hoop & stuff

In the Mouth of Madness

2020-05-14T13:24:00.003-07:00

Hoop Dreams beautiful scene

2020-04-11T06:59:00.003-07:00

The most Korean scene of Marriage Story

2019-12-20T16:09:00.003-08:00

Am I right?
The visual style(mainly lighting), low-key cheesy music, and even facial expressions equal the Korean film-like experience, at least for me. Don't get me wrong, that's not bad at all. Just watch Parasite!
I just think this scene feels a little foreign in the movie. What do you think?

Shaka Smart/Manu Ginobili

2016-08-12T11:05:00.000-07:00

I had no idea Manu Ginobili had a side job coaching U18 USA Basketball Team. Good job, man!

Conan Superhero

2016-07-25T09:04:00.001-07:00

This needs to be a meme.

The Champ is here

2016-07-24T13:53:00.001-07:00

With the first ring under his belt, the Champ strikes again becoming a cover athlete for the upcoming NBA 2k17. Surely it wasn't a surprise, after putting up such a monster, out of these world, numbers and single-handedly bringing the first title to Cleveland. The true hero. Period.

Money Story

2016-07-21T18:50:00.005-07:00

Have you ever watched a movie and thought to yourself, "I like this line, I will try to use it" and then after walking out of the movie you completely forgot about it.

Well, even though I watched "Swingers" at home, the quote "baby, you are so money, and you don't even know it" was engraved in my head alongside other epic quotes like "get to da Choppa" and some other lines I can't recall now.

While I haven't utterly lost this one yet, please enjoy all the "money" scenes.

Something I've Heard

2016-07-21T18:35:00.000-07:00

Today it suddenly came back to me, and by "it" I mean the thing Doug Collins said about Klay Thompson during the podcast I was listening to more than a year ago.
Doug Collins said Klay Thompson is an underrated athlete and he reminded him of Allan Houston, whom he coached in Detroit. Arnie Kander (trainer) used some tests and it turned out that Houston was a better athlete than his teammate, none other than Grant Hill, who was considered to be a freaky athlete at the time. Doug called Allan a "sleepy player" because he never played with fire, energy, and passion although he had it.

Gosha Rubchinskiy X Gosha Dickchinskiy

2016-04-29T20:20:00.002-07:00

For everyone out there looking for that trendy Russian stuff with the name Gosha Rubchinskiy on it, please just take a look at this. This is something I came up with while sitting on the toilet. If you are someone who doesn't know Russian you might ask how it's different from an authentic one. Well, as you can see first 3 letters on my t-shirt are changed (yes, this torso is mine(btw a lot of girls would like to say that but I'm not that easy)). You see in Russia we (actually some people, mostly young and not very bright) have some kind of joke of replacing the first part of a word with "хуй" (it reads as "hui" which means dick). Sometimes it can be a little bit different depending on the word. So in this case it came out as Gosha Dickchinskiy. Shots fired. And I believe that if you wear this t-shirt it emphasizes the fact of you being a trendy fella + gives you a couple of extra points by making fun of the trend itself. Isn't it the best way to handle mainstream things? Especially when you don't have money to buy them.
Hardcore Hypebeast.

#рубчинский × #хуйчинский

Фото опубликовано victorbadmaev (@getobuddha) Апр 7 2016 в 6:51 PDT

DWade Playin' Some Tough D

2016-04-29T17:43:00.000-07:00

Yo DWade, what are you pointing at? Oh, at the guy who's about to make the game-winning 3pt shot? Maybe, at the guy who you should be guarding? Or at the guy you've just lost and didn't pay attention to during the last minute of the crucial game? Come on, man.

Putin X Krang

2016-03-18T14:34:00.000-07:00

If you've been wondering what the heck is going on in Russia.

Here it is.

Does it make any sense?

Not really.
Who cares?
Putin
X
Krang
Russia X

Kevjumba

2016-03-07T16:44:00.003-08:00

Just when I was about to do my regular visit to Kevjumba's youtube page I discovered that he has deleted all his videos recently. Apparently, it happened on February 1st, 2016. Not a lot of time passed since I got used not to expecting new videos from him and now this. Like, come on man. Why? I came to watch the "This is home" video for what felt like the millionth time again because, first of all, I really like it and secondly I feel it's the best farewell video that Kev could come up with. I realized it when I watched it. It just clicked. That was like saying goodbye to a really good friend and realizing you would never see him again. Never. But instead of feeling sad, I felt happy for him. Or at least I tried to.

So whatever you do, good luck to you, man!

By 50

2015-11-03T00:41:00.003-08:00

ABPofAH

2015-11-02T02:36:00.002-08:00

This season Hawks' management went TMNT on their roster and got Tiago Splitter. I'm sure I don't have to explain the meaning behind this picture. What I want is to know who can be the next acquisition to even take it to another level of TMNT likeness.
All props go to my homie.

Washed Up Bradley Cooper

2015-09-22T05:27:00.001-07:00

Don't even try to convince me that dude in the middle between Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner doesn't look like totally washed-up Bradley Cooper. The resemblance just can't be denied. Let's pretend that's B Coop though. Could you imagine what kind of lifestyle he must've lived to become such a bum? How many lines of cocaine he should have snorted (obviously more than Keanu had in the first 45 minutes of Matrix, because he had 80 lines, and that's officially the most random comparison)? That's actually how Eddie Morra would've looked like if he hadn't figured proper use of NZT-48.

By the way, this bum's name (no offense) is Alex Steyermark. He is a director/producer/writer, basically a one-man-band.

"The D Train" In 3 Pictures

2015-09-13T07:07:00.001-07:00

The 1st full length movie on Instagram

2015-08-14T15:43:00.002-07:00

So what do you do when you have a lot of free time? You do whatever you like. I, for one, uploaded the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead to Instagram. I don't want to sound too cocky (who am I kidding, I really want to) but I believe it's the first time someone (in this case me) uploaded the full movie. The very first time in the history of mankind. Can you imagine what it feels like? Probably not, since there aren't too many pioneers in the world these days. And I, by the shockingly incredible combination of my mind's power and unemployment, which is a true blessing, generated this, what now feels like a crappy idea, work of art and became one of those pioneers. Well, enough with bravado.

You might ask, "Why is 1968 Night of the Living Dead?". It's easy. NotLD is in the public domain which means you can do whatever you want with it (please tell me I am right). As soon as I've settled on the movie, it took me just a half an hour to divide it into parts up to 15 seconds each, and only then started the long and boring process of actual uploading from the end of the movie to its beginning(it's more convenient that way)

Now as I've finished I see that people enjoying this page, but not on the scale I thought they would be. You know how it is. So follow it)

Who Shot It Better?

2015-07-31T07:27:00.001-07:00

Yo, guys, some of you might think what the heck is this infographic about. Totally legit question. Just try to think of the last time you saw none other than Luke Babbitt on the top of the list, I mean, literally, any list. He's even second on the most famous Galena High School graduates list (it's in Reno, Nevada), the first is Shannyn Sossamon (actress) and the third is Bob, he works at Walmart.

Anyway, Luke made it this time, simply because I've come up with this (feels like he owes me). As you can see here this graphic consists of players whose 3P% was better than their 2P% during this season (there aren't a lot of them). To make the cut the player only had to have at least 40 3Pt Field Goals. That's it. Hope you enjoy this literally useless information.

Fake Vans Old Skool Experiment

2015-07-17T16:06:00.003-07:00

I bought fake Vans the other day. I knew they were fake otherwise how else did they only cost me 28$ plus I tried them on while sitting in the front seat of the plug's Hyundai. Sounds legit, right? Aside from that, they passed all the signs that usually help to tell the fake from the authentic shoes. So you may ask, why did I buy them? First of all, I am cheap, cheap as hell and it might have something to do with me being Asian. Secondly (not sure why I've started counting, I only have like two things to say, well, anyway), and more importantly, I really want to know how fast they wear out. Does the quality really differ from those in the real shop? So basically I bought them to find out "do I have to pay more?".

I have some experience behind my back dealing with the fake Vans, in particular with Authentic Ones (feel the irony) which I got from eBay. After two months of every other day, light usage they were like "I was ballin' hard in them, they wanna fine me", holes on the sides probably from my crazy street lateral moves, or because I have freaking flat feet that could destroy any shoes no matter what.

On the other hand, I also have Vans Zapato Del Barco which have been serving me for a solid half a year of hardcore usage(ok, not so hardcore) and they don't look like tearing apart anytime soon. They are 100% real and I purchased them at the legitimate store.

At that point, you're probably thinking, "that fool should buy real stuff and stop whining". Perhaps you're right, but (there is always "but") just for the sake of getting to the bottom of this (and saving my money) I shall proceed with the experiment. As you can see(I sincerely hope you can) I'm posting pics of sneakers on the very first day of me having them (interesting how many people had tried them on before I stuck with them), and I'm going to upload new ones as soon as they'll start cracking. Start counting dayyyyys))
UPD. 1 month passed, still looking good.

#fakeVans

Фото опубликовано Victor Badmaev (@victorbadmaev) Авг 19 2015 в 9:42 PDT

UPD. I totally forgot about this. Unfortunately, their fakeness came through pretty fast so I had to throw them away. But it's all good I still have my Zapato Del Barcos. I'm going to stick to real ones from now on. Probably.

Chuck Taylor's Air Jordan Ad

2015-06-27T07:45:00.001-07:00

You probably heard that a couple of days ago was Chuck Taylor's birthday. I don't know why but I decided to pay him a tribute by making up an Air Jordan ad featuring an old photo of Mr. Taylor wearing Air Jordan 11 "Bred".

Colin Farrell knows what's up

2015-06-23T05:40:00.001-07:00

Tom Chambers aka Taste My Knees turned 56

2015-06-22T06:43:00.003-07:00

Monday's Stats Day: Kyle Korver's shooting pct

2015-06-01T08:27:00.002-07:00

As the season is coming to the end, I suggest you to take a look at this graph of how Kyle's shooting percentage has been changing over the course of the regular season.

Denzel and Keanu in White Men Can't Jump

2015-05-27T03:14:00.002-07:00

Few people know that Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves were initially discussed for the roles in the iconic movie White Men Can't Jump. As we all know Denzel can ball (scored 4 straight baskets on Jesus, man) and I'm sure he would've been great in it, but he'd decided to go with Spike and make Malcolm X. That's an easy one.
Then Blade aka Wesley Snipes showed up and got the part. Despite the fact that he wasn't a very good ballplayer, he was pretty athletic and after the training camp prior to shooting, his game became convincing enough to fool everybody including me into thinking he was legit.
As for Keanu, he like most white men (although his dad is partly Asian, which makes it even worse for basketball) is cursed with a White man's disease i.e. being unathletic. He played hockey growing up and apparently never laid his hands on a basketball for long enough which made it possible for Woody Harrelson to get this part (that's a straight-up quote from Woody's interview with British Newspaper Metro, almost a straight-up quote). Woody's career would've been a lot different if he hadn't landed this part, just imagine, he wouldn't have banged that chick in True Detective per se.
On the other hand, Keanu said in an interview in 1996 that they ruined the movie, because, "it had, it used to have more heart and more, they, they, punked out and made it this buddy film. I mean, it wasn't a buddy film." It is an interesting take, dude must've wanted some Point Break-like deep relationship between the main characters.
And finally, the man, who would've brought trash talk of the flick to another level and made it more hilarious overall, I'm not talking about John Cusack (who was also considered), I'm talking about Michael Rapport. Practically nobody at the time, to be honest, nor the biggest star right now, but still a super funny actor. He is the guy who I would love to see in a movie like that.
At the end of the day casting crew did its job, the dynamic duo of Wesley and Woody still looks great and ranked right up there in the pantheon of the best dynamic duos of all time, somewhere between Spongebob and Patrick and Dr. Dre and Snoop. I would say it's a well-done job.
Who would you cast to play these parts if this movie were being made today?

He Got Game. Who might have been Jesus?

2015-05-25T08:47:00.003-07:00

I'm talking about the movie beloved by millions of people around the world. Ray Allen did a great job portraying a young basketball player and now it's hard to imagine someone else in this role. And that's exactly what I'm about to do.
You probably know that Spike originally considered Kobe for the role, but he turned it down because he wanted to spend a summer preparing for the next season or work on his fashion choices.

Tracy McGrady auditioned but turned out to be too reserved. He was probably so nervous around Rosario Dawson he couldn't put two words together.

On the other hand, Allen Iverson, who also tried his hand at acting, was too swaggy for Jesus. Having read the script, he demanded to use this scene as an audition.

KG was too smiley and big he would make the movie look like a comedy.

Stephon Marbury, as Coney Island's kid and Abraham Lincoln HS alumnus and, don't forget, the star of a Chinese musical would've been a great fit for the movie. But it didn't work out.

Rick Fox was just too damn gorgeous it would've been hard to concentrate on the story. No homo)