— Michael Carter-Willi (@MCW1) November 6, 2013
Check it out http://t.co/138mO7K6of TEAM WHOP
This kind of flew under the radar a bit, but a new #TeamWHOP video is out on the Internet streets. We watched so that you wouldn't have to...
0:00 - Michael Carter-Williams now gets production credit alongside Tony Wroten - I wonder what Khalif Wyatt and Vander Blue think about that.
0:19 - Team WHOP backstage at Powerhouse hoping to get a glimpse of a celebrity. Instead, they have to settle for Meek Mill.
0:22 - A brief one-second appearance by the GOAT himself, Allen Ezail Iverson.
0:49 - Carter-Williams showing off his soccer skills at an NBA Cares event. The kid is like a young Deuce Dempsey on the pitch.
2:06 - Extensive footage of Wroten and Carter-Williams from the Sixers' last preseason game. You know... the one the Sixers lost by 23. You probably want to skip this part.
4:11 - More Meek Mill clips from Powerhouse. When listing the "great artists" in attendance, Wroten drops the names of Yo Gotti and French Montana. I hope he was paid well to lie like that.
5:05 - Jadakiss (an actual great artist) gives Team WHOP an official shout-out. For a second there, it almost sounded as if he really knew who Tony Wroten was.
5:25 - The Heat game. We all know how this ends. This segment (with 2Chainz's "Yuck!" serving as the soundtrack) lasts for 4 minutes. I wonder if Wroten received the express written consent of the National Basketball Association for the use of so much game footage.
Overall: Nothing for nothing, the 2nd Team WHOP clip was a bit underwhelming. Most of the nine-plus minutes was backstage footage from Powerhouse and clips from games that were more than a week old. Here's hoping that the third film in the trilogy brings the luster back to the franchise.
(Just curious: Now that Team WHOP is two separate factions like nWo Black and White / nWo Red and Black, is it too much to ask for Wyatt and Blue to make their own weekly video?)
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Great piece by CNN covering our third round draft pick, Aquille Carr! http://t.co/ispLZW4Ut4
— Delaware Sevens (@Sevens) November 4, 2013
We aren't ones to typically tell you how to think, but you REALLY NEED TO BE EXCITED FOR THE DELAWARE SEVENS THIS SEASON. Here's a clip from 2012 of Aquille Carr in action during his high school days. And now that the 87ers have actually hired a coach, it's only a matter of time before Brett Brown's system takes the D-League by storm. Besides... even if the games aren't all that great, you can still crash on Bauser's couch afterwards.
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Eminem album is tough
— Michael Carter-Willi (@MCW1) November 8, 2013
In MCW's defense, most of those who get paid to write about music have given The Marshall Mathers LP 2 a solid thumbs-up. But when it comes to the fans themselves, Eminem's latest disc is a bit underwhelming.
There's no denying Em's talent, but chopping up the body of your ex-wife and dumping her in the ocean is so 1999. Em needs to write about cyberattacks or identity theft or something more relevant.
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Guess all those real 76ers fans who are rooting for them to lose are happy now. How can you not love this team?
— Reuben Frank (@RoobCSN) November 10, 2013
Roob doesn't get it. But then again, he's the same guy who wrote this last year, so...
"usage rate?" you just making up stats now? @Philly76ersBlog If Iguodala (17.7%) had Monta Ellis' usage rate (29.7%), he'd average 21 points
— Reuben Frank (@RoobCSN) March 28, 2012
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Well, because America #HoopsForTroops RT @Michael_Levin: Sixers all wearing headbands. Best night ever. pic.twitter.com/yaq0ywEA2W
— Michael Preston (@preston76) November 9, 2013
Sixers commentator on Evan Turner's headband tonight: "It looks like he has a hole in his yarmulke" pic.twitter.com/DVOgWj2nPF
— Beyond The Buzzer (@BeyondTheBuzzer) November 9, 2013
The first picture shows the proper way to wear a headband. On Friday, Evan Turner decided... to do his own thing. Maybe he wanted to simulate wearing a yarmulke, or perhaps he merely wanted to do the anti-LeBron and show off his hairline. Either way, Turner finished with 22/10/5. I would like to formally submit a petition that ET wears his headband like this (and curse on a live microphone) every game.
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LAVOY ALLEN IS SO BAD AT BASKETBALL HOLY HELL
— Michael Levin (@Michael_Levin) November 9, 2013
Just copy-and-paste this tweet, folks - I have a feeling we'll be saying this quite a bit over the next 75 games.