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Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:47 pm EST

The 10-man rotation, starring the suddenly-awesome Lakers

By Kelly Dwyer

A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: Forum Blue and Gold. Loving life as a Laker fan, a tremendous read.
PF: Celtics Blog. Dealing with life after your favorite team lost its fourth game in 33 tries.
SF: Desipio.com. Matt from Desipio takes on this year's complicated All-Star rosters.
SG: The Oregonian. Not sure if you've heard this one, but Rasheed Wallace isn't always the most tactful guy on earth.
PG: ESPN.com. Yes, there are centers, and they do walk among us. Some of them like to go by the name "power forward."
6th: New York Post. Jason Kidd's gonna have another kid.
7th: Newark Star-Ledger. Dave D'Alessandro opens up the ole mailbag.
8th: Clipperblog. If you missed last night's Magic/Clipper game like we did, Kevin Arnovitz has some deciding plays for you.
9th: The Oregonian. A source tells John Canzano that the Knicks are likely to trade Zach Randolph to Milwaukee, which makes zero sense, even for two teams that employ Larry Harris and Isiah Thomas as General Managers. Milwaukee already has two power forwards that score and don't defend, and who exactly on Milwaukee's roster would the Knicks want to take back to match up Zach's 13.3 million dollar salary?
10th: Deseret Morning News. We won't hear much (or anything, really) from Jerry Sloan on TNT tonight.

But you will hear from me. Once again, I'm not sure how we're going to pull it off, but I'll be liveblogging the TNT games tonight from about 8 p.m. Eastern until 1ish.

Don't monkey around, swing on by!

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  1. Rickish
    1. Posted by Rickish Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:31 pm EDT

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    Unfair characterization of Sheed. He gets deeply involved in the community everywhere he plays, as most Portland and Detroit fans will tell you. He never craves attention for it. The on-court persona is often used to tag him as a jerk off, but it is simply not true. Let me say that I have never heard any story like that, especially refusing to sign something for a kid in a wheelchair. I probably speak for most other Pistons fans when I say that I don't believe it and consider that story pure BS. He may be snippy with the media, but when you were burned as many times as he was by the Portland media, you would be too. Again, very doubtful that this story actually happened.
  2. Mathias
    2. Posted by Mathias Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:11 pm EDT

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    Would Milwaukee consider Charlie V, BSimmons and The Voskuhl (expires this summer) for Zac and Balkman? RealGM Trade ID #4400832
    The Bucks currently have a duplication of forwards, which makes Villanueva and Simmons expendible. Of course, getting a PF and a SF back in this deal doesn't resolve that problem, although it's a talent upgrade. Milwaukee certainly don't need and shouldn't accept the other likely Knick throw-ins such as Robinson, Crawford or Q, even for a low-post stud such as Randolph.
  3. Dik Steele
    3. Posted by Dik Steele Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:06 pm EDT

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    KD,
    you should have higher journalism ethics than to print this repeat of of Sheed snub of a kid. Reminds me of the stories of Shaq saying David Robinson snubbed him when he was a kid. all garbage. Sheed and most pro athletes do a lot of good community work. Portland has their team, they love them, life goes on.
  4. Justin S
    4. Posted by Justin S Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:25 pm EDT

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    I'm in Portland, and I'm not sure whether to believe that Sheed story either. Canzano doesn't really have my trust as a sports "journalist."
    He (Sheed) was always pretty nice in person when I was around him a few times as a kid. The Blazers clearly had character problems for awhile (Bonzi probably being the worst of them), but Canzano had a tendency to blow things out of proportion, and he tends to focus too much on judging the characters of players, for good or bad, and not enough on what actually happens on the court. Sometimes it reads as if he has a grudge against a lot of those guys, and clearly he was, during that time period, at war with the franchise himself.
    Jason Quick, on the other hand, is as good as it gets.
  5. John U's Night Sweats
    5. Posted by John U's Night Sweats Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:44 pm EDT

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    Justin S wrote exactly what I was going to write about Canzano. He's not a journalist...but rather a columnist with an addiction to sports fans with illnesses and kittens in trees.
    Notice that the Zach Randolph to Milwaukee link above was also from Canzano....and was used as a forum to bash on Zach's friends.

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