YAYsports! NBA

(Michael Jordan is still the coolest dude ever.)

Well, Jermaine O’Neal has finally attained his dream of playing second fiddle to a younger big man on a team in another country.

For someone with long-standing self-esteem and image issues, this guy being traded to the Raptors (for TJ Ford, of whom we will likely never of again) is maybe the worst thing that could ever happen.

The man has long thought himself “the man”, and surely thinks he was supposed to be part of some league-shaking, KG-to-BOS level, weeks-long media frenzy, type of mega deal.

But no, he was traded for an average PG with a bad back/neck, and a mid-first round pick in a weak draft.

One thing of significance is that this changes all of the 57 separate blog-related mock drafts (and live blogs of those drafts) that we participated in lasterday. We’re willing to do them all again - we love that stuff.

In short, this makes the Raptors a smidge better if Mr. Jermaine is healthy, and changes the Pacers not at all.

Other news to report - we saw a preview screening of Hancock, and we can’t really say we liked it enough or disliked it enough to even say anything about it.

We love anything Will Smith does, and he’s very good in this, although he never says, “Welcome to Earf!”

On the story side, there are some decent concepts and ideas being presented within the superhero genre. That said, there are too many of those decent concepts and ideas, and none of them are fully explored, leaving you walking out kinda indifferent.

It’s as if there was a really good movie there, but there were big pieces of it missing. Like we said, is that good, bad, or what? We have no idea.

The NBA Draft, of course, is tonight. To complete our clean coverage of the 2008 NBA season, we won’t be watching it, and may or may not write something about it tomorrow, depending on how we feel and what else we have to do.