You Can Put a Cat in the Oven, But That Don't Make it a Biscuit

Sure the headline to this post doesn’t make sense. But I’ll shoehorn a White Men Can’t Jump reference if I want, doggonit!

Seriously though, this kid has moves for days. I bet if I fell asleep and even dreamed of having these moves, in my own mind I still couldn't go left.  I'm insanely jealous yet extremely happy for my white basketball-playing brethren here. For every 100 stereotypical, white jump shooters like myself, there's one guy with Jason Williams-like moves.  You know, in that special period when he was flashy and cool and didn't suck.

h/t TheHoopDoctors

Evan Turner: Actual NBA Player?

For the first time in about a month and half, Evan Turner looked more like an NBA player and less like a confused extraterrestrial wandering the court. It's about damn time.

Turner scored a career high 23 points on 9 for 12 shooting in the Sixers 123-110 victory over the Suns last night. Sure, the Suns are about as interested in playing defense as BlueStarShockTrooper is in personal hygiene, but this deserves a moment of mild celebration. Let's hope this is the start of something positive for Turner to build on going into the new year. As our own Eric pointed out a couple days ago, aggressiveness and confidence are two of the biggest holes in ET's game right now. Last night, our favorite muppet put both on display.

Lay your peepers on some interesting stats below. Derek Bodner gets all the credit for these. He had them on his Twitter last night. They also appear in his post on Liberty Ballers, which you should check out.

• Jodie Meeks is shooting 27.7% over the last 10 games. 
• Evan Turner's stats when Iguodala plays: 4.9ppg on 36% shooting
• Evan Turner's stats when Iguodala is Out: 13.1ppg on 48.5% shooting
• Jrue's stats when Iguodala plays: 13ppg, 5.8 assists, 41.6 FG %
• Jrue's stats when Iguodala is Out: 17.4ppg, 8.4 assists, 49.2 FG %

So a gentleman's golf clap to you, Evan Turner. This was your night. Now let’s just hope the Sixers figure out a way to extract AI9 from this team.

[Photo by Barry Gossage/NBAE via Getty Images]

Birdman's Got Some Dookie In His Eye

Here is a share-worthy clip a coworker showed me from last night's Nuggets/Warriors game. I missed my SportsCenter highlights this morning before trudging in to work. Goddamn snow.

Rookie Stephen Curry makes the Birdman look dumb with his best Sidney Deane fake-out impression. DATS DA MOVE!

Chris Andersen is such a shot-blocking-happy fool.  Predictably, Golden State lost by 15, further proving to those of us on the east coast that you shouldn't bother staying up late to watch west coast games. Unless they feature the Lakers hosting a team that can manage a winning percentage north of 60.

Oh, and the Sixers have won 6 of 10 are 6.5 games out of the playoffs. Bastards.