naiwf

Now you know why I predicted Detroit won't make the playoffs. 'Sheed may go Artest on a ref or camera any day now.

You don't get it. You don't get T'd up for not being able to hold in your emotions. You SHOULD get T'd up for routinely bitching like Sam I Am for 30 seconds, throwing shit, jumping up in the ref's face and showing them up etc. In an average NBA game there are 40-50 foul calls made. Only a handful are borderline. In an average NBA game, unless it's a play at the end of a game where the team is trying to foul, you'll see dudes complain about almost every single whistle against them. Tim Duncan's never committed a foul if you ask him and he's been playing for about a decade just as an example.

The 'Sheed rule is awesome. I'm sick of the bleeding vaginas disguised as NBA players. The only call that you should get upset about is one where you get steamrolled, it's an obvious charge, and yet the refs call you for a blocking foul. 99% of the foul calls are legit and 99.999999999999999999999999% of the time a player bitches that he got all ball when he got all wrist/forearm/face, or wasn't putting his elbows high on what was a moving screen anyway. Rasheed in particular could hit someone with a Raja Bell on Kobe flying clothesline and STILL throw a hissy fit when he got whistled for a foul.

Michael Young didn't.

Derek Jeter invented baseball, so it's only fair that he wins the Hank Aaron, GG, SS and MVP this year. I'm surprised the Turn 2 Foundation didn't get him the Roberto Clemente Award so he could have swept everything.

Speaking of which, Da Bulls came back down to reality tonight. It's a looooooooong season.

And many mooooooore

If only Mota had been suspended for Game 2 of the NLCS.

Not a good start to the NBA season from a competitive match-up standpoint. Both games will have been over by the half at the rate Phoenix is scoring here.

Ah, good old Hideki I-Rob-U. One of my favorite Yankees ever.

Yes.

I think the 1st game has more potential to be close than the second one. If Kobe's knee is not 100% Phoenix wins by at least 12. Miami/Chicago should be close with 6 minutes to go, and then Wade takes over and gives them a 5-7 point victory.

Pretty much my thoughts exactly. Also, as I was watching the episode tonight someone asked what exactly Niki's role in the whole nuclear explosion storyline was, and I couldn't think of any way to respond. I think at this point she's a peripheral character who is more tied in with that Linderman (sp?) guy than anything else, and as such they've given her waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much TV time. The fact that she's the worst actor on the show and both her husband and son's characters also suck just makes every scene based on her family a bore. They need to get the focus back on the Petrellis, Hiro/Ando, the cop, Isaac and Claire. Next week's preview looks pretty solid, and will hopefully erase this mini clunker from my memory.

It's not your fucking money since you aren't going to the games, so why the hell would you care? If the money is what's bothering you, than maybe you like Dolan a hell of a lot more than I do (not that I like him, but still). How are they morons for cutting a guy they don't need? One of the guys they have replacing him is a guy they got in the draft that came with him, so it wasn't a lose lose situation. All the trade was doing is delaying the expiring contract, while adding a draft pick. I'm glad they cut him so I don't hear your ass complaining coming mid February on how the Knicks might trade his expiring contract for fucking Zach Randolph or some shit like that. Let's try this again. As long as the Knicks are a BILLION over the cap for the next 10 years they won't get any better. Nickel and dime draft picks that are thrown in in bad trades won't improve the team in the long run. Trading what amounts to $50 million and Antonio Davis for a few months of Jalen Rose's services and Renaldo Balkman is not a good move when they could have just let Davis walk at the end of last year, saved $17 million, and picked a no name like Balkman up as an undrafted free agent. If you think that's a good deal, then you're just completely hopeless when it comes to analyzing the moves the Knicks make. Although thinking Rose was a good pickup in the first place, or that the Francis acquisition made sense, or that a passionless 14 & 7 for life Eddy Curry for 2 # 1's which turned out to be either Aldredge/Thomas/Bargnani/Roy/Foye etc + another # 1 was good for the team speak to your cluelessness as well. In the entire tri-state area you're the ONLY Knicks fan who cheers every move Isiah makes, and for the life of me I can't understand how you can think that way given the results and the team that they can field now.

Minnesota should be ashamed of that. That's something you shouldn't have even seen at a HS game.

Spending ~$40-50 million for a 4 month rent-a-player and a bullshit draft pick only makes sense to people like CW. The idea that the money lost doesn't effect the on court product is asinine. The Knicks didn't need Rose when they got him and look like even bigger morons when they cut him loose because he was easily replaced by Jared F'n Jeffries and Renaldo Balkman.

Talking to CW is like trying to gnaw through your own arm just because it itches. Obviously the Knicks are winners, Isiah is a genius, and Dolan is the best owner in sports.

The argument isn't so much whether to cut him or keep him, it's why bother bringing him in for that much money, give up some cap flexibility and minutes to get him only to cut him the following season. They could have completely wiped Antonio Davis' money by now, instead they owe Rose his money and won't get a cent of production for him.

Don't you know that Shaq, Payton and Zo aren't hungry or some such nonsense? On a serious note, they should be huge favorites to at least make it to the Finals. I don't know why everyone keeps up with the assumption that the great teams in the West somehow benefit from killing each other in the postseason and should dance to the title at the end.

Good question. Peter's skill of being able to temporarily absorb someone's power is what made me think that the Haitian guy might be able to temporarily nullify someone else's, or he simply knows how to block out his own thoughts which seemed less likely. They're doing a really good job of leaving enough questions up in the air at this point that you can't help but tune in to see what pieces of info they'll end up giving you in any given episode.

We didn't need to sign Jeffries or draft Balkman when you had a dude on the payroll making $ SEVENTEEN MILLION this year. That's just another example of Isiah's poor ability to manage what he has or have a little foresight to not get stuck in a situation where you can't trade Rose and essentially have to eat his contract. It's no different than trading for Francis when you already had him on the team, and Crawford in a similar situation.

Ah, I missed basketball season. There's nothing better than seeing Isiah do something crazy and then having CW on here within minutes to defend it. But seriously, what does he lost by cutting him? Atleast by cutting him it gets rid of any urges to trade him away for Darius Miles or some other player with a big ass contract. Or am I wrong in thinking that? He's not going to play anyway. He lost millions of dollars in Rose's salary and minutes for the rookies last year. You defended the trade at the time because Rose was an upgrade and you thought the guys like Lee and Nate would still play. As I said it would turn out, all they did was lose out because Rose played 30+ minutes per night last year and they ended up cutting him anyway. Only an idiot ends up paying a year and a half of a monster salary for a draft pick all while giving up someone who came off of the books at the end of last season. In simplest terms they took on salary last year, they owe Rose his money this year, they lost developmental time last year for guys who needed it and they have NOTHING to show for it right now. How the hell is preventing someone from making a 3rd shitty move bring praised as a good move?

I just heard the Knicks cut Jalen Rose. Why cut a guy in the final year of his contract especially when you traded him for an expiring contract guy last year? I hate the Knicks.

I think the Chos wanted to set up a final 3 where they could walk to victory, but also look honorable in doing so. The only thing they've not counted on is the fact that if the wait to do the whole "6 Pack" shit and get yielded, they're d-o-n-e!