I had a younger cousin named Matt. He had a speech impediment, and when he was about four years old, he stepped into his grandfathers shed and said to an uncle, “Put me in here per-a-minute.” Instead of “put me in here for a minute,” his uncle thought he said, “put me in here permanent.” After the uncle shut the shed doors, he walked back into the house. Someone heard Matt crying about 20 minutes later, and once he was released from the shed, he was ever so upset.

is that I said “Robert Spear” to myself in an English accent and then cracked up because it sounds exactly like Robespierre if you run it all together. :) You’re capable of extended soliloquies in English about the Reign of Terror, Alfredo? I KNEW you were a professor at Oxford! It’s all beginning to make sense now…the London dinner, the suspiciously good second-language ability, that dry ENGLISH wit…I’m onto you, buddy.

We were talking about what we were planning to do in the summer and someone mentioned shooting the rapids on the Umpqua or Rogue. A Vietnamese guy got excited and started telling us how he had shot rapids, too. We were puzzled, because this was 1980 and he had only recently moved to Oregon to go to school. We asked him where he had shot rapids and he said Vietnam. None of us had been there, but no one had ever heard of whitewater rafting in Vietnam—hadn’t they just emerged from a major civil war, etc.? He insisted he had shot rapids for years… turned out he was talking about rabbits. (That’s conejos to you, amlmart!)

but statistically upwards as a PTB for the long haul…. believe that player

his big, squishy, ham hock face as he tried to humble Sabas. He only succeeded in making himself look small, like his mind. It was hard for me to resign myself to rooting for a team with him on it during these play-offs. I guess that’s how much I don’t like the Spurs, except for Ime.

we’ve finally built a quality team with upstanding citizens, and gotten rid of our last bad seed and you want to replace him with Josh Howard? Even if he accepted the league minimum…no thanks. I don’t want him even corrupting or disrupting one of our guys for a single weekend.

Shaq is clearly fading before our eyes and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him come back a lot worse than he is now. Greg is going to tear him apart for a couple of seasons and I’m going to enjoy every second of it. I’m definitely going to make copies of every one of those games as I think Greg is going to have Shaq’s number from day one.

remember that Sabonis could hardly move sometimes, yet had the skill set to be an effective and sometimes dominant. He may not have been the greatest center ever, but he aged much much better than Shaq.

I need someone to find me a video, or at least a clearer memory, of the most fantastic Sabonis pass I ever saw: Blazers on defense, opponents miss shot, ball batted around and finally ends up on the floor. Sabonis scoops it up, facing the opponents basket, and flips the ball underhand BACKWARD in a blind pass down the the floor to a waiting Blazer in the forecourt. The greatest part was that after Sabonis threw the pass, he froze in position, never looking at what happened to the ball, while Rasheed cracked up next to him (must have been before the 01 WCF). it was fantastic. That and the offensive rebound he bounce passed backward through his own and Shaq’s legs to Brian Grant under the hoop.

brain fart…i was watching espn and got it mixed up.

The Celtics weren’t in the Suns/Mavs realm of good-just-not-good-enough.

In fact, what of the Celtics DON’T win the championship this year?
Will they be judged as harshly as Dallas was when they lost to Miami?
I’d say probably not.

It’s not impossible that he would fall to us at #13, though I’d have no problem going into the top 10 to get him. We wouldn’t have to give up anyone significant to get him, and maybe not anyone at all. His strengths are exactly what we need at point guard. He only costs a rookie contract. I’d much rather bring him onboard than try any of the much riskier trade ideas I’ve seen on BE.