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Funny Notes 35

Rockets Harden, Parsons, Lin get the manga treatment in Dunk Shot

All right! The folks over at Japan-based Dunk Shot have produced another odd manga-like take on an NBA team. While not long ago, BallinEurope showed the hoops-centric newspaper’s take on Kevin Love and the Eurowolves, this time it’s Chandler Parsons, Jeremy Lin and James Harden getting animated. Translation is forthcoming, but it seems as though […]

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And now, BallinEurope does the Harlem Shake

Just because. Click here and then here. Enjoy!

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Turk Telekom does the — ah, you know…

Posting these things is getting addictive. Here’s the Harlem Shake as interpreted by Türk Telekom:

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The Harlem Shake: Ladies show no resistance as Umbertide submits to viral craze

And now the ladies are getting into the act: Below runs the squad of Italy’s Liomatic Umbertide doing the dance craze that’s ubiquitous today, gone tomorrow. Or maybe not. Notable beyond the okay performance by the lionesses: Just check out the “description” field below this YouTube. “Recorded with Harlem Shake Creator HD for iPhone and […]

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Harlem Shake spreads to NIJT Belgrade tournament: Alba Berlin, INSEP players succumb

Aaaaand here’s another for the collection. After the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade closed yesterday, two of the tourney’s youth teams added to the phenomenon overtaking European basketball clubs daily, namely the irresistible urge to perform the Harlem Shake. Without further ado, here are the Alba Berlin and INSEP ballers succumbing to the craze.

12 years ago 1 More

And now for something completely different: Kobe Bryant and Lebron James wearing sombreros…

From the Just Because Department and the pages of Spanish-language website Jordan Y Pippen, here’s a still from the NBA All-Star Game that somehow we all missed as Kobe Bryant went on a personal mission to shut down Lebron James in the fourth quarter. The headline proclaims “Kobe to test a pair of ‘hats’ on […]

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Sharrod Ford and company present the Harlem Shake (Brose Baskets Bamberg On the Bus Remix)

A disappointing and anti-climactic Euroleague loss to Zalgiris Kaunas last week may prove that this year’s Brose Baskets Bamberg are no Globetrotters, but they still show a little bit of Harlem. Check out Sharrod Ford (native of Washington, D.C.) leading his squad in a brief go at that Harlem Shake. Guess those bus rides in […]

12 years ago 1 More

“Flight” White forgets own step-by-step winning instructions, disappointingly fails in NBA Dunk Contest guarantee

Sadly enough for James White, a fourth dunk contest trophy was not added to his mantelpiece after this weekend NBA All-Star game festivities. In fact, after promising Dwyane Wade (and the general populace) a guaranteed win with something completely different… …White let down those who believed after seeing him win dunk titles in Russia, Turkey […]

12 years ago 1 More

Super Timberwolves: Peks, AK-47, Shved, Rubio as manga-style heroes [Update, translation]

Big shout out this morning to heinnews, who’s provided BallinEurope with a translation of the Minnesota Timberwolves manga-type comic strip that recently appeared in the Japan-based Dunk Shot sports paper. Read along, panel by panel, below the break — hilarious stuff, really … and who knew Nikola Pekovic had such problems with the ladies?

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Lowlight of the week: Mirza Teletovic gets air (not the good kind) on three consecutive shots for Brooklyn Nets

Oh, Mirza. Mirza, Mirza, Mirza…

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Il Tornado (a.k.a. Daniel Hackett) levels cameraman, Julio Jones-style

Fans of the NFL will surely long remember Julio Jones’ taking out of a security guard during the NFC Championship Game; heck, the thing went viral immediately … in any case, BallinEurope’s got the European basketball equivalent for you. Check out Montepaschi Siena’s Daniel Hackett living up to the “Tornado” sobriquet in his team’s unfortunate […]

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Minnesota newspapers errs on Ricky Rubio; sharp-eyed reader corrects

From the Twittosphere – SO to Monilogue and Tumblr poster F***YeahTimberwolves – BallinEurope passes on this sad tale of an egregious oversight on the part of a Minnesota-based newspaper with regard to BiE fave Ricky Rubio. It what is certainly a shoo-in for the Letter To The Editor of 2013, any category, reader David Holmes […]

12 years ago 2 More
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