Celtic Pride

No, I'm not filled with it and if it were possible I'd rather both teams lost, and actually when you look at whats really going on I think I might get my way. In the semi-finals for both teams controversy surrounded both teams victories. Confused? Wondering why ESPN's not having a field day with it? Well me too, or at least I was until I realized the truth! An that truth is the NBA has planned a Kobe Bryant revival, yes this is the truth. You see Kobe Bryant was the face of the NBA, sure there were rumors of Kobe and Shaq not getting along but that was just the media trying to cause a riff in between a team that had it all (well just the important things like rings). During Kobe's reign you couldn't go a day on TV without seeing Kobe at least once. Between

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the Sprite and the Adidas commercials, and the games Kobe was in more commercials than MJ and catching comparisons to MJ just as often as he was seen. Then Kobe was met with a challenge no man on earth can concur, a women claiming rape! All the sudden Kobe was bigger than any Sprite or Adidas ad could ever dreamed of making him, which is funny cause if you recall you didn't see any more Kobe commercials, funny cus they still made Sprite and Adidas. To ad to the problem Kobe was the only star in LA because he had run Shaq out of LA trying to prove he was the reason for the rings and not Shaq. This is where the NBA starts to lose fans and ratings, something has changed, but what? The NBA no longer has a staple figure they can market to the mass media, that is until Lebron James "the golden child" before he was in the NBA Lebron was the biggest NBA star, commerically anyways. Problems solved the NBA can move on from the death of Kobe Bryant NBA figure head and medium to mass market consumption, only Lebron doesn't win a ring his first year, or any year as of now. But Grizz what the fuck does this have to do with the Celtics and Lakers playing in the finals? Everything! you see since Lebron hasn't won a ring yet it makes it hard to sell him as the franchise of the NBA, especially when he is only able to be compared to Kobe Bryant. The NBA needed something to catapult Kobe Bryant back to the top and make people forget what a terrible terrible person he is accused of being. Fast forward through an off season where ever person who knew the name Kobe Bryant thought they would never see it in a Laker starting line up again, to an impressive regular season and a few questionable games against a 95% healthy Spurs team, filled with questionable calls in critical moments of the game, including a fourth quarter Derrick Fisher foul that the refs seemed to ignore and you have the Lakers in the finals. Standing in there way would be non other than the Celtics, who made it to the finals after acquiring Kevin Garnet and Ray Allen, turning the Big Five of old to the Three Musketeers of now.

Oh and lets not forget some sketchy calls that helped propel them past an over confident Detroit. Now the hype begins LAKERS VS CELTICS an all time classic match up that rivals the YANKEES AND SOX. Now while everyone is caught up in the hype that the Lakers and Celtics are playing I seem to be one of few (I acknowledge others) who see the conspiracy here, the calls were bad because the NBA had to have the Lakers and Celtics play in the finals, the reason now no matter what Kobe is the face of the NBA again. If the Lakers win (personally I feel this is not gonna happen, Celtics in 5, 6 at most) then Kobe gets compared to Jordan and that plus the MVP he won, and would win for the finals no doubt would propel him back to his thrown all the while David Stern is the happiest man alive. Say the Celtics win, Kobe is humbled and tells reporters to prepare for next year when he plans on doing whatever is in his power to return to the finals and come home with a ring, sparking commercial after commerical about hard work being key to excelling and show Kobe sweating profusely. So with all this said I hope you will join me in a boycott of the finals, the theory is that if this year the ratings are the lowest ever recorded or even lower than last years finals, which had the fundamental Spurs pitted against Lebron in an intense four game sweep, that the NBA will no longer sabotage the finals all so they can sell a single name.

Kimbo Slice (The Black Rocky)

Since Saturdays CBS showing of the Kimbo Slice fight the media has had its share of words for Kimbo and fans of the MMA. First lets discuss what was said about Kimbo. Kimbo has been called an armature, no one picked him to lose the fight, which he won, and still they have said that Kimbo possesses no skill. Not to mention people love to say that he has fought no bodies, ok well, if Kimbo is a nobody and he is fighting Nobodies and destroying them in fights isn't it safe to say he isn't a NObody after all, and would it be to much to accept he possesses some small, minute even, molecule of skill? Also Kimbo's life story has been brought up and discussed, and I have heard some radio personalities and other media members bring up the fact that Kimbo was homeless (this is when the comparison to Rocky "the Italian Stallion" Balboa was conceived) and how he became a bouncer for a porn series title "In The VIP"http://inthevip/ (stop looking at PORN!!) this is a family site, anyways back on topic....and they are sorta only talking about things that are negative in an of themselves. After they tell this coming of age tale they follow by asking how we (the media and viewers of the media) can make this man a hero, I assume they consider wanting a man who had next to nothing who is now making legit money, instead of illegal, and if legal sketchy, backyard bare knuckle brawls, and who is also no longer partaking in illegal activities such as smoking Marijuana

http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/marijuana.htmlih.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html , yeah if they consider that a hero they sure that's what I think most Americans are doing. But I found this odd because the whole rocky thing was still in my head ya know and I started thinking hey Kimbo's sorta like Rocky.

THE RUN DOWN:

Rocky was homeless, well poverty stricken to say the least. He's considered a hero, a true underdog story, and Americans loves underdogs.

Kimbo was homeless. Yet, for him he is just seen as another homeless man who didn't contributing to society, or something, look they just try to say since he was homeless that thats bad and he shouldn't be cheered for, the MEDIA HATES BLACK ROCKY!!!!

Rocky, not considered to have any skill, never would he defeat the best.

Kimbo, only said to have beaten "tomato's"

Before After

some stats of these so called tomato's:

oh and here is Kimbo's stats Age 33 Ht 6'2 Wt 238

Kimbo's second fight against Bo Cantrell, Bo's record 10-10. Bo's stats Age 31 Ht 6'2 Wt 235

Kimbo's latest fight against James Thompson, Jame's record 14-8. Jame's stats Age 30 Ht 6'5 Wt 264

I don't know what merit my thoughts and theories have but its funny how during Katrina there was a picture of a black boy moving through the water with a bag of stolen groceries, the caption for the picture read Black teen looting, and in a different paper a picture of a white women and man was taken as they moved through the water with a bag of STOLEN!!!! groceries and the Headline read, Two residents Struggle to Survive!!!

KIMBO SLICE THIS BLOG SUPPORTS YOUR CAREER IN MMA!!!!!!!