We were pretty happy about the Flip Murray to Cleveland deal, although we did wonder why the cost was only little Mike Wilks, who we think played for an eighth grade team down the street as recently as November.
Our wonderings where no longer defined as wonderings when a reader sent in this site called TradeFlipMurray.com.
How many times have you seen Flip dribble down the court and launch a shot with about 16 or 17 seconds left on the shot clock, not passing the ball once? How many times have you seen Flip put on a dribbling display, only to dribble the ball off his foot or leg or get the ball picked by the defender resulting in a turn over?
That’s pretty bad when fans go to the trouble to set up a whole site just for the purpose of getting a back-up guard traded, huh?
The way he plays sounds just like how Ricky Davis when he was with the Cavaliers. Lots of dribbling, lots of scoring, lots of boneheadedness. You love him but he drives you crazy. Still a low risk move for the Cavs until Hughes returns, we say.
The site is worth looking at – some of Flip’s friends from Philly found it and defend him in the comments sections with such strong points as “yeah and i hope flip end up fucking Ray [Allen] up cuz he is a BITCH this is probably his site he does ho shit like that.”
If you hate Vince Carter like we hate Vince Carter, what you’re about to watch really won’t change your opinion of him one way or the other.
We don’t know when exactly this was shot, but there’s a 96% chance Vinsanity was on the injured list for the Raptors when it was.
Thanks to MrJones for hooking us up with this. Go read his blog…or die.
The Lakers and Kings renewed their rivalry last night, although now it’s a battle of mid-level teams and there’s really no battle of wills or much at stake.
Actually, both teams are in the hunt for that final playoff spot in the West, althought that just doesn’t carry the weight that battling for the whole West once did. Phil Jackson felt the game was a good sign for his inconsistant team.
“We’ve had a couple momentum shifts throughout the course of the year, and this is what we’ve been talking about as a group — we want to build the momentum, because now is the time to do it,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “We’ve shown signs of this — the Houston game at the end of the road trip.”
Looks like the Lakers could be somewhat on track, although as Phil notes, they’ve felt they’ve been “there” before.
Other than that, not much was notable about the game. Nothing else to say really. Everyone have a good night? Have any big plans for the weekend?
Really, we wish we could find something else to say about the Lakers/Kings game. How’s everyones’ families? You guys have kids or anything? Seriously, it’s always about us – let’s talk about you.
We missed ‘em, what can we say? Were any of you around way back in August when this was our banner?
Marginally Clever goes on at length in comparing LeBron James to tulips.
That American Idol girl Becky O’Donohue and her twin were in Maxim, and all the traffic crippled their website. Geez, the pics aren’t even that hot.
While looking for a new David Stern picture for the EXPLOSIONS, we totally ran into this one we did back in September.
SuperSonicSoul talks about David Stern’s trip to Seattle to discuss arena issues with the city.
Lindsay Lohan is dating that goofy-ass snowboarder Shaun White. We’re not sure which end of that match-up is getting taken.
By the way, our Olympic blog will be wrapping up Sunday – if you haven’t checked it out, it’s a lot of fun, since we have no idea what we’re talking about for the most part. The Tar Heel also participates in the fun when he’s not butchering college sports.
Brian Windhorst breaks down the trade deadline stuff.
Yeah, the whole Brokeback thing is kinda played out, but still…Spongeback Mountain.
Bill Simmons reacts to the Francis-to-NY trade by printing a bunch of reactions from his readers.
TNT’s Ernie Johnson has lymphoma and we wish him all the best. If you saw his intro to TNT’s coverage last night, you may have found yourself choked up. If you weren’t, you’re a scary monster. His cancer has been termed “low grade and treatable”.
We had put a self-imposed ban on ourselves from Cavaliers posting for the rest of the week, lest anyone think we have a real-life man-crush on LeBron James, but the team has joined in the fun of trade-making day by…making a trade.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired Ronald ‘Flip’ Murray from the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for little-used guard Mike Wilks, a second-round pick and $500,000, ESPN.com has learned.
Works for us – Flip put up big numbers when Ray Allen was down a couple years ago. Any additional scoring off the bench means good things, ie less Damon Jones. If LeBron slides over to the point for short stretches, this should be fine.
Two side notes – 1) We have plenty of emails already about a Lamar Odom-to-the-Cavs rumor. It’s not happening is our guess. 2) If someone will take out our downstairs neighbor and his drum set, we’ll pay handsomely. He’s really super excited about his band today!
UPDATE: We got Lee Nailon again, too. Look at Danny Ferry filling the bench up with quick points!
One hour to go until the deadline, and unless there’s a last minute blockbuster, we’re looking at “the Earl Watson deal” as the big move made before the trade deadline.
It’s a three-way (Portland/Seattle/Denver) deal, and the only people that matter in it are Earl Watson to the Sonics and Ruben Patterson/Reggie Evans to the Nuggets.
Denver wants Evans to solidify its injury-plagued frontcourt rotation, with Kenyon Martin, Marcus Camby and Eduardo Najera all in and out of the lineup and Nene lost for the season on opening night to a knee tear. Nuggets coach George Karl, meanwhile, has been pushing hard for Patterson, overlooking the eight-year veteran’s stormy history in Portland because he craves Patterson’s perimeter defense.
It’s too bad George couldn’t find a way to satisfy that craving without actually having to trade for Ruben Patterson, who is a little crazy and enjoys exposing himself, which we read about on the back of his basketball card. The real winner here is Luke Ridnour, who gets a chance to relax on the bench behind Watson, rather than having to play so much every night.
We said it yesterday and it worked, so we’ll say it again today – we want more trades NOW. This is not good enough by far.
To be satisfied, we need either another disasterous move by the Knicks or three mid-sized trades involving second-teir teams looking to make a playoff push.
Or anything involving Stromile Swift. For some reason seeing Stro traded is all we can think about. It’s been eating at us for like 54 hours now.
Only like 3 and a half hours to the deadline and not nearly enough player movement has gone on for our liking.
JR Smith thinks he’s on his way out of New Orleans.
KG isn’t going anywhere, okay?
Neither is AI, although maybe it’s time for him to just a wear a full-on wetsuit underneath, huh?
Speaking of tights, we’re now a the top referring site over at that male-tights blog we linked to the other day. Here’s the latest:
Yesterday I wore barely black Debenhams medium support sheers all day. In the evening I wore them with shorts while I helped my wife prepare lesson plans and other things because she has got OFSTED in her school. She said nothing about my legwear, even though I was wearing neither nude sheers nor more masculine looking opaques.
Also, we can’t find where because it’s in a foriegn language, but the site that has sent more traffic to YAYsports! this month than any other? This tights message board.
JE Skeets traded himself to The Basketball Jones.
Pat Riley and the Heat are looking for a frontline starter.
The Bay Area would like to see Chris Mullin make some moves for the Warriors.
Everyone is talking about this Tammy Nyp chick, therefore…we’ll trade our integrity for some traffic, too.
Hot on the heels of crazy real-life trades comes (guess who?) Chad Ford with crazy pretend trades.
The man with the degree in hula dancing is once again playing with ESPN’s trade generator in an attempt to “fix the Knicks” by this afternoon.
Lakers send Odom to New York; Kwame Brown and Smush Parker to Atlanta; and Devean George, Stanislav Medvedenko and Laron Profit to Utah.
Utah sends Carlos Boozer to Lakers.
New York sends either Marbury or Francis to the Lakers.
Atlanta sends Josh Childress to Utah and Tyronn Lue and Donta Smith to the Lakers.
New York sends Jamal Crawford to Denver.
Denver sends Earl Watson and Greg Buckner to New York.
New York sends Quentin Richardson to Washington.
Washington sends Antonio Daniels and Jared Jeffries to New York.
Chad! The trade generator is NOT A TOY. Go to your room.
The problem with Chad Ford’s trades are that they’d always be one of the two or three biggest trades in NBA history. He seems to forget that all the teams involved would have to actually agree to this. Yes, this works under the cap, but only on in the universe of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is it happening.
From our perspective, while the idea of either Marbury or Francis trying to play next to Kobe is entertaining, there’s no way it beats Marbury/Francis playing for Larry Brown in New York. We’re in for a real treat, and it all starts tomorrow night with a beatdown by the team across the river.
We were going to go away from what you’d expect and say that the new-look, Franchised Knicks would win their first three games before falling apart. Then we took a peek at their schedule – NJ at home, then @Washington, @San Antonio, and @Memphis.
They’re going to fall apart right from the start of this thing. If you watched Stephon Marbury walk off the court after the Knicks got blown out at home last night, you can see he’s clearly a broken fake point guard. Team him with his new fake point guard buddy Steve Francis, who’s been a broken man for some time now, and you’ve got the most disfunctional, depressed backcourt in the NBA.
Of course, this is all the fault of GM Isiah Thomas, who’s in desperate need of a dictionary.
“New York has never been through rebuilding before,” he said. “New York has never seen it. It can be an ugly process, it can be dirty, it can be bloody and, yes, sometimes it’s even embarrassing. But this is what it looks like. This is where we are. It’s necessary, what we are doing. Rebuilding is what we are committed to. It’s what we have to do to improve our team for the long term.”
Zeke, you’re not rebuilding, you’re playing Jenga. It’s exciting and fun, and you put cool looking things into the game while destroying your foundation, then it all falls apart. You just traded for an overpriced, depressed, 29-year old player with 3 years and $50M left on his contract who literally everyone on Earth agrees is a horrible fit for both your coach and your current roster. This sounds like something we made up as a joke. (Wait…we did.)
Orlando is rebuilding. You strip away your expensive pieces who aren’t useful down the road, find a couple key, young players to build around, and hope you can score some nice free agents with your new cap space.
Two things can happen here. Either Isiah gets fired and the Knicks really try to rebuild, or he stays on, and next February trades Jalen Rose’s expiring contract to Portland for a fat Zach Randolph.
Sorry for the bandwidth issues this afternoon – we step out for a few hours, and our popularity gets the best of us again.
We really really really need to think how we want to celebrate/cover/approach this, but Steve Francis has been traded to the Knicks, and we’ll surely have much more to say once we finish our private celebration.
It’s a nice simple trade – Stevie Franchise for Penny Hardaway(‘s cap space) and Trevor Ariza. We give this a thumbs-up and 14 Kobe Orbs.
