PU: The Re-Up

Ever since the site’s inception in the Autumn of 2007, we here at Posting Up have been about as consistent as Mary-Kate Olsen’s dietary habits. After a promising start, life-sapping commitments to the The Man and crippling bouts of inertia meant updates slowed to a paltry trickle. Fresh content was scarcer than an optimistic Nets fan. Then, much like Agent Zero, PU disappeared altogether. Nothing but darkness, deathly silence and a few old articles remained.

Until now.

Drawing inspiration from Eduardo Najera (our favourite Mexican energy guy) we will be crashing the glass and diving for loose balls (metaphorically speaking, of course) in an effort to keep the words spilling onto your screen. There’s no grand plan to take over the world just yet, but at the very least, dear reader, you can expect breaking NBA news, exclusive locker room gossip, in-depth interviews with the league’s biggest stars and the chance to win courtside seats to All-Star 2010! Not really. But you can expect semi-coherent content updated on a semi-regular basis.

Now, let’s get this meat grinder grindin’ again.

Unsurprisingly the NBA world continued to turn in our absence, throwing up a plethora of news and events. So, in the spirit of times past we’ll kick things off with a good ol’ fashioned Starting Five, featuring PU’s five favourite stories from the last few months:

1) Gilbert Arenas Defecating in Andray Blatche’s Shoe - Wow. Just wow. Apparently Gil voided his bowels into Blatche’s size 15s during the forward’s rookie year. Welcome to the league, Andray! This little nugget of a story emerged during the Wizards’ ongoing guns fiasco. I wonder if Gil yelled “Hibachi!” after dropping it through?

2) AI’s Return to Philly - The press conference alone was enough to warm any serial killer’s heart. PU’s number one little big man (Danny DeVito is a close second) is back where he belongs.

4) Brandon Jennings and Tyreke Evans - Who would of thought the skinny little dude with the Kid ‘N Play hair would make such an impact so soon. And as for Tyreke? Did someone say “Rookie of the Year, All-Star, future superstar”? If they didn’t, they should have done.

5) Tiger Woods’ Meltdown - I know this isn’t hoops related in the slightest (I did look for an angle) but PU can, and will, venture into non-basketball related territory from time to time. That’s how we’re rolling these days! Plus, how could we not mention this. The man we all thought was the most boring personality in sport was actually snorting coke off porn star’s buttocks all along (again, this probably isn’t what happened, but you get the idea). On a side note; of all the porn stars Tiger could have picked, why choose Joslyn James and Holly Sampson? It’s like going to the buffet cart and loading up with yesterday’s salad. Nonsensical.