Jason Maxiell is not an All-Star caliber player as of yet, but produces at least one "Oh my God," moment every game. In game 4, he produced two. Here they are:

He also hit three or four jumpers in the game, which brought me more joy than either of these two plays because it means he may become at 15 and 10 type of guy when he gets the minutes.

 

In honor of Jason’s ridiculousness, we have put together a list of the Top 35 blocks of all-time. We started with a top 25 list, but we found so many good ones, that we kept adding and adding until we got to 35. When we got there, there were three more that just had to be added, so we ended up with 38. Take a look

38. Samuel Dalembert on Lebron James – This one is more surprising than anything else.  Lebron does not get blocked very often:

37. Tyrus Thomas on Jamison

36. Sasha Pavlovic on Jason Kidd

35. Shawn Kemp on Michael Jordan

34. Dikembe Mutombo on Tyson Chandler – It is hard to find many good Dikembe block videos on youtube and the like.  This one on Chandler is pretty impressive, especially when you consider their 20 year age difference:

33. Amare Stoudamire on Andray Blatche – Poor Andre

32. Marcus Camby on Austin Croshere – I don’t think I have ever seen a ball travel farther after it was blocked

31. Kenyon Martin – Correction, this is the farthest I have ever seen a ball travel after it was blocked

30. Dennis Rodman on Michael Jordan

29. Patrick Ewing Jr. block saves the game against WVU…but it was probably a goaltend

28. Alonzo Mourning on Hakim Warrick

27. Tyrus Thomas on Rip Hamilton – Tyrus swats a Hamilton shot into the seats and then puts his nuts on the back of Rip’s head.

26. Brandon Wright against Maryland

25. Bill Walton tries to block a shot with his shoe

24. Greg Oden against Tennessee – Big block to seal the game

23. Alonzo Mourning block Josh Smith

22. Josh Smith block Dwayne Wade – He hangs in the air for a good three seconds

21. Tayshaun Prince on Hedo Turkoglu

20. Lebron James on Rajon Rondo:

19. Michael Jordan against the Bulls:

18. Bogan Pogovic

17. Shaq on Michael Jordan

16. Kevin Garnett and Dwyane Wade – I like how KG puts this into the upper bowl

15. Tayshaun Prince on Reggie Miller

14. Josh Smith blocks Chris Bosh

13. More Jason Maxiell

12. Dwight Howard against Atlanta

11. Manue Bol four blocks on one play

10. David Robinson on MJ

And look at him run the floor like a deer.  He has some handles:

9. Laphonso Ellis being Laphonso Ellis

8. Hakeem Ojajuwon against Portland. Is there a big man in the game today that could run the floor and make this block?

7. Cliff Hammonds block on James Gist:

6. Steve Francis against the Raptors

5. Nate Robinson on Yao Ming

4. Earl Watson on Shawn Bradley

3. Earl Boykins against the Clippers

2. Every Shawn Bradley block attempt

1. Lebron James against the Sacramento Kings –(First Clip) Take a look at the angry face he makes before he drills the ball out of bounds. That’s what makes this block my favorite.

Top 10 Blocks Of 2006 – The top video clips of the week are here

Disclaimer: I came across this video, which has at least three blocks that would end up in the top 10, unfortunately, I can’t find separate videos of them anywhere.  Take a look at the block by Jordan on Ewing, or Barkley’s block, or even Wilt blocking Kareem’s skyhook, they are unreal:

Let me know how I messed up in the comments.

The Angry T

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Iron Man has made over 355 Million Dollars world-wide.  To help put that in perspective for Robert Downey Jr., that’s like a really big pile of coke.  What is it about these comic book movies that draw people to the box office?  It’s not like every comic book movie that comes out is a hit (I’m looking at you Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer).  But there’s that special ability that each superhero has that draws you to them and makes you think “man, how cool would it be if I could do that?”  Of course eventually you eat an entire bag of animal crackers and the weed wears off, but still, it’s fun to imagine. 

The world-wide success of a character whose success is based on a suit made of iron has me baffled to be quite honest (please no comments educating me about the underwater capabilities or radioactive powers of Iron Man, unless he has some really outlandish power like the ability to turn boogers into bullets or something). However, as I thought of the many comic book superheroes there are while watching the Pistons-Magic game tonight I began to make incredible comparisons between basketball players in the NBA playoffs still and these Marvel superheroes.  A list quickly followed…

Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)   and Tayshaun Prince (Pistons)

The Incredible Hulk and Rasheed Wallace

 

Superman and Dwight Howard (Magic)

 

Hawkeye – Chris Anderson (Hornets)

 

The Joker and Scot Pollard (Celtics)

 

 

Lex Luther and Marcin Gortat (Magic)

 

Johnny Storm (Human Torch) and Matt Bonner (Human Ginger) (Spurs)

Iceman and Robert Horry (Spurs)

The Penguin and Manu Ginobili (Spurs)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thing and Ronny Turiaf

 

Captain America and Lebron James (Cavaliers)

And finally …..Silver Surfer and Kevin Garnett (Celtics)

Wonderwoman and Vladimir Radmanovic

 

Violent J

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If you weren’t aware that the new season of The Real World had begun, I am here to make you aware. This season is set in Hollywood, and as you might imagine, MTV has found a group of douches (sort of like this group of douches) equal to the task of living in Hollywood.
The NBA playoffs is just around the corner, with games starting Saturday and we decided to use the new real world cast to make our predictions for the finals. We sum the Real World cast up below and compare them to the NBA playoff teams:

Joey – The Posers – They look the part, but they aren’t going to win

Cleveland Cavs
Dallas Mavericks
Denver Nuggets

Kimberly –Happy to be Here – They are glad they made it, but they’ll be playing golf in a week

Atlanta Hawks
Philadelphia Sixers (Yes, that is a shirtless Shavlik Randolph)

Dave – The Douches – You are ruining the party, no one likes you. Please, go home:

Toronto Raptors

Sarah –The Go-Getter – This is not your year, but you’ll have your day

Orlando Magic
Utah Jazz
New Orleans

Will – The Cool Guys – These teams are intriguing and they may have what it takes to pull it off.
Detroit Pistons
Phoenix Suns
LA Lakers

Briana – The Skanks – These teams are going nowhere. They make the playoffs consistently but have no chance of actually winning
Houston
Washington (Yes that is Oleksiy Pecherov)

Greg – The Chosen Ones (He was chosen by online voters to appear on the show) – These teams have what it takes and they are going to the finals
Boston Celtics
San Antonio Spurs

By the way, the Spurs are going to win. In six. You are welcome for saving you two months of television watching. Go enjoy your spring.

The Angry T

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