The mashup: Cavs-Wizards playoff pretty entertaining
This Wizards-Cavaliers playoff series is as entertaining as anyone could have hoped for.
Climbing
•DeShawn Stevenson: To recap, late in the season, the Wizards guard called Cleveland’s LeBron James overrated. James responded by comparing himself to Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Stevenson to DeAndre “Soulja Boy” Way — which is sort of like LeBron calling himself a Taser and Stevenson a squirt gun. Stevenson then said that should their teams meet in the playoffs, he’d get Soulja Boy to come to a game and challenged LeBron to get Jay-Z out to a game.
And, bam! Soulja Boy was cranking in the aisle at the Wizards’ 108-72 win over the Cavs in game three on Thursday, The Associated Press reported.
OK, King. Check, now it’s your move.
•Candace Parker: Expect the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft to appear in TV commercials as often as truckers appear on freeways. She signed deals to endorse adidas and Gatorade on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported. Parker is going to be the first superstar of women’s basketball to have mainstream appeal.
•Michael Beasley: He’s going to be the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on June 26 — I’ve been wrong before (once), and it might happen again (doubtful), but I’m not wrong about that. And “Gunnin’ For That No. 1 Spot” — a documentary by Beastie Boys rapper Adam “M.C.A.” Yauch that was shot in 2006 and features K-State’s Beasley and UCLA’s Kevin Love, among other top players — premieres Monday at the Tribeca Film Festival. It’ll be available to the rest of us in June.
I just hope that Mike “Mike D” Diamond is the narrator, and that when the movie starts, he goes, “Now, here’s a little story I’d like to tell about some bad ballplayers you know so well, it started way back in history …”
Holding steady
•Danica Patrick: The IndyCar driver got the first win of her career last weekend in Japan, and in the process became the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race. Then sponsor Air Tran had to ruin it by putting “Air Tranica” on the side of a plane. Thank God whoever wrote that doesn’t do the big headlines on the front of this section.
Slipping
•Royals: There was some comedy after the top of the eighth inning out at Kauffman on Tuesday. The Indians had pushed the score to 15-0, and all but the most die-hard of the 16,000 fans who came out to the K had gone home.
That’s when Garth Brooks came on the big screen urging the crowd to sing along to his hit “Friends in Low Places.”
And many did — with feeling. The way things were going for the Royals that night — and really for the last seven games — those fans could relate.
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