Peja Stojakovic watches the ESPYs

With signing season officially open yesterday, there’s all kinds of press conferences going on. For example: Chicago will allegedly get to meet Ben Wallace today.

In New Orleans, Peja Stojakovic, who many thought was the prize of the free agent group, was officially intro’d to the city he won’t actually be playing in, which would be awkward if anyone in the city cared.

Luckily, they don’t. This bothers Peja not a bit, however – he’s just excited to play in a system that doesn’t have Jamaal Tinsley running the point.

“I am of admiring the way that the play happens when it does happen and then it goes,” Stojakovic said of his new team, led by a pass-first point guard (Chris Paul) who will make his life easier. “I am and then thought the okay system they play would fit my fancy American blue jeans style. Number one! I see that the action is and they like to do the, eh…how do you say? The run, yes! And in the halfcourt, they like to pass the potato. Yo!”

Should be an interesting team to watch (in Oklahoma City) – we know if we were looking for building blocks, the first two names we’d think of would be Peja and new trade acquisition Tyson Chandler. If there are two guys who deserve way more than $11M per year each, it’s those two.

Since we’re on this abbreviated posting schedule, let’s run down the other goings-on yesterday.

Melo doesn’t hate Denver after all – he signs for the full five after his family calls him “crazy”.

Chris Bosh, on the other hand, hates Toronto.

The Lakers presented the poor man’s Peja to Los Angeles at a press conference yesterday.

While you’re over at the LA Times, read about Sam Cassell sticking with the Clips for two more years.

In one of the more uninspiring moves to us, Mike James is a Timberwolf. KG was so excited, he went to China.

Drew Gooden wants what he’s worth. The debate right now is what that exactly is, as the Cavaliers are not under the impression he’s freaking Nene or something.

Paul Pierce is extended, contract-wise.

Poor Houston – their best news outside of Shane Battier is that Bob Sura is able to run.

Finally, this guy asked really, really nicely, so here’s a link to his blog. This guy asked too – so, here’s his link. (We’re good people! We’re good people!)

With that – we’re out. The ESPYs were last night, if anyone cares about the comic stylings of Lance Armstrong. Someone try to trade AI today, okay?