“Tonight Was A Bar Fight! A Bar Fight!” – Kevin Garnett

Classic post-game KG interview! In a span of 1 minute and 23 seconds, KG:

• referenced the game to a bar fight
• brought up Charles Barkley’s alcoholic past
• shouted out Ray Allen’s 7-12 lb. new born baby
• told Craig Sager he looked good tonight, dog

Charles Barkley Says Dwight Should Go To Chicago

Two Superstars, the same shoe deal, but the same team?

It could happen.

The Magic’s four-time Defensive Player of the Year winner wants out of Orlando, which we already know. He’s made that statement public a few times and listed his top destinations as either L.A. (the Lakers, not the Clippers), the Dallas Mavericks or the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets. But what about Chicago?

Sure, they already have the reigning MVP in Derrick Rose — who is a superstar, by the way — but what else? They don’t have another go-to guy but they have a bunch of role players that mesh perfectly and are easily the best defensive team in the entire league right now.

Dwyane Wade passed on the opportunity to come home to Chicago and bring the city another championship in the Post-Jordan era, but he chose to stay in Miami with ‘Bron and Bosh. Carmelo Anthony said he’d love to play for the Bulls, but his heart was really in New York. Rose hasn’t tried to lure in any players because he feels like the team is perfect where their at now, but what happens when you never get passed the 2nd round in the playoffs and you keep getting older, and older, and the team you once felt could win a title is no longer intact?

That’s when you wish you had another superstar right by your side.

Early Wednesday morning, Charles Barkley joined ‘The Waddle & Silvy Show‘ to discuss the Bulls and Heat, Joakim Noah and the possibility of Dwight Howard coming to Chicago:

“You want to play with another great player if you possibly can, but the thing about wanting to be the man, that’s just silly,” Barkley said Wednesday on “The Waddle & Silvy Show” on ESPN 1000. “He should want to play with Derrick Rose. That would be a beautiful combination for the city of Chicago.”

Barkley has a real point: Why doesn’t Dwight want to play with Rose? Every big man in the history of the NBA needed a point guard to pass to them. For some crazy reason, there has been speculation that since both stars are sponsored by Adidas, the company doesn’t want both of their players in the same market (Okay? Rose you take Nike and Howard stays with Adidas. There, everyone’s happy. Just get this done).

Barkley, who isn’t exactly the sharpest tack, doesn’t even get these guys:

“I don’t understand what these guys are thinking,” Barkley said. “Him and Derrick Rose would make the Bulls a championship contender for the next 10 years. You just want to play with as many good players or great players as possible. I think him and Derrick Rose would make a fabulous combination. I don’t know what’s going on with [the Howard situation].”

To me, I believe that in Howard’s mind he thinks that if he leaves Orlando he’s going to continue to be “that guy,” but he’s sorely mistaken. The only reason he’s “that guy” with the Magic is because who else do they have? A bunch of 3-point shooters? Yeah, about that ..

If Howard somehow ends up in a Bulls uniform this season, he’ll learn to be second fiddle because you don’t want to fight over shots with the guy who runs the show. Another big problem with Howard is that he continually disappears in big moments of the game because he’s a such a terrible free-throw shooter, which means teams give him the ‘Hack-a-Shaq’ treatment. So if Howard’s smart, he’d grow up and realize that most need help.

Dwight Howard Shows Us His Joyrides

Since Shaq retired, Dwight’s become the NBA’s ‘jokester’ per-say (although most of it has been done by the original Superman himself). Despite being the most talked about player in the NBA at the moment because of trade issues, Howard still finds the time to joke around and enjoy life outside of basketball. Peep his recent interview with Maxim about his joyrides:

People must flip out when you pull up next to them.
People wave and blow their horns and yell, “Hey, are you going to stay in Orlando?” That’s what I hear now.

That’s a sweet paint job.
Yeah, I got the Superman theme, like I bring to the game. It has little police lights at the throttle and Superman-colored lights. It looks pretty good at night.

Does Shaq give you beef about the colors?
He has no problem with it. I just talked to him the other day—we’re cool. He understands that it’s just
for fun. A lot of people call themselves Superman, so there’s no way somebody could be mad about it.

The white cars are a Rolls-Royce Ghost and a Maybach. Anything on your wish list?
I wish I were shorter sometimes. Then I’d have all the sports cars. I’m just so tall
I can’t fit into any of them.

I’ve witnessed a dude from New York who drove his Raptor — it had dope Raptor illustrations airbrushed on the front and sides — to Daytona Beach, Florida and despite that, I have to say that Howard takes the cake for this one. That Superman colorway just stands out in it’s own right, the same way as the greatest superhero in the comic book universe does.

This Is What Nike Basketball x Jordan Brand Rocked On Christmas Day

Above (from l-r): Carmelo Anthony wore his Jordan Melo M8 Christmas Day kicks in a win against the C’s, Chris Paul wore his Jordan CP3.V XMas day kicks in his debut with the Clippers, and D-Wade rocked his Jordan Fly Wade 2 XMas day kicks in the Heat’s blowout over the Mavericks.

Below (from l-r): KD rocked the Nike Zoom KD IV “Coppers” against the Magic, LeBron put on the XMas Day LeBron 9′s, Kobe laced up Nike Zoom Kobe VII “Cheetahs” in a loss against the Bulls, and Amare wore his special XMas colored Air Max Sweep Thrus.

All of the shoes are in stores now!

Dumb Things To Do During A Lockout: Dunk On A Giraffe

Bored? Got no NBA job? Go ahead and dunk on a Giraffe Basketball Hoop starring Dwight Howard.

Perfect Use Of Twitter: Gilbert Arenas Live-Tweeting His Blind Date

Everyone loves to log on to Twitter and get their live-tweeting commentary on during tv shows, sports games, or whatever else is going on in everyone’s insignificant lives (myself included) but Gilbert Arenas mastered the art of live-tweeting.  Live vicariously though Agent Zero’s blind date as he got hooked up with a girl that thought she was thee queen of ZAMUNDA. I don’t think that’s anywhere near Orlando…

Photos: Gilbert Arenas Custom Air Jordan VI

These are tough! The old school (think Penny era) Orlando Magic jerseys were some of my favorite of all time! Not only because Penny was that dude and one of my favorite players but also because you can’t go wrong with the color palette of Royal Blue, Black, and White. With that said…

Everyone knows Gilbert Arenas is a big sneakerhead so his latest addition to the collection is a custom pair of Air Jordan VI’s (6) that he had MizeeCustoms made so he could wear for his first Game 7 of this year’s Playoffs. Unfortunately for us sneaker fiends, these kicks never hit the hardwood floor because Gil and the rest of his Orlando Magic homies went fishing early this year thanks to Jamal Crawford, Joe Jeezy, and the rest of the Atlanta Hawks. Check out the inspiration and the story on how these kicks came about at AddictedToTheHigh. Hit the jump for the rest of the photos.

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Video: Jamal Crawford’s Game Winner Verse The Magic

Jamallllllllllllllll Crawford! I’ve always been a fan so it was sick to see this last night. This Magic and Hawks series is going to go 7 games…

The Official 2011 NBA Playoffs Schedule

40 games in 40 nights! Let’s get it! It’s NBA Playoffs time – 2011 version. This photo was surfacing around the office inbox’s and I actually thought it was funny even as a Celtics fan myself. What’s even funnier though is that these Knicks’ fans think they can actually hang with the Celtics. New York doesn’t play a lick of defense so it’ll be an easy series in 5 games, maybe 6 if we’re playing sloppy.

Derrick Rose and the Bulls will breeze through the Pacers, same with the Heat and the 76ers. The Magic will see some resistance from the Hawks but they’ll be okay too. After that though, there’s no calling it. All four teams are talented and I haven’t been this excited to see how everything plays out. There’s no clear cut front runner and every team could make a run to the championship.

On the west side (*throws up Avon Barksdale W*), I’m kinda shocked that the Nuggets have managed to do so well with out Melo and Billups and even with so many injuries in the beginning of the year. To come out of the west though I’m going to roll with young Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook to take their games to another level.  Playoffs START NOW!

Eastern Conference

(8) Indiana Pacers (37-45) vs. (1) Chicago Bulls (62-20)
(7) Philadelphia 76ers (41-41) vs. (2) Miami Heat (58-24)
(6) New York Knicks (42-40) vs. (3) Boston Celtics (56-26)
(5) Atlanta Hawks (44-38) vs. (4) Orlando Magic (52-30)

Western Conference

(8) Memphis Grizzlies (46-36) vs. (1) San Antonio Spurs (61-21)
(7) New Orleans Hornets (46-36) vs. (2) Los Angeles Lakers (57-25)
(6) Portland Trailblazers (48-34) vs. (3) Dallas Mavericks (57-25)
(5) Denver Nuggets (50-32) vs. (4) Oklahoma City Thunder (55-27)

Jrue Holiday Gets Buried Alive By Dwight Howard

Wrong decision at the wrong time.  Watch as Jrue Holiday is chasing Jameer Nelson down on the Orlando Magic fastbreak and gets caught buried alive by a trailing Dwight Howard. There’s NO WAY Jrue knew that D12 was trailing him…right?

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