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Luke Walton Trade for Ramon Sessions Vetoed By David Stern for “Basketball Reasons”

Luke Walton Traded for Ramon Sessions Vetoed by David Stern for “Basketball Reasons”

by Dr. Andrew Nguyen D.D.S, Esq., M.D.

In a move that sadly comes as little surprise given the commissioner’s past actions in this controversy-laden, lock-out shortened season, NBA commissioner David Stern has vetoed today’s trade that would have sent Luke Walton and a protected first round pick from the Lakers to the Cavaliers in return for veteran point guard Ramon Sessions.

Stern released a statement earlier defending his actions:

In response to the trade that has taken place earlier this morning, I believe that it is within the best interest of the NBA to veto the trade between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers for basketball reasons.

In order to protect the integrity of young, small market NBA teams, I could not in good conscience allow the struggling Cavaliers to take on the cancerous Luke Walton. It simply wouldn’t be fair to the fans of Cleveland who have had a tumultuous past few years.

He continues to defend his actions in his statement, further saying,

In response to criticisms of my Chris Paul trade veto, I feel it necessary to explain my reasoning for this veto. Luke Walton stopped being a basketball player some three years ago. I feel that it would have been unfair to trade Ramon Sessions, a capable young point guard, for Luke Walton, an injury-plagued, I’m gonna say “athlete”.

Also to preempt similar criticisms that entailed the Chris Paul trade veto, here are a list of altered scenarios that I would have accepted for Ramon Sessions:

1) Luke Walton, a first round pick, & either Darius Morris or Andrew Goudelock

2) Darius Morris and two 1st round picks

3) Devin Ebanks and two 2nd round picks

4) A sign and Trade of Cherokee Parks and Doug Christie

5) The entire New Jersey Nets

6) The rights to Chinese guard Sun Yue and the rights to Samaki Walker

7) Gary Vitti and a Diet Coke

8) Lisa Leslie of ABC7 Sports Los Angeles

9) A MacBook Air

When reached for comment, Luke Walton was quoted as saying two octaves lower than the human ear can register, “duhhhh…duhhhh…buhhh?”

Throw sheep at Andrew here 

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Saturday Night – Musink

Saturday night I went to a tattoo and music festival at the OC Fairgrounds. It was a pretty good time. The talent there was amazing. There was a ton of suppppppeeeer hot tattooed chicks there.

On a more serious note, the bands that I watched were Bayside, Yellowcard and New Found Glory. Aside from Bayside the bands were a throwback from the good old junior high days.

Yellowcard was entertaining at times but for the most part pretty run of the mill. Apparently they haven’t played a show in about 2 months but it felt more like 2 years. Their bassist was pretty uninspiring. It pretty much looked like he did not want to be there.

I was really here to see Bayside. I really do enjoy Bayside’s music. I think that they have excellent material and I was blown away by their stage presence. There songs are filled with catchy hooks as well as awesome guitar solos. Most of all the lead singer Anthony Raneri decided to do a cover of one of my favorite NoFX songs “Linoleum.”

Lastly there was New Found Glory. The headliner of the night. I haven’t listened to New Found Glory in years but seeing them live for the first time brought me back to the times that I did. It was differently a moment of nostalgia. They played a bunch of songs from Sticks and Stones which is my favorite album by them as well as other hits. Also they played two covers “Basket Case” by Green Day and “Blitzkreig Bop” by The Ramones.

ps. only the yellowcard video is mine.

Kate Humpton… uh i mean Upton

I love Carl’s Jr. I love Kate Upton.

Kate Upton + Carl’s Jr = Heaven

oh and if you cant get enough of Kate Upton check this page out: http://kateuptondancing.com/

…hockey??

I know over here at Rated N we are all basketball fans. However, I currently have stopped really caring about the NBA. Not to say that I really DONT care but its not really on my agenda of things to watch but I do catch Sportscenter highlights. Hockey has really been on my radar and hopefully I can make you all believers. If not, maybe slightly interested.

So you like awesome dunks in basketball, well there is awesome goals in hockey.

So you want to see some awesome ball handling where here’s some awesome puck handling.

What you like awesome blocks, wells here’s an awesome save.

Some physical d you ask? Heres an open ice check

Obviously, I saved the best for last…FIGHTS!

and guess what if you don’t care, my friend Harrrrrriiiison Ford has something to say to you.

 

LINaugral Post of 2012! New Jeremy Lin Nicknames to Feed into this LINsanity

Byron got to blogging recently, so I thought that I would get back to writing too.  Nothing much has happened since I got back from studying in London (which I guess I should probably post about some time soon) – I’m back at UCI, back at Banana Republic, and I still don’t know just what the fudge I’m going to do once I graduate.

On a lighter note, JEREMY “MOTHERFU**IN’” LIN has been living out the dreams of the original Nasty crew – Seth, Chen, Bello, Andrizzle — that is, the dream of being the best Asian American basketball player on God’s green Earthlike sphereoid.

I mean, it’s LINcredible.  Since we were kids, it was just LINgrained in our heads that Asian American kids were smart, modest, hard working, sexless midgets.  I don’t mean to LINsinuate that all Asians thought this way, but even in the mid 2000′s, there were still no Asian American athletes for us to look up to (I’m talking about real sports, not ping pong or some shiet).

I mean, sure we played ball for fun at Gillespie park, Mile square park, and any other dirty park where Samoans and Blacks were safely quarantined several courts over but still within eyesight.  But those games were just for fun.  We all knew some incredible Asian kid who was a legend at his respective high school, but who gave a shat?  We just thought to ourselves, “wow that kid is pretty good at basketball, I wonder what kind of accountant he’ll be when he grows up”.  Asian kids aren’t supposed to ball like this.

These spunky little ankle-biters are spitefully wasting everybody's goddamned time.

Hey, I don’t bear a grudge though.  I’m not the type of Asian guy to hate on other Asian guys when said Asian guys achieve a level of accomplishment or notoriety.  But can we be real, this guy is a hundred-thousand-aire, can we at least get this guy some non-generic band-aids with some stick left on them? I know that this guy is humble – opting to commend and recognize his often underachieving teammates rather than accept the praise and adoration of news reporters. Further fueling his modest, God-fearing, unassuming, nice guy image are reports of him couch surfing on his teammate Landry Fields couch as well as his Asian stereotype brother’s couch.  So we get it!  he’s modest, but camaahhhn man!  This dude buys his band-aids at the swap meet, son!

"I think band-aids are getting too much attention. I just want to keep them in check, so I dressed my wounds with this sheet of one-ply toilet paper"

Also, would it kill a dude to get some hair gel up in there?  Spike that shiet or slick it to the side Far-East-Movement style.

In all Earnest Borgnine though, this kid is LINcredible, his energy and understated bravado is LINfectious.  His fame and notoriety are LINcreasing by ever larger LINcrements — so let’s just LINdulge in this groundbreaking basketball that’s LINfolding (unfolding) in front of our very LINs (eyes).

Who would of thought back then that we’d ever see an Asian kid like us playing ball with the big boys?  I mean, this guy isn’t much too look at – he’s pretty average in most respects, meaning there’s nothing that stands out about the guy at first glance.  But there he was, Friday against the Lakers, blowing past the likes of Derek ‘Depends’ Fisher, Matt ‘ugly mofo’ Barnes, and Steve ‘also an ugly mofo’ Blake, lighting up the Lakers’ – let’s just call it, “defense” for an amazing 38 point exploshLIN in front of a national audience.

“So what did you think of Lin’s impressive play tonight? Follow up question: Did your mom sleep on her stomach when she was pregnant with you?!  GODDAMN! You look like a skeleton with a goatee!”

I’m excited to see how far he goes.  Hey, new year, new posts, new asian dude in the nba – 2012 is looking real good for us gooks.

I am the Walrus

Not really.

So today I attended my first class session of Marketing 405: Internet Marketing (really the class’ 3rd session) and I had to fill out  a survey. It basically asks you  for your basic information as well as all your social media accounts. Obviously, I put down “ratednfornasty” under wordpress account. I also had to put in parentheses ” it really is.”

With that said I really am going to start blogging more often. Mainly for kicks. Also, in week or so were gonna learn some tips on how to use wordpress better. Should be some fun stuff.

I’m going to end this post with an awesome picture of George W. Just cause I know Mandrew appreciates posts with pictures…

Back from London!

Bah, you don’t care, reader.  Well it was a bucket and a half of fun and I have stories and such, but here’s a short film I made for my production practice class.

Also here’s a video of the Eiffel Tower that I took.

…it has been a long time

Hello friends,

It has been ages since I have posted here and out of my severe boredom I figure I’ll post something. I currently subscribe to a monthly playlist on Blalocks Indie Rock Playlist and I must say it is pretty awesome.  It is usually made up of 110 songs or so that most people have never heard of.   http://www.birp.fm/ Take a look and I am sure you will like what you find.

Also here is a song that currently sits atop of my iTunes list.

So Twitter is good for something.

I was going over some twitter feed updates earlier and I came across some updates that were pretty funny, so I’d like to share it with y’all.

From @TheeDosEquisMan: “Lebron doesn’t always miss shots, but when he does, he prefers the game to be on the line.”

Ahhh @TheeDosEquisMan, you make me laugh, you da best.