Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Top 10 Ways to Tell If Your League Might Be Lame

10. Do you have a franchise in Oklahoma City, even "temporarily?"

9. Is your reigning most valuable player a grunge rocker resembling Canadian?

8. Is the number 1 pick in your league a goonish sloth from Australia, selected almost by default and doomed to almost certain failure?

7. Did the best team in your league nearly guarantee a repeat championship by adding 1 bona fide star and a solid veteran ball handler making the entire season a race for second?

6. Are coaching sub plots more interesting than the games themselves? (see: Jackson, Brown, Riley).

5. Are your playoffs 3 months long?

4. Do your players dog the first 3 quarters of every regular season game, only to miraculously come alive during "highlight time?"

3. Is your pilot network TNT?

2. Does the debate about who is your brightest star contain no less than all of the following: rapist, failed rapper, failed actor, choir boy, Gumby, and a kid who can't legally drink?

1. Does the biggest story on the eve of your season concern an off the court dress code? (And did a Sportscenter anchor utter the phrase, "No bling on the way to the ring," when referencing said dress code?)

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