Flagrant Fouls

January 17, 2007

Double Standards

You have to enjoy how the pious fans and sportscasters have been jumping on Nick Saban as if they had discovered the Holy Grail or the smoking gun in President Bush's Iraq policy. If you were leaving you current job and anyone asked you if you were looking, surely you would tell the truth as if it is there business. If the only story sports has to follow is whether Saban would be staying or leaving the Dolphins, no wonder we care so much about Rosy and Trump feuding. Journalists should not need to go to Saban to ask if the story is true or false, and maybe instead, do some old time fashion investigative journalism. Instead journalism has become attending press conferences and reporting, with the current crop of journalists no way does Watergate ever happen and Nixon serves out his term. Thank you Drudge.

Detroit Pistons - Talk about being certifiably delusional. The Pistons hope that old and decrepit Chris Webber will be the second coming of Rasheed Wallace. Webber of bad knees and attitude does not compare to an All-Star in his prime. The Portland TrailBlazers proved to be fools in moving such players as Wallace and Jermaine O’Neal. The Pistons window for another championship has closed, and closed when the Pistons signed the Marty Schottenheimer of the NBA in Flip Saunders. Pistons fans need not worry about NBA Finals ticket, unless they want to travel.

USA Basketball - Remember the forgetful world basketball championships? Imagine the all-tournament team. Dwayne Wade, LeBron James? No and no, instead only Carmello Anthony made that team. Talk about trying to eat fried worms, imagine the all tournament team and no Wade or James. The world may be better at basketball than the current NBA crowd, and at some point the NBA needs to show the world that the NBA is superior or risk going the way of the NHL. Americans do not tolerate second rate products and will demonstrate as much with empty seats.

New York Knicks - 17 wins already. Maybe Isaiah Thomas is a god. At the very least Thomas must do a very good imitation of David Copperfield, as the Knicks have surpassed all expectations for the season and we have not yet reached the All-Star break. Figure the over under going into the season was 10 and Knicks stand at 17 wins currently. The Knicks remain an awful team to watch and poor choice for you money.

New Jersey Nets - Thank you Jason Kidd. So you will soon have a messy divorce, if you played for the Bobcats or Rockets, no one would care. Before Kidd showed up, nobody would have cared if the Nets landed in a Jersey sewer. Now, the Nets and their shenanigans match the Knicks. You can imagine Thomas plotting right now on how to steal back the sports pages from the Kidd divorce. Nets stink now matches and surpasses Knick stink. Forget Saban, the New York media has far more interesting stories than the asking some coach if he is staying or going.

For Sale - The Memphis Grizzlies happen to be for sale for only $360 million. Talk about money to burn, and a place to burn it. 360 million no longer buys much when you consider you get a near WNBA team for your money. The story gets better as two ex Dukies were attempting to purchase the team. Imagine how investors reacted when they heard they were not buying an NBA team, but the Grizzlies. Anyone foolish enough to put money into this project surely would purchase swamp land in Florida at the cost of ocean front and imagine Miami of the swamps.

Refs - One ref during the Portland - Miami game made obscene gestures to the fans. How many game should a ref be suspended? Three games according to the NBA. Drinking the water in Portland proved to be extenuating circumstances, as the experiment called the Portland trail Blazers have continue. Thank you for unions or else this ref would be doing recreation league games.

Steve Blake - The Milwaukee Bucks traded little used Blake to the Nuggets for Earl Boykins. The Bucks failed to use Blake and George Karl will show off Blake. Forget the Iverson grab; grabbing Blake will prove just a huge. Imagine a past first point guard who plays defense and listens to the coach and shows empathy for teammates. Denver Nuggets you just traded for one of the better point guards and only had to give up little Earl.