2009-2010 Predictions

I couldn't tell if these guys were serious or not but I posted it anyway. These views do not necessarily reflect those of the site proprietors. But some of them do...

Drew: Steve Kerr will announce that he has find his long lost twin, Fox Biz correspondent Robert Gray! the resemblance is uncanny

Gen: the clippers will sign AI and the team will be fun to watch even though they don't make the playoffs. blake griffin's career never reaches it's full potential as a result of him taking up pot smoking. in hindsight, though, the sessions wit baron, ricky davis and AI are epic and he only kind of regrets it all.

Drew: stephon marbury is the best point guard in the nba, you don't have to tell him, he knows this! he's also got a movie coming out this christmas with brooke shields..... let's hope it's called truck party 2

Sean: Tim Duncan snaps from all the "good guy" talk and strangels pop a la Latrell Sprewell when he mistakenly refers to the spurs as tony's team

Gen : spurs become the first team to win the championship while not having a starter play more than 30 regular season games. Duncan wants to strangle pop but david stern beats him to it - just slightly ahead of every fan who ever bought a ticket to see the spurs and was stuck watching bench players.

Drew: kobe and ron-ron become the world's best-selling rap duo, kobe occasionally raps in italian about rape, ron-ron just raps in english but about killing homosexuals

Bobby: Michael Jordan comes out of retirement to play for the Bobcats. He averages 10 a night, but still somehow scores 55 against the Knicks in MSG. Ahmad Rashaad finally comes out of the closet and admits that he has been in love with Micahel for all these years, Michael responds by saying, "whoa whoa whoa, you sucked my dick." By December he and Larry Brown are taking shots at each other in the media, leading some to say, maybe Larry Brown is just a douche.

WNBA Plays of the Week

Will they be a bunch of buzzer-beaters and lucky shots? Will it focus on actual skills that young aspiring WNBA players can emulate? Only time will tell so here we go... the plays.

10 - Becky Hammon tosses in a nice little reverse with a small ball-fake thrown in. Of course neither game nor highlight announcer points out how this subtle little move kept the defender from blocking her shot. Nice play for #10.

9 - Tina Thompson with the long hook bank shot. You know what... I found this boring but perhaps it will inspire a budding post presence to practice the lost art of the bank shot. Not exciting me by any means but not that bad for #9.

8 - Sylvia Fowles with an awkward layup. She did get fouled but I wasn't wowed by it.

7 - Keisha Brown with the behind-the-back dish. Now this is a decent play. Nice pass, nice finish... can there really be 6 plays better than this?

6 - Indiana Fever - apparently not since this was only a block and a layup...

5 - Sue Bird with a beautiful pass to the cutting Tanisha Wright. If I had to break down one play so far for instructional purposes, this would be it. Nice screen by Jackson, great pass by Bird, tough finish by Wright, and, most importantly, good spacing from the other Storm players. I approve of this play.

4 - Tina Thompson - Nice pass, I guess, and a breakaway layup. Could there really be three plays better than this?

3 - Becky Hammon again with a similar look-off/ball-fake move and this time the announcer acknowledges it well. Hammon's slight move gets her by the defender just enough for the hoop and the foul. If you want to play in the WNBA someday, watch Hammon. No, forget that, if you currently do play in the WNBA, watch Hammon. Few players in the league finish in traffic like she does.

2 - Deanna Nolan with a hard drive, spin, and circus layup. Not a #2 play in my opinion but I love Nolan so I'll let it slide.

1 - Leilani Mitchell from 3/4 court. Definitely should have been in the Top 10 but #1? C'mon, the WNBA has an issue with the perception that the quality of play is low. Was that a skilled play? Doesn't that kind of imply that a fluke play was more exciting than everything else that happened that week?

My Solution So I Stop Whining So Much
The WNBA should have two top tens each week. One with all the lucky fluke plays that apparently the people like... and the actual skilled plays which demonstrate the immense skill of the players. Then girls who aspire to be WNBA stars and who come to WNBA.com looking for plays they can practice will have some to copy. The WNBA has a ton of exciting talent and action... I don't know why they don't always produce videos that fully showcase this talent.