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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4JQORsmjSE Interview for casey, very likable guy.

I can't wait for the Heat to lose a few games again and watch you pick another new team to root for.

So, basically, my posts were dodged because there's absolutely nothing to debate. Good thinking. Don't compare anyone on OTR to a 12-year old girl that is obsessed with a player's face. That 12-year old girl, more than likely, doesn't know a single thing about basketball, and if that player were to have 20-win seasons throughout his career, she wouldn't care. Translation: [expletive] off if you don't like "player fans." That's what needs to be said. I'm a fan of the game of basketball. If the Lakers disappeared tomorrow, I'm still watching 29 other teams (like I do today), unlike many around here. I watch the sport before anything else, including the Lakers, including Kobe. Nothing insecure about my fanhood, at all. The insecurity lies within those who continue to pounce on everyone who is not born in an NBA city, or who didn't have their daddies telling them what team they should support as they grew up. It has been that way on OTR since the entire community started growing comfortable with each other, and it's pretty much garbage, and displays the lack of maturity. And the mediocrity of other teams doesn't mean shit. The Lakers were mediocre one season, in 2004-05, and we heard it worse than any team to date. The two first-round exits against the Suns were more painful than any 20-30 win season a team could have because our fanbase was stomped on by the media. Does anyone really care what the 30-win teams do in the NBA? Has ESPN written a famous article about how bad the Pistons are this season? Cool, say some guy is from Detroit and he has been a Pistons fan for decades, and that he's still a fan even today. I don't care. There's a chance I know more about that Pistons team (or any team in the franchise's history) than he does, and that knowledge is all that matters to me. Unlike many of those die-hard fans (and not all die-hard fans are like that), I don't drool over the team I support. I don't call Von Wafer the next Ray Allen, or say that Vujacic is going to be as good as Peja was. Not being "the norm" and being able to say that I actually chose the team I wanted to support (even before they had Shaq, by the way) is refreshing. If that pisses anyone off, maybe you need to re-evaluate your stance on the subject, because you're in the wrong, and you always have been. Go ahead and ramble on about whatever makes you feel a little better about your fanhood. At the end of the day, you being a fan takes more than just talking about it, and there are a couple of guys around here that haven't walked the walk and really have no reason to ever question anyone else.

It's only newsworthy because players like Rose and others have no idea what that means. They probably think Stern has literally buried NBA players.

Nothing looks good with a faux hawk, slits in the hair/eyebrows will compound the problem. Get a buzz, save your manhood.

Seems like a nice guy, and he is really smart. I could only imagine how he felt though, he said his friends ditched him and he has been bullied his entire life. Good to see that he is happy now.

LOL at Abovelegit for having Purdue in the national championship game. What a [expletive]in idiot. -_-

Would you rather be the kid that gets rocked in this video, or the kid that gets thrown down just once? I'll take one body slam over the potential of all of the damage that could have been done to the punk in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcQO3pvywE Also, I saw a comment on this video that the punk had quarters in his hands which is why his fists were clinched, and I think you can see them around the 37-38 second mark. That's a bitch move. You may want to watch the video on mute..............

I was mainly trolling with my initial post, although I don't think it would be far fetched to suggest once Kobe declines/leaves that LA residents may jump ship as Griffin develops into a superstar and Gordon in the all-star boat, but all things considered Sterling could [expletive] everything up. I don't even care who you cheer for, it feels like topics like these come up every month or so and it is pretty annoying. You pick a team, and you stick with them. If you have a favourite team because of where you live, because you like their jerseys, or your favourite player plays there, then fine, but you support that team unconditionally so long as they are in existence. I don't even have a problem if you are an LBJ fan (for example) and support the Heat now, but don't act like you've been there all this time and will be the first one at the parade. Also don't act like LA's fans have faced or gone through some sort of adversity. Sorry but I don't consider a couple 30-40 win years low points. Talk to me half a decade from now when LA might be forced to rebuild and the Clippers could (BIG IF) be contenders and tell me that it isn't even a remote possibility that fans will jump ship. You've had Kobe a decade and a half, so of course the building has been full, but you are going to sit here with a straight face and tell me once he is gone there isn't a possibility the Lakers lose a chunk of their support? My point is that there are a ton of Kobe fans in this world, and all I WONDER(I don't even declare it as fact at all) is what will happen once he is gone. I am not directing it at you, or even anyone here for that matter, it will just be interesting, at least to me, to see how the franchise's support is when the team doesn't have a top 5 player or a superstar on it, if we get to that point.

So how exactly does a 12-year old girl compare to a fan of a particular player? Does the 12-year old girl know more basketball than you do? I'm sure you know exactly where I'm going with it, so hopefully you're going to realize how dumb that statement was.

That skinny kid is full of shit

That's what they said when Magic retired, and according to an older fan from TLN, that's what they said when Jerry West was done. It's no surprise that non-Lakers fans said the same thing when the Lakers dealt Shaq. I guess we'll just wait for the next batch of rings. -------- As far as being a team-fan first, it doesn't matter. People can be die-hard Clippers fans, but still like Blake Griffin because he's an exciting player. I'm all about the Jayhawks in college basketball, but I was a huge fan of Kevin Durant despite him being on Texas (one of the teams I can't stand). It shouldn't matter why a guy likes a team, unless he's bouncing between multiple championship teams and not supporting them when they are down and out. Not everyone was born in an NBA city or had a team near their own city, or had their fathers tell them who to root for when they were five years old. I'm an NBA/Kobe/Lakers fan, in that order...but that doesn't mean I'll stop rooting for LA when Kobe retires, and it doesn't mean I jumped ship during the 2004-05 34-win season, or the two first-round exits right after that. I've written quite a bit, in season and game previews, even administrating a Lakers board, for one team. It makes me sick when people get wrapped up in it, and think they know me, or anyone else in that position, for that matter.

American casinos and Niagara Falls stripppppers tonight!

Lil' Wayne is absolute trash

That was a blocking foul. Gortat was still moving his feet as Blake took off, and the back of his heel was also on the line when his foot finally came down. The video clearly shows it. Oh well. Gortat is too much of a sissy to get up and try to block that bad boy, anyway.

I think he is mad that your music makes his ears bleed and makes him contemplate putting his head in a meat grinder.

So in the past two games combined, Ed Davis has played roughly 23 minutes. During that same stretch, Reggie Evans has played roughly 57 minutes. This franchise is a [expletive]ing joke. I'm at the point know where I want a complete overhaul starting from the top. Just get rid of everybody and bring in some guys who understand that YOU PLAY YOUR [expletive]ING LOTTERY PICK ROOKIE MORE THAN THE SCRUB VETERAN ON AN EXPIRING CONTRACT WHO HAS NO FUTURE ON THIS TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't think that song could get any worse...boy was I wrong

Prove it

I feel like he almost has to stay in Houston. It would be a huge slap in the face if he were to leave after all they've done for him the past few years.

Kid seems really smart. I agree with what he did 110%. Glad his family supports him as much as they do too.

IDK, ask Chris Bosh

There will be a bunch of teams going after Yao. The man is still an international icon and can bring any team a shit load of revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if he left Houston to be honest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index 4th actually What kills America is its crime rates though and there are plenty of places where you just cannot live due to its mass poverty. I would love to live in Canada and Europe but it isn't that easy to gain citizenship from a country.

this is good news 2 less games we have to worry about him breaking his knee

I would be living in freaking Pakistan if I wasn't born here so uh yes.

Wade is a good person, LeBron is a child.

Tell me about it. People act as if Wade is this saint because he stayed in Miami, but really, these three were meeting up regardless of which city it was. It could've been Miami, New York, Chicago, New Jersey or freaking Minnesota (ok, maybe not Minny). The way things played out it just so happened that Miami was the one with the cap room to be able to fit all three without forcing them to take major paycuts. People just look at James as this super villian because he left his home town team to join up with another superstar and an all-star, but if the roles were reversed and Miami was in Cleveland's situation, Wade would be doing the exact same thing.

I think The Truth is trying to rival Swish.

Then we built some hype going into Brooklyn and still have the rest of our picks.

itt: The Truth reveals he is a retard

Yes blame the writer. -_-

And you might want to learn correct capitalization before you start correcting people on grammatical errors.

Why don't you just calm down and read the goddamn article. Your making yourself look like an idiot.

omg :wallbash3:

Maybe he just ain't as good as everyone thought.

Hogan should be first despite being the most overrated ever, he still put wrestling on the map and without him (and moreso Vinny Mac) wrestling would still just be a sideshow performance going town to town, rather than what it is today. Rock and Austin go interchangably 2/3 as they ushered in the most popular era of wrestling we will EVER see. Period. They made wrestling cool, which we never know if that will happen again. If this list is being made on talent alone, rather than drawing/star power, then Michaels is arguably first, but Flair should be way closer to the top as well. But then if it is based on overall talent, Rock probably isn't even top 15, the guy was exciting and the best promo man, but he couldn't wrestle. Guys like Jericho, Angle, etc would easily all be top 10-5. Pretty horrible list overall, but you can tell they were going for controversy. There seems to be no one way they made the list by.

Damn, that landing was hard. Kid deserved it though.

Why do you keep binging up brothers? Are you related to the kid that got thrown? I'm lost . If I was a brother of the fat kid I'd back him too if he was picking on my brother so I don't get what point you're trying to make. At the end of the day, it's the skinny kids fault for provoking the kid into attacking him.

It's obvious the scrawny little kid was bullying the bigger kid. What bully lets a person they are trying to bully take jabs at them and also the bigger guy is against the wall which obviously means that he was getting bullied by the smaller kid.

Hahhahahaha dumb blonde is dumb. Lmao @ this response