The Downbeat - 6 September 2010 - #309 - The Laborious Edition

by Basketball John on Sep 6, 2010 9:46 AM MDT in The Downbeat

You may have been following CJ Miles this summer on twitter and noticed he was on vacation in Puerto Rico. Except he wasn't down there for vacation, he was down with friend Ray Rice of the Ravens helping teach basketball and football. In addition to paying for the whole trip himself, he also went out of the way to help the kids. From the Deseret News,

That wasn't the only surprise Miles had in store. He took down every kid's name and shoe size and worked through his Nike representative to buy basketball sneakers for his new friends. Miles' agent said he bought about 70 pairs of shoes for the kids.

Hmmm, maybe there's something to this whole signing quality character guys thing.

What are you going to do while stuck at work today why everyone else is out? Why, you can watch game 5 of the 1997 playoffs against the Lakers. Check out the playlist on the right for all of the segments. Check out the guy's channel for more Jazz games. (h/t Mike Prada)

In honor of Team USA playing Angola today, here are some highlights from the Dream Team's game against them (with some Malone at the end),

USA Dream Team v Angola 1992 Olympics (via baldheadkid)

T-Shirt?

Monday poll,

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How many All-stars do the Jazz send to LA this season?

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We don't work on labor day. Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

1- It’s always nice to remember that there are good people out there who want to do good things with their station and money.

2- I am at work, but I can’t watch that game. At least we always have our sweep and dominance of the Lake Show in the late 90’s to fall back onto.

8- It’s weird but I find myself rooting against the Americans sometimes. It isn’t that I don’t like our team, but I just like underdogs so much. And I don’t like Derrick Rose, Lamar Odom, or Tyson Chandler. I love Kevin Durant though. Good guy though.

4- I’d rather have one of just the logo, but that is cool. I wish every Jazz fan knew what that meant or at least believed the idea behind it.

5- I am sure everyone is thinking Deron and Al Jefferson. Maybe AK, maybe Millsap. But the fans aren’t going to vote any of our guys in and the league wouldn’t let more than 2 of our guys in unless we were like 40-10 at the AS break.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Sep 6, 2010 1:26 PM MDT reply actions

Yeah

I’ll be getting one up with just the logo as well. I like the AKWSUA for game-night shirts.

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by Basketball John on Sep 6, 2010 1:28 PM MDT up reply actions

Maybe I could just do a ___WSUA, then you can write in your player of the night.

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by Basketball John on Sep 6, 2010 1:28 PM MDT up reply actions

I'd buy that shirt

But it appears moni has purchased the entire run.

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by TazzJazzFan on Sep 6, 2010 3:22 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions

ha ha ha ha ha!!

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Sep 6, 2010 4:12 PM MDT up reply actions

real LOL

by moni on Sep 6, 2010 5:19 PM MDT up reply actions

AKWSUA

I still wish I knew what it meant. I don’t remember reading what it meant in the list of acronyms.

by Toasteroven on Sep 7, 2010 7:02 AM MDT up reply actions

Andrei Kirilenko Will Save Us All

by El Aguacil on Sep 7, 2010 7:29 AM MDT up reply actions

what ever happened to the . . .

SLC dunk shirt with all our names on the back?

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Sep 6, 2010 4:12 PM MDT reply actions