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15 Footer 3/1/12: It’s the First of the Month. Wake up.

Please watch the whole video, since the bridge at the end includes an awesome jersey sighting. Bonus points if you watch the video and tell me whose jersey it is in the comments. (Note: No actual points will be awarded.)

Oklahoma City Thunder @ Orlando Magic (8PM, TNT)
Based on how poorly the Magic played against the Wizards last night, I’m assuming the Thunder take this one handily. We can apply Skeets’s TNT theory to this one, folks: the first game of the TNT double-header will most likely be a blowout.

 

Minnesota Timberwolves @ Phoenix Suns (9PM, LEAGUE PASS FREE TRIAL THIS WEEK)
I highly suggest using your League Pass to check this game out. Rubio + Nash = sweet sweet love to assist-making. I would not be surprised if this game had the record for most combined assists by both teams ever.

 

Los Angeles Clippers @ Sacramento Kings (10PM, LEAGUE PASS FREE TRIAL THIS WEEK)
This season has been really good to the Clippers and the Kings. The Clippers are no longer “LA’s other team” as they’ve skyrocketed into relevance and playoff contention (and the top of the division!). The Kings have stumbled upon a stud point guard in Isaiah Thomas with the 60th pick in the draft, but more importantly, the city, team, and league have worked out an arrangement for a new arena to keep the team in Sacramento for a long time to come.

Easy there, Chris Tucker.

Miami Heat @ Portland Trail Blazers (10:30PM, TNT)
No matter good the Heat may be, NEVER underestimate the Blazers in the Rose Garden. Plus, to continue Skeets’s theory, the 2nd game of the TNT double-header is usually a close one. AccuScore has this matchup pretty even in its projections. Bosh is out tonight, so Aldridge will probably have some fun in the paint.

Enjoy the games!

Got Skillz: Kanye and Jay-Z, LeBron and Wade

Photo courtesy of Billboard.com.

This edition of Got Skillz is not, strictly speaking, about the musical pursuits of basketball players. As anybody with a functional Twitter account no doubt is well aware, last night saw the release of Watch the Throne, the hotly anticipated new album from Kanye West and Jay-Z. The track “Gotta Have It” features this line from Kanye: “Ain’t that where the Heat play?/N***as hate ballers these days/Ain’t that like LeBron James?” To which Jay responds: “Ain’t that just like D-Wade?” Rappers name-check ballers all the time, but this one felt strikingly appropriate. An album-length collaboration from Kanye and Hov is more or less equivalent to LeBron and Wade teaming up in Miami, and comes with many of the same questions.
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