Taj Gibson Throws Down On D-Wade (via NBA)

Akon - Beautiful ft. Colby O'Donis, Kardinal Offishall (via AkonVEVO)

An underrated athlete, extremely consistent and fundamentally sound, nice length, improving post game, nice face up game, and can take guys off the dribble, shows great potential in the screen and roll, runs the floor very well, very good rebounder, underrated shot blocker, great timing on defense, length and footwork above average, great hands,, fights for position, more explosive than he looks, will dunk on your whole family. and he will only get stronger and better.   Beauty, thy name is Taj.

 

Poll

Beautiful?

67%

Yum yum give me some

70 votes

32%

Not my type

33 votes

103 votes | Poll has closed

 

Inspired by a post in today's chat with Chris Sheridan, this works according to ESPN's trade machine which for some reason I am unable to link correctly to. 

Bulls trade

Noah $2,455,680; 2 years

Hinrich $9,500,000;  3 years

Salmons $6,429,150; 2 years (assuming he goes for 2)

Lakers trade

Bynum $12,500,00; 3 years

Vujacic $5,000,000; 2 years

Farmar $1,947,240; 1 year

S. Brown $1,990,000; 1 year

Net net it looks like the Bulls may shave off about $885K for 2010 free agency. 

Poll

Does this chance have a snowball's chance in Hell?

12%

Sure

19 votes

87%

GTFO

133 votes

152 votes | Poll has closed

This is just a follow up to the discussion I had with Fundamentally Sound but quoting the post would have truncated the picture so I am posting here.

I could not find all the official pre-draft measurements so I either left some unlisted as "n/a" or I had to refer to the listed measurements from ESPN (for height only).  It would probably be wise to remove the outliers like Iverson, Durant, and Dunleavy so I omitted them but this is just a general idea over a smaller, more relevant sample (starting 2 guards), so take it for what you will.   I was curious to see the NBA averages for starting 2 guards which I feel is more relevant than the averages based on a sample of 132 SGs.   I've added some comments on the side to explain why I chose a particular SG to include in the sample.   I am omitting vertical jump because no one is asking for blocked shots or perimeter defenders to leave their feet.

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[From the FanPosts. The whole series of quotes is quite weird, but Rose may have accidentally just shown Pax's hand. -ed.]

But as Rose concluded his two-day visit with the Bulls Thursday at the Berto Center, the point guard sounded unsure if he even had a workout scheduled with the Miami Heat, owners of the second pick in the June 26 NBA draft.

"I don't think so," Rose said. "I think I have to ask [agent] B.J. [Armstrong] or someone about it. But all I know now is that I'm here."

Rose's older brother and confidante, Reggie, went even stronger, saying Rose won't visit Miami because "this is our last stop."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/cs-080619-derrick-rose-chicago-bulls,0,6343427.story

Well, I guess all the Bulls had to do was look into B-Easy's eyes and see Looney Tunes and t-t-t-t-t-that's all folks!

Can Isiah bail-out Paxson for the third time?  I think Zeke has it in him.  I want to believe.

This kind of deal might barely cause a ripple after the blockbusters we've seen lately -- and two sources close to the situation insist that it probably won't happen -- but New York and Chicago have apparently discussed a trade that would send Ben Wallace to the Knicks for Quentin Richardson, Malik Rose and Fred Jones.