NO ONE…And I mean NO ONE should EVER com par kobe Bryant to my dad an say that he is anywhere near close to my dad He’s jagging this game –Twitter via –The Sporting Blog

Although people talking about their dads like that requires me, by moral code, to hit them with the nearest blunt object I can find, I have to agree with the smaller MJ. Kobe can’t touch Michael statistically, but better numbers don’t make someone the better player, championships do. Michael owns six titles and six Finals MVPs. Kobe has five titles, but only two Finals MVPs, the other three were given to Shaq. Michael was also undefeated in the NBA Finals, while Kobe lost in the ’04 and ’08 Finals to Detroit and Boston.

Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of the modern era. Too bad he’s kind of an asshole. The guy who beat you out for a spot on the varsity high school team shouldn’t be invited to your Hall of Fame speech. He knows you’re a basketball superstar. You should realize he’s having trouble paying his taxes, his kids hate him, and his wife’s gaining weight faster than Pablo Escobar. The Hall of Fame speech is after the jump, if you like hearing people talk about how much better they are than everyone else. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like $7,500 is the magic number for Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Jennings.  Because he blew his load too soon and posted a celebratory tweet following last weekend’s double-OT victory over Portland, the NBA is bending Jennings over their knee for being a very, very naughty boy (rawr). Their policy is

Players cannot tweet during game time, defined as beginning 45 minutes before the game starts and ending after players have finished talking to the media following the game.–Foxsports.com

The NFL has a similar policy, and the rookie guard isn’t the first athlete to get a spanking over his 140-character musings.  Former Milwaukee Buck Charlie Villanueva, San Diego Charger Antonio Cromartie, and the infamous Chad Ocho Cinco of the Cincinatti Bengals have all come under fire for frivolously fingering their phones during game time.  Most notable is Larry Johnson’s gay slur tweet costing him a whopping $213K.

But the real travesty here isn’t that Jennings is being punished for being happy about a big W; nor is it that he has a big tattoo across his back that says “Young Money” (okay, that’s pretty tragic);  it’s that it “Looks like no Gucci and Louie for Xmas” for him.  Sadface!