Best Top 10 I've seen in awhile.

Uconn block from behind on fast break
Uconn two handed block.
Nut puncher (Chris Paul) dunk on Dwight Howard.
Knicks 2OT tip-in buzzer beater.

12/21/2006 3:13:46 AM

where was fell's dunk

12/21/2006 3:39:43 AM

let's make a thread about it

[Edited on December 21, 2006 at 4:02 AM. Reason : hfds]

12/21/2006 4:01:51 AM

I thought the same thing

12/21/2006 7:01:55 AM

anything that happens in the NBA is automatically shit.

so ignore it.

12/21/2006 7:33:12 AM

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"where was fell's dunk "

12/21/2006 9:22:50 AM

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"3:13:46 AM"

hahahaha

12/21/2006 10:19:19 AM

^^^ why does pro ball mean shit? does that mean that nfl is shit too?

12/21/2006 11:18:12 AM

no, just the nba

12/21/2006 11:18:52 AM

no, just the nba

12/21/2006 11:29:01 AM

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"where was fell's dunk"

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=447159

12/21/2006 12:12:36 PM

need a clip of the chris paul dunk

12/21/2006 12:48:19 PM

that shit was pretty nasty, i didnt even know that he could dunk

12/21/2006 12:53:24 PM

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"no, just the nba"

12/21/2006 12:58:47 PM

the top 10 is usually 85% NBA bullshit

12/22/2006 12:07:50 AM

if only they'd show some fucking hockey I'd be a happy man.

12/22/2006 12:11:31 AM

At least it's not baseball season.

12/22/2006 12:19:23 AM

^TRUUUUUUE

12/22/2006 12:20:30 AM

ESPN shows hockey about as frequently as Mother Teresa shows her skivvies.

Hello Derek.

12/22/2006 12:23:12 AM

I know right, i HATE how when I watch sportscenter they show about 15-20 minutes of NBA shit and go into analysis and talk to like 5 people, when neither myself nor a good percentage of the population gives a damn about the NBA, just a leauge where a bunch of motherfucking hoodlums and thugs get paid millions of dollars to play basketball and show their ass. This is clearly displayed by the two incidents in the past couple of years, and those are just ON COURT.

then they show like MAYBE a minute of hockey and thats it.

I HATE sportscenter, they always give so much damn time to the NBA and MLB, its ridiculous

12/22/2006 12:25:18 AM

Wait, you're gonna call NBA a game played by hoodlums because of TWO fights in the past TWO YEARS.

Then you're gonna go and talk about HOCKEY?!?!

12/22/2006 1:41:19 AM

yeah canadians and russians are far more thuggish than black americans who throw tantrums because they can't wear their ten sizes too big jeans and bling bling

12/22/2006 1:47:25 AM

I hope that wasn't sarcasm, because Russians are extremely thuggish.

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"...motherfucking hoodlums and thugs... ....This is clearly displayed by the two incidents in the past couple of years, and those are just ON COURT. then they show like MAYBE a minute of hockey and thats it."

Seriously, do you not see the irony here?

Main Entry: thug
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Etymology: Hindi & Urdu thag, literally, thief
: a brutal ruffian or assassin


[Edited on December 22, 2006 at 1:54 AM. Reason : ]

12/22/2006 1:52:22 AM

NBA>NHL

12/22/2006 2:07:03 AM

Sportscenter has the unenviable job of trying to please everyone's sports tastes. I think, for the most part, they do a decent job. You may not like the NBA highlights, but many people, myself included, do. I for one couldn't care less about college basketball, but when the highlights come on, I can change the channel, read a magazine, wash a dish, etc... I certainly wouldn't expect Sportscenter to stop showing them simply because I wasn't interested.

Perhaps someday we will have SportsCenter on demand. That would be awesome. I should invent that.

12/22/2006 2:09:57 AM

95% of thuggish behavior in the NHL would disappear if they ditched the instigator rule.

12/22/2006 2:24:10 AM

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"Perhaps someday we will have SportsCenter on demand. That would be awesome. I should invent that."

if they didn't charge isps so much, we'd all have it, and it'd be called espn360.

12/22/2006 6:25:19 AM

when are we gonna reach that point where we can get whatever we want, whenever we want it, wherever we are?

12/22/2006 6:29:26 AM

There's a lack of NHL coverage on SportsCenter because you won't find an NHL game on an ESPN channel.

Why would you go out of your way to highlight a mediocre popularity sport that you get nothing out of?

12/22/2006 7:29:59 AM

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"mediocre popularity"

that is the politically correct way to say "nobody fucking cares about hockey, because its not as good as the NBA"

12/22/2006 7:31:24 AM

agreed

12/22/2006 8:01:03 AM

^^^ which is why the NHL should have taken less money for it to stay on ESPN than take more money to put it on a channel that hardly anyone has.

That said, hockey isn't half as good on TV compared to being at the game. No sport is amplified live to the degree that hockey is.

12/22/2006 4:23:43 PM

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"that is the politically correct way to say "nobody fucking cares about hockey, because its not as good as the NBA""

I tend to disagree, I dunno, maybe we hang around completely different people, but no one I know gives half a shit about the NBA. Its a bunch of overpaid wanna-be thugs running their mouth all the time thinking they are gods gift to the sports world, not only that but the passion and excitement is not there like it is in college basketball.

and my example of the on court fights in the past year was just that, ON COURT examples, you could probably make a huge list of shit that happens off court involving NBA players. Its a troubled league, and honestly just not that damn exciting.

[Edited on December 23, 2006 at 1:14 PM. Reason : f]

12/23/2006 1:14:09 PM

nobody likes hockey dude.....and nba players make millions, because the league actually makes money. somebody is watching it

12/24/2006 8:36:30 PM

NHL players also make... you guessed it... millions. Both NHL attendance and television ratings are not too far behind the NBA. I don't think anyone would argue with the fact that the NBA is the more popular league in the US right now, but people who don't think anyone gives a shit about hockey are naive.

ESPN doesn't show NHL highlights for the exact reason that someone said earlier. They get nothing out of promoting the game. They recently blocked NHL advertisements that were supposed to air on their channels. Comcast is trying to launch a new sports network in Versus to eventually compete with ESPN. Right now the NHL is the biggest thing they have to offer, so ESPN certainly isn't going to try and attract people to the game.

12/24/2006 8:42:59 PM

hockey everyone has to work together and the teams, for the most part like each other, whereas in the NBA certain guys will try to be the 'star' and do it themselves.

(not saying this doesn't happen in the NHL, but im just saying it happens a lot more often in the NBA)

12/24/2006 9:02:34 PM

no way NBA is over the NFL .. NOOOOO FUCKING WAY

12/24/2006 9:04:29 PM

dude the NBA DWARVES the NHL in terms of fan interest and financial success.

The NBA isnt that popular here because this is college basketball territory. The NBA is very popular in other areas.

One fucking incident (artest) and people think the league is a bunch of thugs. Thats ridiculous. They threw a fucking beer cup at him. I would go after the guy too...

You think hockey players never go into the stands??? You think baseball players never go into the stands??

Cause you're wrong. Its happened recently.


The fight the other day was not a big incident. Fights are actually at an all-time LOW in the NBA. Look at the 70s when fights were rampant. Look at the 80s when hard fouls were part of the game.

You guys are just racists and its very obvious. Hockey players are much more thuggish, take more cheap shots, and have a lack of respect for opposing players.

Name the last time a basketball player MAIMED an opponent the way McSorley did a few years ago.

12/24/2006 9:08:14 PM

I think you can all agree that the NFL dwarves all of the other professional sports in the US.

12/24/2006 9:09:55 PM

yeah the NFL is #1 followed by the NBA.


Hockey overexpanded into too many markets. Its jsut not a mainstream sport.

Hockey thrives off of very loyal fan support. Most hockey fans are not just casual fans. They go to games frequently and they buy merchandise.

However, hockey gets very poor ratings on TV. They dont have anywhere near the type of corporate sponsorship that the NBA gets because its such a regional sport.

Now that they have their salary cap in place hopefully hockey can become a profitable sport again and not plunge itself into the financial mess it had itself in the last decade.

Unfortunately they completely burned ESPN and now have lost the #1 sports network which was very important for their growth potential.

The NBA has latched on to ESPN and given the amazing level of talent in the league right now its not going anywhere anytime soon.

12/24/2006 9:16:03 PM

^ Dead on.

The NHL has actually had better attendance percentages so far this season than the NBA (91.94% compared to 88.04%), but when it comes to television ratings the NBA on ABC gets similar ratings for regular season games that the NHL on NBC got for the Stanley Cup Finals. The league doesn't have near the exposure or recognition of the NBA, and I don't know that it ever will. The potential in the United States for the league is certainly there, though, as the NHL was supposedly in a position to surpass the NBA in popularity back in 94 (around the time when the Rangers won the Cup), but that was all squandered away by poor marketing and a poor product on the ice for the rest of the 90's and up until the lockout of two years ago.

12/24/2006 9:23:40 PM

NOTHING?

fucking shit!

2/4/2007 12:14:32 AM

what are you talking about

we were number 9...

2/4/2007 12:15:25 AM

since when are WE boston?

2/4/2007 12:16:21 AM

HAha, they showed the Canes players shooiting on our court.

2/4/2007 12:23:56 AM

no

they showed the boston bruins playing on our court

2/4/2007 12:25:52 AM

Bruins.

But eh, I'm ok with no NCSU plays in the top 10. They showed Grant's dunk twice every time they mentioned the game. And that one dude who blocked Costner and palmed it in one motion. . . that was pretty sick, I'm glad we didn't see that again.

2/4/2007 12:26:34 AM

We will see our highlights over and over... but there's no fucking excuse for Grant's dunk not being in the Top 10. Or even a sequence of dunks/3's to beat the beloved Tarheels.

Did Stuart Scwat make this top 10?

2/4/2007 2:15:16 AM

hey lets have a top 10, with most of the entries being the exact same dunk and three pointer


how awesome would that be?!

2/4/2007 2:16:31 AM

ok kevin durant had a sequence of 3 blocks... Iona had a top play by winning a fucking game...

They put shit like that in the Top 10.

Grants dunk, Costners dunk, and Fells dunk/3ptrs over the fucking All-American Tar Heels dont warrant anything in the top 10?

Joke of a Top 10.

2/4/2007 2:18:36 AM