The Downbeat - 31 August 2010 - #305 - The Fresh Water Edition

I can neither confirm nor deny that I have seen the new court in its entirety butit does look exactly like the photo above. Green paint in the key, yellow writing under the basket and in front of the benches, and the navy blue around the sidelines.

Or, at least, not the current ESA logo. Is that getting revamped, too? Or is the Radium Stadium getting yet another new name?

Jump to the 1:30 mark. Holy cow. And then at 2:30. Other than the Houston shot I’ve never seen Johnny with that much emotion.

when I see or think about the shot to send the Jazz to the Finals. I never realized or paid attention to the fact that Charles “Turrible” Barkley was the one to half-contest the shot. That just brings an even bigger smile to my face and more appreciation for it.

Was that John had made that game winner against the Rockets at home. I think Salt Lake would have rioted.

Looks like most of you receive more creative Christmas and birthday gifts than I do. (Not that I’m complaining.)

The crossovers and score on MJ, I was like F__K ME!!

I enjoyed that video more than ANY other so far.

I swear the crowd all shift to the left, let alone the defenders.

He just signed with Adidas (I believe he was with Nike before) so all they talked about is the shoe and it’s features and how some other players like Derrick Rose have been with the “adidas family” but they are “most proud to have Andrei promote them of course..”
They talked about different features of the shoe how it has some 5 “pillows” on the bottom of the shoe helping support the foot and all the movements that are involved and AK took the mic and confirmed that with the SF position that he plays it is very important to have that support with all the many sudden movements (stopping and going) that the position involves. The video stops at the most important part however when the media and general public was invited to ask him questions, the first question was something like “when are you gonna come back to play here?” and he started to answer “well, right now I’m still under contract with the Utah Jazz…” and at that point the video stops. Not that he would throw out a crazy answer like “once my contract is done next year I’m coming home to Russia for sure!” but it would’ve still been interesting to hear what he had to say and maybe try to pick up on what he might be thinking in terms of staying or leaving. Oh well, if anyone can find the continuation of this video I’d be happy to listen and translate..