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RAJON RONDO WEARS AWFUL JACKET, GETS MAD AT CAMERAMAN
Inside the NBA is MUST WATCH television after playoff games. Charles and Kenny are on top of their game, Shaq makes me laugh at least once every show, and Ernie does a masterful job jockeying all three.
Last night, they went in on coaches, called Kobe a nuclear weapon, sent the Orlando Magic fishin’, and had some fun with Rajon Rondo’s jacket.
In the video above, Rajondo scolds a cameraman for filming him, saying,
“How many times am I gonna tell you? Stop filming me.”
When asked for Rondo’s reasoning, Barkley said,
“I think he was mad about that jacket he was wearing. ‘I don’t want America to know I’m wearing this jacket. Don’t film me.’”
#GotEmCoach
This afternoon, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed legislation that replaces the death penalty with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole; here’s a portion of his statement upon signing:
My position on the appropriateness of the death penalty in our criminal justice system evolved over a long period of time. As a young man, I was a death penalty supporter. Then I spent years as a prosecutor and pursued dangerous felons in court, including murderers. In the trenches of a criminal courtroom, I learned firsthand that our system of justice is very imperfect. While it’s a good system designed with the highest ideals of our democratic society in mind, like most of human experience, it is subject to the fallibility of those who participate in it. I saw people who were poorly served by their counsel. I saw people wrongly accused or mistakenly identified. I saw discrimination. In bearing witness to those things, I came to believe that doing away with the death penalty was the only way to ensure it would not be unfairly imposed.
Connecticut becomes the seventeenth state to abolish capital punishment and the fifth in five years.
Governor Malloy’s full statement is here.
This made me laugh
For those of you sadly not in the know, the Kennedy Center puts on hour-long free concerts every single night, with local as well as out-of-town performers on its Millennium Stage.
The Kennedy Center is Metro-accessible: simply take the Blue or Orange Line to the Foggy Bottom-GWU stop and catch the Kennedy Center Shuttle from there.
Each week I’ll post the schedule on Monday. Enjoy!
Dr. Martin Luther King Was Assassinated On This Date In 1968
He was, more than any single man, the voice and the instrument of the second American revolution. He materialized out of the streets and the Jim Crow churches of the South a dozen years ago, preaching brotherhood and nonviolence to a divided and violent land. For a time, incredibly, it worked- until the very forces he had helped set in in motion swept past him and turned the black ghettos of America into battlegrounds. Yet King never gave up, and he was trying to prove his way would work again then a white assassin cut him down last week in Memphis- and dealt a perilous wound to the American soul.
Newsweek April 15, 1968
SUPER WHATNOT
#VanillaYear
Hahaha… YES!
Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.
This confirms my beliefs as a child that Charles Oakley is the meanest basketball player to ever live. If they make a movie about his life Charlie Murphy will star as Charles Oakley. Two of the meanest darkest mf’s to ever roam this earth
Charles Barkley is great. I love Charles Barkley. But if you spend any time looking for a former NBA player who’s more fun to listen to, you’re wasting it.
Chuck is being funny. He’s telling jokes. Oak is being himself. He’s telling it like it is (from his perspective). Here’s his rap sheet, and here are his latest comments on Sir Charles:
“Barkley for his size was a good player but he’s a coward, though. … He wasn’t a leader and wasn’t a role model. Now he talks so bad about younger guys, I don’t respect that from him. … He wants to be funny, that whole TNT thing and all that, they’re like some clowns on that show.”
Okay. Sounds like Oakley’s working up a lather here. Oakley on Kevin Garnett:
“He’s one of the weakest guys to ever play the game. He’s a complementary player and went to Paul Pierce’s team and won a championship. I wouldn’t consider him a top 10 tough guy.”
Now, that’s not fair. It was Ray Allen’s team too. Kevin Garnett went to Paul Pierce AND Ray Allen’s team to win a championship. And I wouldn’t consider Garnett a top 100 tough guy. That feels better.
On Kendrick Perkins:
He’s just like Garnett. They holler and complain. If Kendrick Perkins would play basketball, Oklahoma City would win a championship the next three or four years. … You’re a power forward, you don’t let guys dunk on you. I played 18, 19 years I got dunked on three times …”
I actually like Perkins, but I do agree he needs to get better to help OKC win a ring. I’m just posting this quote because Charles Oakley is claiming to have only been dunked on three times in his entire career.
That’s just fantastic.
Back To The Future, Phantom City Creative
Truer words have never been spoken
