Ouch

From Simmons’ twitter:

Statement from Pistons to fans: “Look, any time you can tank a season for the chance to spend $95 mill on 2 non-AllStars, you gotta do it.”

Back to Boston tomorrow.

The law is a social construction

The discussion started with the South African soccer horns, now on to the female tennis grunting.

I’ma make em look bad

I totally missed the NBA draft and don’t have anything profound to say about the picks.

I can’t believe Rubio dropped to five, the Pistons should have made a move. He’s going to be an absolute stud. Here’s 20 minutes of proof (with some exceptionally white background music):

On the Stones, I have no sense of what they’re trying to do.

Illadelphia

Love the Sixers’ decision to go back to their old school logo.

Kind of like the Stones getting rid of this monstrosity.

Now if only the Sixers could go back in time and not give Elton Brand that contract.

I’m a worker so I’m working

No time to get into all the NBA drama, will try to chime in later.

But can he do my scoop?

Shaq on twitter:

i wanna play this guy n horse for a thousand dollars, find him pls

Easing back in

With LeaguePass in my life, I totally burnt myself out on the NBA this season. I can’t imagine what would happen if I got hired to work at a Chinese buffet. That being said, with the draft approaching, this is a fun week to get the juices flowing.

Via Kenny, apparently the Celtics offered Rondo and Ray Allen for Tayshaun, Stuckey, and Rip:

For the Pistons, this deal makes little sense, unless they wanted to let Allen’s expiring deal gain even more salary cap space for the free-agent class of 2010. The idea of trading his three best returners for an expiring contract and one good young player wasn’t worth considering for Dumars, sources said.

Your 09-10 Pistons: Rondo, Ray Allen, Gordon, Maxiell, Amir!

Kenny on the trade:

I HATE Rondo, but that’s mostly because he is on another team. I don’t think the stones would or should make this trade regardless since they would basically be trading three starters for Rondo, and one year of an aging ray allen. Although it would give them even more cap space in 2010.

Pat’s plan to rebuild the Stones:

First, trade Tayshuan, Maxiell and one of the 2nd rounders this season for Chris Bosh.

This trade would work if Toronto was very worried about losing Bosh for nothing in FA next offseason. If they don’t have this fear then it’s highly unlikely they would make this deal, but, tay does fill a big need for toronto at SF and i think they’d be interested in max and a draft pick as well.

So, assuming this deal goes down we need a sf and probably another big…

Now we sign Gordon to a 5 year, 40 milish type deal.

We now have too many sg’s, so let’s trade Rip, Amir and another 2nd round round pick to New Orleans for David West and Morris Peterson. The Hornets would consider this deal becuase they are desperately trying to shed salary and they will entertain the thought of trading west (supposedly) but the key for them is getting rid of MoPete’s contract.

lineup
pg: stuckey/bynum
sg: gordon/AA
sf: MoPete/? FA?
pf: West/attempt to resign mcdyess?
C: Bosh/Kwame

Not sure that team will play good enough defense to be a big winner but they would be much better shooting team than the current pistons. I think West and Bosh could work well together down low since west is such a good jumpshooter. SF would be the big question but mopete is a wily vet and i think he can still be a solid contributor on a contending team.

I think the only major concern with these deals is if the team really struggles you may have a very hard time resigning Bosh the following offseason and that could be very bad news.

Another option, make one of the two trades, maybe subbing in Tay for Rip in the NO deal and then forget ben gordon and try to sign turkeyleg to a reasonable deal to replace tay. I really think NO would consider making one of these deals because they tried to simply give away tyson chandler. They need to shed salary badly and we are a team who can take some on.

York has a plan for Rondo that involves the Hornets:

i get that Rondo is worth more now than ever and is probably going to want more than he’s worth when he’s a free agent, but he’s still a top eight PG in the NBA right now: why trade him and not get a better PG? I would trade him and Ray for Chris Paul and Posey.

Sign me up!

Via McDoomington, a portable Dreamcast:

No fun in Chestnut Hill

Home versus away breakdown of the upcoming BC football season: should I get season tickets?

09/05/09 vs. Northeastern Chestnut Hill, Mass.
09/12/09 vs. Kent State Chestnut Hill, Mass.
09/26/09 vs. Wake Forest Chestnut Hill, Mass.
10/03/09 vs. Florida State Chestnut Hill, Mass.
10/17/09 vs. North Carolina State Chestnut Hill, Mass.
10/31/09 vs. Central Michigan Chestnut Hill, Mass.
11/21/09 vs. North Carolina Chestnut Hill, Mass.

09/19/09 at Clemson Clemson, S.C.
10/10/09 at Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
10/24/09 at Notre Dame South Bend, IN
11/14/09 at Virginia Charlottesville, VA
11/28/09 at Maryland College Park, MD

And it was good

If you’re on facebook, you have to join the group, “71% of Earth is covered by water, the rest is covered by Curtis Granderson.” I don’t even care if you don’t like baseball or the Tigers.