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. All rights reserved.It is belived that on December 21st,1891,the first basketball game in h＿was play.Then in 1936 in Berlin,it became an Olympic e＿.A team from china took part,at although used thd e＿ to help develop the game at home.Since the p＿of basketball has risen worldwide,and the number of foreign players in America NBA has i＿.Baske 的翻译是：它是相信，1891 年 12 月 21 日，第一次篮球比赛在 h＿was 上播放。然后在 1936 年在柏林，它成为奥运的 e＿。来自中国的一个小组在了一部分，虽然用于帮助开发的游戏在家里 thd e＿。由于 p＿of 篮球已上升到世界各地，在美国 NBA 的外籍球员的数量有 i＿。篮球也有 beco 我更受欢迎的运动，为人观看，和很多年轻人成为 f＿ bastketball 播放器 drdam 中文翻译英文意思，翻译英语
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Beginning in October 2006, Gilbert started to entertain fans with more than his scoring and jersey tossing on the court, but with an inside look into his whirlwind life with witty insights in his weekly posts . His Agent Zero Blog File was there for his scoring predictions, his 25th birthday bash and his All-Star experience in Vegas and continues to be considered the top blog of any pro athlete today.
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Helping out kids is worth every penny.
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Scores for Schools
I just had my . I usually have a raffle for schools that are participating in it. Last year it was 183 total schools, this year it was actually 248 schools. I have 41 home games and
took over 41 games, the other half, for the road games. So what happens is for every point I make, I donate $100 dollars to the school that I?m shooting for that night. We had a good turn out and the crowd was hyped, everyone was going crazy and the kids was loving it and I didn?t want any of the kids going home sad because their school didn?t get picked so I decided for the remainder of the schools that didn?t get picked I was going to .
It was just great that they took the time to draw up signs for me. That?s what it? the kids that are in school. You try to better their chances of making it in life. It?s a community thing. I think every athlete should give back to schools. I know athletes donate and have things that they give charity to, but, at the end of the day, it?s the younger generation that we need to be helping.
Take My Name Out of the Rumors
For the last couple weeks people have been calling me saying, ?Are you coming back to L.A.??
I?m like, ?Yeah, I am ? NOT.?
?Why would I be coming back to L.A.? Don?t you know the season is getting ready to start??
And they?re like, ?No, they?re talking about .?
And I?m like, ?Oh, that?s what?s up. Sounds nice ? NOT.?
Nothing against getting traded, but that would be a dumb thing on the part of the team who is accepting me because, don?t they know I?m a free agent? What that means is, if you lose somebody who you really want and you come get me back and I leave too ? TA-DAH! That means you have nothing.
So take my name out of it because whoever gets me, there ain?t a guarantee that I?m staying.
Y?all go ahead and take my name out. To all of my friends back home who want me to become a Laker: If you have NBA LIVE 08 you can fantasy draft me, because otherwise I don?t think that?s happening any time soon.
Just Stay in the West, Kobe
I try not to look at the Western Conference teams. I do want to see how Kobe responds to all these trade rumors. I want to see if he?ll go out there and play his game or if he?s going to go out there and play the ?I?m getting traded? game. I won?t really be able to tell based on tonight?s game though. It?s still the opener. A guy like him, he?s going to play team ball at the beginning, but when the season gets going on though and they need some wins, that?s when what I call ?excellence? kicks in.
Personally, I really don?t mean to be selfish about the whole trade thing, but personally I hope Kobe stays on the West because if he comes here, that takes away from me and All-Star appearances.
That really does.
We already got rid of A.I. from the Eastern Conference and sent him to the West, so now it?s me and Dwyane Wade at the starting guards. If Kobe comes, who does that hurt? Come on Commissioner Stern, please? Whatever deal has Kobe coming East, just say, ?No thank you.? Keep him on the West for me. I mean I?m an All-Star starter now, getting voted in by the fans. If you look at Kobe?s votes, he is leading the league in votes. That only hurts me if he comes here. Come on Kobe, I understand you want to come East but go ahead and stay on the West. Look out for your No. 1 fan.
Big Three vs. Big Three
When I said
on November 2, was that really a prediction? I don?t think I wanted to say, ?Hey, we?re going to play Boston and we?re going to lose!? Agent Zero is coming in the building. I?m back. I know all you Boston fans are going to want to go to see Kevin Garnett, but y?all are going to see him 41 games. You?re only going to see me twice! Me and my handsome self. I got a fresh cut for the Boston and Indiana fans. Break out the Arenas jerseys. I?m coming to town.
I mean, when you look at that Celtics team, that?s a powerful team ? on paper. Once those guys get going, you?re in trouble. You can?t guard that team ? on paper. You still have to play the games. But with Kevin Garnett, the way he?s playing, you?ve seen some of the stats. He hit a triple-double once and he was one rebound and one assist away from a triple-double the game before that. So once them guys get their niche, they?re going to be a good team. But November 2 for them, that?s going to be truh-bull. Trouble.
I?m at about 92 percent. Maybe 90 percent. That?s good enough for me right now. Once you get your knee drained it takes a while for it to effectively heal. I?m ready to go. I?ve been icing it. I?ve been working out every day and going 100 percent every day.
State of the Wizards Address
We?re off to a good start. You never want to start off slow and for the last couple years we?ve been starting off our season slow and having to play catch-up. Which we?re comfortable doing, but now it?s like you don?t have a weaker Boston team or a weaker Orlando team or stuff like that. You have powerhouses now who are pretty darn good like your Torontos. Those are games where you used to say, ?OK, we can make up ground on these games,? and those games just aren?t out there anymore.
Just Like the First Day of School
Right now I?m just going to be getting ready for Game 1. It?s going to be exciting. Most likely I?m going to be staying up all night. I don?t know why I do it. You sit there going through moves in your head of what you?re going to do in the game and they never actually work out that way. But you do it anyway. Last year I was 2-for-11 on Opening Night and I was up till four in the morning the night before working on my ball handling. I don?t know why.
I just got to go out there and just play. That?s all it is. It?s just like going back to school, that?s how I look at it. A lot of people compare it to Christmas morning ? No, it?s like going back to school. You?re so excited to see new faces and I look at the first day of the basketball season like everyone feels like this is going to be a new year for them. All the players that fans give up on and say that they don?t love the game anymore, they still love it on Opening Night. They get a fresh start to life again.
Mike Wise did another great job capturing the basketball side of my life coming into this league. I know what he does gets personal, but if it?s a good read, it?s a good read. I?m loving what he?s doing because it?s the truth. That?s what writing stories is about, no matter how deep you get. You don?t want to sugarcoat somebody?s life. You want to say, ?This is what his life was and this is where he is now.? So anybody who wants to read it, .
Gazo the Pranksta Update
For the cartoon that everyone?s been in tune with and everyone?s been patiently waiting for information about, I?m telling you that on Saturday, November 10 (because you know, I have to give everybody a fair opportunity) at 9 a.m. Western and 12 o?clock Eastern, go to
and you?ll be able to submit your video just like you?re trying out for American Idol or any other one of them silly shows. It?s the same thing. They?re going to give you lines to read and you should give it all you have because you never know what you have in you. No matter what kind of voice you have, if you think it?s unique, you know I?m a funny guy so you might think your voice is whatever but to me, I might catch something I like from it. They?re going to have lines and they?re going to have catch phrases in there just to give me a variety of things that I can work with.
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We're back.
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Man, I'm Shooting 4-for-24
In six months the hibachi grill hasn't been heated up. It takes a while for the grill to get back cooking again. It's like riding a bike. Once you start riding again, it's all good, but right now I'm rusty. I'm trying to get the rust off my bike chain.
Truthfully, I'm playing like terrible trash right now. I don't want to make an excuse, but the rims are broken in every arena I'm playing in.
That's why you call it preseason.
I'm Wearing a Leg Sock
I'm wearing it on my leg for compression. It's not like the one A.I. has on his arm because A.I. wears that for fashion. I'm just trying to keep the blood circulating when I come off the court to the sideline. I just want to keep the blood flowing throughout my knee. I might wear it all year, it depends. Some of these arenas are cold. Can you please take the hockey teams out of basketball arenas? Basketball is not supposed to be played on ice. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and it's 50 degrees inside. That is not a sport. "Ice Basketball" is not a sport. The coldest arena is Phoenix, you'd be surprised. The city is hot so they keep the gym cold. Why have hockey inside a basketball arena?
The Real Big Three
Our Big Three is just trying to get back in sync with each other because we haven't played together since April 2. We're just trying to get our mojo back and get our confidence back so when we start off this season we can compete with that other Big Three that's out there trying to take our crown away from us. Caron is healthy. He just had a hand injury, that's easy to come back from.
Racking Up the DNPs
because I drained my knee on Wednesday to get the fluid out. It hurt a little bit. They shot the needle in me to put the numbing medicine in and then they went and drained it and then they put some cortisone in to break up whatever is in there so I can get ready for the season. Then I missed the
because of my toe. It's a phobia I have. It's one of the phobias that gives me the Gilbertology or whatever you want to call it. When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor your feet are dirty again. So in the shower I used to put my socks on already without drying them off. And I had to have a new pair of socks every day. Every time I take a pair of socks off, I have to put a new pair on. A brand new pair. Since I was little I always needed a brand new pair of socks. So I had no clothes, but I had a million pairs of socks. So anyway, what happened in Philly was I was starting to get athlete's foot from all the moisture that collected from putting my slippers on around the house as soon as I got out of the shower. It started aching me so I had to sit out and let them dry for two days. It's one of those weird, kind of nasty stories like, "Ugh, nobody cares about your toes," but it sat me out a game.
Funny Story
A fan sent a pair of his
over to me when I was on the bench during a game the other day. He wanted me to sign them. It was a little awkward, but it was funny and cute -- kind of. In a weird way. That's something you're not expecting. You're expecting to sign a video game and you have a pair of panties on your lap. It was funny.
Clearing Something Up
that the L.A., San Antonio, Dallas and Houston would be cities that I would like to play in if I opt out, they all come after D.C. If something did happen weird where Antawn left and we lost our team and it wasn't a good situation for me to come back, those are the four cities that I would want to play in.
I would want to go back home and play in L.A. I would want to go to San Antonio because they're a championship-caliber team -- same thing with Dallas. Houston is on the come-up with Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. Three out of the four are contenders right now. That was my reasoning. It wasn't like I said I want to play for the Hawks. You know, nothing against the Hawks but I'm talking about going to a championship team. I would have thrown Miami in there, but at the end of the day, if Shaq leaves that team breaks up.
You never know, but the four teams I mentioned have a solid base. If anything happens with the Wizards, that's my Plan B.
DeShawn's Tattoo
He has that . I've seen a lot of players that are getting their names on their backs. I guess it's a way of them letting people know what their names are when they're on the beach -- I don't know. DeShawn is adding the No. 2 on his back so it looks like a jersey. I guess when he's swimming or something, having fun in the pool, everybody will know who that is. It's not for me though, I'll stick with the tiger.
A Couple Announcements
With the , the cartoon, for everybody who wants to try out to have their voice on the show my next blog post will have more details on it. I'm going to set that up for next week to have it up and running.
Right now, since Marc Ecko hasn't replied about the Barry Bonds ball to me I'm going to do something different about it. It looks like Coca-Cola has dropped out as one of the color ways for the , so I'm going to do a 756 shoe, the Barry Bonds shoe. It's going to be the San Francisco colors and it's only coming out in the San Francisco Bay area. It's going to be a giveaway, it's not going to be sold. I'm going to buy probably like 8,000 pairs of shoes and when I come to town, I'm giving them away for free. This is still in the making. Please, for all the San Francisco people that want the 756 shoe to happen, write to adidas and let them know how excited you are for it so they can start making it. Free giveaway, baby. Free giveaway. Since Marc Ecko doesn't want to give the ball back to San Francisco, I'll give you 756 in a shoe.
Adventures of Chuck and Larry
I have a little problem. His name is Nick Young and he has a sidekick named Dominic McGuire. Our two little rookies. There's always a rookie who comes in and challenges for the goofball of the year. Well Nick's already won that. By far. This is one of the funniest kids I've ever met. The problem isn't that he's funny, but that he challenges me in pranks.
For the past week, he's been getting a taste of what I'm about. I made him bring me some McDonald's, I wanted a chicken sandwich at like 12 o'clock at night when we were in Philly. I actually didn't want the sandwich, I just wanted him out of his room. I went into his hotel room and messed with all his stuff.
Then before that during the Philadelphia game I took the keys from his car and shipped them back to Washington D.C. so my friend could take his car. We're going to paint it pink and it's going to say "I Love Dominic" on it. You know, his little sidekick.
We've been going back and forth, but for some reason he doesn't get it. He likes to play.
On Thursday we had an off day and he went in my locker and took my iPod and a pair of my shoes. So I went over his place
and I gave him one chance and one chance only to give me back my iPod and shoes and he didn't act fast enough so I got him good. Him and Dominic. Both.
So they start threatening me like, "You'll see what happens, you'll see what happens. We're going to the store right now."
They went to the store and got paint ball guns. They got the paint ball guns, the masks, the gear, everything.
So I was sitting in my house playing Halo and I'm looking at my surveillance camera and I see Dominic and Nick creep up to my property all decked out. They parked across the street and they're running towards my house wearing masks and helmets. They came around the side of the house, jumped the wall, and came in through the garage. But by the time they did all that, I already was out of the house and jumped the other wall. They were in the house looking for me and I was across the street flattening their tires so when they decided to leave they'd be on flats. They looked around the house and couldn't find me so they came outside and saw me across the street flattening their tires. I called my friend and had him come pick me up and take me back to the house.
When they left the house, they stole my daddy's toaster! I like making toast! So I told them, Since you don't want to give my toaster back, it's war. He wanted his stuff back, I wanted my stuff back so I told them that we were going to have a paintball shootout.
We all went to the store like Sports Authority and bought all these paintball guns, like eight or nine new ones (because I already had three), then we bought the CO2 cartridges and like 12,000 paintballs and I even bought a couple paintball grenades.
We tried to make the teams fair.
It was Nick and Dominic and then Nick recruited last year's rookie, Andray Blatche. I thought Andray had enough of the pranks, but I guess he didn't. Andray brought his two friends, to make it five on their team.
My team was me, my friend John and three guys who were at my house hooking up stereo equipment.
So we finished buying everything and were in the store parking lot and Nick was mad that I had all the CO2 so he started to take some of mine. I was like, "Put the CO2 down or I'm going to shoot you with the paintball gun." But then he realizes I'm really going to shoot him with the paintball gun, and he puts it back. "You see what happens when you follow directions"
But as I'm closing the trunk with the CO2 in it, he takes some and tries to jump in Dominic's car. I said, "Dominic, do not close that door." Nick is screaming, "Close the door Dominic! Close the door!" So Dominic left the door open. I go to Nick, "You have three seconds to put the CO2 back. One! Two!" He started to scramble to put it back and I got him anyway. I got him like six times. So he's laying in the car all mad saying, "I don't want to play no more."
So the war is still on.
I tell them that the shootout is planned for 12 o'clock midnight in my backyard because it's pure black back there. You can't see nothing. So I tell them, "12 o'clock, be in my backyard and we're going at it five on five."
We're putting all our stuff together at my place and they're putting their stuff together at their place but they are having trouble with it so I have my boy John and my other teammate Adam to go over to their place and have them help them fix their guns. And when John and Adam showed up at their place they tried to ambush them, thinking that I was going to come too. But I wasn't. So John and Adam had to run out of there.
So it's like 11:10 at night and all you here are paintball hitting the windows. POOM. POOM. POOM. POOM. POOM. They were already in the backyard. They showed up an hour early.
So we hurried up and put on all of our gear and snuck outside through some of the vents in the house.
And then we had a nice, good old paintball shootout in the dark.
They ran out of CO2 pretty quick because my team had most of it so one of Andray's friends yells, "Aww, it's not fair!" and they started to bail and jumped back over the wall. But one the kids was a little too heavy. His name is Jamar. That's 'Dray's cousin. Jamar couldn't get over the wall because Jamar has been eating one too many Twinkies.
So Jamar got stuck in my yard with the five of us. We gave him the chance to walk out like a man, or cry like a girl. He did both. He cried like a little girl while he was walking and running while we were shooting paintballs at him. I told him, "Hey, come in the lion's den, you're bound to get hit."
They said that he got hit so many times that he had trouble putting his clothes on the next day.
We played for about an hour and a half. I haven't had that much fun in a long time. What people don't realize is that when you're in the NBA, you lose stuff like that. You're not in there with kids, you're in there with grown men that have families. By having these young kids on the team, it's fun for me because I get to have that childhood that I lost. I lost it when I came into the NBA when I got picked No. 31 because I was so determined to be the best that I didn't get to actually have fun having fun, if that makes sense.
That's the moral of the story: I had fun.
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He's just like me, only a cartoon.
Illustration courtesy of mbox communications
Animated Arenas
This blog here is targeting my comedic and cartoon lovers.
I know how everybody heard I was creating a cartoon, well this is me officially saying that I'm creating a cartoon called Gazo the Pranksta.
Gazo stands for Gilbert Arenas (G-A) and Zero (Z-O).
It's about a group of kids who are the out crowd in high school. You know, there's more 'outs' then there are 'ins.' When you deal with high school, there is only 10 percent of the school that's popular. We're talking about the other 90 that nobody pays any attention to. That's who really runs the school.
The premise is five kids ' all different nationalities ' that come together and basically save the school. For the older people who are out of school, everything that went on in high school that you can remember and for all the kids who are in high school living it now, those are the topics that are going to be in the cartoon.
So if you've seen Superbad, yeah ' it's sort of like that. It's an adult cartoon that's in the same range as Family Guy and South Park. It's with those guys.
Anywhere from 6-14 years old, I don't think you want to watch. A station hasn't picked it up because I have to finish developing everything and start writing. I'm trying to get young writers from UCLA and USC that are ambitious, funny, clever and edgy.
The voiceovers are why I'm blogging.
I'm going to do a casting call for the voices of the five main characters. Five people around wherever you're coming from, wherever you live, I have a chance for you to be part of something that I think will be part of the future. And I call the future, 'Generation Zero.'
I don't really want to put an age limit on the voices, because you never know, you could have a 12-year old that has a deep voice or a squeaky, funny voice that you're looking for. So I don't want to put an age limit on the voice, but I want parents to know that it's an adult cartoon so they might be saying words that you do not accept as a parent or don't want your kids saying. I wanted to get that out there. So when I say I'm looking for voices and you think your son has a funny voice and you think I might choose him for one of the voices, I want you to know that there might be language you don't want your kid saying. I just don't want to cast somebody and get all the recording done and have parents freak out if there is a curse word in the script.
We were going to launch this earlier, but I've been watching a lot of cartoons lately and Gazo wasn't where I wanted it to be. I don't want to just put any product out there.
Check out my website, , to see what the characters look like. For all the people who are trying to buy website URLs with similar names, don't bother. I already got them all locked down.
This is going to be the first interactive cartoon. If people out there don't know what interactive means, it means when you watch this cartoon you better pay attention because something that's in the cartoon might be a part of real life too. OK, they told me not to say this, but I got to. You know how like when you watch a cartoon and they give out a phone number and it's like, '555-5555?' In this cartoon there might be a real phone number that works. And somebody might pick up. So, if you see a website on there, that website will be created.
I had an animated introduction featuring the mother of one of the characters that I was going to put up on the site, but I still want to fine tune it. But I don't want people to see that part of the cartoon and think, 'That's it?' because sometimes peoples' first impression about something is their last. I don't want people to look at that snippet and be like, 'Well, this isn't funny,' before we get our new writers on board.
A group called mbox communications, we did some promotions together before and they actually run my website, Gilsarena, they just thought that with the creativity that I come with and the way I love watching cartoons that we should get together and try to launch a cartoon of our own. We worked on it the whole summer and worked with characters and stuff and I just thought it was a great opportunity, so that's where this concept came in at.
The way we're going to hopefully do it is launch each episode on the website every week like it is a regular TV show anyway, and we might buy a cable channel and put it on TV too, just so everybody starts to know what time it comes on every week until an actual station picks it up ' a station like Comedy Central, because it will fit their programming.
So each week, I'll either blog about it or you'll just start to know that on a certain day at a certain time there will be a new Gazo the Pranksta episode coming on.
I can tell you the first storyline, it's about a girl's 'Sweet 16.' A snobby little brat is having her little party and getting everything she wants and Gazo and his friends come and mess it up. I can't tell you anything else, that's why you got to watch.
It's been a hectic summer and I want to get this out before the season starts because once the season starts, that's when the writers will take the cartoon over and I focus on basketball while they focus on writing.
I know this concept can work. I play Halo all day and those kids, those video gamers, are the 'out crowd.' Any video gamer that thinks they're an 'in crowd,' no, you're an 'out crowd.' So I had the gamers send me everything they think about in high school and everything that happened to them in high school, just everything. I had about seven or eight kids from high schools all over and I got back some funny stuff.
Like I said, this is 'Generation Zero.' I don't want the popular, cocky kids. I don't want them on my cartoon, we're going to make fun of them on my cartoon. Down the line I want to have a part on the website where you can throw your ideas about high school out to me and if they're good enough, they'll be picked up and become a part of an episode.
Check out NBA LIVE 08
is out. Go cop that. Me and Chris Paul have an unspoken rivalry right now because my man who I work out with in the summer and I are fighting for sales.
I don't want to tell you what game he's on so I don't want to give him free promotion.
I know I'm on
and he didn't have commercials. You need to go out and buy the game that has commercials with it, because those commercials are cool.
They ranked me a 91 in the game, but I didn't want to go into some board room and demand that they make me a 95 because I'm on the cover ' fine, I'm not going to lie, I did do that. But they told me it was too late. It's OK though. If you're playing as me and hit the Hot Spots button, the whole floor turns red. That means wherever you see red, that's where I can shoot. My range is the whole court.
About the Bonds Ball
I have a real big fan in Oakland who caught the 715 ball to beat Ruth. His name is Tom. Whenever we go West, he goes from city to city and travels to watch me play. He's been doing this since I came in the league. He goes to Portland, he goes to Seattle, Golden State, Lakers, Clippers ' he just drives and goes to all of them. Well Tom's brother caught the 715 ball. He said he would give me that ball for free so I could tell Marc Ecko that he can switch out No. 715 for No. 756 and he can mark up No. 715 or whatever he wants to do with that ball, as long as he gives me the 756 ball.
Tom just wants all 20 pairs of the 's actually. So I have some fans out there joining the cause.
I apologize to Marc Ecko for making the offer the way I did, but that's the only way to get stuff across to people is if you just burst out sometimes. Marc Ecko, I would really love the opportunity to sit down and negotiate with you about this ball and see if I can convince you to give it to me without taking it to the Hall of Fame marked.
Don't Call me a "Cheater"
Something like 500 websites are calling me a cheater, and they don't know what cheating is.
Let's break down the word 'cheating' in video games. Then I'm going to break down glitches and then just great fans.
In Halo 2 what cheating was, it was called 'modding.' That means you do a modification to your XBox, you create your own Halo 2, you get online and then you just destroy everybody so you can get your rank up. But you didn't really get your rank up because
kicks you off, so you got your friends' ranks up.
Anybody who got in a party with the 'modder' had their ranks up because the 'modder' is going to win every game.
Or, you can do what everybody else has been doing to cheat: 'stand-bying.' What 'stand-bying' is involves one of these little computer guys is sitting there slowing down everybody else's modems and putting you to blue screen or black screen (when you go to blue screen or black screen you can't see anything that's happening in the game and you think there's a delay in the game) and in the mean time they're going around killing you.
Or, they'll just 'lag' you out of a game. Somehow they just intercept your connection and 'lag' you out. That's cheating.
For basketball video games, cheating is when somebody goes to a bookstore and buys a book on cheat codes and they put the little cheat codes in and all of the sudden they can steal every pass and make every shot and do all that stuff.
For football video games, I don't know what cheating is because I don't play them.
There are glitches in Halo. You can super bounce and you can double shot.
In basketball video games, back in 2005 there was some glitch where you could put a full-court press on and you set right in front of the guy who was taking the ball out of bounds and every time he tried to make the pass, it got stolen. The team inbounding the ball couldn't even get past half court. It's called a glitch.
As for a glitch in football video games, I don't know because I don't play.
The glitch in Halo 3 isn't a real glitch like in the basketball game, it's a glitch in the system.
Good fans:
There's this thing called experience points. You get experience points for winning games. Before anybody knew about winning social games, they played ranked games. You play ranked games to get your medals up. Then one day I came across a guy who had an eagle by his Halo profile and he only had 50 ranked games. I was like, 'Wait I minute, I have 178 ranked games, I don't have an eagle!'
But this guy had 550 social games won, so I'm like, 'What the hell is a social game?'
So I go to him, 'I'll give you a jersey if you tell me what you're doing.'
He said 'OK' and he explained it to me.
He said, 'You play social games and you get the points too.'
So I said, 'Social games are matched?'
And he said, 'No, social games are not matched.'
'So you can win a social game, which is not ranked, and get the points still?'
'Yeah. What I do is just play two-on-two with my friends and they just lose to me and it gets my experience points up.'
'That's it?'
'Allllllllllllll right!'
So I play Halo with a whole bunch of kids online and my one friend said that if I really wanted the eagle that he would lose all the games to me, because he didn't really care.
He said, 'I don't care about experience points because at the end of the day, I'm still good.'
So how is that cheating? I still don't understand it.
So for all the Halo people who don't understand what I'm talking about, this is just like if you were playing Madden online and you find a kid you can beat down on and you keep sending him challenges so you can get wins. It's the same thing. Or in basketball games, if you're playing somebody online and beat him by 30 points and he says, 'Rematch?' and you say, 'OK!' you already know you can beat him, so you play him again just so you can get your points up and your rank up. That's all that is.
So let me explain this eagle thing I wanted. It's an honor. It's a little patch that goes onto a shirt. It has nothing to do with your skill level. Whatever your skill level is ' 32 or 50 or five ' that's what you are. Your experience points are just about the games you won.
The guy who taught me the trick played only like 50 ranked games and 550 social games. I have a level 42 for ranked games. I have to play ranked games against ranked people to get better. Nobody is going to help me win there, because it's a ranked game and nobody wants to lose a ranked game.
But a social game doesn't affect your rank.
So when you have a major, a double major or a triple major or a burger dot (or whatever they call that eagle thing), all it is is for show. So when I go into a match and my opponent sees that eagle, they'll be like, 'Dang, you play a lot.'
That's all that means.
They're not going to say, 'Dang, you're good!' They're going to say, 'Dang, you play a lot.'
At the end of the day they look at your rank to see how good you are. Your major is just for show. So if you have an eagle and only have won like 10 ranked games, they're going to be like, 'Man, you're garbage.'
They're calling me a cheater for somebody giving me wins all day but they should be calling him the cheater for disgracing the integrity of the game. I didn't make him do it, I didn't ask for it.
There's been thousands of kids who have lost to me. Most of the time it was because of my talent, the other ones were because I said I'd give them a jersey!
Here's another example. If you beat Halo you can collect these skulls. And if you get all 13 skulls you get a special helmet and outfit for your guy. So for the first couple days, everybody was beating the game but nobody was getting the special helmet because they couldn't find the 13th skull.
One kid cracked it.
Only one person cracked it. That one person told somebody else, who told somebody else, who told somebody else and then what happened was the one person who knew how to get the skull called up a group of friends, invited them to join his party and told them that they can play with him and that he'd go through all the boards and find all the skulls and do all the work and since they'll all be joining in with him, they'll get the achievement points too.
So he went through all the boards and it only took him like five or six hours because he already knew how to do it, and everybody in his party got the special helmet and didn't do anything for it.
If that's not cheating, then what my fan did for me shouldn't be cheating either. We're not cheating anybody. We're not slowing down somebody else's modem or doing something else to beat them.
This was just my fan saying, 'Hey, I want you to have the eagle. I'll give you the eagle by losing games to you.'
And come on people, if I found out about it and did it, there has to be other people out there doing it too. I can't help it if
is a popular guy online and gets offers like that.
Come on, there are people out there that have double shot modded controllers, they have modded Xboxes, they have this new thing (and I'm not even sure how you do it) where you put a rubber band around your controller handles so it will go only right and if it goes right the whole time something happens where the game won't cut off and you keep winning or something like that.
Who is finding out about this stuff? Who is sitting there putting rubber bands on their controllers?
At least I'm there playing the game. I play Halo some days for 14 hours. If I play that much, obviously I know how to play. A guy online told me how he got his experience points up and I said, 'OK, I want that too.'
I had already won 216 games legitimately when I heard about this glitch. It's not like I'm not playing all the time.
I mean, I've sponsored Final Boss for the last couple years and they're the best team in Halo. I'm too proud to jump in a game with them to help me get my rank up. If I really wanted to win that bad, all I would have to do is jump in a game with Final Boss when they go up against all of the top kids in the game and just sit there, eat my cereal and watch as they win every game and get my rank up.
How hard is that? That's not hard. But I didn't do it.
This is like in Mario Brothers where if you jumped on a shell and hit it against the stairs and as long as you time it right, you keep getting the 1 UP and have infinity lives. Same thing with Contra. You do the up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right and now you have the infinity ammo and infinity lives. That's cheating. But if I'm playing Streetfighter, and he lets me win, why is that considered cheating?
You should be mad at that kid for giving me the victory. Don't be mad at me for accepting the victory.
What should I be like, 'I know you lost, but I'm not going to take this win, sorry.'
Last year when I played NBA LIVE online and was 117-15. Sure, 80 of the wins were against my friend, but hey, he's easy. It wasn't about skills, it was for show. When somebody wanted to play me, they would see my 117-15 record and automatically think I was good (which I was), but it was the point that it intimidated them.
The same thing with the eagle thing in Halo 3. If you see that eagle on your screen when you're going to play me, you're automatically going to think I'm good.
All that happened was that I went from a single major to a double major because he said he'd lose 100 games to me.
Know what was funny, I got all my Halo friends together and we challenged all the kids that were telling me I was sorry, and that I suck and that I'm a cheater and we played a game against them. My team was called the 'Bad Guys' because apparently I'm the bad guy for accepting wins from somebody. So we played my haters last night and they got destroyed. Oh man, they got destroyed.
Half the kids, they're not even mad. At first I got so many messages that were angry. One kid was like, 'You're a disgrace to Halo.' He said, 'People like you make it hard for people like us to get better because we sit here for six hours a day playing this to get better.' I was like, 'That sounds fun. I don't mean to be the bad guy here, but, I play 14 hours a day. Regularly. I know the rules and what cheating is. What I'm doing is not cheating.'
At the end of the day I'm still ranked in the , even without the experience. Go check the leaderboard. That's all my skill. The leaderboard doesn't have anything to do with experience points, it just has to do with experience.
Microsoft must have sold millions of copies of Halo and I'm still ranked No. 30 in the world. My swag is phenomenal right now, remember that. Like Kanye said, 'You can't tell tell me nothing, riiighhht.' To my favorite haters -- Biggs V2 and Hellhogace -- I'm ranked even without the so-called 'cheating.'
And MC187, you get the bonus prize. This is your five days of fame. PTI picked it up and now I'm mentioning you in my blog. This is the only way you're going to get famous because it's not going to be through Halo. I looked at your rank, you aren't very good. You might not be skilled at the game, but I know what your skill is -- looking at everybody else's accounts to see who's cheating. So keep it up baby, I'm rooting for you.
One more thing, a big thanks to
Aircalbev for supporting me in this time of tragedy on the Bungie message board of hatred towards Agent Arenas. I also want to give a shout out to some of my fallen solidiers - Cashis Clayis and Baby Jesus - for helping through these turbulent times and I would like to thank God for giving me the man power and the heart and mind to stay up and keep playing Halo to the best of my ability. Now I got to do the "Marion Jones" thing: Sorry to all my friends and family who believed in me. I disgraced my Halo friends' names.
LOL. I'm a beast in Halo 3.
P.S. I am teaching "cheating" lessons at 12 midnight, every night on how to be a professional cheater on Halo. I'm just kidding, I shouldn't have said that,.
Preseason has Started
It was my first game since April you know, but if Fantasy Basketball was started right now I'd probably be in the top five because I had four steals, four assists, three rebounds and one turnover in 20 minutes. But for real, I did all right for my . I was just trying to get a rhythm. I moved really well, I wasn't dragging my leg. I was running and you know, playing up and down. That was a great 20 minutes for me. The shot wasn't falling. I ended up 2-for-11 and I was 1-for-8 starting off the game but I was just trying to get a rhythm and trying to get back to what I do. I took quick shots, some good ones, some bad ones, but all in all its about trying to hurry up and catch your rhythm before the season starts so you have to do some things that you normally don't do just to get a feel for it.
For the Cleveland Cavs fans who watched it, we're a thorn.
That's our rivalry. Those are two teams that have that blood. It's not that bad blood where you want to fight them every time, it's that competitive blood where both teams think they're better than each other and you want to win. You want to win in the preseason and you want to win in the regular season. At the end of the day, we know who we want to face off against in the playoffs: Cleveland.
You want to play the exciting teams that have the same type of talent and the same type of up-and-downess (I don't even know if that's a word). You want a team that plays at the same pace as you. If you're an up-and-down team you don't want to play against a team like Chicago and grind it out. That's the worst. Using a Marbury phrase, 'great kudos' to Chigago, but that's the one team you don't want to play in the first round. If you play them in the first round, most likely you aren't going to get further then the second round because they will beat you up so bad that you will be tired and it will take everything out of you just to beat them that series.
I remember them in 2004-05 when we had to play against them. It took all of our energy out to beat them and when we got to the second round against Miami we didn't have anything. That's the one team that you can say that you don't want to face in the playoffs and that's Chicago. They're a brutal team and they'll bang you, they'll press you full court, 24/7 for seven games.
Get Well Soon, Etan
I know everybody by now heard the . It's one of those things where you're glad the NBA has stepped up and given these tests in the preseason every year.
I used to think it was pointless to run on a treadmill and be monitored. I mean, I've been working out the whole summer and now you want me to run on a treadmill and put sticky things all over me and have me run for five minutes? But now that you see the results of what the tests can catch you're like, 'Oh my God, this is serious.'
For the bigger make sure you test up. Etan is one of the healthiest guys I've known in my career. He takes care of his body, he eats right ' I've never seen him eat anything bad. I always ask him what he eats whenever I'm on a diet because I only see him eating fruits and vegetables and he takes all the healthy food from the plane.
So when a guy that is this healthy has a problem out of nowhere, it shows you that you have to check on your bodies.
He had the surgery yesterday, they said it went well. You just have to give your utmost thoughts and prayers to his family. This is something where if it wouldn't have got caught, it could be his life in jeopardy. It could have been like Len Bias or it could have been like Jason Collier.
My words to him were, 'You don't need to think negative thoughts. Don't worry about basketball right now. You're happy. You're alive. Enjoy your kids. You're going to live a regular life and once you're feeling healthy enough, that's when you start playing basketball again.'
Reminds Me of a Story
This is kind of a feel-good story, in a sense. I had a friend in high school, named Eddie. We called him 'chicken wing' because he was skinnier than Tayshaun Prince before he came into the NBA.
There was five of us and we had our own little team when we were 14-years old. Well Eddie used to always say that he could dunk. Every time we'd show up to the park and he'd already be there he'd be like, 'Oh man, I dunked it today! I dunked it today!' And we were like, 'Yeahhhh, rigggghhhht.'
This used to go on for years. It started when we were 14 but then we were sophomores, juniors, seniors and none of those years he could dunk the ball.
So when I went off to college and the summer before my freshman year, I got a phone call. My friend was on the other line and he's like, 'Yo, Eddie passed away.' And I was like, 'What?! What happened?'
And he started laughing.
So I was like, 'What the hell are you laughing for?'
He goes, 'It's funny, but it's not funny ''
'OK, can you explain why the hell you're laughing?!'
He was like, 'Well we were playing five-on-five ''
'All right ''
'And Eddie went up and dunked it and he got so excited that he collapsed.'
And you know what? I totally forgot about him dying and I was like, 'Eddie dunked?! You got to be kidding me. He really dunked it?!'
They said he really dunked it and he got so happy he finally dunked in front of his friends that he passed away. He died right there on the court we grew up on.
For a kid who plays basketball, if I had to pass away, that would be the way I would want to pass away -- like if I won the championship and I was so happy that I passed out right there.
That's a memory that I can always live with.
He didn't pass away from a gun shot or this or that. He passed away doing something he loved. It wasn't a feel bad story when I first heard. I was so excited that he finally proved us wrong and he dunked, and he was so happy that he finally proved us wrong and he dunked that he passed away from it.
His favorite player was Allen Iverson so we buried him with an Allen Iverson jersey and No. 3 was actually going to be my number going into college, but it was already taken so I had to go with zero.
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One of my superfans, Doug Wallis Jr., was the first person in the world to own NBA LIVE 08.
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NBA LIVE 08 Launch Party
This is part two of the Gil Extravaganza. Last week I was in New York with my shoes, this week I'm in the Big Apple with my video game. Actually this started on Wednesday in D.C. I had to wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning. But see, we have to rewind back even before that because it's important to the story. On Tuesday, Halo 3 came out. So I was playing at 12:15 in the afternoon when I got back home from the gym on Tuesday until 4:30 in the morning on Wednesday. Sixteen hours straight of just Halo 3. Then I went to sleep and had to wake up at 6:00 a.m. to go do a two part commercial shoot for the Wizards. After that I had to come up to New York to do a commercial for ESPN with Dwight Howard, Deron Williams, Mike Breen and Bill Walton.
They wanted me there a 5:00 p.m. and just like normal, I missed my flight. So I got there at 6:00. So I'm thinking, 'Oh, man. I'm late again?!' And when I get there they're like, 'Oh, no, you're not late.' They were already shooting a commercial with Chris Bosh, so I'm like, 'Am I in the commercial with Chris Bosh?'
'Oh, no, you're in the last one.'
'OK, when does the last one start?'
'10 o'clock.'
'Man, let me go to the trailer.'
So I go the trailer and
is in there sleeping. He got woken up. They woke him up and gave him his shirt to wear so he could get ready despite the fact that he got there at 11 in the morning and this was 10 at night. He was like, 'Man, I could have gone back to my hotel!' But once I got there and starting loosening everybody up, we just had a blast. I was out of there by 12:15.
We had a good time talking about Stephon Marbury's interview again, because I didn't know he came out with a Part 2 and a Part 3, talking about, 'They tell me I'm crazzzzzy!' Yeah, you know, so no comment on that.
So we did the commercial and I had a great time and I was trying to go to something that DJ Clue was throwing with Budweiser and King Magazine and I just couldn't go because I know I had to be at the NBA Store early in the morning and once I get sleepy, I get cranky and everything gets dry and I don't have the same kind of energy I should so I decided to just stay in the room.
Yesterday I did everything from BET to SpikeTV to (of course) ESPN to Fantasy Basketball with Matthew Berry. So I was all over the world in the Big Apple. I had a lot of fun and even won two games of NBA LIVE 08 on the Wii.
I had a copy of the game, but I don't any more. I have to wait until October 2nd now just like everybody else. I actually gave my copy out to a lucky fan that was waiting since 9:00 a.m. at the NBA Store for me to show up at 3:00 p.m. I was going to give out three copies, but I had such good fans that I think I gave out about six or seven. So those six or seven kids have it before me, because I gave my copy out. Plus I gave out 100 vouchers to get the game for free on October 2nd when it is officially released.
Seeing Fans in My Jersey
I used to complain about it two years ago that I couldn't find a Wizards jersey of mine, this and that. 'How come I can't find my Wizards jersey, I'm averaging 25 points!' And now I see them everywhere. I remember one day I was coming from the track and it was cold outside. We were going through Howard University and I saw a kid in a black Arenas jersey and I'm like, 'It's cold outside and he's wearing that? I got a fan!' I got a little smile on my face. I had the actual Joker, Jack Nicholson smile on that one.
I'm just so excited that people are digging me and supporting what I'm doing.
Open Workout Today
I'm putting all the workouts and everything I did all summer into one day so all the
and see that I'm healthy. I'm not sure what the full schedule will be. I know its going to have bike riding, I know it's going to have my track workout with the parachutes behind me for resistance, if we can get the pool I'll do the pool workout, I might break out the 1,500 makes early in the morning and then the full basketball workout at night. Plus the weight lifting and the bleacher workout.
Season Around the Corner
Physically I'm ready and mentally I'm there because I've put myself in situations where I can put myself in that mind frame again. Meaning that whenever we play pickup games, I don't wear shorts and a jersey, I wear a sweat suit. I wear the heavy, wool sweat suit to simulate the fourth quarter feel of exhaustion and I go games where I decide I'm only going to shoot the game winner, so it makes me think of the game winner. I didn't get to think about shooting 'quality shots' for so long that I had to get my mind back to where it was before I was injured.
Prediction Time
Oh man, everybody is jumping on this Celtics band wagon. You know what? I was going to go prediction-free for the whole year, but I guess I'm going to break that now.
Now, if anybody remembers back when I got drafted, I got a report back that the reason I dropped so far in the draft was that Jim O'Brien of the Celtics said that I was too immature and that I wasn't ready for the NBA. What really happened was that I had an Achilles injury and I went back to L.A. to go get it healed when I was supposed to have a two-day workout in Boston with O'Brien. He didn't like that. So word came back to me that he was trashing me and it put this knife through my chest about the Boston Celtics.
Back in the day when I would day dream I thought that if I could score 100 points against any team it would be the Boston Celtics. Now, I knew it would never happen, but if I could do one thing in the NBA it would be to score 100 against Boston. So anyway, since everybody is back on the Boston bandwagon it brought back old memories. So listen here. On November 2nd, we're going to go into that building, we're opening up Boston. Right now I'm telling the Boston fans: You guys are going to lose. It's not going to be a victory for Boston. You might as well just cheer for me, because Boston isn't winning in Boston for the season opener. I'm sorry.
Marc Ecko, I Have an Offer for You
I normally don't get into conversations like this, but this kind of hit a nerve in my body as an athlete. :
I just think it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
Who are you as a person to take away somebody's legacy because you don't like him as a person? Forget that he is Barry Bonds and forget his records. He was 'alleged' of doing steroids. This is America, just because you're 'alleged' of doing something doesn't mean he actually did it and until he is proven guilty, you shouldn't have the right to be the judge and jury.
Just because you have the money don't go buying up people's history to destroy it. If you're going to get Barry Bonds' ball, why don't you go get Mark McGwire's homerun balls that got put into the Hall of Fame and Sammy Sosa's corked bat too?
He was 'alleged' of doing steroids. I don't think as a fan of sports that you have the right to taint this man's legacy.
This man has a kid. When his kid grows up he's going to hate you as a person because you decided to be this super, superhero to go put an asterisk sign over his dad's legacy.
I just felt appalled by it because, what if somebody decides to ban the hyperbaric chambers tomorrow? Everybody knows that I used the hyperbaric tent last year and I scored 60 points against the Lakers during the season I was using the tent. Now, the Hall of Fame has my shoes from that game. What if somebody decides to take my shoes and put an asterisk sign on them now?
I think it's just drawing graffiti on somebody else's legacy. Before you go and destroy another man's career, I'd rather buy the ball back from you and give it to somebody who really, truly wants the ball for what it is.
So, Marc Ecko, I want the ball to give it to a real fan. As a human, you should be ashamed of yourself for outbidding somebody just to do wrong to somebody's property.
If people don't understand what I'm talking about, this is the easiest way I can explain it. Anybody out there that has ever taken Creatine, that's a popular substance, if they all of the sudden consider Creatine to be a steroid that means all you guys that took it are dirty so if you ever do anything in life, you're tainted. Anything you do in life you're going to have somebody like Marc Ecko wanting to buy whatever you do in life to put an asterisk sign by it. So if you get a promotion and he decides he wants this guy fired because he did Creatine back in 2001, that's how you should feel.
Just because he is one of the most hated guys in the world because of 'allegedly' doing steroids, I don't think you should take away his legacy.
The day he broke the record, he wasn't on steroids. That's how I look at it. People say that he's dirty, but the last time I checked anything out I saw that corked bats, spitting on balls, Vaseline on balls and stealing signals, that's all cheating too.
If they're doing steroids, I mean there have been plenty of players who I thought have done steroids, but I'm not going to buy their stuff up just to put an asterisk on it. I think it's giving the wrong idea to people. The fans that voted for the asterisk, I think they're representing sports wrong because at the time that he broke these records, he wasn't on steroids.
If you want to buy some records that were broken by somebody who was accused of steroids and admitted to using steroids, go buy Arnold Schwarzenegger's. Go buy back his trophies and medals and put asterisks on them. That's a man who actually admitted to using steroids.
I just think it's wrong. In sports, what people don't realize is, you're trying to do everything you can to get that extra advantage. By me using the hyperbaric chamber, I'm using it as an advantage. If they ban it tomorrow, will people be looking at me as a dirty player?
I'm not saying steroids are good or bad here. I mean, I think it's a cowardly way to enhance your performance don't get me wrong, but my issue is that if the guy hasn't been proven guilty, you shouldn't taint him.
You're not Superman. You can't go around trying to save the world from this ball. Give me a break. What if I buy your company and throw it in the trash because I say it's tainted? How stupid would you feel?
And for people who still aren' What if a kid comes and graffiti's your house. How would you feel?
You worked your butt off to live in the place you live in and some not-so-smart people come and graffiti your house. How would you feel? That's what I feel about that ball. You're just tagging it up.
Let a fan, somebody wh