Hello visitors and fans of That NBA Lottery Pick, this post is to wish all of you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving.

Enjoy the turkey, stuffing, and the NBA doubleheader on TNT.

We'll be off till Monday, Enjoy Thankgiving and don't forget to eat your ham-hocks.

Last Night, Golden State Warriors fans could understand if the team was a little tired after their victory against the Dallas Mavericks.

The reason why? Well, the Warriors only played six guys. We get more from Deep Six: A Warriors Fan Blog

For more than a year, the Warriors have been busy making excuses. Over the last four games, they’ve been busy making statements. The loudest and clearest one yet came Tuesday night with the 111-103 win against the Mavericks. Down to 6 healthy players (and one D-League call-up), missing their head coach, on the road, and facing a team with five wins in a row, the Warriors had plenty of prime ways to explain away a loss. They didn’t need them. The supposedly not-ready-for-prime-time youngsters looked awfully ready — playing through turnovers, mistakes, and cramps to come from behind in a gutsy show of focus and intensity. Take almost any dismissive statement directed at the youth over the past year — Curry and Ellis can’t play together, Randolph makes too many mistakes, Morrow is too one dimensional, Ellis isn’t a leader, none of them can play defense. This game just provided a concise and spirited rebuttal.

It is pretty impressive if you think about it: Monta Ellis, Anthony Morrow, and Vladimir Radmanovic played the entire game against a pretty stacked Dallas opponent.

This was the first time that a team won with six players since the Baltimore Bullets way back in 1960's. Remember those great teams led by Earl Monroe and Wes Unseld? The last time that a team dressed only six players was the Pacers after the "Malice in the Palace" back in 2004.

So big ups to the Golden State Warriors, they again prove the theory that playing for 48 minutes actually means playing all 48 minutes.

Recently, I was sent this post by UnAthletic Mag about the change that Chris Kaman's hair went through during his career and his improved play when he cut his hair.

Seriously, there was a period of time where Chris Kaman looked like the guy who you expected to come through the door during horror movie holding an ax.

Some of the below pictures remind me of something that you would see in an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery. If you have children who are squeamish, look away from the HORROR, the HORROR.

PostScript- Apologizes to Chris Kaman for any harm done to his dating life from this post.

This is one of those days that I regret that I did stay up to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live as his guest was Lakers forward Ron Artest.

Artest, a TNLP favorite, decided to do the interview in his drawers and well, I mean it's Ron Artest, he said interesting and non-sensical things in his drawers.

The real question was Jimmy Kimmel Live ready for Ron Artest? I'm still trying to answer that question.

Remember the story about Shaquille O'Neal becoming a Deputy Sheriff in Cleveland, Ohio?

Well, the Cleveland Metro Police Department has decided that they are not going to just hand over the badge to the Big Aristotelian.

We get more from the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

It won't be easy for Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal to become a deputy in Ohio, according to a report.

O'Neal, who has a brief history in law enforcement, applied to become a special deputy in Ohio.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Sunday that he must pass a test and undergo training first.

"It appears that Mr. O'Neal will need to undergo substantial additional training as well as successful completion of the state certification examination before he can become a certified peace officer in the state of Ohio," Holly Hollingsworth, spokeswoman for the state attorney general, said.

Shaq was a special deputy sheriff when he was with the Miami Heat. Just think of the image if your a criminal and your getting chased by Shaquille O'Neal.

C'Mon Cleveland, I'm pretty sure that the police could use some back-up with a city that has a relatively high crime rate. I guess that NBA Championship means more, huh?

I'll bet a fair amount of cash that most of you NBA fans out there in the interweb have idea which NBA players is pictured above. That's back-up Memphis Grizzlies center and first Iranian in the NBA, Hamed Haddidi.

Recently, Haddidi's Grizzlies faced off against the Los Angeles Clippers where a mispronunication about Haddidi's home of Iran made by Los Angeles Clippers TV announcers Ralph Lawler and Mike Smith got them suspended from yesterday's Clippers/Nuggets game.

We get more from the LA Times:

Veteran play-by-play man Ralph Lawler and analyst Mike Smith (above, left and right) were suspended for tonight's Clippers telecast on Fox Sports Prime Ticket for comments made during Wednesday's telecast, according to sources with knowledge of the decision but not authorized to speak publicly.

Wednesday's comments came near the end of a dreary Clippers loss, 106-91, in Memphis as rookie Haddadi, a 7-foot-2 center and the first Iranian player in the NBA, came into the game.

In a 40-second exchange Lawler and Smith began talking about Haddadi. A Clippers fan who watched Wednesday’s telecast complained about the verbal exchange and said he received an apology today from Fox Sports.

Here is the exchange:

Smith: “Look who’s in.”

Lawler: “Hamed Haddadi. Where’s he from?”

Smith: “He’s the first Iranian to play in the NBA.” (Smith pronounced Iranian as “Eye-ranian,” a pronunciation that offended the viewer who complained.)

Lawler: “There aren’t any Iranian players in the NBA,” repeating Smith’s mispronunciation.

Smith: “He’s the only one.”

Lawler: “He’s from Iran?”

Smith: “I guess so.”

Lawler: “That Iran?”

Smith: Yes.

Lawler: “The real Iran?”

Smith: “Yes.”

Lawler: “Wow. Haddadi – that’s H-A-D-D-A-D-I.”

Smith: “You’re sure it’s not Borat’s older brother?”

Smith: “If they ever make a movie about Haddadi, I’m going to get Sacha Baron Cohen to play the part.”

Lawler: “Here’s Haddadi. Nice little back-door pass. I guess those Iranians can pass the ball.”

Smith: “Especially the post players.

Lawler: “I don’t know about their guards.”

I'm usually the first person to defend other races and racism but why should someone be forced to apologize for a mispronuciation of a word. Really, he pronouced it "EYE-Rian", wow. That is something to not get bent out of shape out.

I could understand someone complaning regarding the Borat comment but a mispronuciation of Iranian is pushing the envelope a bit. How many of us probably would have made the same mistake? Maybe, the anonymous person who called this in should be more concerned with other things.

The one that I do know about the Japanese is that their love their trading cards from Pokemon to Dragon Ball Z. These might arguably be the funniest one that I have seen as NBA players based on Kings of Fighters video game.

These photoshopped cards include Steve Nash, Ron Artest, Shaq, and many others. I will say though, I would never mess with the Vince Carter one.

For the entire set: check it out and this link









(Courtesy of Hardwood Paroxysm and Last Angry Fan)

The battle for futility happened Saturday between the win less New Jersey Nets and the "2 Win Crew" of the New York Knicks.

The Knicks were able to pull out the victory by the score of 98-91. However, one of the more interesting happenings was at the end of the first quarter when New York Knicks guard Nate Robinson shot at his own basket.

The shot went in and Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni flipped out although the shot did not count. I can understand that Robinson wanted to practice his jump shot but still, you never shot at your own basket when any time left on the clock. Think if the Knicks lost by three and the shot counted.

The sad thing is that the Nets still lost. Even this fiasco cannot mire that.

(Courtesy of Hoops Haven)

In news that seems unlikely but is actually true, Marv Albert appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show Wednesday night and allegedly got into a scuffle with members of rapper 50 Cent's entourage.

We get more from Sportress of Blogitude:

As Albert arrived, with an entourage of one, TNT public relations specialist Jeff Pomeroy, there was a sudden scuffle when a multitude of 50 Cent protectors seemed unfamiliar with Albert. There was shouting (”It’s Marv Albert,” yelled a Kimmel show guard, a pronouncement that seemed to have no effect on the 50 Cent phalanx.) There were obscenities. A fist or two flying. A “Don’t you put your hands on me” pronouncement.

"Albert hits him with a right hook, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"

Anyway, 50's got to look for some new entourage members. How in the world did the offending members of his entourage have no idea who Marv Albert is? He used to be the voice of the New York Knicks for god's sake. That should have give him enough street cred as is.



(Courtesy of Sportress of Blogitude)