"I should be ready. We'll see how it goes [Wednesday] and next day, but I'm pretty sure — I'm hoping — I'll be ready Friday." "I couldn't hardly move. I was trying to play through it," Stoudemire said. "Once I felt that sharp pain, I couldn't take it."
Billups' test confirmed a strained tendon, which forced him to miss Game 2 after he was hurt on a drive to the basket near the end of the series opener. Billups is listed as doubtful for Game 3.
ESPN currently has the Knicks ranked (16th)12th and Fox Sports at (18th)13th. With Amare leading the way the Knicks and receiving back to back Eastern Conference player of the week awards they have climbed everyone's Rankings ladder. Currently the Knicks are 6th in the East, and looking to move up some more this week with games against Toronto and Washington.
Amare Stoudemire Stats last week: 33.3 points on .588 shooting from the field and 11.7 rebounds. He scored 30 or more points in all three games and recorded two point/rebound double-doubles.
The latest proof of The King's super-thin skin comes compliments of Anthony Tolliver, a role player and nice guy who plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves and posted his own “Decision” on YouTube.
"Hello," Tolliver says after some ESPN music plays and a hand-made sign introduces the segment. "I'm Anthony Tolliver. Welcome to The Decision Part Deux. Which is French for two."
Let's be clear. This is pretty funny. It's also harmless.
Yep, funny stuff. Tolliver is clearly making fun of himself. But a little attempt at humor became part of the LeBron saga and the Heat's 129-97 steamroll over the Timberwolves Tuesday night.
Last week, when asked about the video, LeBron answered with ice in his voice.
"I didn't see it, but I heard about it," he said. "We play Minnesota twice."
Tuesday night, James compiled his 20 points and 12 dimes with the same locked-in focus that's marked his entire season. Again the Heat were great, with Dwyane Wade adding 26 points, Udonis Haslem racking up another double-double and Chris Bosh pitching in 13 points.
So great, in fact, it's easy to understand the befuddlement in the Wolves’ locker room before the game.
How can the leader of a team this great — a player fantastically great in his own right — care so much about a bench player's playful 69-second spot?
How can The King not understand that some of his lesser subjects aren't trying to pull off a palace coup; they're just living their lives and, here and there, making a joke or two?
"I never even saw Anthony's video myself," said Minnesota big man Kevin Love. "Anybody that knows Anthony knows he's a carefree kind of guy: fun loving and a good dude, comes from a good family and has good friends. So anybody that takes that too personally, I mean, I don't really know what to say."
Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade told a Chicago judge Monday he would be prepared to give up his "partying" lifestyle if he was awarded sole custody of his two sons, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Best and worst
The Miami Heat's season could be stupendous or disastrous. Either way it will be historic. Charley Rosen imagines a best-case scenario and worst-case scenario.
Testifying for a second day in a custody battle with his estranged wife Siohvaughn Wade, the NBA All-Star said his oldest son, who is eight, had been "alienated" from him.
Wade said his ex-wife needed help dealing with her anger issues.
He told the court he feared she had harmed herself, and the two boys, when she failed to drop the children off on a court-ordered visit earlier in the year and he could not get in contact with her for more than a day.
“I immediately thought the worst,” he said, “that she probably took them away, that she hurt herself or even hurt the kids.”
The Wades have not spoken since that incident on March 12.
Dwyane Wade said that, if he got sole custody of the two children — the younger son is three years old — he would allow Siohvaughn to have a role in the boys' lives, but only if she got help with her anger.
During his first day of testimony on Friday, Wade said he was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of his ex-wife and denied allegations he used drugs, owned guns, or had ever had a sexually transmitted disease.
Wade also testified that Siohvaughn physically attacked him and threw something at him during an argument.
Lets see how easy it is to focus on winning a chip with all this drama...HEATHATERS
Send this column to LeBron James’ black enablers and sycophants, the men and women circling the racial wagons around King James in hopes of being invited to his South Beach parties, the men and women determined to cripple LeBron the way they once crippled Michael Vick.
LeBron James is not an innovator.
He is not the first athlete to create a business and give jobs to his unqualified friends.
Deion Sanders jumped from Super Bowl contender to Super Bowl contender.
Magic Johnson fired Paul Westhead.
Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson are the fathers of free agency.
Please, let’s stop with all the nonsense that white folks are uncomfortable with LeBron because he’s “taken control of his career.”
Give me a &*%$ing break. The rationalization is as tired and lame as listening to Limbaugh defenders claim his black call screener is proof Rush is free of bias.
With his self-aggrandizing, narcissistic one-hour TV exit – The Decision – LeBron James ruined his public image, not racism. LeBron inflicted more damage to his image Wednesday night when he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that race is a factor in the public backlash against him since The Decision.
In an interview to be published in Tuesday’s editions of the New York Post, new Knick Amar’e Stoudemire offered his thoughts on an assortment of subjects, from fashion to New York women:
On his sense of fashion: “I love fashion, actually. I love gear. I mix high and low. I love watches. I love shoes. I make sure that every time I step out of the house, I’m feeling comfortable and fashion-forward. Depending on the occasion, I dress the part.” Amar'e Stoudemire signs with the Knicks No defense Reuniting Amar'e and D'Antoni is an idea as bad as the Knicks. Charley Rosen
On being in New York: “New York is by far the best city in the world. The city is on fire. They’re ready, and so am I.”
On being drafted at 19 years old: “At that point in time, there was no player ever to get drafted out of high school and win Rookie of the Year, so that was my goal. I was the first ever to do it, and it felt great.”
On traveling to Israel to research his Jewish roots: “I’m not a religious person; let’s get that squared away. (Judaism) was established 3,000 years ago or so, so I want to associate myself with the Scriptures, the Bible and the culture it brings. I’ve been reading the Scriptures for probably 19 years now. You can’t get caught up in the hype and the hoopla. You got to remember where you came from and what it took to get here.”
