"Concession Stand Folks Be Droppin Salt"

Yea yea, I haven't posted anything in a month. I'm back though (at least until I get tired of posting again).

NBA FINALS:
Lakers vs. Celtics

Celtics in 6

I watched them dominate the Lakers twice this season. Yes, Pau didn't play but Bynum did and he's better than Pau. Boston has been dominant on the boards. Adding Pau and taking out Bynum tells me the C's will be dominant on them in this series. 6 games is a stretch. Bean Town could take this in 5.

Kobe vs. Jordan talk has come up all weekend and it came up on Geoff and Gary's Show this morning. All Kobe needs are the rings now to be in the conversation. The MVP's will keep coming as long as they seem like overwhelming favorites to make the Finals every year. With Bynum coming back next season, there's no reason for me to not believe LA won't be there for another 6 years.

Bottom Line is that I think Kobe is honestly the most talented basketball player I've ever seen in my life, but he hasn't won like Jordan so he isn't Jordan. Jordan is the greatest. I reserve the right to change my mind in 6 years when Kobe is sporting 3 or 4 more rings. Scottie Pippen is also better than any player Kobe has on his team. It's not close, don't say Odom or Pau is Kobe's SP33. It's not true and you sound like a moron if you say so. Pippen has led a team by himself to playoff wins and was 3rd in MVP voting when Jordan was gone for that year. That's better than Pau or Odom will ever do. Pippen was on the Dream Team and was named a top 50 player in the NBA. I can name over 50 players in the NBA better than Gasol....and I will

Kobe Bryant
Tim Duncan
Manu Ginobili
Tony Parker
Tracy McGrady
Yao Ming
Baron Davis
Stephen Jackson
Monta Ellis
Elton Brand
Steve Nash
Amare Stoudemire
Ron Artest
Dirk Nowitzki
Josh Howard
Jason Kidd
Chris Paul
David West
Tyson Chandler
Allen Iverson
Carmelo Anthony
Al Jefferson
Brandon Roy
Kevin Durant
Deron Williams
Carlos Boozer
Mehmet Okur
Gilbert Arenas
Antawn Jamison
Caron Butler
Dwight Howard
Dwyane Wade
Shawn Marion
Joe Johnson
Josh Smith
Michael Redd
Richard Hamilton
Chauncey Billups
Rasheed Wallace
LeBron James
Luol Deng
Ben Gordon
Chris Bosh
Andre Igoudala
Vince Carter
Richard Jefferson
Kevin Garnett
Paul Pierce
Ray Allen
Lamar Odom
Andre Miller
Zach Randolph
LaMarcus Aldridge
Emeka Okafor
Gerald Wallace
Kevin Martin


Some of those may be up for debate, so feel free to argue. I also left Andrei Kirilenko off that list. He's probably better than Pau. So if you include Kirilenko, that's 57 players better than Gasol. 58 if I include Marcus Camby.

NBA DRAFT:
If OJ Mayo isn't at #5 (and I don't expect him to be), then you draft big with both picks. You need big men and there's opportunity for them here to play right away. I like Kevin Love with the #5 pick and take a flyer on another big man at #28 (just not Dorsey).

Yes, there's a lot of truth to Miami not being in love with Michael Beasley. I would do everything I could to trade up and get him. Trade your 5 and Mike Miller to Miami for the 2 and whatever crappy player they want to give us to make the contracts equal up (we need crappy bench players since Jacobsen and Andre Brown's contracts have rolled off the books).

Why I like Kevin Love? He can rebound and score in the post and he has 2 things you cannot teach: 1. BBall IQ 2. Shot blocking. People say he was crappy against Memphis. Dude still dropped 12pts, 9rebs, 3blk. He knows how to play. Dough Boy will drop weight (he's already shed 15lbs). He's been awesome his entire life and the success ratio of top 10 players in HS to the NBA has been very good over the last 10 years. It's been known since Dough Boy was in HS that him, Eric Gordon, D-Rose, Beasley and Mayo were "THAT" much better than everybody else. I like taking a guy that I know has been awesome his entire life. So if they took Eric Gordon over Love would I be upset? No. Gordon can play too. EG23 still dropped 21 a game w/ a broken wrist and no coach.

GOLF:
Tiger Woods isn't coming to Memphis again this year. So again, I do not care about the Stanford St. Jude Championship. They did give me a nice tie from Brooks Brothers though, so for that, I do thank them.

MLB:
Does Ozzie Guillen know his team is in first place?

JOAKIM NOAH:
Yannick Noah says he doesn't know what the big deal about his son getting caught w/ an open container and marijuana is? That's exactly why your son is the way he is. Show me a parent (Yannick) that doesn't care and I'll show you a kid (Joakim) that doesn't either. I'm not surprised by it and what athletes wanna do is their business, just don't get caught. Like, ummm, maybe keep that stuff in your house.

BELMONT STAKES:
Big Brown still has that crack in his front left hoof. I don't wanna be Debbie Downer, but PETA is gonna go nuts if this horse breaks that hoof running at a speed on Saturday that it hasn't run at since cracking that hoof. Hoof on Big Brown!!!

STANLEY CUP FINALS:
The first time I've been excited about hockey in, well, ever. Pens are a blast to watch and the Red Wings are the Red Wings. That being said, they've made Pittsburgh look inexperienced and young.

The Pens do have the best play by play announcer ever in Mike Lange so here are his top 10 calls.....