A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Jason Smith decks Blake Griffin with a hip-and-shoulder Aussie Rules style.
* Serge Ibaka with this nasty rejection on Nicolas Batum.
* I’ve shown you the bad, now here’s the good; in his first appearance for Denver, JaVale McGee has a put back dunk for the game winner. Wow!
* A fascinating Q&A with Andrew Bogut on Sports Illustrated. Interesting, he fires a few shots at Milwaukee – good on him. A couple of other good reads on AB: BDL further examine the ‘injury-prone’ perception, and the San Francisco Chronicle marvel at his down to earth attitude.
* Kobe Bryant paid $329,000 for a new Ferrari.
* Tim Duncan is old and the box score says so.
* A brilliant piece by TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott, examining the real scourge of the NBA – a bad GM. It’s lengthy but well worth a read if you have the time.
* Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is apparently ‘broke’, ‘extremely sick’ and can’t pay his child support.
* Warriors’ owner Joe Lacob should embrace the booing and see it as a rite of passage.
* Some karaoke fun: Dwight Howard, Chris Duhon and a couple of kids do “Baby Got Back”, and LeBron James and Pat Riley ham it up.
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I enjoy the weekly ‘whats doin’ mate, keep it up!
I read the TrueHoop article but stopped halfway through.
The basketball media loves to masturbate over Sam Presti as if he’s the greatest thing to happen to the NBA since James Naismith himself. I admit he’s a good GM, but why is that Thunder team a title contender? Because of Kevin Durant. Why is Kevin Durant a member of the Thunder? Because Portland got unlucky with/blew their pick of Greg Oden over Kevin Durant in a two player draft. If the Blazers had taken Durant, they would be a .800 team and the Thunder would be fighting for a late playoff seed.
Also, on Geoff Petrie – last year the Jimmer pick wasn’t his choice. The Maloofs wanted him because of his marketing value.
can you believe I just found this site. Great stuff!!
cmon Ash, every team needs a degree of luck in landing a superstar. What about Chicago getting DRose in the lottery? They were slated to pick about 8th or 9th. Same deal with Irving and the Cavs with the pick they got from LA. Presti has made the most of EVERY opportunity. He drafted Westbrook and Harden higher than they were slated to go, got Ibaka in the draft, and he has not overpaid ANYBODY. In fact, I defy anyone to name one bad move he has made. He is not a ‘good’ GM, he’s a GREAT GM.
And I dont know how you can defend Petrie. This is a pretty horrible ill-fitting roster primarily made up of shoot first players. And the Jimmer get, no doubt the owners wanted him as cash cow but how they got him was a joke and Petrie certainly had a hand in that. in one of the strangest deals i’ve ever seen they got Jimmer via Milwaukee at pick 10 and took on John Salmons horrible deal (and he didnt fit this team, another scorer), in exchange they gave up their 7th pick and smaller deal of Udrih. Why the hell didnt they just take Jimmer with number 7 pick instead of taking on Salmons deal. Terrible. You cant tell me Petrie had no involvement with that.
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