Last December, when it was announced that center Chris Kaman had been traded by the Los Angeles Clippers as part of a package that would land them Chris Paul, word around the intertubes was that he was pretty bummed to be leaving the only NBA team that he’d ever played for, and especially since he was traded to one of the league’s worst teams in the New Orleans Hornets. But Kaman has long been one of the NBA’s most under-the-radar fun guys, so he made the best of it.

Now with the Dallas Mavericks, it seems that the gun-loving hunting aficionado is right at home living in Texas, which plays perfectly into his role as a controversial figure, for which he has given very few of what I believe the hip kids call “f*cks”. Kaman recently Tweeted a perfect example of just how much he loves his new home, and also what a delightfully terrifying man-child he is.

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I’m a big sucker for fan art – well, appropriate fan art – and that’s why I’ve been pounding my desk all morning over the news that the world’s biggest patent troll is going after Etsy’s new $40 million investment. But while soulless thieves are going after the sources of the Internet’s showcases for art and inspiration, they’ll thankfully never be able to crush the actual artists. At least not yet. I’m sure they’ll find a way eventually.

My Internet Artist of the Day of the Week goes to the guys at Double Scribble, a Tumblr site devoted to NBA fan art.

Double Scribble is the lovechild of basketball and art; two of Nick Kastner and Mike McGrath’s favorite things in the world. From the coldest, murkiest depths of Cleveland, OH (and now to some extent, some obscure part of North Carolina) Nick and Mike have forged a blog out of blood, sweat and tears in their unwavering vision to provide you, the viewer, with a never ending source of basketball related art.

And it’s pretty awesome. I’ve been shuffling back and forth through its archives since a friend emailed the link last week and there is just a ton of great artwork on this site that has really inspired me to consider re-launching my web comic series, “The Erotic Adventures of a Sports Blogger.” Spoiler alert: it’s sad and gross.

After the jump, I’ve included many of my favorite efforts of Double Scribble’s authors, but I encourage you to check out the submissions that they’ve posted from other artists as well. It’s a highly recommended worm hole to limit your productivity today.

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On Friday, as the majority of us sold our belongings, cleared out our DVRs and awaited our golden light beams to meet our makers, Los Angeles Clippers center Chris Kaman Tweeted that he was also preparing for the rapture, just in case. Kaman is widely regarded as a gun aficionado (USA Today called him the Ted Nugent of the NBA, probably in a pie chart) so he already has a collection of firearms and was just making a joke about the people who honestly thought we’d be eternally judged this past Saturday.

Of course people are upset with Kaman for taking pictures posing with rifles, but mainly because it’s hard to defend themselves when their sticks are shoved up their butts.

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When you’re an athlete worth millions, money ain’t nothing to worry about so why not use some of it to blast off a fireworks show so big NASA gets jealous? That’s what Clippers Center Chris Kaman was thinking this Fourth of July when he gathered up a group of his friends and dropped $10,000 on a cargo of illegal explosives that makes this video so awesome you’d think you were watching a Rambo flick. With the goal set at, ‘Entertaining all of Michigan’, Kaman proceeded to light off a show so spectacular the only way it could have gotten better is if they attached some stray cats to the rockets and blasted them off too (which I plan on doing at some point in my life, as long as PETA doesn’t read With Leather). After Kaman saw the haul of fireworks sitting in his dealer’s garage ready to get picked up, he exclaimed, “WE’RE GOING TO JAIL, DUDE!”

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