How slow are things? We’ve resorted to adding our personal inboxes as “Latest Web Articles”. Stay tuned folks, if this lockout drags longer, we’ll be posting crotch pics.
Andrea Bargnani to Virtus Roma was mentioned about a couple weeks ago, but that hasn’t gone anywhere, kind of like this episode of Simpsons I’m watching. That show really has fallen off the cliff, the emergence of Family Guy makes the once cutting-edge Simpsons seem tame. Matt Groening must be dying on the inside for not coming up with the idea of showing random clips of random people at random times, and making the viewer believe that it fits into the context of the show somehow. Family Guy should patent that, I’m sure they’ll award it to them. Speaking of patents, nothing beats what Facebook’s trying to do.
The first key date of the NBA lockout is two weeks into the would-be NBA season, which is when the players would miss their first pay cheques. While researching that fact, I stumbled upon Eric Smith’s comment that he too is affected by the lockout. In the same comment thread it’s also important to note that some guy named Gary is not, as like you and me, he’ll have time to actually do more work and perhaps get paid for it.
As I’m writing this “article”, I’m watching the national anthem being sung for the Jets/Ravens game, and “bombs bursting in air” part was accompanied by the PA system making a bombing sound, which the crowd very much liked. I don’t know, I’m still not sure whether the crowd has any idea of an actual bomb bursting would feel like. Props to Ray Lewis though, he seemed really touched by the anthem, or maybe just knew the camera was on him.
Sonny Weems playing the power forward in Europe? Best believe.
Sonny Weems has played out of position at times with Zalgiris Kaunas, logging minutes at power forward for the first time in his career.
Moving on. If the Raptors were granted an “amnesty” for a contract, who would you cut? Candidates would be (big money makers here) Jose Calderon, Linas Kleiza, Andrea Bargnani, or Amir Johnson, I’d be inclined to go with either Jose Calderon or Linas Kleiza, not that it matters because it’s not like the Raptors spending the money they “save” anywhere would make much of a difference. I’d probably trade the amnesty for something, like another power forward. But wait! I don’t think I’ve heard that idea bandied about, trading of the amnesty option!
What if the league awarded the bottom three teams in the league amnesty clauses that could be traded? I can see some pretty creative trades being swung, and tanking would take on a whole new dimension. I can literally see teams paying other teams to lose games, with an agreement reached beforehand for a trade. I’d still prefer the concept of relegation to the NBDL being introduced to make the bottom rung of the NBA more exciting, but I’ll settle for the amnesty. As I’ve said a thousand times on this site, we need to make the season more exciting/meaningful/interesting for the fans of the shittier teams in the league. It only makes sense.
