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• The Charles Smith Post

  Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 12:22PM

  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 "The Charles Smith Game" all the time. So it was an honor to meet the man on the unfortunate end of that game.
  
  As for the NBA...man, I'm one of the biggest David Stern fans around. Or at least I was. I loved how he pushed the league globally, digitally, and how he stood firm against commie China (the Yi Jilian saga) or how he verbally ethered Stan Van Gundy
  
  But still, these last few months? He's lost it. His legacy as the greatest commissioner in all of sports is gone.
  
  The great Harvey Dent once said
  
  "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
  
  David Stern needs to take note of that.
  
  Also, The Dark Knight Rises prologue... I haven't seen it yet but by all accounts it's "breathtaking", ala JGL's rotating corridor scene in Inception.
  
  Damn.
  
  
  
  

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• DD172

  Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011 1:13AM

  
  

  
  

  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/l4U6Ee8VkgM
  

  
  

  
  

  this is gonna be hot

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

  Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:31AM

  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 emergence and Japanese manga SLAM DUNK. HKers hardly care about mainland athletes. My line about seeing 500 Kobe jerseys before a Yao Ming jersey in HK is an understatement. I've never seen a Yao Ming jersey in HK, period.
  
  2: the comments are getting interesting, a couple of filipino americans repping their home country, and they're, i gotta admit, not wrong. those guys can ball. 
  
  
  
  
  

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• Joakim Noah vs Cleveland

  Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010 1:51PM

  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 wins.
  
  Anyway, Lebron is ridiculous. 11 straight points in the final 3 minutes to carry the Cavs to a heated victory over the Bulls. A dagger three in Noah's face.
  
  Damn.
  
  

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• hyperizing

  Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010 10:59PM

  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, thank you very much.
  

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   rottendoubt

  posted on Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 5:06PM  [Report]

  hey ben, did you see this in the mailbag?
  "The best example from this decade: I can no longer watch "Old School" because Luke Wilson and Ellen Pompeo Maggie'd the last half of the movie and turned it into a chick flick. Sorry, Blue. It's true. And the most underrated recent example that's growing on me (in a bad way): Maggie Gyllenhaal in "The Dark Knight." Watch that movie again, and ask yourself if (A) you're scared for her at any point, and (B) that movie isn't twice as good if someone more sexy/glamorous like Angelina Jolie or Scarlett Johansson is getting terrorized by the Joker. For a movie THAT good, I need to be totally invested in the superhero's hot love interest. I just wasn't there with Maggie. Which is interesting ... because her name is Maggie. See? Everything comes around."
  
  I agree 1000%. She seriously dropped the movie 2 full ratings points for me by herself.
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  posted on Friday, Nov 13, 2009 1:41PM  [Report]

  Hk market for music good compared to small country lik msia.
  Thx sharing.
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  Yes, I guess that is what makes MJ MJ.
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  Hey Ben, thanks for the cool review of our shown a couple weeks ago. Hope you'll stop by The Wanch to catch more shows. Next time pls introduce yourself to us.. Keep on rocking John & Don't Panic.
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  no worries - good luck with the article!!
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  Where'd that rich-kid hating, friend bashing blog go? It was taken down before I could leave my comment.
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