NBA 2010-2011 Season - Page 44

Ron-Ron has planned three post-basketball careers:

1. Record producer.
2. Boxer
3. NFL tight end.

"How's he going to do that?" says Ron's coach with the Lakers, Phil Jackson. "He's got a contract with us through 2014!"

Ron-Ron is undeterred. "I always follow my plan 100 percent, even if I know I'm going to fail."

The day before, Ron-Ron went on a Houston radio station and the host inexplicably thought he was interviewing Houston Rockets forward Luis Scola. So Ron-Ron did the whole interview as Scola, proclaiming himself "the greatest player in the world" in a Spanish accent that morphed into Jamaican.

"I needed a therapist when I was a kid," says Artest, who was suspended every single year of his elementary school career.

Jackson says. "There's nothing devious in him. The other night, Ron chased a ball he wasn't supposed to be chasing. He knew he wasn't supposed to be chasing it, but he chased it anyway, as hard as he could. And he chased it and chased it and eventually the guy got panicky and threw it away"

reporters want to know if Ron-Ron will reject the shots of President Barack Obama when the Lakers visit the White House on Dec. 13.

"Oh, absolutely!" he says. "I will lock down anybody anytime, even the president of the United States."

More stitches for Mr. Obama is not the most worrisome part of that trip. The most worrisome part is that Artest will also address Congress on mental health

"I overtrained swimming this week," he said on the way to the game. "So I'm going to be really tired tonight. Which is kinda how I like it."

Sorry?

"I can be too strong for some small forwards, so they don't want to go at me, so I get bored.

Tonight, the coaches have told him to force Evans to his left, but the first four times Evans touches the ball, Artest forces him right.

Explain, Ron-Ron?

"Just to see if I can stop them," he says. "I like looking at a guy's face when he realizes that even his best moves aren't going to work on me all night. They look depressed."

On December 13 2010 07:20 Servolisk wrote:
The bandwagon is kind of already leaving, zulu >_> :p You better get on...

I am so looking forward to Wednesday NY/Boston and Friday NY/Miami. Amar'e is definitely the MVP to me. He's killing people when their entire team does not collapse on him, and when they do the Knicks have good enough talent to make them pay. You can also look at Amar'e as the MVP by looking at what his absence did to the Suns instead of only his addition to the Knicks.

Boston is going to be a really tough game especially if Shaq is in. But the last time they played it was pretty close, so it is completely winnable. NY had no chemistry then and Boston was healthier. Predicting close games in the next 2 and wins. :o

On December 13 2010 07:31 city42 wrote:

Stoudemire is too bad defensively to ever be MVP. Aside from Nash/Dirk who won theirs in weak years, I can't think of any league MVPs who weren't all-NBA defenders.

On December 13 2010 08:18 Ace wrote:


Yea but they are going to look at stats and say LOOK! Amare is getting a lot of blocks! Dude is definitely having an insane year but I'd be shocked if him or Derrick Rose got it. Dirk and Deron Williams seem like the clear front runners at this point to me.

On December 13 2010 09:05 Servolisk wrote:
Not sure what you guys are talking about with Amare's D. Like the Bargnani game... Amar'e wasn't guarding him over half of the time. Amar'e is playing the best D of his career and getting charges and making clutch defensive plays. He has won a number of games on the defensive end this year.

And I am not sure how the argument is being made for Dirk being an MVP while simultaneously saying Amar'e does not have good enough D for the award. Surely no one thinks Amar'e is worse on D than Dirk? I would say Amar'e is noticeably better.

On December 13 2010 09:05 Servolisk wrote:
Not sure what you guys are talking about with Amare's D. Like the Bargnani game... Amar'e wasn't guarding him over half of the time. Amar'e is playing the best D of his career and getting charges and making clutch defensive plays. He has won a number of games on the defensive end this year.

And I am not sure how the argument is being made for Dirk being an MVP while simultaneously saying Amar'e does not have good enough D for the award. Surely no one thinks Amar'e is worse on D than Dirk? I would say Amar'e is noticeably better.