Jacoby_Ellsbury

Celtics are getting Jordan Crawford apparently. For Leandro Barbosa.

What does Dom rhyme with...

Good news, the apartment complex washing machine just s*** the bed and waterlogged my clothes. Soon as I can think of a funny tirade regarding that I'll put it up. Maybe I'll send anthrax to Coinmach while I'm at it.

Was that the one Jeremy Evans attempted like eight times? I was in disbelief watching that, and not in a good way. That dude bombs the same exact dunk over and over and over again, everybody knows what he's trying (and failing) to do, and when he finally completes it he has the nerve to f***ing sign the thing he jumped over? f*** you, you benchwarmer, you sucked absolutely all the energy out of the building in the time it took you to actually complete that f***ing dunk. Hell if some special olympics kid pulled that it wouldn't even be cute, I'd boo his ass. If I had paid for a ticket last night and saw that after all the embarrassment that preceded it I would have thrown batteries at the guy.

Since when is there a minimum score of 30 for a dunk attempt? That pussifies the whole thing. If you don't complete the dunk, you shouldn't get any points. Period. The problem is two fold because not only can some failure get over half of the maximum score even if he fails to complete a dunk attempt, but to balance that out the scores for other dunks have to be inflated. Not one dunk last night deserved a 50 or anything close, but I think at least a third of them got 50s. If you do flub a dunk, okay, it happens. But if you get another attempt, at least have the deceny to change it up and not try the same exact dunk again. Once you tip your cards, there's no excitement left, it's just a matter of if you can actually complete it. The judges should enforce this by severely marking someone down each time they fail a dunk and then try it again, motion for motion, regardless of if they actually finish it. Up until like the fourth time, then they should just tell them to get off the floor. Last night really was an embarrassment. Toddler camps have stricter rules and more intense atmospheres.

So tonight I was reminded why I stopped watching NBA all-star Saturday nights.

http://i.imgur.com/t95Ful9.png http://i.imgur.com/Wlb4neH.png How's it possible that Dr. J looks better Steve Francis? Francis looks like he got brutalized in an alley brawl, in addition to being gacked out on god knows what.

Implying that it even matters at this point. Celtics are buried.

If the Thunder couldn't beat the Heat last year, they won't do it this year. They're a worse team without James Harden, and the Heat are a better team. Yeah I honestly don't know who can beat them. Nobody in the east can handle them. Spurs are too old for the playoff grind. If the Lakers somehow make it through the west and are firing on all cylinders in June, they'd probably have the best chance, but it's probably too late for them.

Are you serious? Cap space doesn't mean anything in Washington, seeing as it's not a destination city for star free agents. If a team like the Wizards is going to get help from outside, it's going to to be through a trade. They're already starting to gel and improve as a team, if they take the next step next season and find themselves in the playoff hunt, they'll have Okafor's mammoth expiring deal to dangle as trade bait. If you follow the NBA, you should know that the trade market is all about contracts. Taking on Okafor and shedding Lewis was a smart move for Washington. I wanted the Celtics to go after Okafor back when the Hornets were league-owned and look to get rid of salary. His contract would have provided us future trade flexibility, and in the meantime his rebounding would have been more than welcome, seeing as we've sucked ass on the boards pretty much since Leon Powe left, and it cost us the 2010 title and probably a finals appearance last year.

Because MVP's a fluff award that's given, not earned, and the voters are biased against players who are too dominant. The fact that Shaq only got one MVP award and Jordan wasn't the recipient of every MVP award from 87-88 to 97-98 (excluding his two retirement seasons in the middle) blows the award's credibility to bits. Hell, after Jordan's 2nd retirement Shaq should have won the award every year from 98-99 to 02-03. He was clearly the most dominant, feared player in the NBA during that time. Instead, Duncan won two, he was damn good but Shaq was better, and an aging Karl Malone, who didn't even have a remarkable season by his standards, and Iverson's 42% FG percentage won it the other two times. It's about novelty. For the sentimental, soft-headed tits that are in charge of handing out the award, having the same player win the award for X amount of years in a row would be dull. So the voters mix it up for the sake of novelty, with f*** all regard to objectivity or reason. LeBron should be working on his fifth straight MVP right now. But the voters were assmad that LeBron told Cleveland to eat s***, so they handed it to Rose in 2011. Smart money's on Durant winning it this year, just because. It's ********.

Good for them if they can pull it off. I'm not gonna slam a team for exploring every possible (legal) option to get themselves out of a s***** situation.

Celtics really need to tank for 2014 now.

Good thing we traded him while we could!

That's what they get for blowing their wad on Mike D'Antoni.

65% of the Kings sold to Chris Hansen's Seattle based group. Recolation approval is March 1st, and apparently that's just a formality. Welcome back to the NBA, Seattle Sonics. I wonder if the Kings will even draw enough fans for a respectable chorus of boos, if the Maloofs ever have the gall to show their faces in that arena during a game.

Anyone know what NBA teams get TV coverage in Austin? I know the Spurs do because I watched the game last night. What about the Rockets or Mavs? Anyone?

Victorino's contract sucks too.

That's a ridiculous amount for Swisher. If there's any Boston fan complaining that Cherington didn't match or beat it, they're insane.

75-80 wins.

Lol Jays aren't doing dick.

Yankees, but the Rays will push them.

dubil p0st

Look at the bright side. 2013's draft has a deadly top 3 (public opinion, I'm not so high on Cody Zeller), and 2014 has Wiggins and several other players people are very high on. One guy said 2014 has five no. 1 overall caliber guys in the same draft. If anything, pity the Celtics. We have zero hope of winning anything meaningful, and instead of rebuilding we're just waiting for Pierce and Garnett to expire. It's gonna be a loooong time before we're relevant again.

They f***ed themselves by hiring D'Antoni instead of Jackson. Jim Buss is a clown.