THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL MVP EQUALS NBA TITLE.Back to hurry-up-and-wait mode, the Lakers have almost a full week to ponder whether they'll be thrown to the T'wolves or dine with Kings. As if it matters, they all say. Well, it kinda does. As Allen St. John points out in a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, every team that has won an NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= championship since 1991 has had a current or former regular-season MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. in its lineup. The streak started after Magic Johnson won it in 1990 but then had to watch as Detroit beat Portland in the finals. For the three years after that, Chicago won with Michael Jordan as the MVP for the first two of those seasons. Hakeem ha·keem n. Variant of hakim1. Noun 1. hakeem - a Muslim physician hakim Moslem, Muslim - a believer in or follower of Islam doc, doctor, physician, Dr. Olajuwon's Houston Rockets won back-to-back in '94 (when he was MVP) and '95. Jordan came back for three more titles ('96-'98), where he was MVP twice more. < David Robinson, the MVP in '95, helped San Antonio to the '99 strike-shortened title. Shaquille O'Neal was the 2000 MVP for the first of three consecutive Lakers titles. Last year, it went back to San Antonio, which had Robinson and two-time MVP Tim Duncan. Now, Minnesota has the reigning MVP, Kevin Garnett. Bad news. Scanning Sacramento's raggedy rag·ged·y adj. rag·ged·i·er, rag·ged·i·est Tattered or worn-out; ragged. roster, there are three ex-Lakers, the son of a USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. coach, a guy who lied to a grand jury about receiving benefits in college and someone named Jabari. But no MVPs. The Lakers do have one more weapon should the Garnett factor come into play: In addition to Shaq, Karl Malone ('97 and '99) has two MVP trophies, and another former MVP, Charles Barkley ('93) has been inciting him by making comments about his chiseled chis·eled or chis·elled adj. Made or shaped with or as if with a chisel: a finely chiseled nose. Adj. 1. physique. Whatever it takes. ... --Does Kobe Bryant showin' up to his postgame news conference Saturday in a Derek Jeter Yankees road jersey imply he wishes he was an eligible bachelor again running around with a credit card in the Big Apple? Or was that the only No. 2 jersey left in town to buy? ... --Not that he's bitter or anything, but Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy Jeff Van Gundy (born January 19, 1962 in Hemet, California) is an American basketball head coach, most recently with the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets. Van Gundy attended Nazareth College (1985). said it about Derek Fisher's game-winning heave with four-tenths of a second left to end the Lakers-Spurs Game 5: ``I think that rule is a total farce,'' Van Gundy said while taking up a seat in the TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. studios during the Lakers-Spurs Game 6 coverage Saturday night. ``I don't know how you have to tip it with .3 of a second, but you can deal out with .4 of a second ... a text turn and shoot and have it count. ``I think (the Spurs) took an unbelievable blow because I think that, without a doubt, that was an illegal shot.'' ... --LeBron James, added to the U.S. Olympic basketball team last week, might find his way onto an NBA All-Star roster someday. ... --Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling named the 2004 Humanitarian of the Year by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation is something to sneeze at. ... --If David Stern needs more reason to bristle at the thought of having an NBA franchise in Vegas, here's a quote from Tanyon Sturtze, the 33- year-old pitcher who the Dodgers traded from their Vegas Triple-A team to the Yankees: ``It's tough to pull yourself away from the craps craps: see dice. craps Gambling game in which each player in turn throws two dice, attempting to roll a winning combination. The term derives from a Louisiana French word, crabs, which means “losing throw. table and the blackjack blackjack, one of the world's most widely played gambling card games; also known as twenty-one or vingt-et-un. Despite contesting claims between the French and Italians, its origins are unknown. table to go to the ballpark.'' ... --Roy Jones Jr., you've been served. ... --The Mets can dispatch Mike Piazza to first base, but come this summer's All-Star Game, he'll probably be voted in as the starting catcher for the NL team - and calling pitches for Roger Clemens. ... --So whatever happened to Anna Kournikova? A well-known razor-blade company has hired her as a spokeswoman for its ``Search for the Completely Irresistible Face.'' Face it. She's through. ... --Sony Pictures thinks it can squeeze a movie from theMichael Lewis book, ``Moneyball,'' by making it a biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] of Oakland Athletics GM Billy Bean. The studio has already bought the rights. For your consideration: cast Shawn Green, who made an appearance in ``The Core,'' as Paul DePodesta. |
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