RE: Negative Dunkalectics' Playoff Previews

If you're one of the thousands of regular unique visitors to this blog, you've probably noticed that we have interrupted our daytime feasting of philosophical and economics texts over the last couple of days to present to you a unique vision of an NBA playoffs preview, where we've been comparing old albums (largely in the Fourfa tradition) to this year's crop of postseason contenders. Boy, digging through my vinyl MP3 collection has been fun in the process, a real trip down memory lane. The following is a (continuously being updated) list of our playoff previews:

Eastern Conference:

• Atlanta Hawks (The Jazz June - The Boom, The Motion, and The Music (2000))
• Boston Celtics (Mineral - The Power of Failing (1997))
  
• Chicago Bulls (Honeywell - Industry (1993))
• Indiana Pacers (Racebannon - Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In (2002))
  
• Miami Heat (Rival Schools - United by Fate (2001))
• New York Knicks (Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994))
• Orlando Magic (I Hate Myself - Ten Songs (1997))
• Philadelphia 76ers (Kid Dynamite - Shorter, Faster, Louder (2000))
  

Western Conference:

• Dallas Mavericks (Hot Cross - A New Set of Lungs (2001))
  
• Denver Nuggets (Orchid - Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! (2000))
• Los Angeles Lakers (Fugazi - Red Medicine (1995))
• Memphis Grizzlies (Appleseed Cast - The End of the Ring Wars (1998))
• New Orleans Hornets (Ten Boy Summer - Food Not Bombs Benefit Compilation (1994))
• Oklahoma City Thunder (Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (1998))
  
• Portland Trail Blazers (The Weakerthans - Fallow (1997))
  
• San Antonio Spurs (Rainer Maria - Entire discography (1995-2015))

This has taken a lot of collaborative work to put together, more than we've ever done with this site: a lot of heated arguing about what team the Oklahoma City Thunder and both Texas teams will be, tears (appropriately), and trying to avoid begging the dude from Saetia to write about himself.

Appreciations for the posts should go to the ND braintrust who've been helping out with this, and engaging in a daily, topical conversation: Kelly, Dennis, Tom, Dave and Kevin. Many of them lived through the age of these bands, went to their horrible shows, and bought their terrible 10" records. Let their names remain anonymous until we make a real contributors page. Have a great day! :(