lolwut?

Mr Chuck Norris · Mar 17, 2009

6:31 Jose Calderon makes dunk (Shawn Marion assists)

um can i see video proof

nolimitnp · Mar 17, 2009

Mr Chuck Norris said:

6:31 Jose Calderon makes dunk (Shawn Marion assists)

um can i see video proof
Click to expand...

What are you talking about?

REEKO_HTOWN · Mar 17, 2009

posting while on hallucinogens is not recommended.

david_rocket · Mar 17, 2009

haha another random thread

tmac2therack · Mar 17, 2009

Hes obiviously talking about that Calderon dunked it which has happen before so I dont think its that big of a deal?

baller4life315 · Mar 17, 2009

If that's true at least the Raptors are trying to be entertaining while they lose and set the world of basketball back about 200 years.

RAID · Mar 17, 2009

The real Chuck Norris does not approve of this thread

Bob Monkeyson · Mar 17, 2009

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eiqBx5eLrXo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eiqBx5eLrXo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

HipHopSince1981 · Mar 17, 2009

Bob Monkeyson said:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eiqBx5eLrXo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eiqBx5eLrXo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Click to expand...

nice.. didn't know he could dunk.. nice st. pattys dad jerseys haha

HipHopSince1981 · Mar 17, 2009

*day

guess the players don't like them

LINK

SHAMROCK SHAME
TheStar.com | NBA | Green gear has Raptors feeling like league joke
Green gear has Raptors feeling like league joke

For a minute yesterday, fans at the Air Canada Centre might have figured they were the beneficiaries of some glorious mistake.

They'd come to see the boring old Raptors against the blasé Pacers and yet – wonder of wonders! – there, running pre-game layups on the Bay St. hardwood were the Boston Celtics, the tradition-soaked defending champions in their shamrock-emblazoned warm-up jerseys.

Talk about the luck of the Irish.

Actually, the Celtics were not in the building. It was the Raptors wearing shamrock-emblazoned warm-up jerseys as part of an NBA merchandising gimmick. Seems the league got tired of watching beer companies and folks who make green food colouring make all the profit on St. Patrick's Day.

So it has been a few years now that a handful of teams have been wearing special-edition green gear in games leading up to March17. Nobody in Raptorland registered a word of public complaint until yesterday, when the shamrock, an image undeniably synonymous with the Celtics, was unveiled.

After the Raptors won their first game in eight tries, 110-87, you would have been excused for checking that three-leaf clover for an extra appendage. But Toronto hoopsters who care about little things like team identity and taking pride in the uniform – trivial stuff in this everything-for-a-dollar era – were not exactly amused.

"I've already registered my complaint," Anthony Parker said.

Said Shawn Marion, in his mock PA announcer's voice: "The Toronto Celtics!"

Chris Bosh shook his head at the shamrock, which will be worn again tonight in Charlotte, N.C.

"Wackness," said Bosh.

A few Raptor players weren't the only ones ticked off. The Boston Globe reported that the L.A. Lakers were "quietly not in favour" of the league selling green Lakers' T-shirts with a small shamrock on the sleeve. One assumes the Lakers would have been loudly not in favour if they'd been roped into wearing warm-up tops bearing the logo of their historic rivals. A self-respecting team, one that considers the Celtics a hated competitor and not a corporate partner, might have even refused to wear them.

Give Parker credit: He wore his regular red warm-up jersey to get loose for the second half. And though he wouldn't cop to corporate disobedience, he said: "It was a little odd wearing somebody else's logo on my shirt."

GM Bryan Colangelo said it was "awkward" to see his team decked in a Celtics identifier. And though he pointed out that the St. Patrick's Day merchandising was an initiative of the league office, he also acknowledged the team "bought in" to the plan.

Was it much ado about nothing? This was the view put forth by the Raptors' lone Irishman, Patrick O'Bryant.

Yes, we know, O'Bryant appears as Irish as, say, Shaquille O'Neal. But the new world's melting pot produces no end of zig-zag lineages, so follow the bloodline: O'Bryant's mother, Kim Collins, is a Caucasian descendant of Irish immigrants. His father, Patrick O'Bryant, isn't Irish – he is an African-American who just happened to hand down a name worthy of a Dublin address.

"Everybody's saying it's the Celtics logo. It's just a clover, a symbol of Ireland," said O'Bryant. "It would be the same if they had Prehistoric Day and everybody in the NBA had a dinosaur on their jerseys."

Just when fans of the team thought they were out from under the laughingstock that was the team's original uniforms – those chock-with-purple, cartoon-dinosaur monstrosities – Toronto's NBA punching bags made themselves the butt of another sartorial punchline.

Said Jason Kapono, laughing at the absurdity of it all: "Shamrocks and shenanigans. ... All we need now is a couple of pints of Guinness in the water bottles. Just don't let the fans know."
Click to expand...

REEKO_HTOWN · Mar 17, 2009

the league office does it again folks^^^I did see a few fans in NO wearing green shirts with "shamrocks" on them last night. I'm pretty sure that IS a Celtics logo.

durvasa · Mar 17, 2009

REEKO_HTOWN said:

the league office does it again folks^^^I did see a few fans in NO wearing green shirts with "shamrocks" on them last night. I'm pretty sure that IS a Celtics logo.
Click to expand...

I don't understand the fascination with St. Patrick's day, and definitely don't see how it is so significant that the NBA thinks it needs to market it.

Forums

lolwut?

Mr Chuck Norris Member

nolimitnp Member

REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

david_rocket Member

tmac2therack Member

baller4life315 Member

RAID Member

Bob Monkeyson Member

HipHopSince1981 Member

HipHopSince1981 Member

REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

durvasa Member

Share This Page

About ClutchFans

Rockets Content

Support ClutchFans!