The Lakers Rank As The NBA’s Most Valuable Franchise

On December 10, 2009, In Sports, by Joshua English

According to Forbes magazine, the Los Angeles Lakers are the NBA’s most valuable franchise.  Every year, Forbes does a listing of the value of NBA teams.  For the 2008-09 season, they found that the Lakers are worth $607 million, which is up 4% from last year.  The Los Angeles also ranked at the top in terms of operating income (the measure of a company’s earning power from ongoing operations) with $51.1 million, the league average is $7.8 million.  So basically what I’m telling you is that the Los Angeles Lakers get money.

I don’t know how but the sucky New York Knicks came in second at $586 million, which was a 4% drop from the year before.  The Knicks had been #1 for the past four years. Rounding up the top 5 are the Bulls ($511 million), the Pistons ($479 million), and the Cavaliers ($476 million).  It’s beyond me how three of the NBA’s top five earning franchises are weak as hell, but I guess that’s what fan loyalty and being in a big market will do for you.

The teams that have lost money this past year are the Mavericks, Trailblazers, Magic, Hawks, Kings, Pacers, Bobcats, Nets, Timberwolves, Hornets, Grizzlies, and Bucks.  Milwaukee finished dead last in the league at $254 million (the league average is $367 million).

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These Boys Know They Need To Quit

On December 9, 2009, In Sports, by Joshua English

In case you haven’t seen it yet the Cleveland Cavaliers have an interesting, albeit funny as hell, introduction for their retro uniforms:

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So When WILL The Nets Get A Win? **UPDATED**

On December 9, 2009, In Sports, by Joshua English

After firing their coach Lawrence Frank AND getting a good old fashioned butt cookin’ at the hands of my Lakers, the New Jersey Nets now tie an NBA record low 0-17.  Even though NJ is so sucky, Phil Jackson warned his team about taking them lightly.  “You get an idea that the team you’re playing against is not up to your standards, you put yourself in a position where you can lose,” Jackson said.

I think they got the message.

At the end of the first quarter (when the score was 27-12), I take a look at the box score and everybody on the Lakers has 2 and 3 shot attempts.  Everybody except for Kobe, who put up 13 pts on 10 shots. (Note: Kobe outscored the entire team in that qtr)  So you already knew he wasn’t about to let his squad be that team that got beat by the damn Nets.

(the Jiggaman might want to wash his hands of this)

Conventional wisdom tells me that out of 82 games, they would HAVE to win at least one game, LOL.  So let’s take a look at their upcoming schedule:

Wed 02 vs Dallas 7:30pm YESHD Bloomberg 1130
Fri 04 vs Charlotte 8:00pm YESHD Bloomberg 1130
Sun 06 @ New York 12:00pm YESHD Bloomberg 1130
Tue 08 @ Chicago 8:00pm YESHD WFAN 660
Wed 09 vs Golden State 7:30pm YESHD WLIB 1190
Fri 11 @ Indiana 7:00pm YESHD Bloomberg 1130

Bold prediction: The New Jersey Nets will get their first win of the season against…………….the Chicago Bulls.  They will avoid going 0-21 and by the time they leave Chicago on the 8th they will be 1-20.

I’m picking the Bulls because Derrick Rose likes being outplayed by other good point guards AND I think that Brook Lopez (who is actually really good), will get his money on Joakim Noah & Brad Miller.

I’m out like Lawrence Frank.  LMAO

**UPDATE**

I was just joking I didn’t actually expect them to lose to New Jersey, LMAO.  This wasn’t the Nets’ first victory of the season so I was only half right but I still got my point across, the Bulls are horrible and unless they make some trades will struggle to make the playoffs this year.

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The Chicago Bulls Are Hot Garbage

On December 7, 2009, In Sports, by Joshua English

Here at JoshuaBlogs, I take every chance I get to go in hard on the Chicago Bulls.  I have a lot of friends that are Bulls fans and before the season started I had to hear their mouths 24/7.  The two most laughable things I heard was that Chicago would finish fourth in the Eastern Conference and that they could beat the Lakers because it happened in NBA Live, LMAO.  Because I had to hear all of this foolery and the Bulls record is now 7-11, I rub salt in the wounds of their fans EVERY chance I get.  The Chicago Bulls are weak and their fans are even weaker, LOL.

So right now as we speak I’m sitting here watching ESPN’s pregame show of the Ravens-Packers game.  You know that segment C’mon Man!!!?  Well something so goofy happened at the Bulls game the other night that they had to deviate from the script and cover basketball for a minute:

“That’s not acceptable,” coach Vinny Del Negro said after the game. “But it was a unique situation where we were in a mismatch and Lu had turned his back. He didn’t see it. Otherwise, he would’ve been up on the ball.

Child please.

I don’t care what excuse they put behind it, how in the hell are you just gonna let the dude with the ball bend down to tie his shoe?  I don’t care if Luol Deng does have his back turned, don’t all good defenses in the NBA talk to each other?  It’s like Jarret Jack said fuck it, these dudes haven’t stuck any defense all game, (the score was 85-58, Toronto) so why would they start now?

To the Chicago Bulls and all of their weak fans, C’mon Man!!!!!

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Godiva Chocoiste

On December 7, 2009, In Lifestyle, by Joshua English

A design company named Wonderwall recently completed the new Godiva Flagship store located in Tokyo, Japan.

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The whole design of this store is raw as hell, especially the chocolate “dripping” from the ceiling.

The lower section of the walls located on the first floor is painted white, contrasting the chocolate colored paint that seeps down from the ceiling on the second floor.

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Godiva’s theme with this store was “treat thyself.”  The designer’s intention was to switch up the traditional company image of Godiva.   To both Godiva and Wonderwall, job well done. Can you imagine how good this store smells with all of this damn chocolate?

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