Not unexpectedly, this weekend offered up plenty for us to put our 120 cents in on.
Steve Nash is one of the greatest players that ever lived: Sound like an overstatement? Well, it's not.
His 23 assists in Game 4 against the Lakers were one short of the all-time playoff single game record, and he could easily have had 30 if the Suns were shooting like they're capable of. The other side of that coin is, he could easily have scored 75 points himself. At least 25 times during the game, he passed up easy scoring opportunities himself to get his appreciative teammates easy looks.
What does this tell you about how good the Suns can be? The Lakers are actually showing some backbone after the 28 point drubbing they took in Game 2, but the Suns will still just toy with them until they're good and ready to put 'em away.
Golden State's fans are the best in sports: At least domestically, they are.
More than a decade out of the playoffs, and City's arena is a madhouse of screaming, yellow-clad fanatics. There's a bigger buzz in Oakland than Nick Nolte at a microbrew festival. Sure, most fans get excited when their team is doing well, but how many actually render the mute button on your tv's remote useless?
The commotion they were causing while some poor sap on the Mavs was attempting a free throw was vibrating my coffee table enough to cause spillage of my gin and tonic. Oh yeah, City leads the series 3-1. Did anyone see this coming?
In the meantime, Disney is filing a lawsuit against for infringement on their "Happiest Place on Earth" trademark.
What is going through D-Wade's mind: Well, other than the obvious need for a tall one. He's gotta be wondering how the Heat front office is going to wrangle up ten new teammates for him, assuming they can keep Alonzo Mourning from retiring.
If not, it'll be eleven. But Shaq is fat, over the hill, and no longer liked enough by the officials to have every call go his way. Antoine Walker is, despite playing with something closely resembling effort, is still Antoine Walker.
James Posey was cut from the team 2 years ago and just forgot to take his jersey off. Eddie Jones makes John Wooden look young. Gary Payton once played on a team featuring Sedale Threatt, Nate McMillan and Olden Polynice, which pretty much speaks for itself.
Nobody else is really worth mentioning, and therefore probably not worth re-signing.
Rough Draft: Thanks to the Pac-Man Jones/Chris Henry rules, teams actually made character a priority, thus rendering most of the draft unsubjectable to mockery. The one shining exception to this, is Mr.
Brian Leonard, the St. Louis Rams second round pick out of Rutgers. You'd have missed it if you weren't paying attention, because his profile said all of the basic things; nice kid, bright, works hard, plays with complete disregard for his own well-being.
To back the latter up, ESPN was nice enough to anecdotally inform everyone that Leonard once attempted to climb down a ladder head first from his roof when he was a child, a stunt attempt that didn't end well. Kinda makes you question his "brightness."
Tough Crowd: Apparently, the authority in all that matters sports-blogging-wise, "jd", has said that we're the lamest blog in sports.
Not that we've ever claimed to pander anything beyond drivel, but I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find a lamer one. In fact, please look because we did and our search was unsuccessful. You know what?
I think we may have to take a page out of WithLeather.com's book and put boobs and bikinis next to every single post from now on.
Yep, we're mailing it in today.
Thanks for having a shot of 120 Proof.
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