The current Lakers play-by-play announcer, John Ireland, related a story on 710ESPN about Melo’s on-court chucking tendencies as told to him by Mike D’Antoni. When Linsanity was at it’s height and Carmelo was being re-integrated back into the offense following some games on the injured list, Lin became frustrated…

Is this really any surprise? This is karma points for helping (shepherding) the son of Jesus through the deserts of hitting.

I always saw him as a skinnier Sagat, but without the eye patch. Anyways, my money’s pseudo Sagat in this case.

I still have a favorite box of sports cards at my parent’s house. I remember many a saturday riding my bike down to the card shop to buy packets of Stadium Club, Upper Deck, Leaf and the like. Today that box is probably worth close to nothing, especially without the cards being professionally graded which is another…