A Special Rose

Gertrude Stein said, “A rose is a rose is a rose.”  In the case of the Chicago Bulls Derrick Rose, she couldn’t be more wrong.  This Rose isn’t any ordinary rose.  He isn’t your average Tea or Shrub Rose.  He certainly isn’t your Jalen variety Rose either.  This Rose is one of a kind and the fans of the Chicago Bulls should cherish this time because this Rose doesn’t bloom in your garden too often.

Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said that this kid is going to be an MVP multiple times and lead the Bulls to a “minimum” of 4 NBA championships.  Wow!  I first thought that was a pretty ballsy statement coming from the Eastern Conference which contains teams like Boston, Orlando, New York and Miami.  Then I thought I kind of liked hearing some confidence coming from upstairs.  We haven’t heard or seen this kind of brash talk since 1998.

It may be unfair to compare him to Michael Jordan, perhaps the greatest professional athlete of all time.  However, he is 22 years old and a favorite to become the youngest MVP in NBA history.  I just got goosebumps typing that.  Could it be the Bulls are that lucky?  Guys like Magic, Bird or Jordan come along once every half-century if you’re lucky.  Chicago just got their second superstar in under 20 years.  To think there was even a debate of whether to take Rose or Beasley just makes me giggle.  To think some Chicagoans were behind gutting this young group, possibly even throwing in Rose, to get a LeBron, Bosh and/or DWade makes me laugh even more.  Miami cries in the locker room and I laugh.

But there is nothing to laugh about when it comes to Rose and the Bulls serious play and them seriously kicking the asses of some really good teams.  I think about all of the injuries the Bulls suffered this year with a first year, first time NBA head coach.  They didn’t cry about it.  Rose and Coach T stayed cool and Rose kept lighting it up night after night.  DRose has become the soft-spoken leader of the current #2 seed in the East.

So what is the top for this Rose?  3 or 4 titles?  A couple of MVP awards?  A dozen or more All-Star appearances?  I guess we will just have wait and see.  One thing we do know is that this fragrant Rose just came into bloom and should be around to give us many great memories for a long time to come.

Finally…

Finally the Daddy has come BACK to the Sports Rag!!!!

Daddy!  Daddy!  Daddy!

I’ve been gone a long time in Blog years but it is good to be back.

Since I’ve been gone the Green Bay Packers have become World Champs.  Well that’s just great.  The big silver football is a town where the biggest building is a corn silo and the players look like they work for John Deere.  The fans all wear big pieces of foam cheese on their heads and the big G on the side of the helmet stands for GIVE ME A BREAK!  Hey Matthews!  Thor called and he wants his hair back.  Or was that Pamela Anderson?

The multi-millionaire dollar Miami Heat are off to a good start with King Douche and company but let’s count 1, 2 , 3…17 losses already.  Some return on investment.  The Bulls, Celtics and Knicks have all kicked their candy asses so far this year.  Sure, they’ll make up excuses like oh LeBron and D Wade missed some time.  Well, waaaaaah!  Cry me a river.  You think that’s it?  Do you really think that’s it?  IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!  The Bulls have missed one of more of their big three all season and they are right on your asses.  The Knicks and Celtics have made themselves stronger as well.  So Miami sHeat, enjoy your time in the sun.  Relax, order some more mojitos and get ready for the beat down of your lives come play off time.

If you smellllllllalalalala what the Daddy is cookin’!

Oh, and yes, thank you Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for you return and inspiring me to write this.

 

King Douche at it Again

The Cavs are DEMOLISHED by the Heat 112-57.  Instead of being the bigger man.  Instead of just shaking hands, avoiding the media and going about his way he had to Tweet.  He Tweeted the following  “Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. It’s not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!”

Really?  Does he honestly think God is kicking back with some Funyons and a six-pack watching the Cavs and Heat?  If there is a God King Douche I am pretty sure he has more important things to do.  Arrogant bastard.

“It’s just how I was feeling at the time,” James said. “It wasn’t even a comment from me, it was someone who sent it to me and I sent it out. It wasn’t toward that team. It definitely wasn’t a good showing by that team last night, I know they wish they would’ve played better.”  Well, no shit Sherlock.

So, the Heat coach came out and said that the team was going to take time to “educate” players about Twitter.  Are you kidding me?  Are these guys 8 years old?  Look, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist, if you don’t want people to see it or read it you don’t put it on the Internet.  How hard is that?  The next thing you know the Heat are going to have to have  Why it is Bad to Drink, Snort Coke and Drive Seminars.

The bottom line is he should know the people of Cleveland, the team and ownership are going to feel the sting for a while.  He should be an adult about it and just leave it alone.  However King Douche won’t leave it alone because that’s not his style.  He is gonna say it, or Tweet it or ooze it in some form or another.  Just another reason why it will be glorious when Boston, L.A. or San Antonio take their ass out in the playoffs.

South Beach to be Lebronified

The sports world had to sit through weeks of “experts” spouting off their theories about King James.  Sports talk shows were drawn to it and so were the sheeple.  He’s going home!  He is going to Chicago!  He is going to New Jersey or New York or Miami.  And the reasons for their beliefs were, well, down right stupid.  We had to listen to Mariotti, Stephen A. Smith and some other hack sports journalists tell us why it would be one city and not another.  What started as an exciting free agent process with a lot of really good players like LeBron, Wade, Boozer, Bosh and Nowitzki turned into an avalanche of greed and self-importance.

LeBron announced he would meet these teams on his own terms and then have a one hour special announcing his decision.  Really?  All the great players of ALL TIME in every major sport and this guy needs a show.  I surprised LJ didn’t contact USA Network have Jeffery Donovan fired, King James would be the new lead and rename the show Lebron Notice.  No wonder the Cavs owner felt the way he did.

The Cavs are the home town team.  All heart strings are pulling Lebron back but it isn’t about home being where the heart is.  It certainly wasn’t about building a championship with a great young team like Chicago.  If that had been a priority than Chicago would have made the most sense.  Newly signed Carlos Boozer, Noah, Deng and super point guard Derrick Rose would have made for an excellent starting 5.  But, he wasn’t interested in a great sports city like Chicago.  Or maybe he just didn’t have the balls to come to the team that Michael Jordan built.

What was important was greed.  What was important was playing ball with his homies Bosh and DWade.  What was important were beaches, clubs, babes and no state income tax.  After the decision it just made the whole one hour announcement a contrived dramedy.  It wasn’t as hard of a decision as he played it.  It was about image and getting to hang out in South Beach with his “Rat Pack” for 5 years.

Will they win a championship?  It is possible if all three ball studs stay healthy and play 45 minutes a night for 82 games.  The Heat bench will be unimpressive overall and they won’t be able to make any moves during the trade deadlines.  It is the Three Amigos or BUST!   And, keeping this team under the cap will be an amazing feat of accounting skills worthy of a one hour special but I have a feeling the Heat won’t have enough left over to support the Boys and Girls Club.  Well, the team won’t but I bet Wade, Bosh and Lebron have a few extra shekels to spare.

King James is all yours South Beach.  Enjoy!  I don’t think you guys have a court big enough for those egos.

Basketball Babes

While I usually post the beautiful babes of college football, NFL Cheerleaders and baseball I do have lots of love for the babes o’ basketball. Here are a few. Enjoy!

WTF Volume 1

I watched a really great basketball game last night between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat. No, wait. I thought it was the Miami Heat. Yep, there is Dwayne Wade. EL HEAT. WTF is that. Look jack nuts, “The Heat” in Spanish is “el Calor”. If you are trying to appease your Latin basketball fans in South Florida it would help if you got it right.

WTF A-Roid. “I have a torn labrum but I am a man and I’ll play in the World Super Global Tournament of Baseball Teams for Interstellar Domination. Oooops, maybe not. I think I will skip that and rest my boo boos and concentrate on opening day with the NY Yankees. Oh SNAP, more bullshit. Tee Hee. I think I’ll just have the surgery after all and play for NY June 1st.” What a freakin’ tool!

Buffalo signs T.O. WTF Bills. You have a nice, young nucleus and you want to wreck that by signing cry baby, whack job, suicide attempt, cancer to all clubs Owens? I wouldn’t have predicted this signing in a million years. Let’s see how quickly he’ll start feuding with Marshawn and complaining to the press about his lack of touches.

DePaul defeats Cincy 67-57? WTF!!!! DePaul couldn’t beat off.

Trading Times

Although we are in the beginning of our “Sports Dead Zone” there are a few things that can keep us amused.  One of those things is the NBA Trade Deadline.  It is here where you know whether your team is interested in making a playoff push in 09′ or selling and thinking about 2010.  Will the elite teams like Cleveland, Boston, Orlando or LA make a key move to solidify the playoff roster?  Here are 5 moves that I think have to happed before the end of the trading deadline.

#1 ORLANDO MAGIC ACQUIRE A POINT GUARD – The Magic have lost Jameer Nelson for the season and need to make a move.  They are one of the top 3 teams in the Eastern Conference and will make a move.  I think the Chicago Bulls are the perfect trading partner with the Bulls.  Ben Gordon would give Orlando a PG with offensive presence.  The Bulls are point guard heavy and looking to deal.  Orlando would give Chicago PF Brian Cook, SG Keith Bogans and a 1st Round Draft Pick.  Brian would give Chicago added depth in the front court and Keith would replace a soon to be departed Larry Hughes.  All players have a one year deal.  It is very low risk for all parties concerned.

#2 LAKERS AND GRIZZLIES SWAP BIG CONTRACTS – I look for the Lakers to do two things at the deadline.  One is rid themselves of Lamar Odom and the second is to pick up some front court players to replace Odom and the oft injured Bynum.  I think a perfect scenario would be for the Lakers to send Odom, Mihm and a 1st Round Pick in 2010 to Memphis for Hakim Warrick, Darko Milicic and Marko Jaric.  Memphis will acquire to veteran leaders on the front court to go with Arthur, Gay and Mayo.  The contracts of Odom and Mihm also expire so they would be off the hook for over $16,000,000 against the cap and could pursue the likes of Shawn Marion or Carlos Boozer in the off-season.  The Lakers get front court help in Hakim Warrick and Darko Milicic for their playoff run.  Hakim is youth and athleticism to the front court while Darko adds power to the paint.  Guard Marko Jaric has been a major disappointment.  LA might increase his minutes but essentially he would be nothing more than a cap throw in and would occupy the back part of the bench.  

#3 BOSH MOVES TO CHICAGO – A great deal for both Toronto and Chicago would be for Toronto to send PF Chris Bosh to Chicago for PF Drew Gooden, SF Luol Deng and the Bulls 1st Round Pick in 2009.  The Bulls will lose Gooden after this season so he will get moved either way.  Bosh is a key to the Bulls puzzle.  The Bulls could then build a championship caliber team around Bosh and Rose.  Toronto would get a solid swing type player in Luol Deng and the Bulls 1st Round Pick, which should be a lottery pick.  This would give Toronto two picks in the 2009 NBA Lottery.  Still not enough for Bosh?  Well, maybe so but he wants out and it makes sense for them to get something for him instead of nothing.

#4 SACRAMENTO SENDS BIG MAN TO MILWAUKEE – The Bucks are fighting for a playoff spot and lost their big man Bogut.  They will be looking for a short term solution and that could be Sacramento C Brad Miller.  He is a veteran averaging 12 points and 8 rebounds per night.  If Bogut is back by playoff time than Miller will give them added depth.  Sacramento would get Charlie Bell, Francisco Elson and Dan Gadzuric.  Charlie is a 6’3″ tweener guard.  In Sacramento he would be a roll player.  Dan is a center and would replace Brad.  He is also more of a bench player and would split time with Mikki Moore.  Elson is a center in the final year of his deal.  He would more than likely not be retained.  Milwaukee might throw in a 2nd Round pick.

#5 MIAMI AND TORONTO SWAP BIG MEN – I am uncertain what the impact of this deal actually is but Riley has been trying to unload Marion for a while.  An ideal target would be Toronto and their C Jermaine O’Neal.  The money doesn’t quite work out so Toronto would have to throw in a James Jones as well.  Both players contracts expire as well so their is really no risk for either team.  Perhaps Miami feels O’Neal and his game are a better fit with Wade and Beasley during a playoff push.