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First, Yanni screwed up the scheduling in the NHL playoffs. Now the WWE and the NBA are butting heads over next Monday at the Pepsi Center in Denver. The best part is Vince McMahon knows he can't win this fight, but the man so loves playing the heel that he's milking this thing for every bit of WWE PR that it's worth. Unlike the NHL, which accommodated the date and adjusted the Penguins-Capitals series, the NBA doesn't seem like it's going to budge.
Thoughts on that, McMahon?
Without a quick resolution, McMahon plans to send his trucks to Denver."That's what we intend to do," he said. "We're going to show up."
This potentially sets up the smackdown of all smackdowns. A fight fit for the cages. In one corner, David Stern, who checks in at about 5-foot-5, 160 lbs. In the other corner, we've got McMahon who checks in at 6-foot-3, 248 lbs.
I'm not a fight handicapper -- and it's obvious that McMahon will have an advantage when it comes to size -- but in the Rocky Mountain Rumble (If you use that, McMahon, I'M COMIN' FOR YA!) I'll take Stern, just as LSUFreek did.
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At least Vinny Mac and WWE don’t claim to be legit…Remember that comment when the Lake Show have 2:1 FT advantage.
by brdavids on May 19, 2009 9:26 AM EDT reply actions
uhhh…the wrestling guy booked the arena a looong time ago….i don’t know what the nuggets are gonna do…it’s really not his problem.
by lordhlatts on May 19, 2009 9:26 AM EDT reply actions
LMAO off "Stern-Taker"… LSUfreek does it again! hahah
by 47 straight on May 19, 2009 10:15 AM EDT reply actions
Nice work, brdavids. Stern should take a page from McMahon and just admit that the fix is in. We all know that it is.
by ChiAdam on May 19, 2009 12:23 PM EDT reply actions
It’s Denver’s fault. When they made the playoffs, they knew the schedule and that they’d possibly still be in at this point, yet they went ahead and booked WWE. It’s WWE’s arena that night, make Denver play at a neutral site or forfeit home court if the NBA is unwilling to change the date of the game, it’s only right that Denver’s stupidity should cost them.
by ModMind.tsn on May 19, 2009 12:25 PM EDT reply actions
Awesome work on the photoshop LSUfreek.
by fsutis on May 19, 2009 12:31 PM EDT reply actions
Good Stuff Freek
by Trojan Lore on May 19, 2009 1:46 PM EDT reply actions
Vince will move the event, after he hypes the whole thing up, and after a pay out an da possible appology to the WWE fans in Denver that have to go elsewhere
by The Spike on May 19, 2009 2:04 PM EDT reply actions
"McMahon knows he can’t win this fight"….Don’t be so sure. It’s easy to assume that the "real" sport of the NBA would prevail over the "choreographed" sport of the WWE, but we don’t know what the contracts state. It’s going to be the language of the contract between the arena and the WWE that is going to determine the victor if an accomodation isn’t reached…and you can be assured that any accomodation will include money in McMahon’s pocket, which sounds like a win to me…in fact, he already has won because of the publicity he has gotten today in the mainstream sports media…..
by leeparks on May 19, 2009 3:06 PM EDT reply actions
BTW, why are you using a video of Shane McMahon getting clobbered?
by leeparks on May 19, 2009 3:07 PM EDT reply actions
That isn’t Shane.
by ChiAdam on May 19, 2009 3:50 PM EDT reply actions
NO thats a younger Vince…musta been a few years back. But, I have to agree with Vince, they booked it almost a year ago, and If the Nuggets thought there might even be a remote chance the Nuggets may be there they shouldnt have booked it, or did a pending clause in the contract. Way to have faith in your team there sport.
by steelers7fan on May 19, 2009 4:05 PM EDT reply actions
Great shop Freek. Hopefully a lot more people get to see them now.
by clubgopher on May 19, 2009 6:03 PM EDT reply actions
I HAVE THE SOLUTION.
The NBA game should be played…. but the game should be produced and run- by Vince McMahon- like a WWE show, replete with blatantly crooked refs, run-ins by non-combatants, foreign objects, T&A, locker-room-clearing melees, teammates turning on each other, and David Stern coming down the aisle to his own theme song to have the Last Word on some show-altering disagreement.
That’s how they SHOULD do it… but most corporate people are p*ssies, so it most likely won’t go down that way.
by Raisin' up off the cot on May 19, 2009 6:07 PM EDT reply actions
Great job Freek!
by BamaLXA on May 19, 2009 7:20 PM EDT reply actions
Just replace JR Smith and Lamar Odom with John Cena and Triple-H and everyone here will be happy.
Oh and put some barbed wire around the court and a few easily accessable folding chairs and tables.
by npcPronk29 on May 19, 2009 9:00 PM EDT reply actions
That freek is awesome
by BF1137 on May 19, 2009 9:33 PM EDT reply actions
The WWE, or sports equivalent of Ashlee Simpson, will take the free pub and a handout and be back to obscurity.
by MyBiznitchIsTheShiznit on May 19, 2009 10:30 PM EDT reply actions
True, WWE is staged, but where are the NBA apologists when we end up with a Lakers-Cavs Finals?
by EMajorwitz on May 20, 2009 6:52 AM EDT reply actions
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