First!
Well, the worm may have turned in Toronto. The Raptors have the first pick in the NBA draft. They have, in fact, a double first pick because their name came up when they picked the second ping-pong ball. Of course, they didn't actually have another lottery pick, so it was wasted, but still.
So that means we get LeBron James, right? No? Tim Duncan? Melo? Wade? Shaq? Can we at least get Vince Carter back? No, scratch that.
From what I read, this will be a nondescript draft, with no clear choice at #1. The influx of young talent - high schoolers - over the past few years has thinned the college ranks, and this will be the first year that high school kids can't be drafted. Pity.
But there's bound to be some quality in there somewhere, and the new GM, Bryan Colangelo, can contemplate it while watching the last team he put together play in the Western Conference Finals.
The other bit of good times was watching the Bulls grab the #2 pick. No, I'm not a closet Bulls fan, but rather an out-of-the-closet Knicks hater. And that's not really accurate, either. The Knicks are too pathetic to hate. Isaiah Thomas. There's a guy worth hating.
Why? He was a great if amazingly annoying player. He deep-sixed the comeback attempts of his supposed "friend" Magic Johnson and thereby made the world just a little bit colder for HIV sufferers.
But it's been his post-playing career that really made me hate him. He tanked on the Raptors when they were a new franchise, cutting and running when he didn't get enough of an ownership offer. He completely destroyed the half-century-old CBA after he bought the whole thing with promises that he'd put time and effort into its growth.
He coached a 60-win Indy team to 40 win seasons while suffering ugly playoff defeats. He's failed as a coach and as a GM, repeatedly, everywhere.
And yet he keeps getting hired. Now he's the GM of the Knicks who traded his first rounder to the Bulls without lottery protection for a journeyman centre with a heart condition. Oh, yes - and the right to swap #1 picks in next years draft.
And the coach he threw millions of dollars at top lure away from the Pistons? Now he's trying to fire him.
How does this guy get work? Seriously. If he washed your car, you know he'd accidentally snap off the antenna.
And meanwhile, his former back-court partner Joe Dumars has quietly put together the consistently best team in the Eastern Conference. Team-oriented Joe has built an unselfish team who play together as a unit - and win together.
But selfish narcissist Isaiah built a team of me-first prima donnas and finished with the second-worst record in the league. And then didn't get to make the pick.
I'm just waiting for the Georgie to appoint Isaiah head of FEMA. Heckuva job!
So that means we get LeBron James, right? No? Tim Duncan? Melo? Wade? Shaq? Can we at least get Vince Carter back? No, scratch that.
From what I read, this will be a nondescript draft, with no clear choice at #1. The influx of young talent - high schoolers - over the past few years has thinned the college ranks, and this will be the first year that high school kids can't be drafted. Pity.
But there's bound to be some quality in there somewhere, and the new GM, Bryan Colangelo, can contemplate it while watching the last team he put together play in the Western Conference Finals.
The other bit of good times was watching the Bulls grab the #2 pick. No, I'm not a closet Bulls fan, but rather an out-of-the-closet Knicks hater. And that's not really accurate, either. The Knicks are too pathetic to hate. Isaiah Thomas. There's a guy worth hating.
Why? He was a great if amazingly annoying player. He deep-sixed the comeback attempts of his supposed "friend" Magic Johnson and thereby made the world just a little bit colder for HIV sufferers.
But it's been his post-playing career that really made me hate him. He tanked on the Raptors when they were a new franchise, cutting and running when he didn't get enough of an ownership offer. He completely destroyed the half-century-old CBA after he bought the whole thing with promises that he'd put time and effort into its growth.
He coached a 60-win Indy team to 40 win seasons while suffering ugly playoff defeats. He's failed as a coach and as a GM, repeatedly, everywhere.
And yet he keeps getting hired. Now he's the GM of the Knicks who traded his first rounder to the Bulls without lottery protection for a journeyman centre with a heart condition. Oh, yes - and the right to swap #1 picks in next years draft.
And the coach he threw millions of dollars at top lure away from the Pistons? Now he's trying to fire him.
How does this guy get work? Seriously. If he washed your car, you know he'd accidentally snap off the antenna.
And meanwhile, his former back-court partner Joe Dumars has quietly put together the consistently best team in the Eastern Conference. Team-oriented Joe has built an unselfish team who play together as a unit - and win together.
But selfish narcissist Isaiah built a team of me-first prima donnas and finished with the second-worst record in the league. And then didn't get to make the pick.
I'm just waiting for the Georgie to appoint Isaiah head of FEMA. Heckuva job!
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