Category: sports

In case you haven’t seen this yet. Pretty amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRzKhjjAtU
Here’s the same play from another angle.

OK. Here’s my criteria: Only players that played between 1974 and now are eligible. Players must have played in at least 500 games or played over 12000 minutes in their career. Only NBA stats count. The rest of the breakdown is subjective, since I like to make stuff up.

First Team

G – Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – 90.5%		G – Ray Allen – 88.7%
F – Rick Barry – 89.3%	C – Dirk Nowitzki – 86.9%		F – Larry Bird – 88.6%

Second Team
G – Mark Price – 90.4%
G – Calvin Murphy – 89.2%
F – Kiki Vandeweghe – 87.2%
F – Peja Stojakovic – 89.2%
C – Jack Sikma – 84.9%

Honorable Mention
G – Steve Nash – 89.7%
G – Reggie Miller – 88.8%
F – Ricky Pierce – 87.5%
F – Chris Mullin – 86.5
C – Mike Gminski – 84.3%

Didn’t make the cut/Could be on a future list
G – Jeff Hornacek – 87.7% (he had to make the list because of his free-throw ritual — you know — the cheek thing)
G – Scott Skiles – 88.9% (gotta love his gritty play and his gritty coaching)
G – Sam Cassell – 86.0% (if it weren’t for his complainin’…)
F – Wally Szcerbiak – 86.2% (barely made the minimum # of games cut)
F – Glen Rice – 84.6% (he played for the Heat, Lakers and the Knicks — that’s enough to bump him down here)
C – Bill Laimbeer – 83.7% (how can “Crybaby” Laimbeer not at least be mentioned?)

OK, so I’ve been getting back into table tennis. I could certainly use the exercise.

We had a table tennis tourney at church last Sunday and it was a lot of fun. I need some practice. I’m not used to playing singles.

I’ve been playing a little at work, however it’s mostly been NPH Volleypong. We have our own logo and Facebook group if you’re interested.

I’ve also been cruising around Youtube checking out the guys that are really good at table tennis.

Some of the notable players: Jan-Ove Waldner, Vladimir Samsonov, Timo Boll, Ma Lin, Jorgen Persson, Zoran Primorac, etc. (There’s no Americans in the ITTF Top 100, incidentally). I think I like watching Samsonov, Waldner and Boll the most.

So, here’s some of the better videos from Youtube:

Waldner vs Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner domination – Waldner basically embarrasses this guy. Yikes.
Timo Boll age 4 to 1996 – Neat video history of Timo Boll growing up playing table tennis
Samsanov vs Boll

It didn’t surprise me to read that there could be other NBA referees caught in the F.B.I. dragnet.  While they may not face criminal charges, they could be slapped down by the N.B.A.

Stern could face some serious credibility issues after his emphatic statements about Donaghy being a “rogue, isloated criminal.”

I hope this all gets resolved by the beginning of the NBA season in October.  I really don’t want any shadows over what’s shaping up to be an interesting year in the league.

Here’s how it played out last night, while out shopping at Target with my family: I was walking down one of the food aisles looking for some Cracker Jacks to take to camp this week. A guy walked around the corner and I looked at his shirt. Lo and behold it’s a really cool Bucks shirt.

As I was standing there stunned in amazement, my wife blurts out, “Excuse me, are you a Bucks fan?”

They guys says, “Naah, I’m just a basketball fan.”

Smiling, I said something like , “C’mon, tell me you’re a Bucks fan. I mean there’s not many of us around and they need all the help we can get. I went to a T’wolves vs Bucks game over Christmas and I met the other three Bucks fans. It’d be nice to know there’s another one around.”

He says, “Now if they came to Kansas City, then I’d definitely be a fan.”

I like his attitude. Too bad it’s probably going to be the Sonics coming to town.