Basketball player Sun Yue of China is headed to Los Angeles with hopes of earning a spot on the Lakers’ roster. Yue is excited about playing in the NBA, although he would like to ditch the “Chinese Magic Johnson” label for a new nickname.

From AFP:

“I don’t want to be called the next Magic Johnson,” Sun told the China Daily of the nickname given him to by the Chinese sporting press.

“He was a great player, and he has everything you could ask for in a coach but I don’t think I am going to pattern my game after him in my rookie year,” he said of the legendary player and Lakers part-owner.

Already Chinese fans in Los Angeles are calling him “Sun Wukong,” after the mythical “Monkey King,” the legendary simian hero of the Chinese Buddhist literary classic “Journey to the West.”

“For the fans to already have these kinds of plans (to name me Monkey King) is really great support for me.”

Sun Yue is making the right move. There’s no need to put any pressure on himself with the Chinese Magic Johnson nickname. It sets the fans’ expectations too high. It’s much better to be called the Monkey King, based on a 16th century cartoon about a superhero monkey that battled dragons and demons. Now Sun Yue has some goals he can achieve.

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It’s impossible to compile any kind of list of NBA quotes and not include Charles Barkley. Shaq gives Sir Charles a run for his money, falling short because Charles’ humor is from the heart, while Shaq is trying to be funny… The Chuckster stopped in the booth last week on Monday Night Football, and said that he plans to run for governor of Alabama in 2014.. He better hope that none of his constituents are Boston Celtics fans.

I’m disappointed that there weren’t any clips from the 2004 Olympic team. It woulda been great to see Larry Brown’s loose coaching style keeping the players in stitches… Or footage from the cruise ship poker games. My favorite part of the video is that woman having no idea she’s talking to John Stockton.

Tags: NBA, Dream Team, You Tube, Charles Barkley, Team USA, Boston Celtics, LeBron James

Flava’s reality career earned him enough recognition to get roasted on Comedy Central. The event was hosted by comedian Katt Williams and Flava got roasted by the likes of Snoop Dogg and Jimmy Kimmel. It was the typical CC roast.. there were good jokes, racial jokes, sexual jokes, and bad jokes. Sports occasionally made it’s way onto the show. Here are the sports related jokes from Flava Flav’s Roast:

Greg Giraldo to Jeff Ross: “Jeff Ross, Jeff how are ya? Jeff just hosted some ridiculous talent show on ABC. A talent show?!? Where do you get the balls to host a talent show? You running a talent show is like Michael Vick running the ASPCA.”

Pretty easy joke. But I’ll let Greg slide because he went on to…..

Greg Giraldo Extra: (To Jimmy Kimmel) “You just had your appendix out. Apparently you can get appendicitis from being overrated.”

If you can get appendicitis from being overrated, Charlie Weis should be getting his appendix out any day now.

Sommore to Flava Flav: “Not only are you dark, but you’re skinny. You look like Magic Johnson should look.”

Well, Magic does look great, all things considered.

Jimmy Kimmel on Lisa Lampanelli: “She almost didn’t make it tonight. Up until 6 O’clock this morning she was chained up to a truck axle in Michael Vick’s backyard.”

I think Jimmy made this up because I didn’t see it in the indictment.

Jimmy Kimmel on Flava Flav: “Chris Benoit is a better father than Flava Flav“.

Good lawd. Can somebody check the date? My calendar says Jimmy’s a few weeks early with the Benoit material.

Jimmy Kimmel Extra: “This roast is environmentally conscious. It’s Comedy Central’s first carbon neutral television show. Hey listen, Comedy Central, if you wanna stop polluting the atmosphere, cancel Mind of Mencia…Thank you.”

Here Here.

Katt Williams: “Our next roaster. Drafted into the Boston Celtics in 1978. Played power forward for 13 seasons and retired due to back problems and.. oh shit that’s not Larry Bird, that’s a big ho. Ladies and gentlemen, Brigitte Nielsen. Make some noise for her.”

Ok, the stats are off, but Katt’s a comedian not a statistician. I woulda gone with Detlef Schrempf or Kirilenko but I’m a blogger not a comedian.