GAME THREAD: HEAT @ BLAZERS - 12/28/13, SATURDAY, 7 PM (PST), KGW

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Heat announcers are hilarious -- griping about the officiating...
 
MIA Announcer: "Brian Forte compounding his mistake, making it worse"
 
And there's the Value of a Center that can hit free throws. Keep chirpin' baby bird Bosh. I love it.
 
the real funny things is if they hadn't called that foul Maimi would have only had 2 fouls entering half.
 
MIA Announcer: "Brian Forte compounding his mistake, making it worse"

Well, to be fair, that should have been a delay of game, not a foul. We got gifted a foul there. I don't feel bad, but it wasn't that great of a call.
 
Known affectionately as "The Wild One," Rice has been referred to by journalist Kerry Eggers as "part basketball expert, part entertainer, 100 percent character."[6] Echoing these sentiments, Blazer television producer Scott Zachary has likened him to a "favorite uncle" and publicly pronounced him "a goofy dude".[6]
Rice himself acknowledges a propensity for blurting out sentiments that more circumspect announcers would tend to internally filter. "I don’t give a damn about a lot of things. Later on, I think back, 'Now why’d I do that?'" he has said.[6] This tendency to be what former broadcast partner Eddie Doucette has characterized as a "loose cannon,"[6] combined with his unabashed "homerism,"[7] has made Rice a figure of some controversy.[8]
Rice's outspoken demeanor resulted in one of the events for which he is best known, his 1994 ejection from an NBA game while working a radio broadcast.[6] As Rice tells the story:
"At the time, Steve Javie, the official, was a young official. That previous week he had kicked out a mascot, a fan, and kicked somebody else out, a trainer or something like that. He was on a roll that week, he had made a call, and I looked on the monitor and saw it was a bad call on Cliff Robinson. I kind of put my hands like that [two hands waived at the official] and he ran over. Cliff thought he was going to call a technical on him, because Cliff was standing there doing the same thing. He ran by Cliff and that's when he kicked me out of the game — the rest is history."[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rice_(basketball)
 
We can play better. I can't wait until CJ comes back. Mo is definitely playing better, but Wright is still...... disappointing.
 
Known affectionately as "The Wild One," Rice has been referred to by journalist Kerry Eggers as "part basketball expert, part entertainer, 100 percent character."[6] Echoing these sentiments, Blazer television producer Scott Zachary has likened him to a "favorite uncle" and publicly pronounced him "a goofy dude".[6]
Rice himself acknowledges a propensity for blurting out sentiments that more circumspect announcers would tend to internally filter. "I don’t give a damn about a lot of things. Later on, I think back, 'Now why’d I do that?'" he has said.[6] This tendency to be what former broadcast partner Eddie Doucette has characterized as a "loose cannon,"[6] combined with his unabashed "homerism,"[7] has made Rice a figure of some controversy.[8]
Rice's outspoken demeanor resulted in one of the events for which he is best known, his 1994 ejection from an NBA game while working a radio broadcast.[6] As Rice tells the story:
"At the time, Steve Javie, the official, was a young official. That previous week he had kicked out a mascot, a fan, and kicked somebody else out, a trainer or something like that. He was on a roll that week, he had made a call, and I looked on the monitor and saw it was a bad call on Cliff Robinson. I kind of put my hands like that [two hands waived at the official] and he ran over. Cliff thought he was going to call a technical on him, because Cliff was standing there doing the same thing. He ran by Cliff and that's when he kicked me out of the game — the rest is history."[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rice_(basketball)

Rice is a Blazer activist standing up to "the man." I love it.
 
Leonard is playing pretty damn good... 4 points and 4 boards in 6 minutes.
 

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