'Good Game, Daddy,' Said Chris Paul's 2-Year-Old Son

From the AP's Clippers-Spurs recap:

Clippers' All-Star Chris Paul needed no reminder that his wretched performance contributed to the Spurs' 108-92 victory over Los Angeles in the opener of the Western Conference semifinals on Tuesday night.

He just needed to deliver the message to his kid.

"Good game, Daddy," Paul's young son told this father in the locker room.

"No, bad game," Paul answered. "Daddy had a bad game. Daddy couldn't make a shot."

Do you see what you've done Gregg Popovich? Are you happy now, Spurs fans? Chris Paul's son just found out his Daddy's not invincible, life's not just one big party full of laughter and triumphant press conferences, and now WE MAY NEVER SEE THE BLAKE FACE AGAIN.

Isn't growing up the worst?

(HT @jeskeets)

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by Andrew Sharp • May 16, 2012 10:21 AM EDT

Watch The Throne, Y'All

SERBIAN BACHELOR REMIX.

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by Andrew Sharp • May 16, 2012 7:08 AM EDT

Explain The Internet, Explain The World

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea.

That's from a feature on Yahoo and Flickr over at Gizmodo, and you can check out the full article here. Or, if you want, maybe just watch this scene from Hackers.

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by Andrew Sharp • May 15, 2012 1:07 PM EDT

Wilt, Elgin, And Summer In 1957

"Over the years, whenever I hear somebody say, 'So-and-so was the greatest there ever was!' I tell them to shut the fuck up," says Willie Jones when asked how good Baylor was. "Don't try to tell me! I've seen the greatest there ever was. I played with the greatest there ever was."

It's long, but Dave McKenna's chronicle of D.C. hoops in the summer 1957 is well-worth your time. There's Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Dave Bing, and a special cameo from Ginuwine, just because.

(Above, Kevin Durant gets ready for a D.C. summer game a half-century later)

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by Andrew Sharp • May 14, 2012 4:14 PM EDT

NOTE: Kevin Garnett Would Die On The Court If He Had To

From Sports Radio Interviews:

How tired he was at the end of the game against the 76ers:

"I’d die out here if I had to and that’s real talk. I’ve been doing this for a long time and ways where I know how to conserve energy and get ‘em at free throw lines and when guys are shooting free throws, those are valuable seconds for me. ... I program my body to recover as quickly as it can. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m a cerebral player these days and I know how to buy myself time on pick and rolls and stuff like that, things that you don’t see when you’re in your seat and it helps me."

Hey, sorry Kevin, nobody was listening to the end of that quote because we were all thinking about the first sentence.

And when you think about it, KG totally WOULD die on the court if he had to. Or if not full-on death, he's definitely the player most likely to ignore dehydration and/or play with a fractured leg. Because Kevin Garnett is insane. And that's real talk. Happy Mother's Day.

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by Andrew Sharp • May 14, 2012 3:04 PM EDT

How The Heat Defend Bigger Big Men, And Why It Works

After Chris Bosh's injury in Game 1, you might have watched the Heat and Pacers Sunday and wondered why the bigger, badder Pacers weren't dominating Miami's big men inside. But it's not that simple.

Ethan Strauss does a nice job explaining the problem at Hoops Speak today, and it all centers on the rule changes that legalized zone defense. It's part of what allows Miami to be so dominant on defense (with or without Bosh), and part of why Roy Hibbert isn't as dominant as you'd think.

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by Andrew Sharp • May 14, 2012 10:03 AM EDT

Where Did Kobe Come From?

There is a common misconception that Kobe Bryant is just a younger, better version of his father: Tall professional basketball player sires same. Here is a chip off the old block. Ask those who know both men, though, and you hear something different. "If you'd told me that of all the guys I played with, it was Joe Bryant who would produce one of the greatest players of the next generation, I never would have believed you," says Steve Mix, the All-Star forward who started ahead of Bryant on the 76ers in the late 1970s. "Maybe Mo Cheeks, but never Joe."

— It's worth setting aside a few minutes this afternoon for Chris Ballard's SI feature on Kobe and his dad, Joe "Jellybean" Bryant.

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by Andrew Sharp • May 11, 2012 2:02 PM EDT

Allen Iverson On College Football And His Sitdown With John Thompson

By now it's pretty well known that Allen Iverson was at one point one of the best high school football players in the country. He chose basketball, obviously, but his gridiron legend still lives on thanks to YouTube highlights. And this week, when he sat down with Slam Online to talk about the re-release of his "Question" Reeboks, they started off by talking college football, of all things.

It's pretty great.

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by Andrew Sharp • May 11, 2012 11:52 AM EDT

PHOTO: When The Indiana Pacers Went To Disney World

Space mountain? More like PACE MOUNTAIN.

Or something.

You can read more about the Pacers Disney World visit over at Dime. OH AND ALSO

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by Andrew Sharp • May 10, 2012 1:43 PM EDT