We haven't done a NBA Player Profile in a while, but we were inspired by this post by With Malice, who is setting up tomorrow, April 5th, as "Unsung Player Day" in the NBA.  Well, who in the NBA is more unsung than these 12th men we have profiled over the season?  And with that, we're going to set it off with short profiles of a few of the 12th men on the worst team in the NBA this season - the Miami Heat.

                                                                        Joel Anthony:
Shooting from your forearm is bad form.  So is blocking a shot with your forearm.  What the hell - are they playing some form of basketball in which you can't use your hands?!?
Joel Anthony is a 6'9, 260 left-handed rookie center with the Miami Heat.  Born in 1982 in Montreal, Quebec, he pronounces his first name "Jo-el", and probably looks up to Jamaal Magliore.  He attended the prestigious Canadian private high school of Selwyn House School in Montreal. 

He attended UNLV from 2005-2007, and was the star of the Running Rebels.  Here he is meeting a fan, in a poorly written commercial:

Joel Anthony was undrafted after school, but signed with the Heat.  He has played 17 games since March, including one start.  In case you are curious how a 24-year old ends up playing NCAA Div. 1 basketball:  after graduating from Selwyn, he attended Dawson College in Canada.  He was cut from their basketball team.  After Dawson, he then made his to Pensacola Junior College, where he graduated in 2004.  He was first team all-conference there, averaging 9 ppg and 3.5 bpg.  He then transferred to UNLV.

He's a great blocker, as evidenced by this rejection of a Chris Bosh dunk ("I represent Canada for real, fool"):

He's also developing a strong finishing game, as evidenced by this stuff over Ji:

Finally: this seems an appropriate time to post a song written by another Joel, entitled "Anthony's Song":

That's right - I'm boxing out.  Shot out to Mr. Cacciatore's! 

Sullivan Street... is in the studio.  Unnecessary echo effects... is in the studio.  Motorcycles revving effects... is in the studio.  I've always felt strongly that this song is what you would get if The Rza produced an Elton John song....


Leave a comment





1 Comments

Comments

[October 5, 2010 8:14 AM]  |  link  |  reply
uggs bailey button uk said

Ask For What You Want It’s time to stop expecting other people to read your mind. Think about how frustrating it is for you when someone expects you to know what they are thinking. Obliteration is precisely ugg boots cardy sale what nasa intends for the spacecraft. The reason is that Galileo may still harbor some ugg classic cardy boots signs of life on Earth: microorganisms that have survived since its launch from the Kennedy Space uggs bailey button uk Center, in Florida, in 1989. If the orbiter were left to circle Jupiter after running out of bailey button uggs chocolate propellant (barring an intervention, this would likely happen within a year), it might eventually crash into Europa, one of Jupiter’s large moons. In 1996, Galileo conducted the first of eight close flybys of Europa, producing breathtaking sale bailey button ugg boots pictures of its surface, which suggested that the moon has an immense ocean hidden ugg usa bailey button beneath its frozen crust. These images have led to vociferous scientific debate about the prospects for uggs boots life there; as a result, nasa officials decided that it was necessary to avoid the possibility of seeding Europa with alien cheap argyle uggs life-forms. And so the craft has been programmed to commit suicide, guaranteeing a fiery, spectacular end to one of the most ambitious, tortured, and revelatory missions in the history of uggs classic mini space exploration. http://www.uggcardyuk.co.uk/UGG-Classic-Tall-Boots.html LZQ


Spring Training 08































Site Map | Contact Us | About Us | Advertise With Us