I can’t think of a clever name for what I’m about to do, but I’m basically going to go through all the stories I read on ESPN.com this morning that I had some kind of reaction to. Think of it as my ESPN cliffnotes or something. Here…we…go!
I had a 7 game winning streak going in Streak for Cash up until yesterday. Whenever I build a streak past 5 in a row, I always talk myself into somehow having a shot at winning that month’s prize…and then for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to try to pick some UEFA Champions League qualifying match between 2 teams that I had never heard of before. As the kids say, f*** my life.
Mike Miller is apparently leaning towards rehabbing his back and returning to the Miami Heat next year instead of having surgery and retiring. Miller, Shane Battier, and James Jones will all likely not be expected to carry the respective loads that they had last year with the additions of Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis, but since they didn’t acquire a big man of any consequence it looks like the Heat are fully intent on employing the strategy of spreading the floor with shooters so LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh have more room to do their thing.
The Washington Wizards completed the trifecta of cleaning out their knucklehead closet yesterday in amnestying Andray Blatche. (The Wiz were able to rid themselves of Nick Young and Javale McGee through trades earlier this year.) When you consider Washington unloaded Gilbert Arenas and Rashard Lewis in the recent past as well, it makes you wonder how GM Ernie Grunfeld still can hold a job when he made so many terrible personnel decisions to begin with.
In a little beltway baseball recap, the seasons of the Nationals and the Orioles continue to go in opposite directions. Washington beat the Mets in walk-off fashion last night to improve their NL East lead to 3.5 games, as they continue to have the best record in the National League. The O’s on the other hand continued their annual slide, losing again to the Twins. Baltimore has lost 5 of 6 since the All-Star break, which finally allowed Tampa Bay to overtake them for 2nd place in the division.
In the last bit of DC sports news (as if there was any doubt that he would eventually sign), RG3 inked his rookie deal with the Washington Redskins today. Now, can we get our $36 mil in cap space that you cheated us out of back sometime, Mr. Goodell?
I don’t know who could have possibly foreseen this (*cough*), but the LA Lakers have positioned themselves back into the trade picture for Dwight Howard. Like the potential deal(s) with the Nets, it seems like the logistics of this trade are going to be a lot more complicated than simply moving Dwight Howard and Andrew Bynum. Because of that, third party teams are going to most likely have to be brought in to make any deal work, and that makes any move tougher to complete, but LA seemed like the most logical D-12 destination from the start…even if a trade doesn’t get done, that still seems like the most likely landing spot for Howard once the dust settles.
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