Saturday, February 20, 2010

NBA News & Notes, A Man Kicked Off A Flight For Strong Body Odor... And Did You Believe Tiger's Apology?

A man on Jazz Air was reportedly kicked off a plane earlier this month because of his strong body odor. First director Kevin Smith gets the boot on a flight because he was "too fat" and now a passenger is "too smelly". I guess it's a reason to take more road trips in our own cars. We can all be as fat and smelly as we can tolerate.

Tiger Woods said, "Hello World" when he first went before the media back when he was a young cub. Yesterday I'm surprised he didn't say, "Rehab sucks & I need sex!" Tiger looked like a zombie up at the podium and he spoke with hesitations in his sentences worse than George W. Bush did. And who knew he was going to give us a lesson on Buddhism! That was pretty awesome if I do say so myself. He said he wasn't sure when he'll return to the game of golf... I'll tell you right now, he'll be back for the Masters.

Antawn Jamison went 0-for-12 with 2 points in his debut with his new team the Cleveland Cavaliers. At least things can only look up for him now. Although wouldn't it be funny if this is the production the Cavs get from him for the remainder of the season? If it is, then perhaps the city of Cleveland is cursed by the sports gods. I still laugh to myself when I think about the Cleveland Indians giving up C.C. Sabathia and Cliff Lee last year and then seeing them square off against each other in the World Series. What a kick in the pants!

The Memphis Grizzlies new swingman Ronnie Brewer suffered a partially torn hamstring during Friday's game against Miami. This was Brewers 1st game with his new team, and possibly the last of the season. If some teams didn't have bad luck, they wouldn't have any luck at all. I guess the Griz still deserve it after allowing Pau Gasol to be traded to the Lakers for basically nothing a couple years ago.

Newly acquired Boston Celtics guard Nate Robinson is not expected to make his Boston debut until next week as he battles a stomach virus. Nothing like trading for a sick kid! It will be pretty funny next week though when Robinson makes his Celtics debut against his former Knicks team. I'm sure his adrenaline and emotions will be off the charts. In fact, I'm going to predict that he'll have at least two massive dunks and eight turnovers in the game.

The Knicks will start Tracy McGrady in tonight's game against the OKC Thunder. It says a lot about your team when you're starting a guy who hasn't played in about two months... and hasn't really played all that much in the last year and a half.

Professional basketball around the NY/NJ area is quite special this year with the Nets and Knicks looking strong. I guess fans could always put their support behind teams like St. Johns, Rutgers and Seton Hall. Yeah, who am I kidding... it's a disaster.

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