Antoine Walker Robbed!!!

Toine Robbed!!!

No, not of the MVP award (which he was by the way: 39% FG, 27% 3PT, 1.8 TO/g - the numbers don't lie my friend). Three time allstar and two time Celtic Antoine Walker was robbed at gunpoint yesterday in his home in Chicago. Apparently the assholes that robbed him took some cash, jewelry, and most-alarmingly, "a vehicle". Now Toine has never exactly been a modest individual (see Toine's response to a reporter who asked why he shoots so many threes: "Because there ain't no such thing as fours"), so I couldn't imagine stealing the Toine-mobile would be a very profitable endeavor. I mean, imagine trying to be discreet while driving a bright green hummer with the #8 all over it and vanity plates that say "I Make BsKts". You are going to have a tough time convincing cops that that baby is yours.

This was the second time Toine was robbed, the first since 2000 when he and Nazr Muhammed were robbed in their SUV while they were outside a restaurant waiting for it to open. I'll tell you, if every basketball player were robbed everytime he waited outside a restaurant waiting for it to open, Scal wouldn't even have the clothes on his back left over.


Summer League is very mediocre entertainment!

Last night I watched a little summer league on my TV. Knicks/Sonics. I noticed a few things. First, Jeff Green is better than I thought he was. I was never completely sold on Georgetown this year. They got to the Final Four sure, but it was on a bunch of buzzer beaters and lucky wins. Plus they have a goofy 7'3" guy that just stands under the hoop and somehow never gets called for 3 seconds.

But Green looked really good for the Sonics. Considering the effort level in this game fell somewhere between "Toronto era Vince Carter" and "Elton John's effort to walk 100 feet" (except for Ronaldo Balman, who even during summer league garbage minutes plays like a spastic gazelle on methamphetamine binge) I guess anybody with an ounce of energy would look pretty good. But he had a rediculous dunk over some white guy, hit the boards pretty hard, and just looked a bit more comfortable out there than Durant and the rest of them.

Do I smell a championship?

Nope, that's probably just Chapin.

The Celtics have an 80-1 chance of winning the championship this year according to Vegas oddsmakers. The only teams with worse odds are Memphis, Philly, and Atlanta. Good Lookin'.

Sun Ming Ming Drafted!

...By the Harlem Globetrotters. In a testament to their drastic fall from grace, the Harlem Globetrotters have signed Sun Ming Ming (yes, the 7'9" Chinese guy) as their newest member. Apparently the Golobetrotters were in need of a man whose brain is so far from his hands that he cannot raise his hands in time to block a shot. But as long as he can spin the ball on his finger and whistle (not to mention step on Chris Tucker, see below), I'm sure its of no consequnce...