by John Walters
A Medium Happy 40th to Kevin Garnett, the NBA’s all-time leader in seasons played, 22
Starting Five
The flight had 66 passengers and crew aboard
Mediterranean Mystery
Egypt Air Flight MS 804 disappears over the Mediterranean about 1o miles after crossing into Egyptian air space over night. The Airbus 320 had 10 crew and 56 passengers, two of whom were infants aboard. No distress signals. No radio call from cockpit. The city of departure (Paris) and of arrival (Cairo) have quite a recent history with terrorism, thought.
2. Vintage Curry
Seconds later, on another shot, a three, Durant would be called for the foul and Curry would bury 4 straight free throws
Were you watching? The Thunder were within seven, 64-57, with just over seven minutes remaining in the third quarter of Game 2 from Oracle. Now, I may have the timeline wrong, but in the first 4:51 of the quarter, Curry missed two shots and was tripped while dribbling and fell, but no call. He was forced to call timeout and he seemed peeved. Then….BAM!
7:09….Stephen Curry is left wide open on the left wing, buries a 3. 67-57.
6:33…Curry misses layup, but recovers to receive pass on right side. Three-pointer misses, but Kevin Durant, who had guarded him on the missed layup, closed out on the three and is called for a foul (TNT, which has been doing a poor job of showing a replay of the most recent play, never gave us a good look at what transpired). Durant bitches, is T’ed up. The league’s best free throw shooter twines four in a row. 71-57.
6:07….After a Durant 2, Curry responds with another 3. 74-59.
5;47….Curry makes a 22-footer, and OKC calls timeout. 76-59.
5:11….After Draymond Green blocks an Enes Kanter shot, Curry buries another three on a fast break. 79-59.
A Festus for the rest o’ us. Ezeli has been having a very good series.
If you’re scoring at home, Golden State, i.e., Stephen Curry, went on a 15-2 run in less than two minutes to blow Game 2 wide open. He went for 20 points total in the quarter. Put it on the already overly long Curry highlight reel for this season. Dubs win 1118-91 as Curry goes for 28 (Durant had 29).
The bad news? We have to four days for Game 3 in OKC.
3. Is Bryce Harper Being Cloned*
Sons of the Harper? (That’s for all you nerdy GoT fans)
Bryce Harper doppelgängers are showing up at Major League ballparks (Do you ever seen Gronk clones showing up at NFL stadiums? No, you don’t. You know why? Because there’s only one Gronk!)
That’s Joe Lentini of New Jersey, who was at Citi Field last night.
And this was May 9, as a Harper bro sat behind home plate for a Nats home game.
*”That’s a clone question, bro.”
4. B-52’s
The plane was en route from Planet Claire when it ran into engine trouble 52 miles west of Venus?
All seven airmen aboard survived somehow, but a B-52 crashed at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam yesterday. It happened shortly after takeoff. No word yet on any of the servicemen were named Private Idaho.
5. Jokes Seth Can’t Tell
None of the next generation of late night comics (Jimmy, James, Stephen, Seth) is doing a better job than Seth Meyers. Or at least he appeals the most to me. Anyway, this I believe is the second installment of a segment called “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” in which he invites on a black and a lesbian member from his writing staff to tell jokes. The first three are fairly tame, but then No. 4 is great and No. 5 hits the sweet spot.
Music 101
Muskrat Love
I’ve long wondered if the two characters in this 1976 song, Muskrat Sam and Muskrat Suzie, ever met up with the Magic Rat from “Jungleland,” the Springsteen tune that came out a year earlier. The Captain & Tenille, how do you explain them to millennials? Anyway, they had three monster hits in the mid-Seventies, including song of rodent romance that climbed to No. 4.
Remote Patrol
Beach Party
8 p.m. TCM
“You wanna ride my board?” “Okay, but I’m not getting wet.” Heyyyyyyy
It’s Peak Frankie and Annette, as an anthropologist visits a beach town to study the sex habits of American teenagers in 1963. Or you can flip to ESPN and watch another NBA playoff game decided by 25 points….zzzzzzz….or you can read. Or talk to your kids about Donald Trump. It’s all up to you.