Chris Bosh: Totally Rad Dude

I love it when athletes make tremendous attempts at being humorous and displaying personality and when the athlete is my second favorite NBA big man (behind Andris Biedrins) all the better. Say what you will but I'm a huge fan of athletes making the extra effort and showing a sense of humor while still dominating in the arena of athleticism.

I got published...

Chad of Hoopsblogging fame was kind enough to publish another one of my NBA team previews for his site. This time it's the Golden State Warriors, and, I tell ya, you'll never meet a more hilarious bunch of lovable misfits!

Please, check it out: Golden State Warriors Preview

And for those of y'all that are late to the party here's my first team preview: Orlando Magic Team Preview

I Gots Published

Chad over at hoopsblogging was kind enough to publish my team preview for the Orlando Magic. Presumably, Chad was really desperate for hack writers and I'm still hoping he goes all "Zeke" on me. Feel free to click on over to hoopsblogging and ch-ch-check it out!

*******UPDATE******* I just found out that I win something if enough people go to hoopsblogging and leave intelligent and reasonable comments. Hurry up and go, comment like the wind!

Cavs and Pistons: The Bloodening

All right after last night's great game 4 we officially have ourselves a serious series. Everywhere you look on the blog-o-sphere people are praising the rebirth of LeBron and saying that he's the one. You won't get any argument from me over here at suddenlystruttin either. Bron's jam over 'Sheed, the clutchosity of his fourth quarter performances the past two games and his dismissal of Rip at the foul line are all the stuff of minor NBA deities. What startles me about this series has not been LeBron, nor the fact that Detroit could've been swept all ready if not for two errant passes from Donyell and Hughes, but instead the consistent showing up of various role players coming to BronBron's aid and assistance in his times of need. "Boobie" Gibson was smooth like a classy high end bourbon last night and throughout the series Sahsa has been locking down on whomever he's supposed to guard. For my money the best story of the Cavaliers and the Eastern Conference Playoffs has been the rebirth of Zydrunas Ilgauskas, practically left for dead after his plethora of foot problems throughout the first half of his career, Z has quietly stitched together a decent second act. Now, I'm not a psychiatrist, that's not what I went to school for, but Z has had a fucking rough go of life in the NBA; aforementioned foot problems, being stuck on a shitty team in a city that occasionally makes Lithuania seem very okay and then to top it off you and your wife are cursed with still born twins! Yet, somehow Zydraunas with the plodding sensibility and knowledge of something much older battles on! His the third most productive center this Playoffs behind MemO (surprised!) and a guy named Duncan.

Draft Lotto Ruminations

Portland and Seattle, well, are they going to be around long enough for these picks to really help? From all I've read it seems as though the Sonic's bags are already packed and they're going to be mailing it in for the last season in Seattle. The Trailblazers, though, my, my, how Fortuna has smiled upon thee! I don't think Portland can go wrong drafting either Durant or Oden, I think they'll have a tough time selling Zach Randolph to anyone besides the Knicks and the Knicks don't even need him. The strange thing about this lotto is how much stronger the Western Conference is going to be. With two of the top three picks going to the Northwest Division we're looking at another decade of bigs from the West running the East out of the gym in the Finals. Which is a shame, I was really hoping to see one Conference get Durant and one get Oden. Also, is Kobe Bryant going to leave the Lake Show if the management doesn't make the right moves this offseason? If I'm Bryant I'm thinking to myself, "How do I get the big ticket outta the West and start over in the East?" Kobe as a Knick or Bobcat by 2008? Specualtive but not desirably intriguing.

Eastern Conference Finals: Or who will be playing the Spurs

Tonight marks the beginning of the end for the Cleveland Cavaliers season. The lethargic Cleveland Cavs have stumbled through the playoffs and advanced all the way to the Finals of the Eastern Conference however, much like their dismal 50 win regular season the Cavs have shown nothing but incompetence causing them to be garnished with apathy/pity from their opponents. Perhaps this strategy of garnering so much sympathy from your rivals worked on the weak-minded Wizards and Nets but the Detroit Pistons are serious, universe slaying juggernauts of the East. I see this series being far more chippy than any other series of this whole Playoffs, excepting for maybe the Suns/Spurs of the last round. The avuncular at best Rasheed Wallace will not be in any mood for the antics of Anderson Varejao and I envision the fuzzy visage of Andy's being gouged and spurred with many a 'Sheed based 'bow or piercing, verbal blow. I'd predict that this would a raw boned but brief four game affair if it were not for the fact that one Mister LeBron James has not had an incredible "GODDAM, HE"S GOOD" kinda game all Playoffs long. I look for him to drop 40+ with a side of double digit dimes/boards in at least one game, pushing this series to five games. So call it a five game sweep, it's not gonna matter the Detroit Pistons will win.

I'm asleep in an Enchanted Freakin' Forest. King LeBron, well he don't give a fuck.

After the past 36 hours of NBA politikin' I was really looking forward to some good old fashioned Bball, and instead found a a pile of poo in the Q. Yes, thanks to the Nets throwing the ball around "all willy-nilly" and eventually finding the bottom of the basket on enough occasions to score more than the Cleveland Floating Turdaliers I discovered not a basketball game and, in lieu, a more shit-tacular game than even the previous in this series of dubious regard/honor. For the team that wins this series, I wish you the best, you're going to need it and your predicament reminds me of a hooker fucking the football team to become the prom queen. Have fun with what the Pistons are going to do, you can tell yourselves you've already felt it, but you'll still be shocked. Meanwhile, in the night cap to this awful eve of pro ball, The Suns overcame nothing and now face the ugly prospect of having to win for a SECOND time in SA after flubbing things up in the fourth quarter. Honestly, Amare/Boris aren't even to blame, the Sols did not show up in clutch time. They had to face the reality of NO giant offensive and dynamic presence and could not swallow that. somewhere, I know, Gregg Pop is getting rubbed down and jacked off by a call girl of ill repute...Welcome to San Antonio vs. Utah Yazz. The East, as if we should fucking care, is still a cluster fuck. Have fun.

The Jungle be evolvin'!

After the NBApocalypse that was GS over the Mavs in round one, we're now all witnessing the power and might of a Boozer who's developed into the crane and wrecking ball of "the best l'il team that could" since those upstarts from Duke beat UNLV a generation ago. After Boozer and co. had finished off Houston (the team where my NBA soul lies) I was pissed off about T-Mac getting culled from the herd ofsuperstars and sacrificed to the hyenas of the media; who, to their credit, were more interested in making a human interest story than another choke job rag out of the fallen angel. But at the same time I couldn't deny the fact that Boozer was the best player on the court the last four games of that series and that JVG was outcoached like nobody's business by Yerry Sloan and his Yazz assistants. And now we have the prospect of a Utah Yazz team that has grown up hard and grown up quick and are on the hunt for Western Conference scalps. The scary/enjoyable thing about this Yazz team, unlike your father's Jazz of the 1990s is that they can run a bit and still play J. Sloan's "lock down, fuck a motha up for looking at you wrong" style of Defense---> with a capital "D!" And although both The Golden State Baron's and the Arizona Sols have chances to turn things around, I'm a pessimist at my heart, and am expecting the Spurs and Yazz to close these shops down for another year. Heck, Nash and Boom Diddy may even retire and spend the rest of their lives swimming in pools and drying off with hundred dollar bills. In any case, all I'm trying to say is that I'm willing to accept and do expect a SA vs The Beehive State and want to see Boozer make Duncan look bad and for Ginobili to trip all over himself.