Posts Tagged ‘Larry Bird’

ESPN Nails NBA Finals Promotion

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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Here’s a nice find by Awful Announcing demonstrating the Disney brand’s creativity when it comes to promoting the NBA Finals. Coming from a person who is beginning to despise the Kobe/LeBron meme, it’s nice to see the folks at ESPN/ABC/Disney get this one right. Granted, if the Lakers and Cleveland [...]

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Correcting M&Ms

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Earlier today, Darren Rovell introduced to a March Madness-related ad from M&Ms. In it, they used the likenesses of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird to celebrate the occasion. Unfortunately, the guys at Mars, Inc. used their professional colors instead of, you know, their college colors. Magic in yellow is, of course, a [...]

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Great Mustaches of the NBA

Monday, November 24th, 2008

As proud representatives of the Movember movement, I thought highlighting some great NBA mustaches would go a little way in helping with some additional recognition for Movember’s cause. With that in mind, I’ve selected some memorable staches, some from the vintage days and some from the 80s. Kurt Rambis is our lead image, [...]

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NBA Finals: Magic and Larry Give Way To Kobe and KG

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Hey, look. It’s the IF NBA Finals preview post. Well, not so much a preview but more of an “It’s about damn time” post. If you are a follower of the sports blogosphere, you’ve undoubtedly seen a number of NBA previews already. Some are discussing the history between these teams (30 [...]

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About Josh Shipp’s Shot

Monday, March 10th, 2008

If this didn’t count:

Neither should this:

That is all.

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Kevin Garnett Has The Most Popular Jersey

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

To say the Kevin Garnett trade to Boston made the Celtics relevant again is a bit of an understatement, and the as jersey sale totals become available, this little fact becomes more and more apparent.
Up until this season, pretty much the only Celtics jersey you’d see belonged to Paul Pierce.  Besides that, if folks were [...]

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