Vegan Fish Tacos First 2009 NBA Mock Draft and Draft Board

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To those of you who are used to the format, welcome back.
For those who are not familiar with how I do draft work, here’s a short synopsis: I do two distinct mock drafts, one of which is the Predictions mock and the other which is what I would do if I were the GM of [...]

One hell of a stat- Stars Win Championships edition

I was having trouble falling asleep, so I looked this up:
The last time a team other than the Pistons won an NBA Championship without having a player who had previously won a regular season MVP award was the 1981 Celtics, and they just happened to have four future Hall of Famers (one of whom later [...]

Devin Harris trade, revisited

Thanks to being in law school and having finals over the past few weeks, I have not had the chance to tackle a few issues that have stuck in my craw since the start of the playoffs. The first of those comes today: Some people (including a certain ESPN personality who has his picture on [...]

Because I’m deathly afraid someone is going to post this first (NBA Draft Lottery)

I’ve had the idea for how the NBA should handle the lottery for a little while now, but have waited to write it up because I’m busy (law school finals) and because this blog does not have enough visibility right now for it to get the penetration it deserves. But I realized that things are [...]

My nickname for Stephen Strasburg

Assuming he gets drafted by the Nationals, his nickname should be “The Majority Whip“

Probably the single dumbest paragraph of Bill Simmons’ career

Here’s what he wrote:
93. Chris Anderson
If the Birdman doesn’t win “Comeback Player of the Year” for (a) bouncing back from a drug violation so seedy that they wouldn’t even tell us what happened, and (b) giving Denver superior bench play this season (6.5 ppg, 6.2 rpg, 2.4 bpg in 20.5 mpg), then let’s dump the award [...]

Quite possibly the greatest thing ever

Gotta give credit here to the source: A guy on clutchfans
 
 
 
Again, here’s the source.

An open letter to ESPN

During the excellent BS Report podcast with John Walsh, Bill Simmons and John discuss the backlash for ESPN, but what was surprising to me was how little self-awareness there was in the dicussion, particularly considering Bill is one of the better “big picture” sports minds that has heavy readership. I’m someone who has watched ESPN [...]

Byron Dorgan was right

”I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930’s is true in 2010,”
-Byron Dorgan (D- North Dakota) in November of 1999
He said this in light of [...]

Framework of a Franchise- Minnesota Timberwolves

It’s (finally) time to get back into continuing the Framework of a Franchise feature. For this one, I decided to do something for the guys at Canis Hoopus, who run a fantastic site, and do the Minnesota Timberwolves. As it turns out, they are also an excellent team for the new format of these pieces [...]