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Julian Strawther outta nowhere apparently. Kid is maximizing his minutes, that's for sure.

RVD and Taz are doing a live show remembering Sabu on youtube and they're telling some great stories. Like how Sabu's headdress was usually a sheet from the hotel, and how Sabu started doing the point to the ceiling.

OKC in some dire foul trouble. SGA has 4 fouls Hartenstein has 3 Jaylin Williams has 3 It's only half time.

Oh shit. DDP vs. Khamzat in Chicago.... So making Illia drop the title really was a sign that the Champ Champ Era is over. Can Do Bronx stop the Legend Killer?

Maybe I'm crazy but I feel like these playoffs have been way more physical that the ones in the last several years. The Clippers were very phyiscal against Denver during most of that series, in a away I hadn't seen in a while. And I feel like everyone is sneaking elbows and ribshots when they get in close.

Some more thoughts: My cousin and I used to wrestle in our backyard when we were kids, and I remember going to Wal-Mart with him and buying 4XL Green Jogging pants for his 13 year old skinny ass just so he could dress up as his super original character... UBAS. He even bought white tube socks and pulled them over the bottoms of jogging pants just to complete "the look". I can tell you for sure that Sabu was one of our favorite wrestlers for months before we ever saw him wrestle. We read about his exploits in PWI, and with the aid of whatever photos they had, we imagined wild unhinged anarchy. I remember when we finally ordered Born to Be Wired, and when it came in the mail we could only stare at the tape like this rare artifact. We were totally unsure if we were ready (worthy?) to finally see this Legend we'd built up in our head. Maybe we were scared it was all a work, and we'd be left disappointed. But he lived up to all of it. He was the guy they said he was in the magazines. It wasn't tall tales. It wasn't a gimmick. He did tear his fucking arm to pieces on barbed wire. He did break his jaw with Sandman and taped that shit up and kept wrestling. And it wasn't for thousands of fans at the Pontiac Silverdome. It wasn't for a raucous crowd at Madison Square Garden - it was for a bunch of Mutants in a Bingo Hall with no dates on a Saturday night. He did that shit for the love of the game. After my second child was born, I accidentally cut the hell out of myself on a can trying to make soup for my recovering wife. The pregnancy had been really hard on her and she was bedridden. And I just felt like I couldn't leave her and the kids to get my finger checked out - even though it was flapping open. I immediately thought of Sabu and I super glued that shit together. I probably shouldn't have taken medical guidance from the exploits from a suicidal, homicidal, genocidal maniac - but it worked out in the end.

I've got a lot to see on the subject, and I'll be back later to do so after I celebrate Mother's Day. But I want to say the history of wrestling cannot be told without Sabu. In the same way you can't tell it without Hulk Hogan or Nick Bockwinkle. He changed wrestling. He became viral before viral was an internet concept. You couldn't watch him on youtube, you had to buy a second VCR and dub a tape. Sabu was the goddamn ghost from The Ring. He did his own thing and gave everything he had to an audience in a way few performers in any form of entertainment have or can. I'm happy I got to meet him. I'm happy I got to thank him for every bit of his own comfort that he sacrificed for us. I know he was very shy and very humble about his influence on wrestling, but I hope he knew that he was appreciated when he passed.

Yeah great main event. I think Belal seemed a little timid in the first two rounds, and by the time he started pressuring in the fourth it was too late. Poor JDM couldn't get 5 minutes as champ before they were like "Get ready you're fighting Islam Makhachev." Good fucking luck with that fight.

The good news for the strawweight division is that the gap is closing between the top contenders and Valentina. The bad news is she's still one round better. Not sure what I'd like next. Silva vs. Shevchenko sounds good - but the time is right for a Weili/Bullet superfight.... but Virna Jandiroba has really earned her shot at Weili.... ONE NIGHT TOURNAMENT!

Looks like Aldo is finally done done. He's actually looked so good in the last few years of his career but for like a round and a half. And then whoever he's fighting just pulls away. This fight was that times two. He won the first, lost the second, then won the first half of round three and was gassed the fuck out. Still the man, regardless.

It's been a while since I saw a clean super kick in the UFC. Grasso just ate all of that.

I just want to point out that I've been seeing variations of this elbow move that got Draymond Green a Flagrant through out the playoffs from other players. Jokic absolutely wrapped one around on Dort and got a Flagrant too. Refs might want look into it because UFC doesn't even allow strikes to the back of the head.

Aaron Gordon is having a Robert Horry Big Shot Bob kind of post season.

Tomato, tomato. Meanwhile Denver clearly has OKC right where they want them, after allowing the Thunder to score the most points in a half in Playoff history.

Ernie just said no one has come back from 20+ pt deficits in consecutive games until now.