The Charles Smith Post

Sorry, shameless self-plug time.

I profiled the infamous (in NY) Charles Smith (http://nymag.com/daily/sports/2011/12/checking-in-with-charles-smith.html) for New York Mag sports section. If you know me, you'll know I'm a Jordan fanboy who talks about "The Flu Game", "The Double Nickel", and...Read more

DD172

Last year, I visited Damon Dash and Mainland band Re-TROS in NYC for this piece. Gonna do a follow up soon, since Mr Dash is producing Black Keys's Blacroc 2 Video: http://youtu.be/l4U6Ee8VkgMthis is gonna be hot

in yo face entry. nets champs by 2001, count on it?

here is a story i wrote for SLAM magazine

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2010/05/hong-kongs-love-of-the-game/

a few things

1: i'm happy to have a platform to get out to the world that HK ISN'T CHINA. I'm so sick and tired of this western misconception that everyone Chinese worships Yao Ming. Please. Basketball's popularity in HK can be linked to Jordan's e...Read more

Joakim Noah vs Cleveland

Man, this Joakim Noah/Cleveland feud is making the playoffs funnnn.

After he said Cleveland as a city, "sucks", he followed up tonight by asking a reporter "what, you think Cleveland's cool? I ain't hear no one come here for vacation. They hate me here, so? I got my friends".

This is Noah's "friend"

sorry, Cleveland. Noah...Read more

hyperizing

Back on August 9th, I wrote here that

"BTW, fantasy hoops players. Pick Kevin Durant in the top four next year. He's gonna drop 30 and 7 a game with two threes. Take it from a dude who won it all in 04, 06 and 08."

http://www.alivenotdead.com/bensin/hyperizing-profile-723452.html

today, as the NBA season is about to come to an end... Durant is averaging...

30.1 points and 7.6 rebounds.

thank you, tha...Read more

goat

So with Tiger and 'Toine's recent troubles (you all know Tiger's troubles... but here's a recap of Antoine Walker's troubles for those of you unfamiliar with NBA: he recently filed for bankruptcy after only two years into retirement. Dude made over 110 mil throughout his career in the L), stories have been popping up left and right about how they're victims of Michael Jordan's bad influences.

Supposedly, Toine got his gambling addiction from spending time with Jordan, a notorious high-stakes gambler. Toine confirms pa...Read more

new york state of mind

This July marks the most hyped and anticipated free agent class in NBA history. Although many great players will be available, such as Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire, Joe Johnson, and potentially Kobe and Yao Ming (Actually scratch Yao’s name off the list. Not because he can’t be a free agent, but because he sucks and is injury prone and moves like a gimp) the most coveted prize of all is Lebron James.

Rumors have been swirling for years that come July 2010, Lebron will leave his hometown team, the Cleveland Cavalier...Read more

inlier

ill be the inlier. lets go

is this it

you know what i learned lately? it's that if you reach transcendent greatness--you'll never be forgotten. it's this logic that has has people drop Pacino's name everytime we talking about great actors even though he has had a string of crap movies. but hey--he once made an offer you couldn't refuse and that was that. pacino's forever a legend.

the same logic applies to the strokes. now the strokes haven't fallen off in quality the way pacino's movies have, mind you. but there is this general thinking among m...Read more

longview

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvtJdHttbzg

green day pulling a fan onstage to let him/her perform a song... this has been a GD routine for over a decade now. i wonder if this will happen in HK...regulations at AsiaWorld is strict and apparently there are seats on the floor... so wtf!

anyway,as i've said before, you can say you don't like their music. that's fine. but you can't say they dont put on a good show. i guarantee you on jan 17th ...Read more