Ty Lawson broke the record for consecutive three-point makes without a miss when he made 10 straight threes against the Timberwolves. He would have also broken the record for most three-point makes in a game without a miss, but he missed his 11th attempt.
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Judge Susan Nelson has ordered mediation between the players and owners to begin in Minneapolis on Thursday according to Judy Battista of the New York Times. Judge Arthur Boylan will apparently be the mediator.
The owners wanted mediation to resume under George Cohen, while the players wanted it to take place in federal court. Thus, Judge Nelson’s decision to have mediation begin under Judge Boylan is yet another victory for the players in the current CBA battle.
As Rotoworld.com points out, Peter King predicted on PFT Live on Monday morning that no Collective Bargaining Agreement will be reached soon. King expects a lockout injunction, which means there will be a football season next year but without a CBA (meaning 2011 will be an uncapped year, just as it was in 2010).
At this point, I would have to agree with King’s assessment of the situation in that there won’t be a CBA deal reached soon. The owners appear to be stalling so that the lockout goes into August or September where they can apply the most pressure financially. I’m sure the owners are thinking that if they can get into August or September, the players may start to press or turn against each other when they’re not collecting game checks every week. It’s not a bad strategy on their part, although fans will continue to suffer the longer the lockout goes on.
Hopefully this forced mediation will help, but it appears that we still have a long ways to go before the two sides come to an agreement.
Jenn Sterger is breaking her silence on “Good Morning America” in an interview that will run on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Here’s an excerpt:
“I was approached one day at the beginning of the preseason games, by a man wearing a Jets badge, employee badge, who asked me, ‘How would you feel if Brett Favre asked for your phone number? What would you say?’ … And I said, ‘I’d say I like my job an awful lot. And I’ve been told I look remarkably like his wife.'”
Sterger said she walked away without giving the man her number and thought “that was the end of it.” But it wasn’t. Somehow Favre got her number, Sterger says in the interview. The rest was history. But Sterger wants to make it clear that she’s not a “gold-digger” and only wanted to do her job.
Sterger acts as if she’s just a victim, but I doubt Favre would have randomly sent her pictures of his junk if she hadn’t built some sort of rapport (even through text) beforehand. She had the chance to shut him down from the start and it obviously didn’t happen.
To her credit, she hasn’t sued, so her claims that she’s not a gold-digger may be true.
I’ve found it rather interesting that in the midst of Barry Bonds’ perjury trial and the news that Manny Ramirez abruptly retired instead of dealing with a 100-game suspension for another positive PED test (his second in three years), that some people have developed a rather nonchalant attitude towards steroids as it pertains to the game of baseball.
Whether it’s on Twitter, Facebook or in sports forums, people continue to utter the statement: “What’s the big deal? It’s only steroids. I like home runs! Steroids make the game more exciting!”
Honestly, I have rationalized at least part of this argument in the past. I couldn’t care less if someone wanted to take steroids – including athletes. Do you know what the yearly average is for deaths caused by steroids? Three. As in: three people. For comparison sake, tobacco kills 5.4 million people per year, which is a shade more than three.
That’s not to say I condone the use of steroids. When the day comes where I have children of my own, I’m going to make sure they understand how dangerous steroid use is. The potential side effects of misusing steroids are well known and if a doctor does not prescribe them, the risk just isn’t worth the reward in my eyes. We’re talking about highly dangerous stuff here, especially for those who don’t know what they’re doing.
But if a groan man wants to sink hundreds of dollars into drugs that will make him bigger, stronger or heal faster, then whatever. It doesn’t affect me and quite frankly, this country is dealing with way more pressing issues at the moment.
It’s award season in the NBA and today I’ll take a look at the top Sixth Man of the Year candidates. Not only will I try to predict who will win the award, I’ll also discuss who should win win the award. Those are two separate questions and they may have two separate answers.
First, to narrow down the candidates, I took a look at the winners from the past 10 seasons:
| Yr | Player | TM | G | GS | GS% | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | TOT | WINS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Aaron McKie | PHI | 76 | 33 | 43% | 31.5 | 11.6 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 20.7 | 56 |
| 2002 | Corliss Williamson | DET | 78 | 7 | 9% | 21.8 | 13.6 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 18.9 | 50 |
| 2003 | Bobby Jackson | SAC | 59 | 26 | 44% | 28.4 | 15.2 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 22.0 | 59 |
| 2004 | Antawn Jamison | DAL | 82 | 2 | 2% | 29.0 | 14.8 | 6.3 | 0.9 | 22.0 | 52 |
| 2005 | Ben Gordon | CHI | 82 | 3 | 4% | 24.4 | 15.1 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 19.7 | 47 |
| 2006 | Mike Miller | MEM | 74 | 9 | 12% | 30.6 | 13.7 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 21.8 | 49 |
| 2007 | Leandro Barbosa | PHO | 80 | 18 | 23% | 32.7 | 18.1 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 24.8 | 61 |
| 2008 | Manu Ginobili | SAS | 74 | 23 | 31% | 31.1 | 19.5 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 28.8 | 56 |
| 2009 | Jason Terry | DAL | 74 | 11 | 15% | 33.7 | 19.6 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 25.4 | 50 |
| 2010 | Jamal Crawford | ATL | 79 | 0 | 0% | 31.1 | 18.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 23.5 | 53 |
Notice that all 10 winners had the following in common:
— They started fewer than 45% of their teams games.
— They averaged at least 11.6 points per game.
— They averaged at least 18.9 total points, rebounds and assists.
— They were all on teams that won at least 47 games. Eight of 10 winners were on teams that won 50+ games.
Using this criteria to narrow down the legitimate candidates for the 2011 Sixth Man award, we’re left with this list of 11 candidates. To give us a little leeway, they all started less than half of their teams games, they averaged at least 17.3 total points, rebounds and assists, and they play on teams that have at least 38 wins on the season.
I also included Efficiency Per Minute to see how productive each player is in the minutes he gets. Bigs tend to do better in this statistic because it’s easier to post rebounds than it is to register assists and big men tend to shoot at a higher percentage because they play close to the basket (so they have fewer misses, which weight efficiency down).
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