Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 3:24 pm  |  37 responses

Links: NBA Friday (Wednesday Edition)

Ron Ron!

by Lang Whitaker

While I was out last week, I didn’t get a chance to post the latest NBA Friday, so I’m going to post it today and we’ll get back on track for later this week.

You guys know about NBA Friday, our weekly look at the NBA from our man Joel Kimmel. This week’s team is the Sacramento Kings, and this week’s player is Ron Artest.

Joel says, “Instead of concentrating on the team he plays for I wanted to focus mainly on his face. I wanted to show that despite his great defense and scoring abilities, when you think about Ron Artest, unfortunately other things come to mind instead of his basketball talents. I also wanted to represent the Queensbridge Houses where he grew up and drew in the numbers he’s worn over his career. I also originally had drawn in a Circuit City, some images of the brawl in Detroit and even a Rottweiler (alluding to his problems as a dog owner as well as your Ron-Ron the Rottweiler nickname) but all that was too distracting, so I scaled it back to what you see now.”

Awesome.

This week’s team is the Nets, and Joel let me know that as a native of Canada, he will not be illustrating Vince Carter. Fair enough. I’m hoping for Gary Sussman.

As always, thanks, Joel.

I’ve got some other links I’ve been sitting on, but I’m gonna do a long post tomorrow with all of that. In the meantime, I wrote a column today for Hawks.com that should be posted shortly.

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  • riggs Posted: Feb.27 at 3:38 pm
    im pretty sure rjay is gonna be next. with the word NEXT right under him :D

  • TADOne Posted: Feb.27 at 3:49 pm
    Might as well do a Brooklyn Nets pic with LeBron and Jay Z holding up the ROC. Oh, and great pic again Joel.

  • Myles Brown Posted: Feb.27 at 4:00 pm
    The Circuit City wouldve been great.

  • Bryant Reeves Posted: Feb.27 at 5:19 pm
    Crazy

  • gelly Posted: Feb.27 at 5:28 pm
    this is great

  • FLUXLAND Posted: Feb.27 at 6:16 pm
    “….as a native of Canada, he will not be illustrating Vince Carter.” Instantly qualifying him for the Order of Canada.
    It should be K.V.H. but I’m guessing Marcus W.

  • Reggie Evans Posted: Feb.27 at 6:28 pm
    That image is very Diego Rivera-esque.

  • SMK Posted: Feb.27 at 7:02 pm
    without VC what is there for the Nets, Lawrence Frank watching film?

  • Sko Posted: Feb.27 at 7:14 pm
    Devin Harris, and incidentally, i do think that if Nenad was healthy, you could swap Vince for Lebron and that would be a Finals team right now. add a lockdown perimeter defender and they might not get swept against the West.

  • Dan Posted: Feb.27 at 7:28 pm
    Loved The Last Word this week, Lang.

  • tony b Posted: Feb.27 at 7:33 pm
    You should draw Keith Van Horn getting Jerry and Devean tattooed on each buttcheek…oh and Kerry Kittles and Todd Macculloch
    ….if only SLAM couldve gotten them on a cover….hmmmmmmm

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Feb.27 at 8:27 pm
    Lucious Harris on the Lucious Harris Memorial Exercise Bike.

  • Joel Kimmel Posted: Feb.27 at 8:38 pm
    Ron Artest was fun to paint. I also did a Kevin Martin piece that you guys can see on my blog.
    Check back here on Friday for the best painting of Keith Van Horn you’ll ever see.

  • Joel Kimmel Posted: Feb.27 at 8:41 pm
    And yes, Todd McCullough and Jamaal Magloire for Canadian content.

  • James Martin Posted: Feb.27 at 9:40 pm
    I was looking at the media day pics the other day. I think Ron Artest needs to rock some Chucks in game, would there be anyone else. Somebody make this happen!

  • Dutch Rich Posted: Feb.27 at 10:54 pm
    Joel, tribute to Drazen please!!

  • D-Advocate Posted: Feb.27 at 11:33 pm
    The painting was cool, but the grafitti lettering needed some improvement. I could barely tell that it said Queens on his right shoulder. A NYC 7 train running through would have been cool, too. But it was nice.

  • Clendon Posted: Feb.27 at 11:42 pm
    I think you should have like Jay Z over the arena scracthing his head “like wtf happen”
    with brooklyn in the background

  • Reggie Evans Posted: Feb.27 at 11:54 pm
    @Joel – that sounds like one helluva Keith Van Horn painting you got there!

  • apollo 33 Posted: Feb.28 at 1:11 am
    d-advocate, you paint it next time dick. looks sick joel.

  • J Posted: Feb.28 at 1:56 am
    next one should Vince Carter

  • hursty Posted: Feb.28 at 2:24 am
    jason collins?, nah Richard Jefferson.

  • karan Posted: Feb.28 at 4:37 am
    how about jay-z for the nets.
    or better, beyonce

  • Tariq Posted: Feb.28 at 4:59 am
    Joel is talented at drawing.

  • Gerard Himself Posted: Feb.28 at 7:14 am
    Great drawing, really cool. About the Nets hm….? Maybe about faces of the franchise leaving? Dr. J being let go by the team, and years later Jason Kidd departing? Like a “who’s next?” kind of drawing?

  • Gerard Himself Posted: Feb.28 at 7:16 am
    and with “who’s next?” I meant that who will be the next face of the franchise, the next saviour? Not as in “who’s the next player to leave”.
    The next carrier of the team, a question mark so far.

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Feb.28 at 7:36 am
    LeBron and Jay-Z straddling a Brooklyn Bridge made out of money and diamonds and flashing Roc signs at each other.

  • TADOne Posted: Feb.28 at 8:57 am
    Russ trying to steal my thunder from my 3:49 post. Although, I didn’t have the Brooklyn Bridge idea. I also like the Drazen Petrovic idea.

  • BETCATS Posted: Feb.28 at 10:22 am
    brillant

  • BETCATS Posted: Feb.28 at 10:22 am
    brillant

  • nick Posted: Feb.28 at 11:55 am
    Great work Joel. For the Nets: Bostjan Nachbar, posterizing…uhhhh…nevermind. How about Izod arena sinking into the Meadowlands swamp, pulled down by vince carter, with RJ trying to stay on dry land.

  • Gumdrop Posted: Feb.28 at 2:24 pm
    My initial reaction was that I was looking at a mug shot.

  • Gumdrop Posted: Feb.28 at 2:25 pm
    Also my favorite thing about Ron Artest is that he chose the number 93 because it represents ‘infinite intensity’…no joke.

  • Salim Stoudamire Posted: Feb.28 at 7:45 pm
    Michelle Carter Pushing Vince’s carriage

  • TC Posted: Feb.29 at 12:45 am
    just paint Vince Carter wincing and crying while lying on the floor…..with Kidd walking away from him in the background,,

  • Ken Posted: Feb.29 at 12:57 pm
    Where’s number 23?

  • Chief Posted: Feb.29 at 2:12 pm
    Draw Kieth Van Horn. nuff said.

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