Than Eddy Curry.

At least Z-Bo DOES sumthin’. Curry is just a lump of goo, sitting out there taking up space.

I know we isn’t gonna get Z-Bo, and I don’t want Z-Bo, but Curry…. (shudder).

It would be HILARIOUS if what you describe does happen, where they spend two picks to get him (which was crazy then) and then another pick to send him off—I know his value is way down, but is it THAT down? You can’t even give him away, you gotta give up a nice draft pick in a good draft? Yikes.

I can’t think of anyone who would want him, of course, with his fatness and absolute worthlessness on the court and heart problem that could kill him at any moment. Since he does nothing but score, you gotta make him the focal point of the offense, or he adds NOTHING. It astounds me every time I think about it, I can’t wrap my head around it.

A man who takes up that much space, is 7 feet tall, can leap reasonably well and dunks all the time, struggles to grab 5 boards a game and can’t even use his big body to muscle up who he defends. He’s got a big ol’ meat head too, like he shared needles with Barry Bonds.

What did Eddy Curry ever do to me, you ask? He murdered my family, that’s what. And ever since then, I swore revenge by talking bad about him on websites he would never read. Someday, my deep emotional wounds will drive me to the drink of madness, but not without a lot of bad-talkin’ about Curry along the way. He’s earned my disgust.

Mortimer

I didn’t research this much. Maybe Jerome James would cost less, but I think the Knicks would insist on Curry being part of the deal. Whatever, the point is that the Blazers can do a quick and dirty deal for a pick that will land them Westbrook. I probably wouldn’t take on Curry’s deal, but the Knicks are LOADED with other players they’d like to dump.

Competition will lower the asking price.

We need somebody to be mad at.

Dude is an athletic freak, with reflexes like a cat.

Jarrett has reflexes like a tree.

Russell Westbrook is the un-Jack.

Doesn’t sound like our Jarrett, does it? Makes me wonder about Jack’s ankle. Reportedly it hasn’t been right since his senior year in college. I think he was going to seek yet more treatment for it this summer. If Jack could defend anything like Draftexpress had said-and if he learned to run a fast break-he’d be a pretty nice point guard for the Blazers. But with a bum ankle, that’s probably not in the cards. (I tried to play hoops on a bad ankle for 6 months once, and I know you just can’t get it done.)

Gilbert Arenas did some one-on-one workouts with Chris Paul when the latter was trying out for teams prior to the 2005 draft—there was a big article on TrueHoop about it about a week back. I don’t know how common it is, but it’s certainly not impermissible.

I am pretty certain that players are not allowed to play against draftees