Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm  |  87 responses

Links: NBA Finals Diary, Day 7

Practice? Time to break out the video camera again…

by Lang Whitaker

Wednesday! And just a few hours after last night’s Game Three, it was time to return to The Stapler and to let all the media give the players a hard time. Once again, I declined to do the media room and instead took my camera out to the court to see what was popping.

The answer? Not much. Tons of media members, two dozen players. And today the guys were even more worn out than in Boston. The most interesting thing was that after I posted that video the other day, Big Baby apparently saw it online and took offense to Tony Allen’s report of dunking on him. Tony told me about this last night at the game, so today I decided to give Big Baby a chance to set the record straight. And set it straight he does. (While Gabe Pruitt does his best to stay the heck out of it.)

After practice, on the shuttle back to the hotel, a debate broke out about the hotness of various female celebrities. I was just saying that I wasn’t a fan of Sarah Jessica Parker, and then Khalid, Jemele Hill and John Hollinger and I got into a discussion about which celebrities are overrated and which are rated correctly. I then came up with the greatest idea of the Finals thus far: John Hollinger is known for creating the PER statistic, a way to quantify and rank the contributions of every basketball player on a single scale.

What if, I proposed, Hollinger developed a similar scale to rank the beauty of female celebrities. John immediately suggested calling it the Hotness Efficiency Rating, and I pointed out we could abbreviate it to the H.E.R. I’m sure Hollinger’s working on this as I write.

Got back to the hotel and Jemele and I rode over to In-N-Out and got lunch, and then I needed a nap. Woke up and slapped this video together…

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  • Permaculture

    Way to go Lang on the video – such a dose of fresh air compared to post game interviews in suits. I love In-and-Out, too. There’s a little bit of religion there for those of you not familiar with it or if the name didn’t give you a naughty hint.

  • B. Long

    I’m gonna throw this out there and probably get roasted for it but what the hell. Rachel Ray is on my Top 5 list. Thirty Min. Meals, Baby!

  • BigBallaShotColla

    @B. Long – I have to agree, Rachel Ray has it going on.

  • riggs

    rachel ray got a booty, shed definately get it.

  • riggs

    jessica alba is not hot, hollywood f*cked her fake ass latin self up.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com Eboy

    @ riggs:

    Rachael Ray: hot

    Jessica Alba: not hot

    riggs receives a lifetime ban on commenting on anything needing a man’s opinion.

  • B. Long

    @Eboy:WORD. Ripping Jessica Alba is just blasphmous.

  • http://guerillabitchin.blogspot.com/ ic3

    delinquent habits! thats my sh*t right there

  • Rico

    @B.Long – Who’s hotter, Jessica Alba or Rachelle Ray?

  • B. Long

    @Rico: I’m not gonna be your dancing monkey, sorry.

  • Rico

    @Rico…by asking a legitimate question? Are you afraid if you answered wrong the others might laugh at you. You’re pathetic man, your not as fresh as you think.

  • ciolkstar

    Jessica Alba is way hotter than Rachel Ray (top 5 ?! Really?), but a little over rated in my opinion. If the premise was who would I rather have cook dinner for me then bang. Rachel Ray would start to be competeive, but still not top 5. There’s hotter chicks in my office right now.

  • dfrance

    Rachel Ray has that frumpy kinda cute secretary look. Not really that hot.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Khalid Salaam

    the chick form transformers? really? man you guys need to get out more. that girl is pretty much standard random girl material. nothing exceptional about her. now scarlett j, she’s undeniably hot. any dude who doesn’t like her needs to get his life together.

  • http://www.mybleedingfingertips.blogspot.com/ Myles Brown

    If Megan Fox is standard/random, I’m going to Starbucks right now to get two of her.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Khalid Salaam

    also kerry washington is the mf’n truth. and i still rep for jada pinkett, even though she’s “older” now she still puts 80 percent of worldwide women to shame. i’m serious.

  • Rico

    @B.Long – by asking a legitimate question? Are you afraid if you answered wrong the others might laugh at you. You’re pathetic man, your not as fresh as you think.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Khalid Salaam

    myles go right ahead then. i can’t believe dudes like her so much.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Kerry Washington is nice, but i’ll still take my girl Meagan Good.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Kha, i’m with you on the Fox thing. Just doesn’t do much for me, sorry.

  • http://www.mybleedingfingertips.blogspot.com/ Myles Brown

    I dont even like her that much. I just dont think shes average.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Khalid Salaam

    tad: i’m not mad at meagan good, not mad at all.

    myles: not saying the transformers chick is average but she’s not amazing. i can think of 20 women easily who are better looking.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Speaking of oldies but goodies, anyone see Stacey Dash recently in XXL?

  • http://www.mybleedingfingertips.blogspot.com/ Myles Brown

    Shes no Dania Ramirez.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Dania is fine as hell.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Khalid Salaam

    is dania ramirez the latina chick from heroes? because yeah she is arguably the hottest actress in the game.

    and yeah tad, stacey dash, can’t believe she’s single. she must be crazy or something like halle berry. thats the only reason i could see why a woman like that isn’t locked down.

  • http://slamonline.com Ben Osborne

    Myles surfaces late, but with the solid comments…esp. regarding Dania.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Haven’t seen Heroes but yeah, I think that is the same chick. She is marrying some music video producer. I thought Stacy was married?

  • http://www.ballerblogger.com Brandon Hoffman

    The funniest part of that video is when Big Baby says, “look at me, does it look like he (Tony Allen) could dunk on me?” Lol. Sorry Glen, but you don’t “look” like a shot blocker.

  • http://www.myspace.com/hemantsbeats what

    Sarah Jessica Parker, in the words of Peter Griffin, looks like a foot.

  • vtrobot

    Rachel Ray, oh man. Eva Mendez is the “hottest” woman alive. That Stacey Dash cover shot was ridiculously good.

  • http://idunkonthem.blogspot.com/ albie1kenobi

    i’d like to throw in Salma Hayek into this fun discussion.

  • http://shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Ahhhhh…..yes! Salma in From Dusk Til Dawn made me want to drink Tequila and wear a sombrero.

  • B. Long

    Rosario Dawson deserves sum love too.

  • dfrance

    Eva Mendez it totally overrated! Kerry Washington is wassup. Jada is cute and all, but she got the body of a little leaguer. I still think Alyssa Milano can gt it…

  • http://slamonline.com BK

    I was looking at those other clips and I have one question…..what happened to Vince Carter?

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