Tracy Mc Gravy to the clips?

I know this is a bit late of a post but I was in Las Vegas during the time this was news. The LA Clippers are showing a bit of interest to Tracy McGrady. Yes the injury prone T-Mac that most of us all loved.

I'm sure if he does sign with the clippers A LOT of people will think it's a bad move. To me I think it's a great idea as long as he does not sign for a long term contract. 1-2 years and a little less than MLE should be fine for this 7 time all star. What could he bring to the clippers? Versatility, star quality player for cheap (when healthy) and a guy whose not scared to take over a game if things go wrong for the clippers. Sure he's not the same guy that he used to be (like his cousin vince carter) but if clips do get him for cheap it'll definitely be a low risk high reward guy. Think of it as playing Paigow Poker where most of the time you either push and not lose much besides the fortune. Okay maybe that was a bad analogy.

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Guess whose planning on coming BACK!!!

YEAH BOOOOOYYY!!!! July 18th is Penny's 39th birthday and he was on blog talk radio talking about a bunch of crap that I missed lol. What I didn't miss though is that:

HE PLANS ON COMING BACK TO PLAY IN THE NBA!

You don't understand how excited I feel about this. I've watched this guy during his glory days, during the days of his dispute with orlando, and his "falling from grace" days. I don't care whether he plays very minimum minutes, I just want to see him play again. I grew up idolizing penny and always wanted to play like him.

He didn't say which team he plans on playing, but if I was to guess it would be Miami. I REALLY hope that somebody signs him and gives him a shot again.

Orlando's pretty boy... Michael Pietrus

Just kidding, no we are not going to talk about "Air France". If you're an Orlando Magic fan you should be able to pinpoint who I am talking about. Yes, it's JJ Redick. The Orlando Magic role player whose a good knock down shooter, not a great defender but not a liability on the defense either, and well he's become a decent play maker (Which most of you will probably question this). He's not your typical 2 guard that'll break the defense with his ball handling skills but can definitely make shots for himself off the dribble. He shines mostly on pick and rolls, spot up catch-and-shoot plays, and coming off the screen jumpers. Defensively he's the type to run around with his man (as shown during the 2010 ECF against boston) harassing him where ever he goes. Given that he might not be the greatest 2 guard defender (becuase of his physical limitations) he boast great basketball IQ and dedication.

Now comes the dilemma, JJ Redick is a restricted free agent this year and about a few days ago Chicago offered JJ to a 19mil 3 year contract, reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! sports.

Now Orlando has about 2 days from today to match that offer by Chicago or JJ will walk. To be honest, Redick as it stands can definitely be a starter on any championship caliber team or any team for that matter. It would be very dumb of Otis to let JJ walk away and would definitely give orlando less depth and a lot of people will PROBABLY disagree with me but I really do think JJ is worth that 20mil. So Otis please don't disappoint us and bring Redick back to orlando, in the long run he'll be a much better player than that overrated all star who chokes during crunch time...

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Southbeach bringin' the HEAT, uh

Party in the city where the HEAT is on

All night on the beach till the break of dawn

Welcome to Miami (bienvenido a miami)

Bouncing in the club where the HEAT is on

All night on the beach till the break of dawn

I'm going to Miami

That’s what LeBron James was probably singing when he made his career decision to go and play with Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh. Yup you heard it right, he’s joining the Miami Heat to build an empire. To better visualize on how it’s going to be here is a picture I made (I can only use MS paint, photoshop is too complicated) to give you guys a better understanding on what kind of trio they would become.

Some people on twitter already gave them nicknames such as "Miami Thrice", "Miami Power Rangers", "Miami cHEAT", "Miami 3:16"(Wade wearing #3, Bosh wearing #1 Bron wearing #6) and others that I can't remember even if my life depended on it.

So what does it mean for the Heat? Well it definitely means lots of championships in the upcoming seasons. They'll definitely be the team to beat in the east. What does this mean for my Orlando Magic? harder competition in the southeast division. If Orlando wants to win the chip, definitely this year should be the year. Then again with all the moves Pat Riley is doing, they might already start their Championship run this year... Only time will tell, yes I know that was pretty cliché.

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Since I'm lazy my post on Cleveland/Miami Power Rangers/Southeast Division will be a little delayed not to mention I wanna write it in Comic Sans to honor Dan Gilberts anger towards Lebrocalypse but apparently Blogger/Blogspot don't have the font so I'll have to think of a way to do it differently.

PS

Nobody reads this anyway so who cares.

PPS

Here read Dan Gilberts break up letter to LeBrocalypse

Love

Hermit

Chris Wade - Dwyane Bosh

Years and years we've seen those Dynamic Duo in the NBA and it's always been fun to watch them play. With the announcement of Dwyane Wade, it is now verbally official that Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade will be playing together in miami.

So the thing is, the Miami Heat currently only have 4 players on their roster (Including Bosh and Wade)

1. Michael Beasely

2. Mario Chalmers

3. D-Wade

4. C-Bosh

Now with a projected 2010-2011 salary cap of 56.1m and with 2 max contracts coming up along with Beasely and Chalmers contract, they really don't have a lot to spend with for the remaining roster spots.

Miami heat is, well, lacking a Center, and a whole Bench. If I did my math right, they would roughly have 16m left to spend on a Center and a Bench. Really 16mil? Yeah apparently thats not much to work around with to be honest. Oh did I mention theres about 11 roster spots to fill? yeah exactly right

All in all, I'm pretty happy for Miami to land 2 all-stars but what comes after this is a brain twister but nevertheless it'll be really exciting to watch Bosh and Wade play together... EVEN IF they never win a championship together... (Then again I really have no idea what Heat fans thinks about this in the long run maybe its a good thing.)

In other news,

Kevin Durant (The guy who won the scoring title last year and led the Thunder to its very first playoff birth in which they sent the lakers in 6 games) just signed a 5 year 85mil extension with no opt out with the Oklahoma City Thunder AND he did it on twitter. You now became my 2nd favorite player in the NBA KD, and you have my respect, good job!

Lebron James finally made a decision

No it's not about the free agency, (god if I had to take a shot of soju for every mention of "Free Agency" and "LeBron James" I'd probably be in the hospital for alcohol poisoning.) he finally made a twitter account. According to a CNN article his publicist Keith Estabrook confirmed that it was indeed LBJ who made the account.

My top guesses on his first tweet

1. What's for lunch

2. I'm resigning with the Cleveland Cavaliers GOTCHA!

3. Oh hey you remember that dance I did during the blow out game in... pause

4. What's for dinner

5. Done with gym

6. Sorry @ChrisBosh I'm not playing with you, I rather play with @amareisreal

7. @ChrisBosh would I look cute if I grew out my hair and braid it??

8. @the_real_shaq why do you have more followers than me? I own the media and the world.

Apparently none of guesses are right and here is his first tweet:

"Hello World, the Real King James is in the Building "Finally". My Brother @oneandonlycp3 gas'd me up to jump on board so I'm here. Haaaa"

Oh well can you please give us an answer now on where you will be playing? Oh and yes people did give you the nickname "King" but really? really Lebron? Wooo damn you need to pop that ego really quick, just a suggestion.