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'Lob City' just landed K-Mart.

DROGBA JUST SCORED FOR IVORY COAST!!!!!

WOW!! Arsenal [7 - 1] Blackburn R. Three goals by Van Persie and two by A. Oxlade-Chamberlain among others.

Plus they beat the Jazz in Utah.

2012 Africa Cup of Nations -- 1/4-Finals: Zambia - Sudan 3:0 Ivory Coast - Equator. Guinea (later today)

J.R. Smith on the way too: Source

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http://nbcprobasketballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/los-angeles-clippers-blake-griffin-dunks-the-ball-on-an-alley-oop-pass-from-mo-williams-against-the-toronto-raptors-during-the-first-half-of-an-nba-basketball-game-in-los-angeles-on-sa.jpeg Stardom in the NBA runs through two distinct but intertwined economies. At the top is a championship economy, in which a player can only be gauged by his ability to collect rings. The feeder for the championship economy comes from the league's highlight reels and never-ending excitement over Tremendous Upside Potential. Most NBA superstars pay their dues in the highlight economy before graduating to the bulletproof status of being "champions." In fact, when a player in the highlight economy doesn't graduate, he is branded a selfish disappointment, the gift from God who refused to give back to the city that worshipped him. All this is obvious — it's how fans and the media have judged players for years. Isaiah Rider is x. Bruce Bowen is y. Can Carmelo Anthony be y, or is he, like Tracy McGrady before him, just another brilliant x who perpetually teased us with an imminent but never actualized transformation? Over the past decade, those lines have been blurred by a new way of watching basketball. There are now players whose contributions to the highlight economy are so visibly staggering and so efficiently distributed that these athletes take on a different sort of superstardom. The expectations of graduation come almost immediately — once enough people have watched your videos on YouTube, some of them are going to say, "It doesn't mean anything until he wins a championship." Vince Carter was a prototype for the new hype — a year after breaking the dunk contest, Vinsanity took the Raptors to the East semifinals, where he lost to Allen Iverson's Sixers in one of the most thrilling playoff series of the last 25 years. Famously, on the morning of Game 7, Vince flew to Chapel Hill to walk in his college graduation ceremony. Twelve hours later, he finished a stinker of a game by missing a 20-footer at the buzzer. The media immediately questioned Vince's commitment to basketball while lauding Iverson's determination, and the storyline for both men's careers were set. Iverson now gets more credit for hauling that Sixers team to the Finals than most players get for actually winning a championship, while Vince — fairly — has become the icon for aimless basketball talent. Vince was 24 years old in 2001. Since then, the path between the highlight economy and the championship economy has become both steeper and shorter. Players used to be allowed five, six years within the highlight economy before their desire/ability to win came into question. Now, the timetable lasts about two years.The arrival of Blake Griffin — the man who made "Timofey" an acceptable spelling of "Timothy" — has supercharged the highlight hype machine. He has played exactly 100 NBA games. Before this season started, several pundits were calling him one of the best players in the NBA, including ESPN's preseason #NBARank, which listed him at no. 10. Full Story

Blake Griffin won't enter dunk contest

Reserve Judgment: Stein's All-Star Benches

Magic suspend Davis 2 games for detrimental conduct ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Orlando forward Glen Davis has been suspended for two games by the Magic for conduct detrimental to the team. Davis will miss Friday's home game against Cleveland and Saturday's game at Indiana. Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy acknowledged before Friday night's game that some sort of verbal incident took place during the team's walkthrough Friday morning, but denied anything physical occurred between the two. The Magic are also expected to play Friday night without starting point guard Jameer Nelson, who missed his fourth straight game with concussion symptoms. Davis is averaging 7.3 points and 5.0 rebounds. He's appeared in 22 games with one start. Source

The current odds: http://i43.tinypic.com/68r7rn.jpg

Well, like I said, the guy led his team to the semis of the World Championships averaging 14.7 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 3.6 assists , and became the only non-NBA player to make the all-tournament team.

Many people pick up Blake: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-clippers-fyi-20120203,0,7982635.story

What he said. And a happy belated b-day to my man Art!!

Game #20, LAC vs. DEN 91-112, (13-7, 3rd West) http://i40.tinypic.com/ipze2t.jpg The Clippers four-game winning streak came to an end as the Denver Nuggets beat L.A. 112-91 at STAPLES Center on Thursday night. Blake Griffin led the way with 18 points while Chris Paul tallied 15 points and nine assists in the losing effort.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/2012/images/02/02/west-starters-t1.jpg ^ Almost an All-L.A. All-Star lineup.

Wo-awww!!! :o COOL!!!!

A great feat. Imagine if he hadn't went to Dallas for 6 years (1998-'04). Would've had like 9,500 dimes in 15 seasons.

Game #19, LAC @ UTA 107-105, (13-6, 2nd West) http://www.nba.com/clippers/photos/post-670-120101.jpg Chris Paul had 34 points and 11 assists as the Clippers finished up their three-game road trip with a 107-105 win over the Jazz in Utah on Wednesday night. Blake Griffin also tallied a double-double (31 points, 14 rebounds) while Mo Williams came off the bench to score 19.

Anyhow, well deserved. There was a certain difference of opinion between me and 'ALCStarHeel' a few years ago but... ALCS, if you're somewhere there 1,124 miles away from STAPLES Center reading this: ALCS = my dude dood! Šhãłïq misses you, dawg. And Šhãłïq is pretty sure the rest of the board feels the same way... Respect.