nba musings

Ew. I just noticed how many blog posts I’ve devoted to an egomaniac that I don’t even like. Must counter it with news about basketball entities that I do like. I’d discuss the Celtics off-season moves, but they haven’t made any yet that I’m particularly thrilled about. Jermaine O’Neal? Are you fucking kidding me? All I know about that guy is that every time he goes up against Perk, he looks like he’s about to cry. That doesn’t give me confidence. Of course I’m glad we retained Paul & Ray, but that isn’t so much moving up the grid as much as it’s staying the course. Yes yes, we re-signed Donkey… I’m cool with it, but again, that’s staying the course. IF Rasheed retires, I might do a jig, but then still, the names I’ve heard floating around to replace him (Shaq? Blah. There are no Boston-themed nicknames that will fit Shaq!) don’t excite me. So since I don’t have anything positive to say at the moment on that topic, let’s talk about J.J.! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!

The Orlando Magic matched an offer sheet for J.J.’s services from the Chicago Bulls. The Orlando Sentinel posted this gem last Friday:

J.J. Redick and his new bride have been honeymooning in Spain, where the running of the bulls was just completed in Pamplona.

One thing’s for certain: Redick won’t be running to the Chicago Bulls.

The Orlando Magic announced on Friday that they had matched the Bulls’ 3-year, $19 million offer sheet for the restricted free-agent shooting guard.

Ha. Love you Orlando Sentinel but, “Redick won’t be running to the Chicago Bulls“? Good grief.

Anyway, congrats to J.J. for proving the “he’ll never make it in the NBA, because he can’t defend” doubters wrong. I always knew they were full of shit.

Duke 78, Baylor 71

Screenshot from ESPN.com

Oh and while we’re talking about Duke… Guess who was the top performer for the Orlando Magic tonight in their game against the Denver Nuggets? Former Dukie, J.J. Redick, that’s who! Vince left the game early on and Pietrus was out, so J.J. ended up playing over 46 minutes. Yikes!

Screenshot from Yahoo! Sports

Dante & Galante + J.J. Redick =

Bonus: Love the random dude in the bucket hat wandering into the shot behind J.J.

Don’t ask me how I happened to stumble upon this, but…

WTF?!

Supposedly, this is a J.J. Redick bobblehead. I do not approve. Ew.

Worth viewing for the hair gel reenactment alone. It will change your life. Pinky swear.

ps. There may be a Josh McRoberts cameo… and it may be fan-fucking-tastic.

Here is what the muse™ is thinking about this week:

Rondo gets paid
* So Rajon Rondo may like to fight with people. I’m ready and willing to admit that it’s a distinct possibility that he’s a tiny bit of a douchbag. But, you know what? He’s our douchebag and we’re keeping him!

Is there anything more obnoxious than Favre-cam?
* I have to hand it to Brett Favre. He really stuck it to Green Bay. I keep rooting for him to lose and somehow the old bastard just keeps on winning. I’m not even sure exactly why I’m rooting for him lose. It’s just that somewhere along the way, he turned into the bad guy. Over-exposure maybe? The mother-bleeping Favre-cam maybe? Oh yeah, that’s right… Now, I remember.

For every incident they admit, there are at least ten more they don’t
* This Tom Cable story just gets sicker and sicker. He doesn’t just knock assistant coaches around, he beats wives and girlfriends too?

“More than 20 years ago, during my first marriage… I became very angry [at his first wife, Sandy] and slapped her with an open hand. What I did was wrong and I have regretted and felt sorrow about that moment ever since…”

Slapped her with an open hand, huh? Sure, Tom, sure. Major props to the district attorney’s office for dropping those recent assault charges. Because you know, I’m pretty sure that guy just ran into a door.

Manu swats a bat in mid-air
* Am I the only one that feels bad for the bat? While we’re at it, where the hell did a bat come from? And how small was that thing? Was it just a baby bat, frantically search for it’s mother? Sweet Jesus, never mind. I don’t want to think about it anymore.

J.J. has a career night
* I know I’m only supposed to talk about J.J. Redick when someone in the blogosphere mentions Erin Andrews… But, there was that whole time period during the peeping tom thing where Erin was all over the place and I didn’t bring up J.J. once during that time. Mostly because I was too lazy to blog during that time, but still. I’m due and what better time than now when my boy J.J. has a career night for the Orlando Magic. 27 points! 6 rebounds! 5 assists! Pretty nice stats. Of course, one my Facebook friends still had the nerve to ask me, ”You do still know he’s bad though, right?” Tsk tsk! Behave, you!

R.I.P. Trojans
* My USC Trojans got massacred in Oregon this past weekend. My mother, the Michigan fan, took great glee in this. My sister, the Notre Dame fan, also took great glee in this. Damn it! Damn it all to hell! *shaking fist at the sky* I’m a glass half full kind of girl though, so on a happy note… In NFL action, both the Jets and the Giants LOST! Bwahahahaha…

The sports blogosphere must really really really love them some J.J. Redick. Or else I wouldn’t have gotten an eyeful of this yesterday while perusing my feeds. Ok then. Here’s my uzi full of J.J.:

Pow!

Pow pow!

Pow pow pow!

Related news:

• Busted Coverage: Sideline Reporter Fantasies: It’s True…NBA TV’s Melanie Collins And ESPN’s Erin Andrews Workout At Same Gym

Awhile back I threatened the sports blogosphere with a J.J. Redick for Erin Andrews tit for tat (no pun intended). Today, while perusing Ballhype, I stumbled upon this. You were warned. So, you must pay.

Ka-pow! Behold the awesomeness of J.J. Redick!

So, in case you forgot… J.J. Redick > Erin Andrews. I’ve got plenty of J.J. in my arsenal. Keep force feeding me Erin Andrews on my daily blog rounds to your own peril. I’ll just keep firing J.J. out of my uzi. Pow pow pow!

Yes, the rumors are true. I have been posting beefcake photos of J.J. Redick to my Flickr. This shall be my counterbalance to all the millions of Erin Andrews pictures posted out there by sports geeks young and old. Every time I go to a sports site and see an Erin, I’m coming to my own blog to post a J.J. This shall keep the balance of the sun and moon aligned.