I'm BALK! Man

After what appeared to be a very depressing New Mets loss via gamecast last night(man do I hate California) I needed a pick me up.

Cocked in Palo Alto, not my home turf by any stretch of the imagination, I had no real go-to spots.

I couldn't grab 40's from Bobby and Mikey over at the deli on Amsterdam.

I couldn't grab wings from Blondies.

Hell, I couldn't even catch a beating from the sweet ladies on the 6th floor of my old NYC loft building in midtown.

Then I realized how simple it was to smile. Being such a sports fan as I am how could I not think of this?

Nope, not yet fantasy football season-my favorite time of the year.

It was Summer, which meant one thing. Summer league.

And where there's a summer league, there's a Knicks, and where there's a Knicks, there are losers, and where there are losers there is the 20th selection of this year's NBA draft: Renaldo Balkman.

Since my good buddy KFC immortalized the guy by making his fantasy football team name "The Balkmen" (Note: I set up our league in June, it's the sports geek in me)this guy has earned his way into my Pantheon of shitty Knicks draft picks.

Balkman, Jerrod Mustaf, Frederic Weis.



Not sure you get a better big three than that.

Now some may say I'm being a little premature. After all, the guy has not played a single professional game.

But the way things are looking in the summer league, he may not have to.

My good friend and fellow blogger Chad Ford put it very nicely in saying that Balkman "hustled and grabbed rebounds...but still might not crack the rotation."

My man Renaldo. If anything is going to bring me back to being a Knicks fan, it will be this guy.

He's pure comedic genius.



If he fails, we expect it. If he succeeds even a little bit, we are truly shocked.

That's a great thing to say out of your 1st round pick.

Any sort of success in the world and you are truly satisfied.

That's an awesome thing when we then look at the Knicks' other two options at 20, Marcus Williams and Rajon Rondo.

The two point guards both projected as lottery picks and passed up by the Knicks despite not having a single true point guard are destroying the summer league.

Williams is averaging 16.6 ppg, 8 apg. Not bad.


And Rondo is already being called the early "steal of the draft."


Now I'm not calling Chad Ford the bible here, but he gives me more insight than anyone else does. Yeah, I know he saw Maciej Lampe as the next Bird and he still won't shut up about the Siberian Terror Pavel Podkolzine, but still, I like Chad, he seems to be pretty likable and also has an unreal lifestyle floating between Hawaii classrooms and sweaty European basketball gyms.

My birthday is April 28th. I'd really like an RB jersey. Someone make it happen.

Do it for the Sip. Heck, I may even use the $24 we have accrued via google ads to make this one happen.

Payment plan, baby.

VCD,

SM