Smack Back

1. Derrick Rose - They should take Beasley, but they won't. That's fine.
2. Michael Beasley - Saying they will take Mayo seems to be the "in" thing to do, but it's still wrong.
3. O.J. Mayo - This is really easy so far.
4. Brook Lopez - to the Sonics. The Clippers won't be trading up.
5. Kevin Love - One of a half dozen people better at basketball than last year's NPOY
6. Danilo Gallinari - I know right. Who??
7. Eric Gordon - Gordon once agreed to play for Bruce Weber, so his basketball IQ is pretty low.
8. Joe Alexander - exciting name, Joe.
9. DJ Augustin
10. Anthony Randolph
11. Russell Westbrook
12. Brandon Rush - the first of 5 Jayhawk starters to go tonight.
13. Donte Green
14. Kosta Koufos - Kosta is NOT an international player?
15. Jerryd Bayless - I guess? I dunno. Get off me.
16. Darrell Arthur - Awwwwwesome at basketball.
17. Jason Thompson - I start cheating around now.
18. Robin Lopez
19. JaVale McGee
20. Roy Hibbert
21. DeAndre Jordan

They've got some pretty good chokes going on over here. http://community.rotohog.com/columnists/choke-or-not-choke-question Let's see what else peeps can come up with!! I think there was a game several seasons back where the Mavs choked away like a 27 point lead against the Lakers during the regular season!!

The biggest loss in horseracing over the weekend didn't involve the last place finish of Big Brown rather the loss of legendary sportscaster Jim McKay.
With "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" Jim McKay would sign on each weekend as the host of Wide World of Sports deftly guiding viewers from Acapulco Cliff Diving to the pageantry of the Olympics.
McKay, a native Marylander who traveled the world, was perhaps happiest in his own backyard on his Monkton, MD horse farm. In a way it was fitting that McKay passed away on day celebrating his favorite sport.

Ok Bill, I'm a big fan. My brother introduced me to you about ten years ago as "some guy who writes about Boston sports... he's pretty funny." I love almost all your columns (except I skip past the poker/boxing ones - not my thing), but I can't take the Kobe bashing anymore. Your "different take" on the NBA Finals was to post quotes from an old book to bash Kobe in close to 30 ways, and then write loosely, barely, hardly related comments. Come on! And then, why does every feigned attempt at giving Kobe credit is so backhanded and sarcastic?

Check out the video, what do you think? Either way the Spurs are sunk at this point.

Something had to give during an offseason that will end up being the busiest, most pressure-packed and easily most disruptive for Krzyzewski in years.

With the hiring of Mike D'Antoni, Starbury says he is ready to play! Call me crazy (actually call Stephon crazy - http://video.rotohog.videos.vmixcore.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=187...)... but I don't believe him. Personally, I thought Mark Jackson was better for the job. Did the Knicks make the right move in bringing D'Antoni? Here's one opinion

Just like my hero, Ron Burgundy, Charles says, "Go F-yourself San Diego" or at least says something equally funny.

From TrueHoop:
On his website, Lamar Odom tells a funny little story about a Laker team dinner, just before the Denver series, at a high-end steakhouse.
Odom says the place can be "rather expensive," especially, you'd imagine, for a large group.
When
the check came, Kobe Bryant reached out his hand for it. "As soon as he
picked up the bill," says Odom, "we all started chanting 'MVP MVP MVP!'"
"I thought that was pretty funny."

The Final 4 Championship game barely edges out Dancing with the Stars? C'mon. What's the world coming too? It's dancing. With stars. I guess Clive Drexler was on it but that doesn't make it better.