Noah Boozer Deng Salmons Rose Bench: Miller, Pargo, Johnson, Gibson You add a competent back up 2/3 guy and that's a potential, young 50-55 win team with decent depth.
Boozer to the Bulls deal in the works per ESPN. I heard the same rumor through RealGM but this may give it legs now that ESPN is reporting it. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4317515
I like it. A floor spacer and a scorer off the bench is going to be needed to give us flexibility since Hinrich is basically a defensive stopper and part time offensive threat at this point.
So long, Ben. You were both infuriating and an absolute joy to watch sometimes. I'm going to hate seeing you in a Pistons uniform. There's definitely going to be some growing pains without him but I think it's probably for the better. I think Hinrich should probably stay unless you package him for a true difference maker. We're going to need another ball handler and we can still use his defense. I think we're going to need another 2/3.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-burressvick062909&prov=yhoo&type=lgns I can understand Plaxico being suspended because his case hasn't taken its course through the justice system yet but suspending Vick just seems like Goodell being a power tripping douche. Yeah, it's awful but he did his time and if some team wants to give him a shot they should be able to pursue him without the threat of a suspension.
Don't know where to put this but http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-yaorockets062909&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Yao likely out for all of next year and possibly the rest of his career.
Are you supposed to find "difference makers" in the middle of the first rd? The last decent player picked at 16 was Hedo Turkaglu and that was 2000, I believe. At this point if Johnson turns out to be Gomes, then it is a solid pick. That's a little extreme. I'm talking about good players on winning clubs...guys like that are found in the middle to late parts of the 1st round every year.
It doesn't really bother me if a player is pissed off at his own performance and bashes some inanimate objects to blow off some steam. I guess if you're in the dugout or clubhouse and see it on a semi frequent basis it would get old.