It’s hot. (Taken with Instagram at IMS SnakePit)
What is this? (Taken with Instagram at IMS SnakePit)
There’s a parade outside my apartment… (Taken with instagram)
Thibodeau idolized Bob Knight at Indiana. Thibodeau once went to Bloomington to see Knight, but he mistakenly flew to the wrong Bloomington — in Illinois, not Indiana.
The Pacers have the best conversation an NBA team ever had about pushups
When I walked into the Pacers locker room, almost the whole team was there, and more than a few players were getting on A.J. Price about his pushup form.
Price was doing his pushups with his feet up on a folding chair, and Danny Granger was killing him. David West was killing him. George Hill was killing him. After watching the whole bizarre scene unfold, I needed clarification. Hill had moved over to Price’s locker room to continue the debate, so I asked if I could join the conversation. Here’s the transcript:
A.J. Price: “You need your feet elevated …”
George Hill: “He’s got midget arms! …”
AP: “You need your feet elevated.”
George Hill: “… so his body don’t go all the way down.”
AP: “And your arms gotta lock.”
George Hill: “What is a standard pushup? In a standard pushup, do they feet be elevated?”
Me: “I mean, I would think think standard is on the ground …”
GH: “Thank you.”
Me: “… But also …”
AP: “Go ‘head! Finish!”
Me: “But there’s a level of difficulty …
AP: “Thank you!”
Me: “… That comes with putting your feet up.”
GH: “For shorter people!”
AP: “For anyone!”
GH: “No, I’m not rolling, juice!”
Price said he’d been doing pushups with his feet up since he was 15, when his father taught him. It’s never been an issue, until now.
AP: “This is the first time that I’m hearing that. It’s easier to do it regular. It’s always harder to have your feet up. Everybody knows that.”
GH: “Do a handstand!”
AP: “I’ve never lost a pushup battle.”
GH: “Do a handstand and do a pushup then.”
AP: “In the yard, jail yard, they get down in front of each other and they do ‘em face to face. We can do that.”
GH: “You ain’t never been in a jail yard doing competitive pushups man. Get outta here. Do a handstand pushup right now.”
[Hill leaves to get shots up before the game, and Price and change the topic of conversation … until Kyrylo Fesenko walks over.]
KF: “Can you tell us more about the jail yard?”
AP: “You want to know about the jail yard?”
KF: “Well, I overheard you talking about it …”
Me: “You’re getting killed today, man.”
AP: “It’s alright. I know I’m the undisputed champ though.”
KF: “In D.C. you can get killed for that stuff. For that kind of words.”
Louis Amundson: “Hold on, you’re not the champ. You’re claiming you’re the champ.”
AP: “I am. Until I get someone who steps up …”
LA: “There’s not been a challenge though. … You gotta compete to be the champ. You can’t just claim to be the champ.”
AP: “This the champ right here.”
LA: “We can do it sometime.”
AP: “Some time. Oh, OK. Until then I’m the champ.”
KF: “I can do three pull-ups. I’m the pull-up champ.”
NBA Nonsense Notebook - Michael Katz - The Classical
Kyrylo Fesenko is seven feet of hilarious.
Was waiting for an Action Bronson paragraph the whole time but never got it.
A few of my students were genuinely shocked to learn that 4/20 is not, in fact, a national holiday and that I would not be getting the day off of work tomorrow.
As much as Don likes to breeze in at the last second to casually blow executives’ minds while secretly fucking their daughters and wives, he does not enjoy seeing someone else successfully Bueller their way through a faux-spontaneous pitch.
Dad and dog in the backyard (via Mom) (Taken with instagram)
Taken with Instagram at Scottish Rite Cathedral
