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Warriors’ Green suspended for Game 5

June 12, 2016 Brandon King

When the NBA Finals reconvenes Monday, Draymond Green and I will have the same vantage point for taking in the action- in front of the television. That is because the Warriors’ power forward was suspended after being hit with a flagrant-1 for his actions in Game 4. This gave him his 4th flagrant foul point of the post season, which brings an automatic one game suspension. Late in game 4, Green and Lebron James got tangled up and Green fell down. James stepped over him and it appears Green swung…

2016 NBA Finals Game 4

June 11, 2016June 11, 2016 Brandon King

Game 4 was a tale of two halves: in the first half, Cleveland’s defense and rebounding powered them to a five point halftime lead. However, even with that there were some cause for concern if you were Cavs fan, most prominently Thompson and Curry were starting to find their respective rhythms and there was some offensive stagnation derived from iso-ball and a LeBron James who seemed hellbent on passing on as many scoring opportunities as possible. In the in the second half of the Cavaliers defense was mistake prone constantly…

Game 3 2016 NBA Finals: Amazing What Happens When You Put Forth a Little Effort

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 Brandon King

After not only dropping both games at Oracle, in particularly embarrassing fashion game 2, I wondered how the Cavaliers would respond by returning home for game 3. The Cavaliers took control from the tip off the strength of a dominant first quarter and never looked back. Kyrie Irving finally made his first appearance in the series, he opened up with 16 in the opening quarter en route to a 30 point evening. Lebron James came out in attack mode and finished up with 32 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists.…

Ben Simmons inks deal with Nike

June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 Brandon King

The projected number 1 pick in the upcoming NBA draft, Ben Simmons announced today that he has signed an endorsement deal with Nike. He broke the news on the Twitter feed of Uninterrupted, LeBron James’ multimedia website. Simmons is also represented by Rich Paul who represents James as well. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. UNINTERRUPTED Exclusive: @BenSimmons25 announces he will be part of the @Nike family.https://t.co/l5B7Xq3uvB — UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) June 7, 2016

Game 2- Majorly Disappointing

June 6, 2016June 7, 2016 Brandon King

After, getting worked in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Finals, it was expected that the Cleveland Cavaliers would come out with a much better effort in what was tantamount to a must win game. That didn’t happened as Golden State lambasted the Cavaliers 110-77. An eight point lead the Warriors took into halftime quickly doubled early into the third quarter. It was around that point in the game Cleveland seemed to mentally check out, giving what I’d generously describe as half-hearted efforts on defense and on the…

Matthew Dellavedova will have PEAK signature shoe

June 3, 2016June 4, 2016 Brandon King

Cleveland Cavaliers backup lead guard Matthew Dellavedova will soon have his own signature sleds with Chinese sportswear company PEAK. He signed a three year deal with the company. In a press release from PEAK, Dellavedova had this to say: PEAK Australia approached me nearly two years ago with the idea of introducing a basketball shoe into the Australian market. From there, talks became more serious in the past year and PEAK worked hard on developing a shoe that offers the type of reliability and performance that drives me every day. It’s…

NBA Finals Game 1: Our Take

June 3, 2016June 3, 2016 Brandon King

Game 1 of the highly anticipated matchup between the Warriors and the Cavaliers is in the books. The Warriors smacked the Cavaliers 104-89. While the vaunted Golden State backcourt was relatively quiet, going a combined 8-27 for 20 points, 11 from Curry and 9 from Thompson, was their bench that came up big scoring 45 points. Sean Livingston accounted for 20 of them on what seemed to a never ending hail of midrange jumpers. The Cavaliers’ big three of James, Irving and Love went 23-60 for 66 points. J.R. Smith…

Lebron Breaks out Rare Zoom Generation at Finals Practice

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Brandon King

Today at Finals practice Lebron went into the way back machine and broke out a pair of Zoom Generations. That in and of itself would be enough to draw the attention of sneaker enthusiast, but these were not the run of mill vintage Generations, rather one of the rarest versions of the shoe, the ROY PE. This special makeup done by Nike to commemorate Lebron’s 2003-04 Rookie-of-the-year campaign, features an all-white upper; the “LBJ23” logo has been turned to read “ROY 0304”. There is also custom “20.5.5” along the medial…

Pelicans’ Guard Bryce Dejean-Jones succumbs to gunshot wound

May 28, 2016May 29, 2016 Brandon King

Dallas police announce New Orleans Pelicans guard was fatally shot after kicking in a door to an apartment. In a statement, Sr Cpl DeMarquis Black said officers were called early Saturday morning and found Jones collapsed in an outdoor passageway’ the 23-year old ball player was taken to a hospital, where he died. Cpl. Black also stated a person living at the apartment was asleep when he heard his door kicked open. The resident then retrieved his firearm and fired when Jones attempted to kick down his bedroom door. According…

Another Too Late,Pointless & Incorrect Ruling by the NBA

May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 Brandon King

I have to start off by saying I like Draymond Green. I’ve followed the progression of his career since his days at Michigan State, to his ascension to major cog in the Golden State Warriors machine. I like his game and I’m a fan of the passion he brings to the floor each and every night. With that being said,our personal feelings about a guy will not deter us from from calling it as we see it. We all saw the shot to testes that Green delivered to the testes…