Just like the rest of the GSoM Crew, you're probably well aware of the masterful craftiness of Feltbot. You've witnessed his guest recaps on GSoM and Feltbot's Warriors blog. So naturally we asked the good man to join our growing and unstoppable band of hoops junkies. Here's how it went when Fantasy Junkie and I tried to get Feltbot to join our writing staff...

AB1: "Feltbot! Felbot-tronics! Felt-botanical gardens! Join our golden crew and as we say over here in Dubs land, you'll have a great time out!"

FJ: "Plus we've got fly threads! I mean you saw our retro GSoM Night 7 jerseys. Just wait till you see what we've got in store for GSoM Night 8!"

Feltbot: "This is all very true and sounds exactly like the kind of exciting, labor intensive, low paying gig I've been searching for all my life! I'm in. BUT...

AB1: "But what?

Feltbot: "I'll only join the crew if you two jokers beat me in a game of poker."

FJ: "Ummm, this shouldn't be too hard. I mean AB1 and I are the masters of fantasy sports. Poker? Psshhh... we got this!"

AB1: <whispers to FJ: "Are you nuts?!">

ALL IN.

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Ready for more hoops insight from one of the best hoops evaluators I know? From knowing whether a guy needs to do more squats to improve his defensive stance to predicting the first Asian American player in the NBA to fixing the release on a jump shot, Poor Man's Commish is all about basketball. He's a hoops junkie and the commissioner of Dream League, the largest Bay Area recreational basketball league (thus the moniker Poor Man's Commish). The hours upon hours upon hours over many years of basketball observation gives him a unique insight into what makes players special. If you want to check out some of his analysis, he's written numerous fan posts with the bulk of it breaking down the Summer League and its players.

For GSoM, he's going to contribute in much the same way the rest of the GSoM staff does by writing articles on hoops (Warriors and NBA in general) and writing recaps, but he'll also continue his Summer League scouting and jump start the GSoM Twitter account, unstoppablebaby.

We're defintely excited to bring Poor Man's Commish onto the team. If you want to check out more of what he's done, go to his blog, Poor Man's Commish. It's my pleasure to have another top notch writer contribute to the site, so please welcome Poor Man's Commish as the newest writer to the unstoppableness that is Golden State of Mind!

It's an early Xmas on the sports web! Not only is today the first day of the 2009 season in The National Football League (destination: Niners Nation + SIlver and Black Pride), but it's also the worldwide launch of the new SBNation.com.

Jump for the 4-1-1!

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He hails from sunny San Diego. He balled up fools on the regular at Haas Pavilion at Cal (check California Golden Blogs). He's easily my favorite D-League balla. He's an author-extraordinaire over at the world famous Ball Don't Lie. He and J Gant are the masterminds behind the Boom Tho Movement. In case you haven't heard... Boom Got Them Dos!

Ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together for... Rod Benson! Our longtime blog buddy is dropping a mixtape appropriately titled The Boom Tho Mixtape very soon and thanks to Rod we scored an exclusive sneak peak.

After the jump we've got one of the freshest cuts off the album called "Internet Dominance" for your listening pleasure. Towards the end of the cut the mighty GSoM even gets a shout out!

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Originally posted Jun 24, 2009 8:00 PM PDT

Mad props to Tony.PSD for another dope creation!

It's as big as the Warriors first game this upcoming season...

It's as big as the Warriors finishing 10th in the Western Conference....

It's almost as big as the Warriors 08 draft pick Anthony Randolph...

It's the main event....

GSoM LIVE BLOGGING the NBA DRAFT 2009!

We all know the draft is less than 24 hours away and with that comes another yearly session of

Check us out at 4PM where we'll begin coverage of the first and second round.  We'll drop a quick analysis of the first 7 picks (up to the Warriors) as well as draft day rumors and news. 

If you aren't next to a TV catching ESPN (and even if you are), join GSoM online to read our breakdown of the latest picks, draft rumors, blunders, and some inside tips as to how to keep a clean home.  Keep clicking that "refresh" button and good things will happen!

For those that won't have computer or TV access but have mobile Twitter access, I'll provide updates on our Twitter account as well - follow us at unstoppablebaby!

Stay tuned the next 24 hours for more rumors, news, and of course, THE DRAFT!

Yes, things are quite shaken up after the unofficial announcement of the Jamal Crawford trade...think we're still going after a PG?  Or was that trade just made for salary implications? 

Who's it going to be?  Brandon Jennings perhaps?  Think Hill is all but locked up?  Stephen Curry?  Michael Jordan's son? JAMES JOHNSON?!?! (who?)  

Maybe another blockbuster trade?  Find some way of grabbing Marion?  Hedo "Turk a Glue?"  Dare I say it...Chris BOSH!?!?!

Don't forget to drop your votes on Who you THINK the Warriors Will Draft and Who you WANT the Warriors to Draft!

Hit us up on Facebook yet?  Course ya did!

I did some more reearch into what The Cool Kids are doing these days using useful SEO tools like Google Keyword Tool, Google Trends, QuantCast, Alexa, Sherpa Marketing as well as reading useful comprehensive journals like Science, Nature, Biomaterials, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and I came to this conclusion.

People use Twitter.

That was a ton of work for such a simple finding.

Did you know that we're on Twitter too?  No?  Well start following us!

username: unstoppablebaby

Know who else is on Twitter?  ME!  RDizzle!  

username: RDizzleGSoM

Jump for some info about the accounts, and for the #1 reason why you should follow us....

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It hasn't been an easy season for Dubs faithful. In case you haven't heard WE BELIEVE IS DEAD. The silver lining for the WE SUCK era is that Golden State of Mind managed to rack up a ton of super lotto balls in the first annual NBA Blogger Draft Lottery.

WE SUCK has its benefits.

The blogger super lotto was held this past Monday morning at the Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto, CA. You might have missed it as it was only televised on NBATV2, which many households unfortunately still don't get. It's really too bad because there was some great news my golden people.

Proving that the GSoM community is nothing short of "Unstoppable Baby!" we won the lottery! I couldn't be any happier with our grand prize. Make the jump and I'll tell you what we've all won...

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Remember back in the good ol' days when technology was simple?  Need some light?  Light a candle.  Need some warm food?  Start a fire.  Cold?  Put on more clothes.  Got nothing to do?  Read a nice book.  Feeling lonely?  Write a letter to a good friend.

Ah yes...life was so simple back in the day. 

We here at GSoM are trying long and hard to stay up with these kids and their newest technologies.  It's hard though, really hard.  With the addition of the internet, online blogging, and other such things...we simple don't know where to begin.  In fact, believe it or not, we even got a shot out in Da Ali G show. 

That's right, we don't even have a Tele.  Check out the website yo. 

www.goldenstateofmind.com

But alas, with the ever-growing technology boom, we have no option but to keep up. Now in 2k9, all of the responses to those earlier questions have drastically changed. 

Need some light?  Clap your hands twice and the magic "Clapper" flips on the switch.  Need some warm food?  Toss it in the microwave on "HIGH" for 1 minute.  Cold?  Toss on your Snuggie - The Blank With Sleeves!  Got nothing to do?  Go browse the internet for such high quality sites like FML, texts from last night, or this is why you're fat.  Feeling lonely?  Um...you could...ya know...I mean...

HIT US UP ON FACEBOOK!!

Golden State of Mind Group

Golden State of Mind Page

Golden State of Mind Network Blog App

Jump for more that story!  (Gimme props, that was hella creative.)

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