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NBA notebook: Shaquille O'Neal going back to No. 33 with Cleveland
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Word up world your boy is back with the latest scoop from NBA draft and rumors check this out Shaquille O'neal is going back to his old Number....Hopefully he can put something together so that can bring the CAVS the first title. Will see... this is the news and until then stay fresh..

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By The Associated Press
Published: June 27, 2009
Shaquille O’Neal hasn’t picked out a house in Cleveland yet. He has chosen a jersey number — his old one.

Traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday, the 15-time All-Star has decided to wear 33, the team confirmed Friday. That’s the number O’Neal wore in high school and at LSU before turning pro. O’Neal wore No. 32 when he was in Orlando, Miami and Phoenix.
When he was with the Los Angeles Lakers, O’Neal wore 34 because Nos. 32 and 33 were retired for Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
A frequent user of Twitter, the social networking site, the 37-year-old O’Neal posted a message late Thursday night saying he planned to play longer than the one year he has left under contract.
"My numbers are not good enough to retire 3 more yrs left,” he tweeted.
Bird sees himself in Hansbrough
Tyler Hansbrough’s path to the NBA looks familiar to Pacers president Larry Bird.
Both entered their draft nights as 6-foot-9 forwards from small towns. Both could have left school early, but instead stayed and played in the national championship game. Both built reputations for being tireless workers, and both had doubters who said they weren’t athletic enough to make it in the NBA.
Bird eventually won three championships and three most valuable player awards for the Boston Celtics. He doesn’t expect that from Hansbrough, but he believes Indiana’s first-round pick will be a key to the Pacers’ rebuilding effort.
"It reminds me of when I came out,” Bird said Friday as the Pacers introduced Hansbrough, the 13th pick in Thursday’s draft, to their fans. "There was always this skepticism that I wouldn’t be able to play in this league against these players. Tyler’s got some of that going right now, but he’ll be fine.”
Bird expects Hansbrough’s success to translate to the pro game.
"He’s proven,” Bird said. "He’s done everything he could do in college. There’s going to be a period throughout the summer and maybe early in training camp where he’s going to look around and say, ‘I’ve got to do some things differently.’ The adjustments will be made because his work ethic is so great.”
Warriors won’t trade Curry
Stephen Curry can get comfortable with Golden State. He’s not going anywhere.
Coach Don Nelson said the Warriors won’t trade Curry, their surprise selection with the seventh overall pick in Thursday’s draft.
The Davidson guard led the nation in scoring last season, but seemed an odd choice for the Warriors, given that high-scoring guard Monta Ellis plays much the same style of game. It led to speculation that Golden State drafted Curry to trade him.
Although Nelson and general manager Larry Riley didn’t deny discussions with the Phoenix Suns about a trade for power forward Amare Stoudemire, they made it clear Curry won’t be a part of any potential deal.
Knicks might ask about Rubio
Knicks president Donnie Walsh said he plans to call Timberwolves president David Kahn, a discussion that could lead to an inquiry about Ricky Rubio’s availability.
Kahn worked under Walsh in Indiana, and in his first draft running the Timberwolves picked Rubio and Jonny Flynn with the fifth and sixth picks. At No. 18 he then grabbed another point guard, Ty Lawson, whose rights were later traded to Denver.
The two early picks helped the Knicks because it allowed Arizona forward Jordan Hill to fall to them at No. 8. New York later acquired the rights to the 29th pick, Florida State guard Toney Douglas, from the Los Angeles Lakers.
Rubio, a teenager from Spain, must pay a multimillion-dollar buyout to his team there to get out of his contract, and he may not want to do it to play in Minnesota. Rubio said his mother doesn’t like cold weather, and his father told a Spanish media outlet that his son may remain in Europe.
Rubio didn’t attend his introductory press conference in Minnesota, creating further speculation he’ll refuse to play next season for the Timberwolves.
Jazz make offer to Millsap
Utah made a qualifying offer to forward Paul Millsap, giving the team the right to match any other offers he receives as a restricted free agent. Millsap averaged 13.5 points and 8.6 rebounds last season playing mostly as a reserve. He stepped in when Carlos Boozer missed 41 games with a knee injury and had a string of 19 straight double-doubles.
Although the Jazz will have the option of matching any offer in order to keep Millsap, they won’t know how much money is available until Boozer, center Mehmet Okur and forward Kyle Korver decide whether to opt out of the final year of their contracts.

AZRAEL

Azrael Bio:



Jean-Paul Valley, a university student in Gotham City, is unaware that he is the latest in a line of assassin-enforcers for "The Sacred Order of Saint Dumas", a sinister secret society, and had received training and mental conditioning to prepare him for his role since before he was born. He is a test tube baby, and his genes have been spliced with those of animals. For most of his life, he has been brainwashed with "The System", a deep level of psychological conditioning. Valley only learns of this upon the death of his father, who was also his predecessor, at which time his conditioning is activated and he is called upon to take up the mantle of Azrael. When he is sent by the Order to kill a weapons dealer, a rogue member of the Order who had turned against the others and killed his father, he crosses paths with Batman, who was investigating the death of Valley's father after the damage he had caused following his attack. While working with Alfred to find the weapons dealer after he has captured Bruce Wayne, using the Batman costume to kill the other Order members in an attempt to create further confusion, he is shown the error of his ways and he decides to fight alongside Batman against the criminals of Gotham, rejecting his "birthright" and seeking Batman's help in breaking his conditioning to forge his own destiny. His name isn't revealed until the end of the story, at which point he claims it was his father's name too. However a later storyline in his solo series stated his father's name to be Ludovic Valley.[1]

"Knightfall":

Detective Comics #667 (1993). Art by Kelley Jones.
Main article: Batman: Knightfall
Valley plays a pivotal role in the "Knightfall" story arc (1992–1994), in which he stands in as Batman after Bruce Wayne is defeated and paralyzed at the hands of Bane. Against Bruce Wayne's orders, Valley fights and defeats Bane, wearing an enhanced battle-armour he designed and built under the influence of the System. His performance as Batman is influenced by his Azrael conditioning; he grows increasingly violent, allowing the mass murderer Abattoir to fall to his death, thereby also allowing one of Abattoir's still-living victims to die. Valley also refuses to recognize Robin as his partner. In addition to the mental problems, Valley also expresses a desire to be as good as Bruce Wayne was at being Batman, though by the time Abbatoir dies, he rejects this decision. Valley is also shown to prefer the action side of being Batman and finds detective work to be boring. As a result, he makes mistakes, particularly regarding Catwoman.
Although Valley disobeys his orders, Wayne is impressed enough to let him remain as Batman, but when Robin tells him of Abattoir's death, he resolves to reclaim the Batman mantle. His back repaired thanks to the sacrifice of Doctor Shondra Kinsolving, Wayne seeks training from his enemy, the deadly assassin Lady Shiva. As part of the training, Shiva unleashes one assassin after another on Wayne, having framed him for the murder of their master, until he is forced to break his vow never to kill, wishing to make Wayne the same as her and thus make him a worthy opponent at some future date. Wayne does actually appear to kill one of these assassins and, satisfied, Shiva calls off the attacks; the "killing" later turns out to be a bluff.
Wayne then goes after the technologically-enhanced Valley to reclaim his identity. After a prolonged battle on Gotham Bridge, when Azrael, using his own Batman suit, easily mops the floor with Nightwing- he had briefly believed Wayne to be dead after he attempted to use the sabotaged Batmobile. He is defeated when Wayne tricks him into removing his armor by confronting him in a confined tunnel and exposing him to sunlight, forcing him to finally realize that Wayne is the true Batman. Valley, disgraced, leaves Gotham and becomes Azrael once more.


Other versions:

Valley is not the only Azrael in the DC Universe. Valley's father was the previous Azrael. A Chinese man, supposedly given the same training as Valley, and an identical costume, is briefly under the control of the Order. Also, the position of the order's enforcer has been passed on since medieval times.
Earlier on in the Azrael series, another man is supposedly selected and trained in the same way as Valley and the Chinese Azrael to be Valley's replacement. He is defeated by Valley and supposedly falls to his death, only to resurface in Gotham at one point wearing one of Valley's 'Batman' armors and engaging in underground fights.

Powers and abilities:

The source of Azrael's abilities is a post-hypnotic training regimen known as The System. The details of The System are never fully explained, but it is understood that training begins before birth and includes genetic modification, prenatal electric shock, and the use of apes as surrogate mothers. The end result is a human being who is inhumanly strong and fast and has a raging split personality triggered by the donning of the Azrael costume. The split personality is apparently coached to believe it is an actual Biblical angel of vengeance. His weapons include wrist-mounted swords which ignite flames and can also be launched from the gauntlets. Azrael also dons a bullet- and flame-proof armor.
It is implied towards the middle of the series that all Azraels have been imparted with some form of The System, but that the training and genetic tampering have been updated and changed significantly in the Order's 500 year history. The System also somehow separates an Azrael's civilian identity from his powers, in that they are only super strong or super fast while in costume. However, towards the end of his life Jean-Paul was able to manifest these abilities while in his normal personality.
Azrael is also an expert with computers. When he was first introduced in Batman: Sword of Azrael #1, it was revealed that Jean-Paul was studying computer programming in college.
Jean Paul is also trained as a detective when he was with Batman's team.

Equipment:

Azrael's original costume consists of special red and gold armor. After becoming an "Agent of the Bat", he dons silver and black armor with a red cape and a stylized red bat symbol on the chest. Later on, he dons red armor with golden gauntlets, boots, shoulder pads and a blue cape. He sometimes carries a flaming sword, and also uses two retractable daggers hidden in the gauntlets of his costume. On page 71 of the updated edition of Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight, Scott Beatty implied that Azrael's changing costumes were reflections of the changes in Azrael's life from an agent of St. Dumas to an agent of the Batman to his own man. The Azrael entry in The DC Comics Encyclopedia confirms this.

WACTHMEN

Hey if you never had a opportunity to read the graphic novel the watchmen you defintely have to pick up this book. i mean this is a best seller and its not just a comic book its a story within a story. Each chacters has his own back story or bio within the book. Each charcter has ther own struggle which all seems to come together at the end. I really don't know how the author came up with the vision to create so many sub plot within a book, but I definitely have to say that this is a great book or graphic novel, and I advise anyone who loves mystery or great story to pick up and read. i'm Sure your going to read more than once.

Shatterstar

Check out Shatterstar's Bio:

Shatterstar comes from the planet Mojoworld (about a century in the future, as opposed to the Mojoverse which co-exists with the contemporary Earth dimension, making him a time traveler as well as a dimension-hopper) which is ruled by the alien tyrant Mojo V. There, Shatterstar was created to be a slave, he claims to have had no parents, only a "gestation chamber." He was genetically engineered to have enhanced physical capabilities so he could serve as an arena gladiator.
Shatterstar learned the arts of battle as a warrior in arenas on Mojoworld, where he participated in combats staged for Mojo's television programs. It’s assumed it was here he developed his strong sense of honor and pride as a warrior, to combat the constant violence and death in his life. Eventually he escaped and joined the Cadre Alliance, the rebel group that sought to overthrow Mojo V's dictatorship. From there, he learned the Cadre's language and began taking part in missions.
On one of these missions, Arize sent him back in time to Earth to find the X-Men and get their assistance in defeating and overthrowing Mojo. He did not find the X-Men though. Shatterstar was either teleported or traveled back in time to Earth at the point just before Cable reorganized the New Mutants into X-Force. At first, he battled Cable, Domino, and the New Mutants, but after they talked with him the mutants aided him against the Imperial Protectorate. With Cable's assurance that they would help him defeat Mojo (though with the use of time travel it was not urgent that they leave anytime soon) Shatterstar became a founding member of the new team, X-Force.[1]
With X-Force on their first mission, Shattstar battled the Alliance of Evil, and first encountered the New Warriors.[2] He battled Night Thrasher and Silhouette.[3] With X-Force, the New Warriors, Moira MacTaggart's "Muir Island X-Men" team, and X-Factor, he battled Proteus.[4]
X-Force's next mission involved attacking the Mutant Liberation Front base, where Shatterstar battled Reaper.[5] With X-Force and Spider-Man, he next battled Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut.[6] With X-Force, he battled the Toad's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.[7]
Later Shatterstar discovered, to his bewilderment, that he also had the memories of an Earthling named Benjamin Russell.[8] Soon afterwards, Mojo made Cable and Shatterstar his prisoners and transformed them into digital images for one of his television programs. In the course of the show, Shatterstar was mortally wounded in combat. Mojo's sometime ally Spiral teleported Cable and Shatterstar back into reality, where they regained their true forms. Spiral brought Cable, Shatterstar, Longshot, (who was Shatterstar's ally on Mojoworld), and the X-Force member Siryn to the Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane in Rutland, Vermont.
There Spiral directed them to the bedside of one of its patients, a mutant named Benjamin Russell who had no living relatives, had been in a coma since his powers had emerged, and, curiously, looked identical to Shatterstar. Longshot transferred Shatterstar's "uemeur," or soul, into Benjamin Russell's body, and the two became one. Apparently Shatterstar's body merged with Russell's as well, for the resulting body bore the starburst pattern that Shatterstar had around his left eye and his hair lengthened greatly. Restored to full health and consciousness, and feeling "whole" for the first time in his life, Shatterstar resumed his work as a member of X-Force.
However, this does not explain why Shatterstar had some of Benjamin Russell's memories before they merged, or why they looked so much alike. There are still too many mysteries yet to be explained about Shatterstar's true origin. It was hinted that Shatterstar may have been the child of Longshot and the mutant X-Man Dazzler in the early run of X-Men in 1992,[9] and a later medical exam conducted by the Beast upon Shatterstar revealed that he indeed possessed DNA identical to that of Longshot, his rumored father, along with such genetic features as hollow bones and a lack of white blood cells.[citation needed] Dazzler revealed that she was pregnant with Longshot's child and Longshot suggested the name "Shatterstar" for the unborn child.[10] Longshot and Dazzler returned to MojoWorld to free Longshot's people and Dazzler later appeared without Longshot and without a child. It has been speculated that Dazzler miscarried,[11] though it has not been established officially what became of the infant.
Shatterstar accompanied Rictor to the Richter home in Mexico to try and end Rictor's family's arms-dealing business. Both characters have since appeared separately so one assumes they succeeded, though it’s not known why they later parted.
Shatterstar is later seen in Madripoor, earning his money by fighting in arenas. He was sought out by Spiral, who had one of her agents make Shatterstar believe she wanted to kill him.[12] However, Spiral had previously admitted in an emotional confession to Cable, when he demanded that she reveal all that she knew about the answers behind the mysteries of Shatterstar's origin immediately after Shatterstar and Benjamin Russell had been merged, that both young men "meant more than life itself to her" before teleporting away. With a fake quest, Spiral lured Shatterstar to an alternate universe she had conquered and ruled. On that Earth, Spiral had also killed most of that world's heroes and mutants. That Earth's Shatterstar had been killed as well. He was found by that Earth's rebel forces, including Cable and some other members he knew from X-Force. Together, they eventually defeated Spiral. Upon returning to the mainstream Earth, Shatterstar was contacted by Cable and requested to temporarily join him on a mission to defeat the Skornn.[13] Shatterstar agreed, but first Cable wanted him to train with monks on Mount Xixabangma. After those monks were killed by Skornn's worshipers, Shatterstar was reunited with his old team and they eventually killed the Skornn.

[edit] Civil War
Main article: Civil War: X-Men
Following M-Day and the passing of the Superhuman Registration Act, Shatterstar teamed up with Domino and Caliban (all X-Force members) to break The 198 out of the encampment set up for mutants on the grounds of the Xavier Institute.[14] They took the escapees to a secret base provided to them by Captain America via Nick Fury.[15] While fighting O*N*E, he nearly killed Micromax, claiming that while there is no such thing as murder during war[16], he had only meant to disable him.[17]

[edit] X-Factor
A seemingly possessed Shatterstar makes a return in X-Factor #43, attacking Strong Guy and Rictor, with his hair cut off and his eyes glowing red, saying only the name "Cortex".[18]

[edit] Powers and abilities
Shatterstar possesses an overall superhuman level of physical and mental power (senses, strength, speed, reflexes/reactions, agility, flexibility, dexterity, coordination, balance, endurance, intelligence), as a result of the extra-dimensional genetic engineering that created him. He is an excellent military strategist and has had extensive training in many forms of the martial arts and interpersonal combat of Mojoworld; in particular, he is a master swordsman. His bones are hollow, making him far lighter than he looks and further increasing his athletic and acrobatic skills. He also has enhanced learning capabilities, being able to quickly learn and master languages and technology. He customarily wields two single-edged swords with spiked hand-guards and on occasion carries other weaponry as well. Shatterstar is able to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue much faster than an ordinary human. Injuries such as slashes and stabbings heal completely within a matter of hours. Additionally, he possesses the ability to shift his internal organs within his body, lessening the chances of serious wounds that get through his body armor.
He also has the mutant ability to channel and generate powerful vibratory shock waves (and perhaps bio-electricity) charges through these blades, though he rarely uses them as they tend to exhaust him, and prefers to depend instead on his martial prowess. It is not clear as to whether his rarely used mutant abilities we

Bush Dunks

One word to describe this shoe is wow.... I don't if I would rock them but I have to admire the art work on them

Championship Lakers Win

A yo Bigup to my man Kobe. Finally winning his fourth to title and takin home the final MVP. Now all the doubters and all haters can be real quite now, because there is no question that he is among the NBA elite. So we hope that soon perhaps the Cleveland Cavaliers Lebron James can have some success. But until then you have use Kobe Bryant as the measuring plateu. But it was good series at the end it was just too much Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.

Blade vs Black Panther

Bigup to my Man Reggie, for giving me good one. He said: who win between Black Panther and Blade. And this one really catch off guard at first glance.But here's what we do know:

Blade

Ablities Powers:

At first Blade had only minor powers; he could sense other supernatural beings, his lifespan was longer than normal humans, he was immune to being turned into a vampire from their bite, and was also sensitive to light. He trained himself to become a top athlete and is a master with bladed weapons. Blade is also well versed in hand to hand combat.
After the first Blade motion picture, starring Wesley Snipes, attempts were made to make the comic book character more like now popular movie character. This was done by having Blade being bitten by Morbius, a genetically altered human with vampire-like abilities. After the bite, Blade’s own bio-chemistry reacted with Morbius’ bite to truly turn Blade into a Daywalker. A being with all the strengths, but none of the weaknesses of a vampire.
Blade now has superhuman strength, agility, and stamina. He still retains his former abilities to sense other supernatural beings and is still immune to becoming a true vampire. He also has an enhanced healing ability.

Black Panther

Power and Ablities:

The title "Black Panther" is a rank of office, chieftain of the Wakandan Panther Clan. As chieftain, the Panther is entitled to eat a special heart-shaped herb, as well as his mystical connection with the Wakandan Panther god, that grants him superhumanly acute senses (especially eyesight, night vision, and sense of smell) and increases his strength, speed, stamina, and agility to the peak of human development. T'Challa is a rigorously trained gymnast and acrobat, proficient in various African martial arts as well as contemporary ones and fighting styles that belong to no known disciplines. He is a skilled hunter, tracker, strategist, and scientist — he has a Ph.D. degree in physics from Oxford University. He is a genius in physics and advanced technology, and is a brilliant inventor. His senses are so powerful that he can pick up a prey's scent and memorize tens of thousands of individual ones.
As king of Wakanda, the Panther has access to a vast collection of magical artifacts, advanced Wakandan technological and military hardware, as well as the support of his nation's wide array of scientists, warriors, and mystics. The Wakandan military has been described as one of the most powerful on Earth. His attire is the sacred vibranium costume of the Wakandan Panther Cult.
In Volume 3, writer Christopher Priest expanded the Panther's day-to-day arsenal to include equipment such as an "energy dagger", a vibranium-weave suit, and a portable supercomputer, the "Kimoyo card." In Volume 4, writer Reginald Hudlin introduced such specialized equipment as "thrice-blessed armor" and "light armor" for specific tasks, and also outfitted him with the Ebony Blade, however the Ebony Blade was recently returned to the Black Knight by T'Challa's wife, Storm.[30]

Side note:
Its ironic that this character Black Panther and Blade are supposedely to be casted by the same actor Wesely Snipes. Its quite interesting to me that he would want to play both characters. But I will say that he need a remarkable job on the Blade trilogy. And I'm sure he would do the same if he played black Panther, but there are other actor would could play like Jai White would be perfect person to play him.

But thats another story anyway of course we want to take another look at good battle. And this one is very interesting Blade vs Black Panther. Both have the on special abilities. But to me Black Panther wouls still really have the advantage with his superior overall knowledge and lets not forget if they faught on his soil. Its all over for Mr. Blade.

But then again not to be left out of equation is the fact that Blade as super powers developed by his half vampire blood. So this would give Blade a distinct advantage.. as well but who to say it would definitely be nice to see... well thats the and until then stay fresh ,,,,