Starting Five
Steakateria a.m., so this is briefer than I’d like it to be (though not you, perhaps). Will add more later.
1. Feat of Klay
Second-year guard Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors scores 34 points and plucks 14 rebounds as the NBA playoffs’ newest darlings pummel San Antonio,100-91. It was Golden State’s first victory in that city since 1997 and its first road win in a second-round playoff game since 1991. And you know what? The Spurs should be concerned, even if coach Gregg Popovich’s interviews with David Aldridge between the third- and fourth-quarters suggest otherwise.
Thompson’s father, Mychal, was the first overall pick of the 1978 NBA draft.
Aldridge last night, for his second question, asked Pop Star if Golden State’s magnificent backcourt might compel SAS to go small in the fourth quarter. Pop: “Are you going to keep it to yourself?” Aldridge: “Yes.” Pop: “Then, yes.”
2. “Do I hear 1,000?”
More than two weeks after the garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed on April 24, authorities are still pulling victims’ bodies out of the rubble. Yesterday the death toll was put at 912. Stay tuned.
3. Flori-Duh: I forgot, in an earlier post in which I noted the most likely scenarios that merit a “Flori-Duh”-type item, to include “sexy high school teacher.” My apologies, and here you are.
Olivia Sprauer: As high school teachers go, she wasn’t exactly Mr. Hand.
4. If you missed Jimmy Fallon’s lip-sync battle with John Krasinski, well, this is worth watching. Fallon’s version of Melissa Manchester’s “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and Krasinski’s rendition of Run-DMC’s “Peter Piper” stand out. Speaking of lip-dub maneuvers, this wedding proposal is one year old, but if you haven’t already seen it, well, take that Harvard baseball team.
5. Instant replay should –should — eliminate mistakes such as this, so why does it not? A blown call by umpire Angel Hernandez on a home run costs the Oakland A’s a chance to tie their game with the Cleveland Indians in the 9th inning. Hernandez can be forgiven for missing the call live, but how do you watch the replay and not see the baseball carom off the railing above the left-center field wall?
Manny Acta, on ESPN: “We spent 144 years without instant replay. We added it. We’re supposed to get these things right.”
Reserves
Lonely Island releases a “Wack Wednesday” video in conjunction with “Between Two Ferns.” “And marry a man!” Cameo by Ed Norton. Warning: NSFP (Not Safe For Phyllis).