You know your coach sucks when...

by Andrew Feinstein on Feb 26, 2008 9:17 PM MST

...you need a competing team's superstar to go down with a season-ending injury in order to get your team into the playoffs. As you've all heard by now, the Houston Rockets Yao Ming is done for the season with (another) major injury. That's three major injuries in as many seasons (I know because I've had Yao on my fantasy team two out of the last three seasons).

While I don't normally feel badly about Nuggets' opponents struggles, watching Yao almost break into tears at his press conference today genuinely touched me. This guy is a hard worker and a class act, and you have to feel for him and the Rockets organization. I've been a fan of Yao's ever since he spoke out against eating shark's fin soup in China.

So much for Tracy McGrady getting to the second round of the playoffs for the first time.

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GEORGE KARL IS SUCH A PUSSY WHINNER OF A COACH THIS IS WHAT HE SAID ABOUT MANU GINOBLI

"I'm going to put in on tape and show my son how to play basketball -- just put your head down and run into people," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "I guess that's a new brand of basketball. It's not very pretty. He just goes in there and throws his arms up in the air and throws his elbows at us. He hits you as much as you hit him."

fucking pussy george cant take the loss like a man and whines and bitches and crys like a little whore they he says

"I don't compare him to anyone, because he's the only one I know that doesn't play basketball," Allen told the media after the game. "He's out there playing some other sport. I don't know what you call it."

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1. METTA WORLD PEACE

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3. OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER
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4. BILLY HUNTER AND DEREK FISHER

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5. STEVE NASH AND THE PHOENIX SUNS
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