The Cavaliers are hiring

With the Drew Gooden free agent talks in turmoil, the Cavaliers are poking around elsewhere for a power forward.

Drew wants “Nene money”, which is a problem not just because he’s not worth “Nene money”, but also because the fact the term “Nene money” is in use is some sort of cosmic thing that needs corrected.

(That last sentence is a mess, but we’re crunched for time. Welcome to the new media!)

Anyway, Cleveland is talking with Reggie Evans, who is one of those “great rebounder per 48 minutes” types of guys. You may also remember he’s the starting Testicler on the US/NBA World Cup team we put together.

According to an NBA executive, the Cavs met Tuesday with free-agent forward Reggie Evans at an undisclosed location outside of Cleveland.

Cavs General Manager Danny Ferry declined to comment. Evans’ agent Dan Fegan did not return a phone message.

This is all quite strange to us. Not so much the talking with Balls McCray, but the secrecy of it all.

Undisclosed locations? Comment declining? Unreturned phone calls? Undisclosed locations again? Comment declining again? Unreturned phone calls again?

Absorb that – what’s your conclusion? Yes, it’s all quite obvious, but let’s run through our clues once more. Undisclosed locations once more? Comment declining once more? Unreturned phone once more?

Anyway, between the undisclosed phone calls and the declined comments, we’re once again led to believe there’s an unreturned phone call coming up next somehow or somewhere or sometime.

In other news, the US beat up on Puerto Rico in their first scrimmage in preparation for the World Championships. Kobe was in the crowd, where he was doing things like watching and observing, as is commonly required of people sitting in crowds.