Another Mucking Blog

The 2010 NBA All-Star Break is nearly upon us! And we’re taking bets to see if Kobe and the West will defeat Lebron and the East for the 2nd year in a row.

Now, when thinking about such a bet its important to break it down and know the odds, just like in poker. But how different is basketball from poker? We dare ask the question and find many, many similarities in the betting mind set?

1. What is the strongest pair? If your holding a Kobe High Card with a Carmelo Anthony kicker is that better than a Lebron-Dwayne Wade pair?

2. Which is the better conference? If Las Vegas is the West and Atlantic City is the East which has the most talent?

3. What are your chances of catching a clutch river to stay alive? Is Kobe or Lebron the better clutch river?

4. What is the better hand? Would you rather have Kobe and Melo in your hand and the board read Nash, Stoudemire, and Duncan or have A.I. and Lebron in your hand with the board reading Howard, Garnett, and Wade?

5. In a heads up match who is the better player? Who has the most skill and patients to go all in and take it hole when it counts? Is it Kobe or is it Lebron?

These are the questions one must ask themselves when making bets this year. And until we shuffle up and tip off and see who bust out first, our bets on KOBE!

-The Mucksters!

What! What! That’s right! We were there. All 3 of us. Debbie Deuce Dallas, Cowboy Connor, and me (Vinny Vegas). We camped out overnight and changed from our usual clothes to wear Purple and Yellow!

What an amazing sight it was. I think words here are simply lost so just look at the pics we took.

All I can say is once we resign Ariza and Odom we got another 3 peat coming our way…and that means we will have more Championships (and them yummy cookies!) than Boston! What what!

Word

-The Mucksters

YEE HA Lakers Fans!

This here is your favorite Cowboy. Now I know your all ecstatic about getting another NBA Championship (15th for the franchise, and 4 for Kobe) but it is time for the city of LA to be good Lakers fans.

Here are the top 5 ways NOT to celebrate our 15TH Lakers championship.

#5 Don’t Prove Your Lakers Manhood
So what exactly does this mean? It means being so drunk that you want to pick a fight with some one because you’re “the bigger Lakers fan!” It starts with a slight bump during the party in the street and then you like “Hey watch it Orlandoian!” And the the other drunk dude is going to be like “What you call me? I’m a bigger Lakers fan than you!” Next thing you know your either bloody or in cuffs.

#4 Don’t tip over cars.
Sure it sounds cool and you could have a nice drunken story to tell about how you “Totally tipped over a car!” But all in all, you probably just tipped over a Lakers fan’s car and he’s gonna come back from proving his Lakers Manhood and be like “What the muck!”

#3 Don’t Complain that LA won in Orlando and not at Home
This one cracks me up! You won the championship for crying out loud! I mean ok sure you might have wanted to use the home win as an excuse to go rioting (MORE THAN ALREADY TOOK PLACE) and grab a new TV but we all know how the Watts riots turned out. We all know.

#2 Don’t spend the next week partying.
Sure its great an all that LA won and the whole city is going crazy, but believe it or not some people in LA don’t like the Lakers (crazy right, that’s like being a US born terrorist). But any way with the economy so bad and you absent from work for a week might give these Laker haters a chance to swoop in on your job. I know, that’s cold, but they are Laker haters after all.

#1 Don’t Fly to Orlando in a #24 Kobe Brant Jersey and do a victory dance all over the city.Yes I know it sounds like a good idea. And what a better way to gloat that to do the Peter Griffin victory dance in front of Amway Arena, then city hall, and then Disney World, but the bottom line…there are more Orlandoians than you. Enough said.

-Cowboy Connor

P.S. I called it. Lakers in 5.

In one more win, the Kobe puppet can say to the Lebron puppet “Lebron have you seen my 4 championship rings? Each one of these 4 cookies represents a championship ring that you don’t have!”

And the Lebron puppet is going to bow its head in shame and think to its self “Damn Kobe deserved to be MVP, Most Valuable Puppet”

And then the Kobe puppet will go and take his new ring over to his display case, put it in and say “That’s right, now your home.”

With that said its amazing how the Lakers can steal a game in 10 seconds. Great Job Derrick Fisher and to all his critics, well there is a reason why he is co-captain with Kobe Bryant. His two clutch 3’s give the Lakers a 3-1 Lead in the NBA Finals.

Now the only question remains, will the Magic allow the Lakers to have glory on their home court, or is it coming back to LA for game 6?

Peace
-Vinny Vegas

OK I’m going to make this short and sweet (like D fish). Hats off to the Orlando Magic who must have rubbed the belly of a Buddah, got blessed by their local Shaman, or participated in some sort of Alligator sacrifice (being Florida and all) because the Magic had to BREAK records to barely pull off a win last night in game 3 of the 2009 NBA finals. But I mean damn 75% shooting in the first half….craZy (yes with a capital Z).

However it’s still got to be discouraging when your up against the Black Mamba himself. Last night was just Kobe letting the ratings build cause you know the world doesn’t want to see a sweep even though they want the Lakers to win. You know its true!

So unless the Orlando Magic plan to continue breaking records I think LA has it in the bag like a frat guy with a drunk hooker!

I’m out!

-Vinny Vegas

Hey cuties,

OMFG what a CRAZY WEEKEND!

There’s nothing that gets me more excited than poker, basketball and tequila, and with the NBA Finals, the WSOP, and some Patron, well lets just say this week end I was like a dog in heat!

So Who’s hott right now?

MMM…Brock “t soprano” Parker came on top of that confident cutie Daniel Negreanu (why is confidence so hott?) in Event #14 of the 2009 WSOP, $2,500 Six-Handed Limit Hold’em. For some reason I find myself wanting Brock’s bald, bearded head…Maybe the online to bracelet thing is a turn on…maybe I had to much tequila.

And Kevin Stammen…well you can go ahead and give me a call. Just bring the bracelet you got over the week end from the $2,500 No-limit Hold’em event, I’ll bring the handcuffs.

And sadly. That super cutie Superman, Dwight Howard, he looked so sad last night after that “Grumpy” old Kobe Bryant got 29 points and helped the Lakers beat the Magic to go up 2-0 in the NBA Finals. But it’s ok Dwight. I still want to see your Magic…

Kiss
Debbie

Yee HA HA howdy HAHA HA!!!

If you can’t tell I’m in a good mood. No it wasn’t the Skinnamax I fell asleep watching or the chili dogs for breakfast…I’m talking about the Black Mamba, Kobe: Doing Work!

Kobe told all of Orlando last night “I’m not Lebron James Bi*#!es!” Then he went over to D-Howard and was like “Eh superGIRLYman! Your cape fell off! Oh what’s a matter Dwight! Can’t fly in the Finals?” Maybe not in those exact words but it was pretty damn close!

Bottom line. The Lakers told the Magic what real champions look like as every man, woman, Jack Nicholson, and child, played their role to perfection in Staples Center Thursday night. Lakers 100, Magic 75

[That's the face of an Orlandoian (Minus Tiger Woods cause even though he lives in Orlando, LA's got his soul MuhuHAHA!]

So pull out the white surrender flag Sam Van Gundy (Magic Coach) and start trying to look like your not going to have a stroke from constipation every second of the day.

I’m calling it: Lakers in 5! Vinny says 6 but what does he know!

In POKER NEWS: I’m shooting my pistols up in the air to celebrate Phil Ivey’s 6th bracelet win at the WSOP for the $2,500 No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw Event #8.

This is Cowboy Connor signing off!

A NOTE FROM DEBBIE: Dwight is a hottie and keep your heads up Orlando, it takes 4 games to win a championship.

Connor to Debbie: Kobe Bryant! Nuff Said. He takes to the HNL, Hole Nudda Level!