Archive for the ‘China’ Category

Michael Beasley Taken To Hospital For Smoke Inhalation, Not What You’re Thinking

Posted: September 2, 2011 by Keith Stone in basketball, China, Michael Beasley, NBA
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Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley likes to smoke. Everybody knows this. Unfortunately for Supercool Beas, who’s playing exhibition games in China, the Chinese like to smoke a lot more. Beasley suffered an asthma attack last week due to giant clouds of cigarette smoke hovering in the arena during a game. Apparently, Chinese smoking laws are a little more lax than in America. Back at his hotel, Beasley collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. He’s fine now, at least when it comes to his lungs. Beas broke his wrist in an ensuing game.

I’ve always wanted to have a Drunk Olympics, where people compete at different events while they’re drunk but this is just as good: the Smoke Olympics. How fast can you run a mile when the air is filled with cigarette smoke? Let’s make this happen, Marlboro!

As for the Chinese, I don’t get why everyone is so afraid they’re gonna take over the world. Yeah, they have a ton of people and they may be good at engineering, but they’re clearly dumb as fuck when it comes to simple things like not smoking. How are they going to win World War III? All their soldiers will be gassed by the time they run 200 yards and robot soldier technology is at least 50 years away. By then, they’ll all be dead with lung cancer.

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Rush Hour 4

Posted: August 21, 2011 by Keith Stone in basketball, China, college basketball, Georgetown
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“Never touch a Chinese man’s basketball!”

The fight between Georgetown and the Bavi Rockets wasn’t pretty, although it narrowly ended up missing being the Wrestling Video of the Week. Seems like the Rockets were getting a little chippy and finally the GTown players snapped. As crazy as the video is, it may have deep implications. The Chinese Basketball league is only allowing NBA players to come over if they are free agents and will not be able to leave if the lockout ends. That’s not good news for players like Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul that wanted to play there. It does not, however, affect Stephon Marbury.

According to the New York Times, Chinese athletes in general have begun to rebel against authority. Maybe this is an outcropping of that. Or they don’t like black people. How come it’s only the international games that have fights with chairs and tables involved? We need more fighting in the NBA. It would make things a lot more exciting. Can you imagine Amar’e Stoudemire and Kevin Garnett going at it with steel chairs? The NBA would make so much money. Lockout solved.

>What’s Stephon Marbury Up To?

Posted: April 20, 2011 by Keith Stone in China, Stephon Marbury
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All this talk about the Knicks losing made me think of Stephon Marbury. Sports magazine GQ has an interesting article about his time in China. And it appears he got the word “China” tattooed on his arm. I wouldn’t expect anything less.