (Garnett is 36), meaning he’ll likely retire as a Celtic. Yahoo’s Marc Spears reported the deal as being worth $34 million over those years, a premium price tag for somebody Garnett’s age, and that price tag gives the lanky power forward a unique distinction — it would make him, over his entire career, the highest paid player in basketball history. (Photo by Keith Allison)
Anthony Davis, who will likely be taken as the No. 1 pick in this Thursday’s NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets, is getting down to business.
Known for his connected eyebrows, Davis trademarked the phrases “Fear The Brow” and “Raise The Brow” earlier this month.
“I don’t want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it,”Davis told CNBC. “Me and my family decided to trademark it because it’s very unique.”
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