Tonight could mark the end of the NBA Finals, which seems like an appropriate time to repost something I created for the Brickhouse Podcast blog.
Last year I came up with some examples of who the NBA Finals stars would be if they were Disney characters. Since many of the players/characters are the same this year, I thought I would share it again. Check it out.
LeBron James is Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles)
– Amazing powers, but he still needs a team around him
Steph Curry is Rafiki (The Lion King)
– Don’t judge him based on his looks. People love it when he is holding that baby.
Last night’s game 7 of the NBA Finals was a script right out of a movie. The often maligned hero (LeBron James) overcame the toast of the town (Steph Curry) to win a champion for a city that has long been considered a loser. Hollywood couldn’t have written a better story.
Which got me thinking?
What if the NBA Finals stars were Disney characters? Who would they be? Check out a few ideas that I came up with for BrickhousePodcast.com…
LeBron James is Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles)
– Amazing powers, but he still needs a team around him
Steph Curry is Rafiki (The Lion King)
– Don’t judge him based on his looks. People love it when he is holding that baby.
Following game six of the NBA Finals, Miami Heat star LeBron James said that game seven was “for all the marbles.” He meant that the next game would be the deciding game of the series and the winner would take home the NBA Championship.
I’ve always thought that was an odd phrase. I mean, how many marbles are we talking about here? I want to win just as much as the next guy, but I also want to be prepared for just how many marbles I am going to have to lug around if I win.
For today’s Wonder Why Wednesday, even I am smart enough to guess that the phrase dates back to an old game of marbles. But why do we still use that phrase today? Why not something more recent, like “for all the pogs” or “for all the Pokémon cards.”
Apparently marbles began being mass produced in 1884 by Sam Dyke of Akron, Ohio. Oddly enough, that is the same city LeBron James is from. Maybe that is why he likes to use the phrase so much.
I found the Mental Floss story interesting because, not only did the game of marbles give us the phrase “for all the marbles” but it also gave us other phrases and terms such as “knuckle down,” “fudging” & “playing for keeps.” Oddly enough, the game of marbles appears to have nothing to do with the phrase “lose your marbles” which refers to going crazy.
Who knew that marbles have had such an affect on the slang terms we use today? I guess the same can’t be said for pogs or Pokémon.
Here’s video of the LeBron James quote I referred to at the beginning of this post.
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