about some of the artest trade rumors

artest supposedly realized he spoke too soon(surprise! it's ron artest!) and now wants back. problem is, donnie walsh won't let him play, even if he does take him back. that would(if pacers decide to keep artest) the 2nd straight season that artest's season was cut short.

get this; out of the 30 nba teams, 20 want artest and have hit indy's phoneline. (let's count the ones which don't; lesse; detroit, san antonio, MAYBE dallas, MAYBE suns. from there, i'm pretty much stuck.)

and since indy doesn't look like they're gonna get any good packages from any eastern conference teams(the last thing they want to do is turn an eastern conference pretender to a contender and then end up shafting themselves), so sorry ron, if you're getting traded, you're going west. (maybe that's why he pulled back; he's probably going to a low team...)

houston looks better.

so do the lakers *cringe* then again, phil jackson's phil jackson.

and i hope artest does NOT go to the lakers.

the artest deals remind me a lot of T.O. everybody wants an all-star that pushes their team from mediocre to great. everybody thinks it's worth the sacrifice. difference is, even the crap teams in the nfl now don't want T.O. whereas the ppl in the nba have yet to learn. although artest isn't as much of a troublemaker compared to T.O., you still have to admit, like T.O., he seems to talk way before he thinks.

What exactly a ninja is

I'm not sure about exactly what a ninja REALLY is(media and entertainment have a way of blowing everything out of context), but it's best to sum them up as unenlisted samurai working in secret.

This page should prove an interesting read; clears up a lot of misconceptions.

anybody else interested in bringing ron artest to gsw?

that'd solve most of our defensive and rebounding woes in an instant.

but after seeing the way t.o. messed up the place in philly, i'm not exactly too sure about artest either; the guy's great really. i'm just not sure he can 100% stay at gsw and not sometime in the future cause some havoc.

pat riley's back

look for miami to be a tougher opponent vs pistons, not cause walker and posey and stuff will be good, but simply because pat riley will actually preach some defense. then again, pistons have gotten better this season, so...

so right after i'm puzzling over why the spurs lost to the hawks

the pistons lose to the jazz... and a LOT worse.

the temptation to watch tv is just too strong tonight

kings at pistons at 4:30, and then rockets at warriors around 8:00

ack! must not watch!

forgot to mention this

that ai crossover was sick... reminded me of ai on jordan all over again.

the difference is that jordan is great enough of a defender to remain on his feet and still put up a hand to contest ai's shot after getting faked... poor jacque vaughn just stumbled and fell over.

it's been a while since i've posted

cause i've got finals, but i might not be able to leech off the internet at home, so i'll quickly post up 10 things off the top of my head.

10. spurs were so good that they got beat by the hawks. ok, so i know spurs aren't aiming to hit 60+. but against the HAWKS?

9. i love the reemphasis on D in the nba and how it's getting teams further than before; mavs being 3rd overall IMO, suns being deep w/o amare, knicks making a GAME of it vs suns despite their offensive woes(cut down on the TO's and we've got a decent team), wizards being a leader of fg % allowed for sometime. also gotta look @the failures and see once again how you can't get anywhere w/o d: lakers, kings, to some extent, heat(although that's more attributed to no shaq), and sonics not having nate mcmillian means loss of d-emphasis. still kinda sucks that indiana and chicago aren't doing well yet, but hey... maybe later. still wondering where that D from the warriors is going to come from. if ANY.

8. if i were pau gasol, everytime i posterized a player, i would yell out "you just got KA-PAU'D!!!" and then do a punching motion stopping short of their face. then i'd wear a t-shirt whereever i went with the words "you just got KA-PAU'D!!!" on it, with a fist in the middle of those words.

7. it's tough to keep up with a bible reading plan of 2 chapters per day when you're in revelations. reason being, if you ACTUALLY want to understand what you're reading. revelations is 100x more bearable than going through leviticus, but even then, you can learn a lot.

6. i gotta order those books for the bible versions SOON.

5. internships; gotta get a resume and other stuff down during the break.

4. need to clean my cpu by putting a lotta stuff onto some cd-r's; i actually found out ucd has cpu labs that can do that stuff. there's just too much junk i DON'T wanna throw away; fighting game videos, music, etc. if i do that, i can prob speed up my memory on the cpu somewhat. i think i'll do this during the 1st days of winter quarter; come back with some cheap cd-r's from fry's, put a buncha stuff onto my usb hard drives, and spend a good sunday or saturday just loading stuff.

3. getting another usb drive would be nice, for music or whatnot on campus; i already own a 144 mb and 512 mb one. and a mini-cd player would be nice, so i don't have to always boot up my laptop to play music(i let my mom use my large cd player at home, given how the OLD tape player's broken)

2. 4 finals: monday, tuesday, thursday, and saturday.

1. i got tree63's worship volume one: i stand for you cd. it's pretty good. the highlight is probably them ending their session with amazing grace.