Free Agency. Day 1

We have 6 signings. The highlights: Somebody is getting to his 10th team, our first overpaid free agent and Kahn strikes again!

Drew Gooden is headed to his 10th NBA team. He signed with the Milwaukee Bucks a 5 year $32 million contract. The Bucks are also expected to sign John Salmons

One of the top free agents targets, Joe Johnson, was offered the maximum by the Hawks ( 6 year, 119 million dollars). Odds are that he's accepting it. Ladies and Gentleman, we have our first overpaid free agent.

Kahn, T'wolves GM, signed his second European big in Darko Milicic ( 4 years, $20 million). This after signing their second round pick Nikola Pekovic to a similar contract ( 4 years, $13 million )

One of the players that was part of most team B or C plan, Rudy Gay, apparently is staying in Memphis. He's accepting a 5 year, $80 million contract. So, now Memphis is ponying up after giving away Pau Gasol to the Lakers.... yeah, nothing wrong with that trade.....

Amir Johnson is getting $34 millon through 5 years. Good luck filling Bosh' shoes

Channing Frye is sticking around in the dessert. He agreed on a 5 year, $30 million contract.

Rewriting history

Well hello there ...

Yeap, trying to come back here so instead of commenting about current events or ground breaking news that chocks everyone i decided to go against common sense and go ahead and write about boring and old stuff. These upcoming three o so posts I'm redoing every draft since 1978. Why 1978 u might ask? From this draft on players that really have an effect on what we know as the NBA started getting into the league. Legends like Bird, M.J. , Drexler, Scottie, Isaiah got drafted by difference teams that the ones where they build their legacy.

The ground rules are that players are selected where they should had been selected. No Sam Bowie, no Michal Olowakandi, no Darko Milicic in the top 5. Stockton and Malone don't go after the 10th pick and Manu gets selected in the first round. Just put yourself in the shoes of Joe Dumars in 2003 knowing everything you know right now. Did you pic Melo o Wade before Darko? Do you select Bosh insteand? In the cases where the players had similar careers or similar impacts in their respective teams the way to break the "tie" would be which players fullfills better the needs of selecting team at the time.

Happy Kobe?

So many things to write... Just in case you missed it, Gasol was traded to the Lakers for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie and some draft picks

Celtics vs Lakers Finals everyone? If I dare to say that a year ago you bet Blogger would had close this thing in a second. Now, thanks to a couple of blockbuster trades this is not longer a such far fetched idea in this material world.

The Lakers now look like a real contender to the title although just getting just out of the West deserves a ring. The West is that crazy and the top is getting insane.That happens when one of the worst team trade their best player to one of the top 6 teams in exchange for their worst player. If Bynum's injury is more serious that everyone taught Gasol is going to be the man in the middle for the rest of season and knowing Gasol's soft side is going to be very tough for the Lakers to beat up Duncan, Boozer or Yao in a seven game series. In the other hand Gasol is a perfect weapon offensively for the triangle, which gives Dallas one more "happy trigger" team to worry about.


The destiny of the Laker from now on depends on Gasol's basketball IQ and if he can share no only the low post but also the touces with Bynum when he returns and Mr Bryant. Talking about Mr Bryant this trade at least show Kobe that Kupchak and the Lakers are at least trying to making him happy.


In a related note, Bulls' fans must be kicking themselves.

Darko is Free. English Translation

Darko is not a nice person; I can say that right now without any fear of being wrong. A person that talks like that has to have some serious issues, especially after a basketball game. I didn’t find any English translation of Darko’s “speech”, so I translate one spanish translation I found. As I don’t want blogger to close this thing I’m replacing some “adult” words with some more family like words I think SNL did this in a sketch, I’m not really sure

The “F” word will be replaced by pony. Princess will replace prostitute – he actually didn’t said prostitute he said a more rude word- and Twinkle will replace penis - same thing here -I can write “shit”, right?.

This is Darko’s finest hour:

Innocent Reporter: Darko, some impressions…

Insane Darko: Nothing. Those three pieces of shit, all of them, three sons of ponies, they stole us. They think they are great deal. I’ll go up and pony their mothers. Pony their princess Italian mother

Scared Reporter: Darko, calm down. I understand you are disgusted

Mad Darko: Pony! Those three can suck my twinkle, write that down

"Dear God, what I have done" Reporter: Calm down!

Pervert Darko: Pony! They officiated like scare princess. I’ll pony their mother … and if they have daughters, I’ll pony them too

Reporter (something something)

Weak Darko: We were out there working and fighting. I almost needed some IV serum

Los Dioses en España

This is my first September as an NBA blogger, I’ve to say it sucks! Since the All - Time teams posts I have had nothing big or important to write about, event the All – Time teams posts weren’t any news. But we have international basketball to save the day. Chris Sheridan was shipped to Spain to cover the Eurobasket tournament and he brought plenty of notes. All of the NBA-ers out there, Marco Belinelli's being the surprise, if Nellie stops fighting with yet another employer, he might get the chance of coach his finding.

By far, the coolest thing that have happened on the other side of the Atlantic (or Pacific… I don’t know) is Darko´s rant against the referee, but I will address this little topic with a post of its own.

What the hell is this? Oden is having an exploratory arthroscopic procedure ¡! A ‘right, it’s out, this guy is really 40, , two intervened joints and his nowhere near 20 years old. Amazing. If you are like me and don’t know what in the name of Britney's belly is this, here's a gross video that explains it. You can go puke now

My condolescence to Britney’s fans' families, I’m sure they all die this Sunday. Go ahead, go puke again.