Links to the Present: Of Note Edition
2014-05-02
The Donald Sterling incident is continuing to pull in commentators from the Cavs organization. Three days after the Dan Gilbert comments about Sterling, Mary Schmitt Boyer of The Plain Dealer has an article up about Jarrett Jack’s comments. Jack is adamant that Sterling sells the team before next season.
“If that guy does try to take it into litigation and drag this thing out, we have to respond as players and make our voice known as loud as possible. If this man is still in control, we as a league shouldn’t play another game, another practice, another anything until something is done or he relinquishes control.”
Thankfully for Jack, there is no shortage of buyers for the team. Grantland.com has a power ranking up for who may take on control of the Clippers. Oprah is leading the way along with other household names like Rick Ross, Floyd Mayweather, and P. Diddy.
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Jermaine O’Neal just had a piece written about him two days ago titled, “The Resurrection of Jermaine O’Neal.” Jonathan Abrams of Grantland wrote about O’Neals long, injury ridden, and now suddenly productive career with the Warriors. The productive part may not be true as of last night.
During the Warriors win against the Clippers, Glen Davis barreled into O’Neal and buckled his knee. O’Neal wants to play no matter what, regardless of his doctor’s findings from his scheduled MRI.
“Anything short of an ACL, PCL, (or) MCL (tear), and I’m playing. There are only two things that probably can stop me from playing – rapture, God coming back, and an ACL injury.”
The Clippers and Warriors play game seven on Saturday.
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There is speculation that Paul George may receive a one game suspension for stepping on the court from the bench during the Pacers win against the Hawks. George Hill of the Pacers and Mike Scott of the Hawks got into a shoving match while PG was on the bench. PG reacted and stepped out to the court. The Indy Star has the complete story and several tweets weighing in.
“@TimBontemps: @StuJackson32 So you think Butler will get suspended and George won't, Stu?”YUP
— Stu Jackson (@StuJackson32) May 2, 2014
The Hawks would be receiving a huge gift from the NBA if George is suspended.
Ha! That is awesome — thanks for posting.
Well, when you’re looking at Max salary players I think you should be talking about all positions, since you can only have one or two of them, usually. Melo makes $21M. Of course, by my rankings, Melo is the 3rd best player of the top-10 salary guys (after Dirk and LeBron see https://espn.go.com/nba/salaries ) so go figure. I agree Harden has had a bit of an off year. I haven’t paid much attention to his D, but I’ve heard others complain. I still like him. Must be the beard. Melo to the Bulls rumors sound interesting. He’d be a huge… Read more »
Why would you even compare Melo to players who play a different position. Seriously? Comparing apples to oranges. Also James harden blows donkey you know what. We thought Kyrie didn’t look like he cared on defense, holy shit.
My list of players who are better than Melo:
LeBron, Durant, Westbrook, Harden, Dirk, Aldridge, Love, Curry, Davis, Griffin, Duncan, Paul
That makes him the 13th best player in the league. It’s not that he’s a bad player, its just that his usage and salary are so high that they doom whatever team he’s on to mediocrity. Maybe Phil Jackson can construct a team with Melo that can win. I just want it to be someone else’s problem and not ours.
Charlie E, Carmelo is legit, basically the premise of the article is that Carmelo sucks because he’s not as good as Durant and LeBron. Simple fact of the matter, it’s still possible to be really good and not as good as two once in a life time players.
Big Baby play on O’Neal was awful. What a big dork that guy is. That was a low blow indeed.
Saw this article on Carmelo: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/05/carmelo-anthony-way-overrated/361528/
Not sure if I agree with all the stats, but I do agree that Carmelo is not a piece of a championship team, and I hope we never sign or trade for him.
I think Paul George being out would free up a lot of stuff for the pacers anyway. They would run away with that game.
They did it to Stoudemire and to Diaw they need to do it to Paul George.