• kgoon1590

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  OMG, this is one of the funniest things i've ever seen. he's surpassing Gilbert Arenas as the most desperate player reaching for an all-star berth.

  Posted 12/31/2007 respond (flag)

• Ben Q. Rock

  +2

  That was pretty funny. There's no way he's going to beat either LeBron or Ticket to get into the starting five, though.

  Posted 12/31/2007 respond (flag)

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THE DINOSTY — 2535 The number of days since we last won in San Antonio (as of Dec. 28th, 2007). Current number of days since we last won in San Antonio: 0 Poker players are taught not to compound mistakes. Apparently Tony Parker is NOT a poker player. Peppy Le Peu and Duncan combined for 12 turnovers (Raps had 7 as a team) and were the pins that punctured any chance of San Antonio winning this game. (DiNote: In discussing Parker’s wife Eva Longoria, Jack Armstrong actually referred to her show Desperate Housewives as “garbage” on national TV. Bold move, Jack.) Over the last three losses Bosh has ...

Chris W Bosh - Send Me To New Orleans All Star Game 2008
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Chris Bosh Wins 'All-Star Plea of the Year'
FanHouse — Filed under: Raptors, NBA Videos, NBA All-Star Game, TorontoIf this doesn't get Chris Bosh your All-Star vote, nothing will. Bosh won't catch LeBron James or Kevin Garnett for a starting spot, but he deserves it for offering this to the world. (Via BallHype.)   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Chris Bosh Wins 'All-Star Plea of the Year'
FanHouse — Filed under: Raptors, NBA Videos, NBA All-Star Game, TorontoIf this doesn't get Chris Bosh your All-Star vote, nothing will. Bosh won't catch LeBron James or Kevin Garnett for a starting spot, but he deserves it for offering this to the world. (Via BallHype.)   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Video Picks for 12/30
MVN Outsider — Chris Bosh would appreciate some All-Star votes: Tom Brady and Randy Moss break single-season records for touchdown passes and receptions in yesterday’s Patriots-Giants game:

Chris Bosh the Used Car Salesman?
Fantasy Basketball Pros — Watch this entertaining YouTube video of Chris Bosh pleading for your All-Star game vote. To hoops, Farid

Tonight, Chris Bosh is My Favorite Player
Fan Voice: Recent Topics in The Court Reporters: The NBA.com Blog — Tonight, Chris Bosh is My Favorite Player Dec 30, 2007 Posted by: John Schuhmann Bravo, Mr. CB4. Dec 30, 2007 11:18 PM EST Report Abuse 1 Reply What's with the accent that he has in that video? That was pretty funny. Vote for Bosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by alleniversonfan3 Dec 30, 2007 11:43 PM Report Abuse TrackBack URL for this entry: http://my.nba.com/trackback/300019746 Links to blogs that reference "Tonight, Chris Bosh is My Favorite Player" in The Court Reporters: The NBA.com Blog: No TrackBacks yet Comment

Vote for Bosh Campaign
Toronto Raptors — Chris Bosh is on the campaign trail for your vote to the NBA All-Star game:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7IZP7u9FE If that doesn’t get you do vote for him, I don’t know what will, but 19.9 points and 9.3 rebounds per game should be enough reasons alone to get him to New Orleans.

Chris Bosh All-Star Game Infomercial: Voting For Toronto Raptor "Easy As Cow Tipping"
HoopsVibe NBA Blog — Chris Bosh All-Star Game Infomercial: Voting For Toronto Raptor "Easy As Cow Tipping" I often laugh at NBA players promoting their individual achievements in interviews. Their shameless third person references are comical. Fourth person references (when a player publicly refers to himself by his nickname) are even funnier. However, I never begrudge a player for selling himself. The NBA is a business; getting money drives the league. And players have a limited window to maximize on and off-court earnings. Some players deserve credit for getting creative when plugging their skill and celebrity. Shaquille O Neal took nicknames to another level, while Gilbert Arenas pioneered ...

Grandma Cora, Fuck Off : Candidate Bosh’s DIY Campaign Commercial
Can't Stop The Bleeding — “I had to really, really exaggerate [the accent]. But a lot of people talk like that where I’m from so I know the slang,” Bosh said. “I’m a funny person - I think. So I wanted to surprise a lot of people because I knew people didn’t see that coming. Plus, I want to get my website a lot more traffic.” - Toronto’s Chris Bosh, explaining the above clip to the Globe & Mail’s Matthew Sekeres.

Yes, Let’s All Vote Chris Bosh to the All-Star Game
The Big Lead — It really is wonderful to see NBA players embracing the internet. Between this video, everything Gilbert Arenas has accomplished, and Greg Oden blogging, it’s safe to say that among the big three sports, the NFL and MLB have some serious catching up to do.

Chris Bosh, Having Fun With The Internets [Chris Bosh]
Deadspin — We support the Raptors' Chris Bosh and his (or, more accurately, his handlers, and NBA.com's) attempts to get himself voted on the NBA All-Star Team. Look what Gilbert hath wraught. ...

Chris Bosh Deserves Your All-Star Vote
SLAM Online — by Marcel Mutoni OK, so maybe he doesn’t really deserve a starting spot on the All-Star squad, but Chris Bosh’s attempt to get one is absolutely glorious. In a promotional video clip that’s spreading around the Internets like wild fire, we see the normally reserved Bosh decked out head-to-toe in cowboy gear, with the requisite Texas used car salesman twang in full effect. Though Chris knows he has almost no chance of getting the nod over the likes of KG and LeBron in the Eastern Conference, he still went ahead with the hilarious campaign and had a lot of fun. “I wanted to do ...

Bosh Brings the Funny
Dime Magazine — It’s only a matter of time now before Chris Bosh gets to host “Saturday Night Live.”

The Bar Has Been Raised
Gilbertology — Gilbert’s already shown that he’s a much better blogger than Chris is, don’t expect him to just lie down when it comes to goofy All-Star Campaign ads.

New Year's burn
Blazers Blog — Here are some random Blazer-related links to help ease your New Year's Day hangover ... Brain Hendrickson's Blazers Banter. Could the Blazers make a trade to thrust themselves into the thick of the playoff race? Nate McMillan" No. ...

Chris Bosh
SportsFilter — January 2, 2008 Chris Bosh : really wants to be an All Star. read story | posted by Mr Bismarck to Basketball at 9:47 AM CST (2 comments total) Awesome. Thanks. posted by yerfatma at 10:14 AM CST on January 2 Are you more or less likely to vote for him as a result? (Presuming people actually do vote for this sort of thing.) posted by Mr Bismarck at 10:17 AM CST on January 2 older Taxpayers will fund Yankees' V Ice Bowl is one for the ages newer You re not logged in. Please log in or register .

Oh, Chris Bosh
It Never Rains in College Park — And we all thought Gilbert Arenas was desperate for trying to get into the All-Star game with an injury. Chris Bosh is having a decent year relative to other East forwards, but no way he'll beat out Lebron or Garnett, both of whom are leading voting this year and playing out of their minds, and I think Antwan Jamison (averaging 22 and 10 and leading the Wiz sans Hibachi) and Paul Pierce (Boston's leading scorer) will help fill out the rest of the All-Star roster. Bosh has a good shot of getting in, but ultimately, I think it's up to the coaches and not the fans. But he's got my vote, ...

First Post of '08 (How original)
K luvs this game — Stopping in really quick... Happy Birthday Bron Bron! Cavs' star Lebron James celebrates his 23rd birthday at the opening of the 40/40 Club in Las Vegas this past weekend: BFFs Also seen- Jim Jackson, Gary Payton & Charles Barkley Please send Chris Bosh to the All-Star game- Good Luck getting into the starting lineup with Bron & Ticket in your conference

Bosh Beckons for All-Star Vote
Brahsome - Care To Get Nice? — You’ve probably already seen this, but it’s pretty funny, so enjoy. Share This

CHRIS BOSH NEEDS YOUR VOTE
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — This video came along during my long Christmas break (thanks to eXXtreme motorcyclist Mark), but I wanted to post it because it feels like weeks since I've written about the NBA.  I missed all sorts of NBA stories recently, like... uh... some games on Christmas Day.  Anyway, Chris Bosh is dressed up like a used car salesman, so you should vote him into the All-Star Game.  Although I'm not sure why he wants to go.  There are gonna be all sorts of dangerous black people there.

Chris Bosh bids for the All Star game
Hail Mary Jane — Chris Bosh did his best used car salesman impression in this video bid to send him to the NBA all star game.  This is particularly funny for me because I live in Texas now and there are actually guys like that out here. Unfortunately for Bosh, if he does get into the all star game, there’s no chance that he beats Bron Bron or Ticket to get in the starting five.  He’s got my vote though. Tags: chris bosh, nba all star, all star ...

Vote for Bosh!
Sports Scope — Toronto Raptors star forward Chris Bosh wants your vote...and it might be worth giving it to him. The Raptors are in second place in the Atlantic Division with a decent 17-15 record and Bosh is averaging just over 20 points per game and just under 10 boards a contest. Plus, he's got a great tongue-in-cheek ad running on YouTube.com asking for your vote. The only thing missing are the longhorns on the grill of his truck.

YouTube of the day II: Chris Bosh wants your vote
Ball Don't Lie — This has been all around the internets by now, but it's worth another post:

Can a brotha get a vote?
The Hoop and The Harm — This is what Chris Bosh is asking in this amazing video where he poses as a used car salesman. At the very least, he gets an E for effort. Can you blame him for trying with the likes of KG and Bron Bron in his conference? Of course not! Head over to NBA.com">NBA.com">NBA.com" target="_blank">nba.com or chris-bosh.com to vote. Share This

Happy New Year!
Drunk Jays Fans — Apologies if this post winds up a little disjointed, but I started it last night about 3:30 in the morning knowing full well that I should have been in bed. Apparently waking up at 8 pm kind of throws your natural sense of timing into some kind of disarray. I know what you're thinking and yes, I got severely drunk the night before last. But the thing about New Year's is that it's mostly for amateurs, so my friends and I had to work a little bit harder to get completely wrecked enough to feel good about ourselves. You'll be happy to know, I think we succeeded. ...

He has Won Our Vote
Yoda You Should Ask — YYSA is always captivated by creativity, especially when it comes from millionaires, ha. Anyways, Chris Bosh feels his on court performance may not be enough to seal a trip to the 2008 NBA all-star game, thus he released a humorous, country, used car sales man inspired video to plead for his entry. Only word of advice: we recommend keeping Bubba as far a way as possible from the Escalade. ...

Very Creative!
Ick's Corner — Now I have to hand it to Chris Bosh.. Toronto Raptor forward has come up with a creative way to get fans to vote him into the NBA All-Star game! Enjoy

Vote Bosh
Can Danny? — Honestly, I've been disappointed in Bosh this year and have serious doubts about the Bosh/Bargnani frontcourt but this ad supporting his All-Star candidacy was almost good enough to sway my vote.  Unfortunately for Bosh, with KG and Lebron counting as forwards (not to mention Paul Pierce, who's having a career year) there's little chance that he gets voted in.

Chris Bosh the Used Car Salesman
The Piston Post | A Detroit Pistons Blog — In light of the Pistons’ Friday road trip to Toronto, I deemed it necessary to up this video that the Raptors’ own Chris Bosh made urging fans to send him to New Orleans for the 2008 All-Star Game. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Chris Bosh Could Sell You a Car
Larry Brown Sports — I first saw this video on Monday at Deadspin but for some reason or another, I failed to post it. Maybe it’s because I was at work at the time. That could be it. Anyway, considering the video is still applicable, and Bosh is one of my favorite NBA players, I must help his cause in posting the video here. Hey, every vote counts. Check out his sales pitch for a roster spot in the All-Star game: No wonder the NBA had him trying to replace Gilbert as their primary blogger following Gil’s injury. Clearly there’s not a player who can stand up to Gil, but nobody can ...

FirstCuts: Vote for me!
The Sporting Blog — By Chris Littmann Sports don't start and end with a referee's whistle. FirstCuts, a blog dedicated to sports culture, will cover everything outside the lines, from the games to the gear. My MP3 player has Lupe Fiasco, Nirvana, Mae, Aqualung and N.E.R.D. in the recently played list at the moment. Now I’ve got audio interview with UTEP guard Stefon Jackson to add to that list. The fine folks at UTEP sent over what has to be one of the more unique promo items for a player I’ve seen to date, trying to pump him up as a potential All-American candidate. (Still, I’m not so sure how effective it is. I’m more of a ...

Chris Bosh: Like Your Video, But You're Not An All-Star
Truth About It - Washington Wizards Blog — Everyone is gushing over Chris Bosh's All-Star campaign videos. It started with attention from bloggers, then ESPN, and now media markets all over are jumping on the band-wagon. But should Bosh really be an All-Star this year? And will the fans ever get it right? According to common sense (and working within the current flawed voting system for starter -- that's for another post), here is how it should go in the East for the 2008 NBA All-Star game. Let's start with the givens, Kevin Garnett and LeBron James will be the starting forwards. KG leads all ...

Blog-O-Rama: Jeff Garcia’s Wife Named Sexiest
SPORTSbyBROOKS — • AOL FANHOUSE congratulates Jeff Garcia’s better half for being named sexiest athlete’s wife of 2007: • DC SPORTS BOG knows nothing keeps a team together like insulting each other. • And when the Redskins aren’t talking smack, MY BRAIN SAYS RAGE notes they’re talking to ghosts. • EVERY DAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY discovers this cartoonish comment on Florida’s effort in the Capital One Bowl: • DEUCE OF DAVENPORT compares the NFL playoff teams to various beers. • SMARTER finds Terrell Owens trying to ...

The Pistons take thier streak out of the Country
Need4Sheed.com — The Pistons take on The Raptors tonight at the Air Canada Center. Detroit will try to make it 11 straight with a win tonight against Toronto and their old teammate Carlos Delfino. If the Pistons can contain the self promoting Bosh along with Bargnani they should be fine. Raptors HQ wanted to get a little Detroit perspective on tonights ...

Beyond the Arc: Week 11
Dropping Dimes — Have you voted for Chris Bosh yet?  It’s free, and Bubba says it’s a good idea ... If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this video.  But let’s jump into the schedules now. Here’s the schedule for next week (1/7-1/13): The Fig Cap: We Believe you’re a stud. Tags: amare stoudemire, andrew bynum, celtics are kinda good, chris wilcox, danny granger, injury prone, jamaal tinsley, jason richardson, kevin durant, michael finley, paul ...

Pistons visit Toronto
Detroit Bad Boys — I kind of feel bad for the Raptors. Last year they were scrappy division champs, perhaps the only bright spot in an otherwise bleak Atlantic Division. With a legitimate All-Star in Chris Bosh surrounded by a solid nucleus featuring the likes of T.J. Ford, Jose Calderon, Jorge Garbajosa, and Andrea Bargnani, this looked like a team on the rise. And then, Boston happened. The Raps are suddenly the second-est fiddle in the entire NBA — the Celtics already sport an 11-game lead, the most of any division-leader in the league. Not only that, Bosh has regressed (albeit slightly), Ford and ...

Chris Bosh Acks a Fool
Pacman Jonesin' | Game Over, Byotch —

Bubba Endorses Chris Bosh
Empty the Bench — It’s tough to pass over LeBron James, Kevin Garnett and Caron Butler to vote for Bosh, but damn, he sure makes a convincing argument…

Saturday morning link dump
Valentine's Views — If I have to explain to you why Marisa Miller is quite possible my favorite supermodel then we have a problem. Anyway, Miller has been named AOL's Sports Girl of the Year. Congrats, Marisa, and, umm, thank you! Selling homemade 'fire Isiah' T-shirts at Madison Square Garden can get you thrown in jail. AOL Fanhouse Football and beer are synonymous. So, what is more natural than comparing teams in the NFL PLayoffs to various brands of brew? Duece of Davenport Seattle sports columnist crosses a line with a tasteless column accusing the Washington Redskins of ...

Lightning in a Bottle: Senators Gameday (Lite) 08/01/05
Scarlett Ice — Only a mini game-day post today as I'm stuck at work and trying to multi-task by keeping an eye peeled on the gold medal game between Team Canada and Team Sweden at the WJHC as well. For those of you who don't get The Score, there's a very excellent hockey program on it hosted by my personal favourite Steve Kouleas called The Spin. Former NHL player and former Tampa Bay head coach Steve Ludzik is a frequent analyst on the show and last night, he had a brief bone to pick with current Tampa GM, Jay Feaster. Suffice it to say, he's not a big fan of Feaster, who likes to claim that he was the architect of the cup ...

Where are they now - Hoopsters
Georgia Tech Sports — WILL BYNUM ARRESTED Evidently Will Bynum ran over a guy outside a nightclub and has been incarcerated. Not good. I guess you could say "the thrill is gone". Hopefully it all just turns out to be an unfortunate accident. JAVARIS VS THAD TAKE 1 Javaris Crittenton and Thaddeus Young squared off for the first time, and they ...

YouTube Tuesday II: Focus Your All-Star Votes Here!
Golden State Of Mind — I saw this tonight on tv and even though it's not Warriors related, it's hilarious. I had to put this up here to accompany Hash's Melo video. With all the diaries about All-Star voting, I just want to throw this name out there. Vote for Chris Bosh! ...

The dangers of youtube for NBA players
SLAM Online — By Vincent Thomas The two most compelling pieces of multimedia to hit our eyes and ears in recent weeks have come compliments of the sports world. It may not have been as deviantly entertaining as the vitriol Alec Baldwin spewed at his daughter in a voicemail, but Roger Clemens taped phone conversation with snitch Brian McNamee was some bizarre stuff. A 17-minute garble of evasion, and probable collusion. It was essentially a backwards, foolish attempt by Clemens to prove his innocence. Pull back the curtain, though, and it was basically broadcasting McNamee’s attempts to barter his silence for some cheddar that can get him out of his ...

NBA Players, Please Don't Fear YouTube
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — Vincent Thomas of SLAM writes about Chris Bosh's funny little YouTube commercial, pining for your All-Star vote. Jim LaBumbard is the Toronto Raptors head of PR. He said Bosh made the video on Christmas Eve with his girlfriend, cousin and brother. The Raptors staff loves it, as they should. But LaBumbard also confirmed that this video was posted on YouTube and Bosh's website without the organization having looked at it first. That's a problem, fam. I hate to rain on this parade, but as innocent and essentially awesome as the Bosh video is, the larger issue is a problematic one. The larger issue is the potential ...

Daily Links 1/12
CelticsBlog — Herald No Jersey barrier Team knows no better alternative Double whammy on Hawks Globe Celtics avoid another trip Rondo wrenches back in fall Celtics Blog The fans one could do without LOY's Place Celtics grind out a win in New Jersey ESPN Garnett drops 20 as Celtics race to 30th win Celtics 24/7 Celtics defense wallops Nets Red's Army The defense did it Perkisabeast Rotten in Denmark? Food for thought: backing up the point Green Bandwagon Celtics at Nets recap Star Ledger Pierce makes a prediction NY Times Nets fade in the fourth as Celtics take over ...

Today’s Links 1/12
Boston Sports Nation — Herald     No Jersey barrier        Team knows no better alternative       Double whammy on Hawks        Globe    Celtics avoid another trip      Rondo wrenches back in fall        Celtics Blog    The fans one could do without      LOY’s Place    Celtics grind out a win in New Jersey     ESPN   Garnett drops 20 as Celtics race to 30th win       Celtics 24/7     Celtics defense wallops Nets      Red’s Army    The defense did it        ...

Бош со молба до вас
NBA Macedonia — WPvideo 1.10 Кевине, што му направи на човекот…

Powerless rankings: Eastern Conference
Basketbawful — For the rest of the regular season, Basketbawful and Hardwood Paroxysm will be teaming up to give you a weekly ranking of which teams are doing their level best to be the absolute worst in the league. This week, we're taking the East, while the Hardwood Boys are taking the West. 1. Miami: They've lost 10 games in a row. Shaq returned to practice and nobody cares. Pat Riley is trying to get out of Dodge, but the team owner won't let him. Speaking of Riles, he's begging the media to name Shaq to the All-star Game. Not only is Ricky Davis the team's second-leading scorer on the season, Mark ...

NBAtipoff — RAPTORS BEAT HAWKS 89-78! In what looked like it could have been a close game, the Raptors ended up pulling away and beat the Hawks 89-78. This is an important win for the Raptors, who (although I think they are better than the Hawks) are close to the Hawks in the minor league (Eastern conference without Orlando, Boston and Detroit) playoff run. In this game we saw some things we don't see in many games. Hawks guard Anthony Johnson was called for a flagrant 2 for elbowing Jose Calderon in the head. I know he let his emotions get the best of him, but Johnson is a veteran guard and expect him to handle this professionally. I also ...

How I would use a Larry David catchphrase to describe the 2007-2008 Raptors
T.Jose Caldesports — Trivia of the day: Where do you think the Raptors rank in terms of "pace" of play this season ("pace" is determined by the number of possessions a team uses in a game)? Find the answer at the bottom of this 250,000 word post. ...

Portland Trail Blazers iRoy Campaign is Pure Genius
Sports Business Radio blogs — Toronto Raptors player Chris Bosh made plenty of headlines for taking the initiative to film this video soliciting All-Star votes. Its become a YouTube sensation with over 420,000 hits. But my award for the best All-Star game campaign for a player has got to go to the Portland Trail Blazers for their push for guard Brandon Roy. They came up with something that is sheer genius and sure to win the hearts of the people the campaign is targeting. The team that brought you the Brandon Roy Rookie of the Year Leatherman Tool has now developed the iRoy. The Trail Blazers sent 75 iPod Nanos to select media and to Western Conference coaches in hopes of ...

The Basketball Diaries
Foul Balls — Chicago Bulls 96 Minnesota Timberwolves 85 If you weren't sure there was a God, you have to be convinced now because how else can you explain the gift He has given us by scheduling a home-and-home on consecutive days between the Bulls and Timberwolves. Thank you, Jesus!! Kirk Hinrich had another strong effort in the absence of Luol Deng and Ben Gordon, scoring 27 points and handing out 6 assists. "I felt like I was getting good looks, being aggressive," Hinrich said. "I just wasn't quite getting my legs underneath me on my shots and on my drives. So I was just trying to make a conscious effort of playing through fatigue and trying to get the job done." I'd also like to ...

Night of the Living 'Sheed [Nba Closer]
Deadspin — The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who is in no way related to Kevin McHale and who has taken the necessary legal steps to ensure that it stays that way. When he's not building a life-sized Dirk Nowitzki out of LEGOs, he can be found making fart jokes at Basketbawful. Enjoy! • They did the monster mash. What does Mike Dunleavy Jr. think about Rasheed Wallace? "He's one of the most difficult guys in the league to guard. When he wants to be a monster, he's a monster." Well, you can bet junior will be asking his mommy to check in the closet and under his bed for at least a week after Wallace dropped 24 ...

Yi Jianlian: The First 31 Weeks
Brew Hoop — The All-Star votes are in, and to nobody's surprise, there aren’t any Bucks in the Eastern Conference starting lineup. The starters are Jason Kidd, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, and Dwight Howard. That’s a pretty formidable group, and when Kidd and Wade are the most questionable picks of the bunch, you know the fans could, and have done much worse. Garnett led everyone with 2,399,148 votes. Given his superb play and Boston’s rabid fan base, it follows that millions of people left-clicked and hole-punched the Big Ticket all the way to Big Easy. One of the biggest stories of fan voting was Allen Iverson’s narrow, ...

Amare Stoudemire Wants To Move To China…….
Fanster.com — It’s once again time for the NBA All Star game. Too bad the starting lineups tend to be a giant popularity contest that doesn’t reflect a players stats for the season. Case and point the fact that neither Steve Nash nor Amare Stoudemire will appear in the starting lineup. Sure I’m a bitter Suns fan and biased as hell when it comes to this but did you see the discrepancy in the votes between Amare and Yao? There was over a 700,000 vote difference between Yao in first place and Amare in second. The large margin prompted Amare to say this to the Arizona Republic’s Paul Coro: “I got to move to ...

Your Hard Work Paid Off Chris Bosh
Bleacher Report — Chris Bosh is the center for the Toronto Raptors. He is an All-Star player who, in my opinion, greatly deserves it. But he deserves it not only for his stellar play (about 23 PPG and 9 RPG), but for his hilarious YouTube video. In the video he lets you know that to vote for the NBA All-Star game, it doesn't cost $20, $10, or even $5...It is free. And they are very easy to find. You can vote by going to NBA.com. But that's not the only place you can show Bosh some love. You can reach the voting by going to Chris Bosh's website. Voting is as easy as cow-tipping, just ask Bubba, who is missing at least one ...

Who Cares About a Little Self-Promotion
Bleacher Report — Chris Bosh is the center for the Toronto Raptors. He is an All-Star player who, in my opinion, greatly deserves it. But he deserves it not only for his stellar play (about 23 PPG and 9 RPG), but for his hilarious YouTube video. In the video he lets you know that to vote for the NBA All-Star game, it doesn't cost $20, $10, or even $5...It is free. And they are very easy to find. You can vote by going to NBA.com. But that's not the only place you can show Bosh some love. You can reach the voting by going to Chris Bosh's website. Voting is as easy as cow-tipping, just ask the apparent friend of Bosh, Bubba, ...

Deep Thoughts Vol. 4
Sports And The City — Damon Stoudamire didn't become a Toronto Raptor for the second time in his career this week. Instead, the Raptors got even better news on Monday. T.J. Ford came back. Welcome back, Little Engine. You've been missed. Watching Ford check into the game Monday night in Miami was something I won't soon forget. He had a huge smile on his face and ...

Deep Thoughts Vol. 4
Bleacher Report — Damon Stoudamire didn't become a Toronto Raptor for the second time in his career this week. Instead, the Raptors got even better news on Monday. T.J. Ford came back. Welcome back, Little Engine. You've been missed. Watching Ford check into the game Monday night in Miami was something I won't soon forget. He had a huge smile on his face and Jose ...

Who Is Blane Harrington?
Dime Magazine — With Gilbert Arenas largely out of the limelight because of his knee injury, Chris Bosh is making a strong play to be the NBA’s quirkiest, er, I mean, most entertaining star off the court. First came his “Chris W. Bosh” car salesman/ ...

Chris Bosh--Entertaining? Insane? Neither?
I Dislike Your Favorite Team — Remember the other day when the Timberwolves were getting destroyed by the Toronto Raptors ? Me neither. Regardless, the broadcast team of Tom Hanneman and Jim Peterson took the ass-kicking as a chance to discuss items tangentially related to basketball. That is a time-honored tradition for games that are going horribly awry for the home side, and I have no problem with it (though, in the midst of this lost, and sometimes very depressing season, one can't help but what wonder how nice it would be to have Kevin Harlan (before he done got big) calling the games again. Anyway, Jim and Tom were chatting, and Tom mentioned Chris Bosh's side "business" ...

Chris Bosh: Film Star and All-Star Starter
FanHouse — Filed under: Raptors, Eastern, NBA All-Star Game, Toronto Chris Bosh was completely (and awesomely) shameless in his campaign for fans to vote him into the All-Star game. Unfortunately, he wasn't voted a starter but was still an obvious selection for the coaches. And while it's not the way he would have preferred to receive the honor, Bosh was named a replacement starter today by Doc Rivers for Kevin Garnett, the leading vote-getter who's sidelined with an abdominal injury. I'm not sure if Rivers was influenced by Bosh's mad YouTube skillz, but it ...

Dwight Howard makes All-Star weekend Super
Grind It Out Sports — By: Justin Jacobs I’ll be the first to admit that the NBA Dunk Contest has stunk the last couple of years.  It felt like we had gotten to a point where we had seen just about everything.  Especially after the year when Vince Carter put on that air show back in 2000.  However, as a creature of habit I grabbed a beer on Saturday and sat down ...

Tonight's Game: Toronto Raptors vs. Orlando Magic
Third Quarter Collapse — vs. 28-23 34-21 Air Canada Centre 7:00 PM Sun Sports Probable ...

Baron Davis > Chris Bosh
Fan Voice: Recent Topics in The Court Reporters: The NBA.com Blog — Posted by: John Schuhmann The used car salesman bit was excellent and I love me some Blaine Harrington ... But Chris Bosh , you have been one-upped... Extra points for using one of my all-time favorite NE joints. And a behind-the-scenes-short . Tat hip to The Basketball Jones .

Chris Bosh, what were you thinking?
The Rogue Hour — This is very late, but I stumbled upon this on this website while going through the blog roll of this ratings widget website Blogorator. Seems as if Chris Bosh was desperate to drum up some votes for the NBA All-Star game just played recently in New Orleans. So desperate that he made this 'commercial'(?). I know it's supposed to be funny like a parody, but it kinda comes off as just weird and low budget. Most of the website I found this on is posted in Chinese (I think) so possibly not a lot of people have seen this yet at least stateside. Hey perhaps Obama can adapt this to his campaign somehow?:) ...

Chris Paul Ain't Winning MVP With This One
The Howeva Files — I've seen a lot of crappy websites in my day...I'm looking right at you Poodles.com...but the new website the Hornets launched to help win Chris Paul MVP shares an ample spot in the pantheon of poop. The site is "CP3MVP.com", a name that sounds more like a license plate than a website. Also, it's hard to look at the name and NOT think about Star Wars character C3PO. I showed the name to no less than 10 people and they responded in a similar fashion. Amazingly, "ChrisPaulMVP.com" still isn't taken...nor is "ChrisPaul4MVP.com". Those would make too much sense. Best of all, regular ol' "ChrisPaul.com" IS taken by some ...

Bosh Batters Bobcats, Raptors escape Charlotte with a win
Bobcat Bonfire — Toronto Raptors 104 Charlotte Bobcats 100 When last the Raptors visited the Queen City, the came without the firepower of All-Star Chris Bosh. Chris Bosh was an All-Star? Why, yes he was…and did it on the strength of this: Funny stuff. But there is nothing funny about Bosh’s game. He brought the total package with him Monday night, finishing with 32points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists and had the help of Jamario Moon (15 points, 8 rebounds), Rasho Nesterovic (14 points, 11 rebounds), and Anthony Parker (20 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists). When the Raptors made 17 consecutive ...

Bosh Wants Raptors Fans To Start Getting Rowdy
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Chris Bosh has a simple request to Toronto basketball fans: Get rowdy ! Chris Bosh Raptors fans And the Raptors forward is once again using YouTube to spread wide his message to the masses. Last time, Bosh humorously pleaded with NBA fans to vote him to New Orleans for the All-Star Game . But now he has a new favor to ask, and it concerns his home court. (Video after the jump.) In a clip posted up last Thursday, Bosh has a heart-to-heart with you, the viewer. Or more specifically, a heart-to-heart with attendees of the Air Canada Center, which Chris coolly calls the “A.C.C” - no doubt confusing any video viewers from Carolina. Bosh starts with a ...

The Most Compelling One-on-One Matchup in the East...
T.Jose Caldesports — I made a joke at the beginning of my previous post about the "marketability" (or lackthereof) of this series to American broadcasters.  Last year, the only reason the Raptors made it onto ESPN was the natural Vince storyline... this year, no story as compelling exists... or does it? In Chris Bosh and Dwight Howard, you have ...

Raptors Season in Review: What We Learned
Courtside — Syndicate this site [image] Raps vs. Bulls | Main Raptors Season in Review: What We Learned Posted by Joseph Casciaro on April 17, 2008 After a meaningless game in Chicago , the Toronto Raptors wrapped up their regular season as a .500 ball club. Nowhere near where they and their fans envisioned they would be. After six months and 82 games, here is what the 2007-2008 regular season has taught us about the Toronto Raptors: • Chris Bosh, when healthy, has become a legitimate scoring threat in the NBA - When the Raptors drafted Bosh, we all had high hopes for the guy, no doubt. But even as he molded into an all star by his second ...

Much to do about 'dos
WCBias | West Coast Bias Sports Blog | West Coast Sports News by West Coast Sports Fans, Covering Los Angeles Lakers, Dodgers and All Things West Coast — Is it just me, or is there some ugly basketball going down in the Eastern Conference? Maybe I’m just blinded by all of the bad tattoos and hideous hairdos out East, where three of the four first-round series were still undecided heading into Thursday’s action. The series have been close, but the brand of basketball being played is anything but hair-raising. ...

Chris Bosh needs a new hobby...
Sports And The City — Chris Bosh took the Toronto Raptors' playoff defeat really hard. It's killing him that his season is over. As the video below will show you, he's really having a hard time figuring out what to do with all of his free time. His first movie, the plea to get himself voted into the All-Star game, was all good and fun. Now Bosh's movie-making fetish is just getting weird. Anybody else get the feeling that Bosh is just trying too damn hard? Dude needs a new hobby or, like Chris Black said, needs to get himself into the weight room... And just in case Bryan Colangelo didn't have enough on his plate ...

Recap: Team USA 101 Argentina 81
Brew Hoop — Team USA topped reigning Olympic champion Argentina 101-81 (recap/quotes) on Friday morning. That result, coupled with Spain's 91-86 win over Lithuania, sets up a Team USA versus Spain gold medal game on Sunday at 1:30 a.m. central time. Five observations following the game: A 20-point win over the defending champs has largely been met with mixed reviews for Team USA. And that's a loud sign of wonderful progress made in a remarkably short time by the American team. The fact is, people are once again expecting not just wins, but thorough blowouts against even the strongest competition. So while the latest effort may not ...

Hot Clicks: Hottest cheerleader tournament
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Across the Nation: Kobe part of Emmy phone chain!
The Lakers Nation — Here’s a new addition to TLN where we’ll highlight some of the things that are going on, in or around our Lakers and NBA world. Kobe Bryant is apparently part of a celebrity ‘Emmy’ phone chain. Others in the chain include William Shatner, Rachel Ray, Regis, Martin Short and The ...

Is Steve Nash Baron’s Bubba?
Fear The Beard — I don’t know if this is exactly a fair fight. We here at FTB have hella-respect for BD’s game, but in this here comedy skit challenge, my money might have to be on Bosh. After all, we know Chris Bosh has a secret weapon. And that weapon goes by the name of Bubba. Bubba is the McLovin of Youtube Skit Scene Stealing. If you forgot Bubba’s unforgettable role in CB4’s All Star campaign video, then you most likely forgot about Blue in “Old School” or Saget in “Half Baked.” In other words, you’re comedy-illiterate. I think Baron only stands ...

BDL's 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: Toronto Raptors
Ball Don't Lie — As the NBA preseason marches on, Ball Don't Lie looks at all 30 teams, outlining off-season transactions, projecting win totals, spinning tracks, and much, much more. It's a fun, hot mess. Today, the Toronto Raptors. Last Season: 41-41; lost in first round of the playoffs to David Blaine Key Players Added: Jermaine O'Neal (imported from Indiana), Hassan Adams (free agent), Nathan Jawai (traded from Indy, drafted from Australia), the pride of East Hartford, Connecticut Will Solomon (free agent), Roko Ukic (found in Italy wearing a toque, glasses and a ...

QCH does fantasy basketball
Queen City Hoops — I am of course talking about the semi-dorky version of fantasy basketball, and not the kind that involves Sue Bird, Becky Hammon, and Strip-Horse (WNBA - I give you your new marketing plan). Given an invite from Andrew at Empty the Bench and promising that I would not compromise the integrity of the league, I took part in my first fantasy basketball draft last night. And I felt every part of being the n00b. With all previous experience in fake sports being confined to football, the entire head-to-head scoring across different categories is a bit strange. Kind of like doing a football league where you were competing to beat your opponent in completion %, ...

Baron Davis Isn’t Funny
Both Teams Played Hard — But Chris Bosh sort of is. He at least had a good concept and the dubbed English was not bad, although the overall execution proved fairly sloppy. (via FanHouse) In fairness, Bosh set the bar unreasonably high with his last effort, so we shouldn’t be too hard on dude, especially when he undoubtedly won this “comedy off” against Baron.

One-on-One: Chris Bosh talks YouTube, nicknames, baseball
Ball Don't Lie — Towards the end of my conversation yesterday morning with Chris Bosh, I asked him if there was anything that he couldn't do on the court right now. "That I can't do?" he repeated just to make sure he had heard my question correctly. "Yeah," I said. "Of course not." Bosh responded. "I can do everything. That's the attitude I take every time I step onto the court. I feel that I can do everything: play defense, play offense, shoot the ball, take it to the hole, shoot free throws ... everything really. I'm one of those kind of players." As I watched him rack up 40 points and 18 rebounds, and ...

Shocking News! Amare pimps Amare for All Star Game
Fanster.com — I know you will be as surprised as I am that Amare felt the need to pimp Amare's favorite player for the All Star game. When Chris Bosh did this last year it was novel and funny. This is just kind of pathetic and not in the least bit surprising. To be fair, it is kind of funny and tries to be self-deprecating. But still... Amare listen. If you want to be an All Star play your game on the court. We all know how great you are and how much greater you can be. Defend your man. Rebound the ball. Play smart. Be a leader. Dominate the ball when it's called for and play within the team system ...

Shocking News! Amare pimps Amare for All Star Game
Bright Side Of The Sun — I know you will be as surprised as I am that Amare felt the need to pimp Amare's favorite player for the All Star game. When Chris Bosh did this last year it was novel and funny. This is just kind of pathetic and not in the least bit surprising. To be fair, it is kind of funny and tries to be self-deprecating. But still... Amare listen. If you want to be an All Star play your game on the court. We all know how great you are and how much greater you can be. Defend your man. Rebound the ball. Play smart. Be a leader. Dominate the ball when it's called for and play within the team system ...

Amare wants your vote
Fanster.com — Amare Stoudemire wants your vote. He wants it so bad that he is willing to start a website solely dedicated to the cause, Vote4Amare.com. The site includes viral videos, the first of which shows that being Amare’s friend isn’t a difficult job– as long as you know how to stroke an NBA star’s ego and do a little character acting. At first, the humor of the video was lost on me, but the more I watch it, the funnier it gets. Although Amare is no Steve Nash or Chris Bosh. If you think you have what it takes to be friendly with Amare, you can call the Vote4Amare hot line and tell them why ...

Carnival of the NBA #62
Hoops Addict — Both Teams Played Hard recently hosted Carnival of NBA #61 and they used the idea of documenting “the ways in which the Ballersphere is great while assigning those numbers to the players we praise and loathe the most, and along the way, we will collect links to the biggest and best related stories so far from this young season.” With that in mind, I thought  I’d wrap up 2008 with a look at some of the biggest NBA stories of 2008. This meant I sat down for nearly 48 hours working on this post this weekend as I went through hundreds of blogs on BallHype and thousands of posts. The result is Carnival ...

Game Notes: Toronto vs. Washington
Hoops Addict — -As soon as I arrived to the arena, I saw a press release from Toronto Raptors, indicating that guard/forward Hassan Adams had been traded to the Los Angeles Clippers for cash considerations and a future second round pick.  When I spoke to Raptors forward Chris Bosh after the game, he had this to say about Adams:  “He was a great teammate, a great friend, so I was disappointed he was leaving, but I don’t want to be selfish and I know he wants more playing time, so this is good for him.”  Unfortunately, The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Adams was later waived.  My colleague Ryan McNeill, who covers the Raptors for ...

Nets' Harris not about to steal acting gigs from Bosh
Posted Sports : Basketball — Devin Harris of the New Jersey Nets is trying a tact similar to the one Chris Bosh used to get NBA All-Star votes last season — he's tickling the funny bone. Bosh last year played a used-car salesman-type to entice All-Star voters into picking him for the starting lineup. (He fell short of his goal, but was picked for the team by the East coaching staff.) Harris's All-Star video is a takeoff on the President George W. Bush shoe-throwing news conference. It's, um, not Oscar-calibre stuff. Click on the video box above to see the clip. 

Editorial: Enough with the All-Star propaganda
MVN Outsider — Now is usually the time when the marketing departments at several NBA teams go stupid. Last year, it was the Chris Bosh video, this year there is the completely original Devin Harris video of teammates throwing shoes at him. A few years back, the Memphis Grizzlies sent out comic books to other NBA teams and the media featuring "Batt-Man and Pow." Those are just a few examples of the desperate attempts some teams make at trying to get their players voted into the All-Star game or to one of the All-Star Saturday events. Rarely do you ...

The NEXT: Completely Polarizing Societal Element
ESPNtheMag.com - MagDaily — Visit the NEXT 2009 universe. The No. 15 hot Google search on the afternoon of January 16, 2009 was "Pelosi Rickroll," so naturally we had to, well, Google it. We found this, which is pretty funny. We've been rickrolled before—who hasn't?—so we wanted to see if anyone has linked the concept to sports. Found this post about the inherent life questions raised by the Rickroll, briefly considered our place in the universe, and then realized everything was OK again: New York Mets fans booed so loudly when "Never Gonna Give You Up" came on this past summer, you could barely hear the song. (Grainy video of ...

The NEXT: Context of "Viral" Video
ESPNtheMag.com - MagDaily — Visit the 2009 NEXT universe. In the past 24 hours, we've had "David After Dentist" e-mailed to us four times, by four wholly different individuals. The thing is classic, which explains why it has 1.2 million views despite being up for barely a triple-digit number of hours. Want to know how ridiculous those numbers are? Chris Bosh's All-Star commercial last year, one of the most viral sports clips of the past 24 months (it landed Bosh a gig on The Tonight Show), has been up since December 28, 2007 and has about 688,000 views. Little kids win every time. (If you're wondering, the main YouTube version of Shaq's Kobe diss rap ...

Best Golden State Warrior Team That Could Never Be
The Play In California — It's safe to say that the Warriors' 2009 season is over. Any hopes of the miracle playoff run from two years ago were down the drain after Monta Ellis broke his ankle. Sorry Stephen Jackson, your first career triple double doesn't magically change the Warriors' record from 16-34 to 34-16. And thanking God for that feat won't bring a NBA championship to Oakland. ...

Sunday Debate: Who is the Most Underrated Player in the NBA?
FANdemonium Sports — Welcome to the newest FANdemonium Sports segment. It is called Sunday Debates. Every Sunday, I will think of a hot topic subject in the world of sports. Today’s subject is the most underrated player in the NBA. So, I will show and analyze some of the top candidates and then give you, what I think is, the most underrated player in the NBA. If you want to view my take on a topic, let me know about it. Email me any suggestions (along with anything else you want) at StLDieHard24@gmail.com. I will make a “Sunday Debates” shortcut on the right side of the page under the “It’s FANdemonium, baby!” section. There you will be able to view all of the ...

Chris Bosh Accused Of Being A Deadbeat Dad
SPORTSbyBROOKS — From what I can remember, Chris Bosh’s career in the NBA has been a mostly positive one.  Since joining the league in 2003 after being taken fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors in the NBA Draft, he’s been able to play well on the court while staying out of trouble off of it.  Usually the only time we see him mentioned in non-basketball stories is when he’s recording YouTube videos to campaign for the All-Star game ...

Commiserating With The Enemy....
Stop Mike Lupica — My old blog-friend Jeff, who currently writes for the excellent blog Pete Marasmitch, e-mailed me to ask to participate in his "Weeping With The Enemy" series.  In this series of posts on his site, Jeff, a Toronto Raptors fan, hunts down a blogger who writes about a rival team and they exchange a series of Q&A's.   Below are my questions to a somewhat suffering Raptors fan (one the one hand, the Raptors are worse record-wise than the Knicks; on the other hand, they have Chris Bosh, Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani; and one the third hand, those guys ...

Chris Bosh makes all sorts of announcements — none of which have to do with basketball
Posted Sports : Basketball — The technologically savvy Chris Bosh is attempting to further his expand his image — with little association to his day job. The Toronto Raptors power forward made a series of announcements on Monday, starting with the release of a DVD and CD this Fall in association with Warner Music Canada. For those worrying about a repeat of this (or this or this, for that matter), do not worry: there will be no original songs coming from Bosh. Instead, the DVD will feature the comic characters Bosh has come up with in the past (such as the used car salesman and Blaine Harrington) as well as a tour of his life in Dallas. The CD will ...

Some Guy Wearing a Net on His Head’s 11th Favorite Player Reports on the NBA Finals
Both Teams Played Hard — The other day, Jacko and the Sports Guy were discussing the difference between athlete funny and actual funny. The basic idea was that whenever you see guys like Kevin Millar or Nick Swisher talking to teammates in the dugout, they always look like they’re about to fall off the bench laughing. I don’t know too much about either of those guys actual personalities (Sports Guy and Jacko seem to think they probably aren’t really funny although everyone definitely loves Millar), but athlete humor definitely is graded on a a curve. It’s hard to believe that hanging out with Chris Bosh, for instance, would be an uproarious time despite the fact ...

The Infinite List of Cool Things About the NBA
Basketball Fiend — Jordan is one of the coolest things about the NBA. The NBA is filled with all kinds of cool things. In fact, so many cool things that it’s virtually impossible to document them all. But I’m damn sure going to try. Below you’ll find a list of the things that I think are cool about the NBA (ranging from past to present, from on the court to off-court) in no particular order. The reason I call this an infinite list is that I want it to be a living document, meaning I hope you’ll continue to add to it by leaving comments in the section below or sending tips to me by e-mail at pecrawley@gmail.com ...

There’s a new sheriff in town: Chris Bosh, domain-name liberator.
Fear The Beard — Yep. You heard right. All your celebrity URLs are now belong to Chris Bosh. But, after battling an alleged cybersquatter in court and winning, apparently he’s gonna go all Robin Hood with the domain names, giving them back to the famous folks whose URLs were poached. Sure, he’s primarily known as an all-star forward for the Toronto Raptors, but for Chris Bosh, this isn’t exactly his first rodeo in terms of online activity. He is heavily involved in social media, through his firm Max Deal, and is clearly one of the more Internet-savvy athletes out there. He put himself on the map when he became a legit Internet sensation by ...