Have a Happy New Year Everyone!

What a great year ahead of us! :)

The San Antonio Spurs managed to win, 93-71, against their Southwest rival the Dallas Mavericks. Manu Ginobili will be out for at two months due to a fracture on his shooting hand. Get well soon Manu!

Watch the highlights of the Mavs-Spurs game: http://www.nba.com/video/games/spurs/2012/01/05/0021100095_dal_sas_1h.nba

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Schuhmann on the Spurs

John Schuhmann on the San Antonio Spurs...

Last season was unique in many ways for the Spurs. With a change of pace and a new identity, they became a team that folks in San Antonio might not recognize, even though most of the players in silver and black were plenty familiar.

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http://www.nba.com/news/features/john_schuhmann/statscube-preview-2011-SAS/index.html
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Christmas Day is NBA Day!

Counting down the days to the 2011-12 NBA Season. :) So excited! GO SPURS!

It's JaggedCore's 4th Year!

I've been wondering when JaggedCore began. So, I looked up for my very first post here and found this.

Reposting Angels..

Angels.. Come as visions, voices, dreams, coincidences, & intuition, the whisper of knowledge at your ear. They come as animals or other people, or as a wash of peace in an ailing heart. Sometimes a stranger may come up & give you just the information or assistance you need. Sometimes you yourself are used as an angel, for a moment, either knowingly or not, speaking words you did not know you knew.
But sometimes these beings come as angels, in the very form that artists show - as beings of light, both with & without wings.
-Sophy Burnham

Thanks Ruthie for being the first one to comment. :)

Yea, so much have changed.

But I'm glad Built from Scratch is still here.

Still Thrilled About the 2011-12 Season?

Finally, some good news about the NBA. The five-month lockout end and the season begins on Christmas Day. A tentative agreement has been made but 29 owners and 450 players will still have to vote for the deal to be effective. According to NBA Commissioner David Stern, the agreement was "subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we are optimistic that will all come to pass."

If all goes well on the pending agreement, the 2011-12 season [which could be a 66-game season] will begin on December 25. Below is the 2011-12 general breakdown of "hopefully" the upcoming season:

Regular Season Start Date: December 25, 2011
Regular Season End Date: April 26, 2012
Playoffs Start Date: April 28, 2012
Last Possible Finals Date: June 26, 2012

Note: Full schedule hasn't been released yet.

What are your thoughts on this? Still excited? Or did the five-month lockout spoiled the thrill?

Source/s:
http://www.nba.com/2011/news/11/27/schedule/index.html

Lockout Frustration

The NBA lockout is still on. :( And I'm getting frustrated about it.

NBA Superstars Going Overseas

Speaking of the NBA, it's October and players should be warming up for the coming season. But the lockout hasn't been lifted yet and I'm not even sure if there will be a new season [sigh]. So, where do we go now fellow NBA fans?

Overseas? I suppose, yea.

According to Dime reports, there will be an elite number of NBA superstars who will be playing overseas. The basketball superstars include, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and Chris Paul.

Source/s:
http://dimemag.com/2011/10/dime-exclusive-breaking-news-nba-superstars-headed-overseas/

Thank You, 1st Bicol Bloggy Awards

It was Thursday, when a friend from the office told me that my blog was nominated as one of the Best Sports Blog at the 1st Bicol Bloggy Awards and was invited to go the awarding ceremony. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend to awards night. But even so, I was still very glad that people now knew about jaggedcore.blogspot.com, which was a fusion of my love for the NBA and writing.

I never really expected to win in the sports category, but I won! My blog won the Best Sports Blog in the very 1st Annual Bicol Bloggy Awards that was held at the Bicol University Amphi Theater. My deepest gratitude to the organizers and to everyone who's contributed to this great blogging event.

Thank you very much!

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Celebrities Looking Like Athletes?

I know this is out of my usual NBA stuff but I just couldn't stop myself from posting this because I've really enjoyed watching this and I know you will too.

Harrison Ford and Nick Faldo (Professional Golfer/Golf Analyst)

How about a Han Solo stand-in for Nick Faldo eh?

Jim Carrey and Rick Carlisle (National Basketball Association)

Of course, how was I able to miss this one? Have you noticed the resemblance?

Will Smith and Robert Horry (National Basketball Association)

Wow, they really look alike. Miss Big Shot Rob.

Christian Bale and Homer Bailey (American Major League Baseball)

The eerie similarity between Bale and Bailey left me speechless.

Ron Jeremy and Stan Van Gundy (National Basketball Association)

Gosh, the mustache looks unusually similar. (Goosebumps!)

Want to find more celebrities who likes like a famous athlete, check out my source below. :)

Source/s:
http://www.zimbio.com/Celebrities+Who+Look+Like+Athletes

Shaq on Heat's BIG 2?

So, what is it this time for Shaq?

After retiring from the NBA [finally!], Shaquille O'Neal finally found a new career as a NBA analyst. I'm not sure if I'm going to laugh at this big joke or be hacked off [all he ever did was babble].

According to Shaq, “Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, you know, they’re great players, they’re probably the greatest backcourt ever assembled. And you know, they’re going to get back. They’re going to get back. They play well, they went through a lot, they put a lot of pressure on themselves. That’s how they like it. And they will be back.” Of course, they will be back that is if there's no NBA lockout. [2011-12 NBA Schedule]

“The Miami Heat, they’ve got a lot of great players, the `Big 2.’ They will be back,” - Shaquille O'Neal

Of course, he'll be talking about Dwayne Wade and LeBron James and how good they were. He knows them, no doubt about that. But not even recognizing the contributions that Chris Bosh made for the Miami Heat is being arrogant. I'm NOT huge a Bosh fan but I can say that he's done fair enough for the team and he's had his moments too, and so does Wade and James.

So, Shaq please shut up. You're not helping much. NBA fans are pretty anxious about the lockout that should probably be the one you're analyzing, right? Or maybe you're all about the BIG TALK.

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