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This is a video of Paul Pierce “Tebowing”, which caused CBS Boston to ask the question, “Is Paul Pierce Tebowing?”

Many people thought he was doing the move named after New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, who gets down on a knee and bows his head for a brief prayer on the field.

“You just want to thank God for putting you in those positions,” Pierce told reporters after the game. ”It wasn’t pre-scripted. It just came to me.”

I love that. He should hit a three-pointer and start planking, then have a press conference afterwards where he googles “planking” and laughs as he shows it to reporters. “I don’t know, I just made it up!!”

Not looking forward to early next year when they find out about Jeremy Lin.

[via The NBA Mistress]

When I got back from Las Vegas early this morning, I had quite a few emails from readers tipping me off about the greatest sign in the history of sports fanfare at a recent Boston Bruins game. The only problem was that the sign was a photoshop from the folks at Masshole Sports and the real sign was much tamer. And as for the photoshops, I actually like this one a lot more.

Thankfully one Boston Celtics fan came through with the real deal this morning with the very inspiring LeBron James tire cover above (via Boston Bar Stool). While it’s not as universally inclusive as the greatest sports fan’s Ford truck, this tire cover is still a heck of an effort in creativity.

And I’ve often said that it would take an act of God to get me to remove my St. Louis Cardinals tire cover from my Jeep, but now I might have to re-think that.

With the NBA trade deadline just 7 days away, all of the media’s focus is on the big market teams and their needs, which begs the question – which chump teams are gonna get fleeced? The quick answer: probably none. The Orlando Magic currently have the 5th best record in the entire league, which absolutely baffles me after watching them stand still and take it hard against the 4-win Charlotte Bobcats the other night, but then that’s how the wonderful world of sports works. So they’re most likely not trading Dwight Howard, and every other team is stuck waiting to see what happens with that to make their own moves. Classic log jam, folks.

Common sense says that Orlando won’t get a Denver Nuggets-type haul at the deadline, so that means the Magic instead want to move some of their crap for another team’s lesser crap. Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers sure could use some help, as could pretty much any team that isn’t the Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs or Miami Heat. Face it, your team is pretty much screwed.

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Yesterday had its fair share of fantastic NBA action, but the spotlight belongs only to the day’s big market matchups between the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers (meh, Lakers won, but I expected more) and especially the slugfest between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics. With both teams struggling around the .500 mark, the Celtics received an absurd performance from trade-bait Rajon Rondo (18 pts, 17 reb, 20 ast) en route to a 115-111 overtime win.

And while I could go in a few different directions from here, like:

- Will the Celtics actually trade Rondo?
- Are the Knicks getting desperate enough to entertain trading Carmelo Anthony for Dwight Howard?
- The Celtics should totally be able to trade Ray Allen to the Clippers and rip them off, right?
- Seriously, Knicks, trade Carmelo for Dwight.

I just can’t get past that Knicks fan above. Sunglasses indoors… backwards tilted cap… jersey with no undershirt… mad tats… neatly-trimmed facial hair… there should be a word for that.

Sadly, this Knicks fan didn’t stick around long enough for anyone to talk to him, but I did get a shot of him driving away…

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To say that things aren’t going well for the Orlando Magic would be an incredible understatement. Since defeating the Indiana Pacers on Jan. 24, the team has fallen into a four-game skid that if defined as abysmal would be a compliment. But it all actually started the night before that win, when the Magic produced a pathetic 56-point performance in a loss to the Boston Celtics. That Monday night game should be remembered as the moment the Magic crumbled.

To be fair, the 66-game schedule hasn’t been kind to many teams at this point, with back-to-backs packed in like strippers in a trunk. But for the Magic – with my obvious homer status aside – it’s been a fascinating season with only 21 games behind them. And it all starts with the man who set the tone for Orlando’s season by requesting a trade, Dwight Howard.

After last night’s hideous 74-69 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers (and the game was a lot worse than that score suggests), Howard maintained that his team can win, but he still wants to play for a team that can win.

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