When you see a fan made rap playoffs rap anthem titled “color 1 and color 2″ you think they’re gonna do the same ‘Black And Yellow’ everyone else does, but I guess Wiz Khalifa is old and busted and Eiffel 65 samples are the new hotness because here’s Jesse Pinkman, Skinny Pete and Badger doing their 1999 techno best to rap the Oklahoma City Thunder into the NBA Playoffs.

From their debut album RADIO KILLERS the Lost Boys and Michael Garner bring you the ultimate OKC Thunder Anthem “Blue and Orange” showing their home pride to the Thunder. The album as well as Michael Garner’s “Why Bother” compilation is due to release early May 2012.

The two best parts of the video are, in order:

1. How (who I’m assuming is) Michael Garner pronounces “orange”. I REP THAT BLUE AN DORTCH, I REP THAT BLUE AN DORTCH.
2. The fact that somehow the YouTube comments section for the video has turned into a racist argument about how the Thunder have no team history, why the Seattle Supersonics were way better and why only black people should be allowed to rap.

In case you can’t get through the entire song, at no point do they put holy water in squirt guns and kill anything. I’m just happy the Thunder finally have an anthem, because they weren’t going to beat the dogsh*t out of the Lakers by 20 points without it.

[via That NBA Lottery Pick]

Welcome to my day-late weekly predictions that will astound and amaze you, because they’re so incredibly tuned into to a psychic frequency that nobody else on this planet could come up with them. Since I started making predictions a few weeks ago, I’ve been right about everything. Even the stuff that might have been wrong was technically right, because I say it was. It’s not really hard being a psychic.

This week, we take a look into the crystal ball to see if David Stern really will stick to his guns and stop the L.A. Clippers from flopping, Matt Leinart can turn Carson Palmer into the perfect QB and if anyone would ever believe that Phil Jackson would even remotely entertain the idea of coaching a team as dysfunctional and broken as the Orlando Magic. SIM SIM SALABIM!

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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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Yeah, I know those aren't LeBron 9's but I wear flip flops 24/7 so deal with it.

It was announced on Saturday that Miami Heat forward LeBron James was awarded MVP for the third time in his career, after leading his team to a 46-20 regular season record and the No. 2 seed in the East. James averaged 27.1 points per game this season, while his “Big 3” cohorts Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh averaged 22.1 and 18 ppg, respectively. Sure, it’s like saying that James was the fastest of the Ferraris, but it’s hard to argue that he doesn’t once again deserve the NBA’s ultimate individual honor.

For his hard work, James’ other “employer”, Nike, has also awarded him with this special new pair of LeBron 9’s that he wore yesterday in the Heat’s 95-86 victory over the Indiana Pacers…

Of the shoes, a Nike spokesperson said that they’re a reward for the company’s “Employee of the Year” – a shame, because I thought for sure that would go to LeBron’s douchebag yes-man and sideways peace sign giver, Jason Petrie. I’ll admit, though, it would be pretty cool to know that you’re the only person on Earth who has a specific pair of shoes that were designed solely for you because of an incredible accomplishment. You know, if that were true.

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It’s like when Jessica Simpson puts her fingers in her mouth and makes “widdle ol’ me” face because she’s monetized being dumb. We get what you’re doing, but it doesn’t make you any less actually stupid.

That’s the situation Brooklyn Nets forward and former ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ extra Kris Humphries finds himself facing in the latest video from Funny Or Die, ‘Kris Humphries Is A Douchebag’. Kris visits some local improv comics who think they’re awesome new representation who believe he should own the villain label he’s been given and embrace douchebaggery on every level, including wearing sunglasses indoors, wearing a fedora under any non-film-noir circumstances and letting people wipe their asses with Kris Humphries’ Face toilet paper.

It’s funny, I guess. It seems like something Saturday Night Live might’ve done if they’d gotten stuck letting Kris Humphries host, and his only talking were “plays basketball” and “people hate him”. The cynic in me says Kris could better improve his image by trying harder and being better at basketball, but whatever, he’s wearing Kanye glasses and the kids love it.

"Dude, that was awesome! Also, we still want to trade you."

It’s really strange looking at last night’s NBA Playoffs scores and seeing that the Chicago Bulls have been eliminated. The Bulls were supposed to meet the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals, and not another team in the East stood a chance against either of them. It was going to be LeBron James/Dwyane Wade/Chris Bosh vs. Derrick Rose/Joakim Noah/Luol Deng in the battle of a team that depends on three guys and a team.

But then that team was apparently in a train crash, because Rose went down with a torn ACL and Noah sprained his ankle and everything went to hell. Perhaps 76ers coach Doug Collins put it best after his team pulled off the 4-2 series victory with a 79-78 win over the East’s top seed last night.

“I don’t know how we won this game.”

The 76ers won the game because Andre Iguodala, the guard they’ve been trying to trade for the past year or so, hit the turbo boosters with a rebound on Omer Asik’s second missed free throw with 7 seconds left and went coast-to-coast to miss a layup but make two free throws to win the game. And those two free throws might guarantee that a team will come calling for a veteran like Iguodala, despite the fact that he’s owed more than $30 million over the next two seasons.

In case you missed it, you can watch the play that made millions of Bulls fans wonder, “How the f*ck did this happen?” after the jump.

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