Steviekick

1. Who will win the MVP? Chris Paul 2. Who will win the Rookie of the Year? Beasley 3. Who will be the Coach of the Year? One of the following: Mo Cheeks, is Philly has an impressive year. Jerry Sloan, in a lifetime achievement kind of way. Scott Skiles, if the Bucks make the playoffs. 4. Who will be named to the All-NBA First Team? PG: Chris Paul SG: Kobe SF: Lebron PF: Tim Duncan C: Dwight Howard 5. Who will be the NBA's Most Improved Player? Not sure. Probably someone playing for a new contract. 6. What team had the best offseason? Sixers 7. What team had the worst offseason? The Warriors. At first, I assumed the Nets, but that was much more of an intentional dismantling of a team. The Warriors flat messed up. 8. Which team will be the most improved over last year? Sixers 9. Which team will be the biggest disappointment? Either the Mavericks or Spurs. Expectations are low in the East, but those two teams aren't getting any younger. 10. What was the best offseason move? Philly getting Brand 11. What was the worst offseason move? ATL losing Childress. Yeah, I know he's a key reserve/sixth man, but they are a young team and I don't see them making a return to the playoffs this year. 12. Who will make the playoffs that didn't last year? Portland 13. Who will not make the playoffs that did last year? Denver 14. Who are the best five players in the league, position aside (weak-sauce question, I know)? To me, Lebron, Deron Williams, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett, Kobe 15. Who will be the division winners? Boston (just eeking out Philly), Washington, Cleveland, Utah, Lakers, Hornets 16. Eastern Conference Final: Celtics over Sixers in 6, with the Celtics veteran's prevailing 17. Western Conference Final: Lakers over Jazz in 7, with the Jazz's over physical, foul prone style of play coming to haunt them. 18. Who will win the NBA Title, and who will they beat?: Given the previous predictions, it'll be Lakers 19. Who will be the #1 pick in next year's draft? Not sure. I'm not up on college players. 20. Make one bold prediction. By season's end, Detroit will begin a reconstruction project.

Actually, Glacier already made a triumphant return in Chikara Pro

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Quentin Richardson-GF He's in the background on roller skates and I'm hoping that a reunion with D'Antoni will help his stats out. second to follow.

You know, I don't dislike the name Thunder. In fact, I like it. Magic, Heat, and the (now ill-fitting) Jazz, too. I don't see why the name has to be plural. I get that it's a team of 12 people, but fuck. That being said, those are some horrible uniforms. The name doesn't bother me. Its just infuriating that with all that lead time, they couldn't come up with a better logo or uniform design.

I was all set to go as Roddy Piper for a costume party. Unfortunately it was cancelled.

That would add an extra wrinkle on their current TV feud.

I was the same way. Although it kind of drove me to like WCW and ECW much more, just to be different.

For work, my office is pretty laid back, so I either wear polo shirt with jeans or khakis, depending on that I'm doing to be doing that day. Occasionally I do have to wear a shirt and tie. For out of work/weekend fashion, I'm a lot like the Max with t-shirts/cargo shorts. Since its starting to get colder out, it'll be time to break out the hoodies. I have a bad habit of wearing shorts in the winter, but know to wear long pants when I'm going out. But I'll be damned if I wear them if I'm just going to hang out at my house or with my friends at their place.

I'm kind of the same way when it comes to ducks. We have a nice little park by work and I've spent a few lunch times watching them splash around.

That's pretty much what the problem was. The block logo stuff is retroactively permissible due to the agreement.

I have a question. I was just reading Mick Foley's last book, and he mentioned that Vince had heat with Terry Funk for no showing a PPV because his horse was sick. I've never heard that before and was wondering if someone knew more about it?

I remember seeing a review saying that the Highlander comics were for the show/movie's niche audience. You might be able to find the X-Files floppy issues for cheap.

I pick... Nene Hilario- F/C Beno Udrih-G

No way. Dead Eye shows that there is much more to the band than being just another thrash outfit. Dolving's vocals are killer on it; he hasn't been that intense since some of the Mary Beats Jane records or the self-titled. I absolutely loved it from the first listen, as you could tell that they just didn't give a fuck and wanted to create something different. The whole album oozes of confidence in their musicianship. I really enjoyed the self titled a lot, and Made Me Do It. I never really got into rEVOLVEr, and I was disappointed with One Kill Wonder, mostly since it ripped a bunch of riffs from the last two albums.

He's been saying this for a while so I'm skeptical. However, in this interview it sounds like he just wants to have one MMA fight, so that does sound a little more reasonable than him wanting to go at it full time/semiregularly.

Sorry for taking so long and not registering till this morning; my Internet at home is kinda wonky. My two picks... Rasheed Wallace-FC Mike Bibby-G

Gotcha. My bad.

I think we might be seeing London/Danielson II soon. Wait...so AmDrag is coming in?

I'm excited for that as well. I do think that The Dead Eye might be my favorite album from their catalog.

He has expressed interest in playing in Italy...

I don't see why they would do that, unless they've given up on Law.

Actually it'll propably be a crazy season for the Jazz's front office: RESTRICTED Paul Millsap Deron Williams Kyrylo Fesenko (Team Option) UNRESTRICTED Carlos Boozer (P) Jarron Collins Kyle Korver (ETO) Mehmet Okur (ETO) Ronnie Price They're going to have to work something out with Okur because there really aren't any other starting center caliber players available.

For me, there haven't been a lot of albums that have impressed me this year. I've really been digging Protest the Hero's Fortress and the new Opeth, but that's really about it.

I think he would have stayed with WWE. Didn't he pretty much burn his bridges with Bischoff on his way out of WCW?