Yeah, it's been a month. What can I say? I suck at this whole posting consistently thing. Worse things have happened in the world. I'm going to try, try, try to get on a schedule here when it comes to posting. But I apologize in advance for what will happen when I inevitably stop posting for weeks at a time.
On to the NBA, which is why we're here anyway.
A small scuffle broke out between the Nuggets and Knicks on Saturday night. Okay, so I'm under-exaggerating a little bit. It was the biggest fight we've seen in the NBA since Detroit in 2004 (I refuse to give the incident a corny nickname). But as bad as it was, I believe people are blowing it out of proportion. Stuff like this happens a lot in the NHL and Major League Baseball. But whenever the national media covers it, they treat it like something normal. But when it happens in the NBA, the league and all of the "thugs" who play in it are made to look ridiculous. I'm not saying it's a race issue one bit, but I am saying it's an image issue. One David Stern has tried to change, but nonetheless is still there. Speaking of the commish, David Stern and his "Family" (he is the Don after all), did a fair job handing down suspensions. Carmelo Anthony deserved about 15 games for the hit he landed on Mardy Collins. Collins deserved at least 6 games, I wouldn't have been surprised to see him get 10, just like J.R. Smith (who was originally fouled), and Nate Robinson. Jared Jeffries got four and Nene and Jerome James each got one game for leaving their benches. All in all, pretty fair penalties for the fight. And I think that even if Carmelo gets his suspension lessened to 12 games, it will still be fair. But you can never backpedal to your own bench after having punched someone across the face, not a smart move.
Allen Iverson is on the trading block (again) and it appears this will be for good. This excites me for several reasons. 1) I love Allen Iverson and I would die to see him on a championship caliber team again. 2) I love seeing big stars get traded and move to new teams rather than see them move via free agency. 3) I believe he'll have a bit of a rejuvenation when he gets to his new team. Although it's hard to imagine what a rejuvenated Allen Iverson will look like considering the current Iverson is second in the league in points per game, second in steals per game, and tenth in assists per game. Some in the national media have said that a trade for Iverson won't work not because of his contract or his attitude, but because of his style of play. A.I. does dominate the ball on offense, it's the way he plays. He also takes a lot of shots. Because of this many believe that he will be unable to coexist with another all-star caliber player if/when he gets traded. If he is forced to play along with another player who is used to controlling the ball on the offensive end, then yes, it probably won't work. As much as I'd love to see them play together, I don't think Iverson playing alongside Kevin Garnett would work. But trade him to a team with a player who doesn't need the ball in his hands to score, an unselfish player who rebounds well on the offensive end, a player like Dwight Howard. And as I write that last sentence, I find out that an agreement has been made to trade A.I. to Denver for Andre Miller, Joe Smith, and two 2007 first round draft picks, all of this according to ESPN.com. There's a reason why I'm not a GM apparently. Ugh, I'm done today.
