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Bottlegate’s 2015 Cleveland Cavaliers drinking game

Ah, just in time for the weekend festivities. The rules are simple and short since no one likes to think when they’re about 7 beers deep by halftime. Remember, this is a drinking game and the main objective is to drink. This is no time to get cute with a bunch of complicated guidelines.

We’re going to keep this fluid and update it regularly because I’m sure there are a billion things we forgot. I foresee this list getting pretty big… “Big” as in by the time the playoff games roll around and you’re playing along you’ll be passed out drunk on the floor drooling in the middle of the 2nd quarter.

THE RULES

1 Healthy Gulp

  • Kyrie Irving assist
  • Any dunk by anyone not named LeBron (both teams)
  • Anytime Allie Clifton gets any facetime… Love you Allie
  • Every bucket Kevin Love scores after the first quarter (free throws included)
  • If anyone says “Russia,” Russian,” or speaks in Russian when referring to Mozgov
  • For each Cavs player handshake you see. This includes pregame intros.
  • Austin Carr says “Deep in the….”
  • A telecast mentions Delly’s toughness or grit

 2 Gulps

  • LeBron James dunk
  • Kevin Love 3 pointer
  • JR Smith 3 pointer
  • Buzzer beater end of 1st or 3rd quarter
  • Fred McLeod yells out “The Bottom” after a made 3
  • The telecast shows a shot outside of the Q or anywhere in Cleveland
  • Anytime Austin Carr says something you can’t understand
  • Someone mentions JR Smith and Iman Shumpert’s time on the Knicks

5 Gulps

  • After the Cavs home game intros
  • Cavs go on a 10-0 run (1 sip for every point after 10)
  • Austin Carr says “Throws the hammer down”
  • Buzzer beater before halftime/end of game
  • The telecast shows someone in the crowd wearing the jersey of someone no longer on the team
  • Anytime someone on the Cavs gets an “And 1”
  • Shawn Marion bungles on offensive possession
  • Mike Miller is the first one off the bench to high five the players in the game when a timeout is taken

Finish your drink

  • Coach Blatt gets a technical called on him
  • After a Cavs alley-oop
  • Brendan Haywood & James Jones are on the court at the same time
  • The game goes to overtime

Shotgun/Beer bong/Full beer chug

  • JR Smith crotch grab
  • Game winning shot (either team)
  • A Cavs player records a triple double
  • A Cavs players scores 50+ points

Finish a whole Six Pack

JR Smith shoots a layup. JK. Don’t do that.

 

**Bonus points if you play the Cavs Drinking Game with some GLBC beers**

 

Also, props to Zack for making the cover photo. Go give him a follow

Aaron Craft, bear costume, Miley Cyrus. Is it hot in here?

I’ve put it off for as long as possible. I’ve successfully made it a couple months here at Bottlegate without writing an Aaron Craft blog, but he went and did something adorable, so here we are. I love Aaron Craft. More than any fan should love any player I love Aaron Craft and I don’t care who knows it. He’s by far my favorite basketball player of all time, and when I say it isn’t even close, it makes it sound closer than it actually is. The four years we spent together/I spent watching him on television were some of my favorite years to date. Did I go into Paint to put my face over his wife’s and use it as my Twitter avatar? I don’t know, I don’t remember, it’s a possibility, yes I did. This…

craft1…top three worst moments of my life. And I’ve had kidney stones four times. Just crushing.

So anyway, Aaron proved all his haterz (America) wrong and caught on with the Golden State Warriors. Last night the team had their rookies dress up and sing for fans at an open practice (sneaky one of the most terrifying rookie hazing stories I’ve heard), and the rosy-cheeked point guard gave us this:

Never has bad sounded so, so good. And that’s exactly how you would picture Aaron Craft moving his hips like yeah. Could he given me a little more? Probably. But I’m definitely not complaining.

dfcv3

 

This isn’t the first time Aaron has dabbled in Miley, either. You might remember this little diddy from a couple years ago…

Kind of pissed he didn’t use the Adam Levine/Barry Gibb falsetto last night, but again, no complaints here. Jared Sullinger was surprisingly solid. And they were both head and shoulders better than Jon fucking Diebler.

diebler

 

And the most Aaron Craft video of all time….

Miss you, Aaron. Like the desert misses rain.

craft2

Cavs Thursday Game Tape… for a scrimmage. Get ready for Showtime.

So the Cavs had a little intrasquad pick up game last night. It was attended by a few Cleveland fans. And when I say a few fans I mean it was attended by more fans than what 50% of the other teams in the league average per home game. A few 17,000-plus fans packed the Q to watch Kevin Love, Kyrie, Lebron, and Co. put on a nice little dazzling performance and showed what they’re capable of looking like this season.

“But Mike it was only a scrimmage, why are you posting a Game Tape?”

Because when you have a championship caliber team in a city starving for a championship, we’re going to post everything they do. Bottlegate is gonna cover the SHIT out of the Cavs this season.

https://twitter.com/JeffDLowe/status/517439873322844160

If you don’t get chills hearing “ST VINCENT ST MARY!!” then you’re probably a robot.

http://instagram.com/p/toNrSVmSz2/

GOOOOD LUCK guarding Kyrie this year. Good freaking luck.

I have a feeling Dion is gonna make around 700 three pointers this year. And that may be an understatement.

https://twitter.com/JeffDLowe/status/517461598529536000

Think we’ll score a couple baskets in transition this season? I think so.

OH HELL YEAH

Sweet video the NBA put out

The new floor is an absolute 12/10.

But the best moment of the night came after the game

Fucking awesome.

Get ready for Showtime.

PS- This was supposed to be a 10 am post but yesterday was my birthday and I spent all night at the vet because my dog had a blocked intestine. Happy 26th I guess.