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• another basketball post

  Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:13PM / Standard Entry

  So it turns out that an investment group in China signed on as minority owners of the Cleveland Cavaliers.  Now articles are popping up about Chinese fans dreaming of Yao Ming moving to Cleveland to be paired up with Lebron James (see here).
  
  My first thought after seeing those articles is .... they got it all wrong.  Lebron James should move to Houston to join Yao there.
  
  First, Tracy McGrady's contract expires in 2010, the same year that Lebron James can hit the open market.  McGrady has a max contract, which is what Lebron would be seeking.  So, if we don't re-sign T-Mac we should have cap room to sign Lebron.
  
  Second, with Yao Ming on the team, Lebron is going to have a ton more fans from China than he already has.  Which will mean more endorsement money for him.  This is probably as good a lure for him versus the attraction of the big market teams like the New York Knicks.
  
  Third, Cleveland's team is pretty weak outside of Lebron.  Houston, on the other hand, has a very strong and balanced team.  They beat the Lakers in the Western Conference Semifinals TWICE without Yao Ming, T-Mac, or backup center Mutombo.
  
  Fourth, Lebron would solve the one huge problem that the Houston Rockets have: SCORING.  The Rockets have always been an incredibly strong defensive team, but their scoring stinks.  Lebron is the best scorer in the game.  He's also quite a decent defender as well.
  
  You could also let go or trade the non-productive players like Brent Barry, Brian Cook, and Dikembe Mutombo (career ending injury) to look for a bigger backup center -- someone like Chris Anderson from the Nuggets or Marcin Gortat from the Magic.  Let's go with Marcin Gortat since he's 5 years younger than Anderson.
  
  Now, just imagine this lineup (where Lebron replaces Tracy McGrady and you sign Marcin Gortat):
  
  Note that it also gets the Rockets a lot younger.  T-Mac is 30, Brian Cook is 28, Brent Barry is 37, Dikembe Mutombo is 42.  Lebron James is 24 and Marcic Gortat is 25.
  
  STARTERS:
  PG - Aaron Brooks (24 years old)
  SG - Shane Battier (30 years old)
  SF - Lebron James (24 years old)
  PF - Luis Scola (29 years old)
  C - Yao Ming (28 years old)
  
  2ND TEAM:
  PG - Kyle Lowry (23 years old)
  SG - Von Wafer (23 years old)
  SF - Ron Artest (29 years old)
  PF - Carl Landry (25 years old)
  C - Marcin Gortat (25 years old)
  
  3RD TEAM
  SG - James White (26 years old)
  PF - Joey Dorsey (25 years old)
  C - Chuck Hayes (25 years old)
  +2 extra roster spots
  
  If you wanted more scoring on the Starting lineup, you could swap Ron Artest and Shane Battier.
  
  Obviously this is a dream scenario, but if the Rockets could somehow pull this off (get Lebron and Marcin), that's a Championship Team right there.
  
  Just imagine this team against either of the two teams going to the Finals this year (Lakers and Magic):
  
  MAGIC
  Yao Ming on Dwight Howard
  Lebron James on Rashard Lewis
  Ron Artest on Hedo Turkoglu
  Shane Battier on Michael Pietrus
  
  LAKERS
  Yao Ming on Pau Gasol
  Ron Artest & Shane Battier on Kobe Bryant
  Lebron James on Lamar Odom
  (or some combination thereof, not sure if that's the best matchup)
  
  This team would be able to shut down just about any offense out there and have some major scoring (Lebron James, Yao Ming, Ron Artest) to boot.
  
  
  

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• pure awesomeness

  Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:42AM / Standard Entry

  fan made trailer for Green Lantern.
  
  soooooo awesome!
  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs
  

  
  
  
  
  

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• weezer in hong kong #2

  Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:56PM / Standard Entry

  Go here and watch this great new Weezer song ("The Greatest Man That Ever Lived"):
  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbnlvjF5PY
  

  
  Then, go here and join the "Weezer in Hong Kong" group (if you live in Hong Kong):
  http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=71782569946
  
  Then invite your friends to join the group!!   We're up to a whopping 73 members (sarcasm) .... only need .... umm .... another thousand or two!!
  
  Oh man .... they are playing the "jisan valley rock festival" in korea on july 24th and the "fuji rock festival" in japan on july 26th.
  
  Tempted.  Very tempted.
  
  
  

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• THANKS!

  Monday, May 11, 2009 12:42PM / Standard Entry

  [update: i added in links for everyone.  if you came to the event and liked any of the performances ... PLEASE go and leave them a guestbook comment to let them know!  thanks.]
  
  big THANKS to everyone for coming to our second anniversary party last night!   we even had folks flying in from new zealand (shorty), singapore (jae leung), japan (mio), malaysia (bleupluie), the uk (junichi kajioka), and a bunch from shanghai (ksenia, loan, zhou, and more)!  cool!
  
  thanks to all the interns and volunteers that helped out with the setup, door, selling, and cleaning up!  thanks to chung for helping record the videos!  thanks to berton for taking photos!
  
  special THANKS to our sponsors: diesel umusic, neway, and becks.
  
  and huge huge THANKS to all the great performers: eccentric, gong wu, fbi, killersoap, 24 herbs, hardpack, li-tong, ryan hui, and josie ho!  you guys all rocked the house last night!!!!  GREAT JOB! 
  
  also, THANKS to everyone for your donation to AIDS CONCERN.  i didn't get a final count, but judging by the number of people at the event, i'm sure we ended up raising a decent amount for them.  yay!    [update: they ended up raising $40,000hkd!!!  AWESOME!]
  
  now on to Year 3!
  
  oh yeah ... forgot to mention this.  for those of you that were wondering where daniel was...he couldn't make it because he's in sichuan right now supporting jet li's one foundation event.  believe me, if there was any way for him to have been at our anniversary party, he would have been there.  but .... you don't say no to jet (and also for such an important cause).
  
  
  

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• super speed

  Friday, May 8, 2009 6:45PM / Standard Entry / Ideas

  hmm, was randomly thinking about this the other day.  if you had super speed (like the flash or the girl in heroes), wouldn't you also have/need the following superhuman powers:
  
  super stamina - they are always running from city to city, state to state, continent to continent.  even if they are way faster than the rest of us, they are still running huge distances.  they'd still need major stamina to do that, right?
  
  super perception - if they are running as fast as a bullet, they'd need to be able to perceive things while moving at that speed.  if everything was just a blur to them, they'd likely end up running into a tree and dying.  so.... if they have super perception, then even if they weren't running around, if they saw a hummingbird, could they see its wings?
  
  super reflexes - in addition to being able to perceive things moving at super speeds, wouldn't they also need super reflexes to avoid running into trees, people, etc?
  
  higher level of resistance to cold - if they are really moving at that speed .... it would be pretty cold for them, especially on chilly days.  imagine riding on a motorcycle, but at like 5-10 times that speed.  so, they'd probably have to have a much higher than normal resistance to cold.
  
  higher damage resistance - you'd also figure that even with super reflexes, they'd run into the occasional bug or stone shot out the back of a car.  if they are running at that speed, the stone might kill a normal person.  even the bug would probably hurt a great deal.  so i imagine they'd probably need to have higher than normal damage resistance to sustain that.
  
  err .... ok, ya ... just very random thought that i wanted to type out!  haha.  see you all at the anniversary party tomorrow. 
  
  
  

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