Just some quick notes from here and around the internets:

• In case you missed it, Barnesgasm from Son Of Dippin'; did a post here over the weekend called Why They Shouldn't Make Those "The LeBrons" Ads For The Knicks: Steve Francis Edition.   It's hopefully the first of his many contributions to this website.  We've obviously been a little lacking in the humor lately, with DJM busy getting two plays produced (including one that got a nice writeup in the Village Voice - well done, sir), so Barnesgasm is a welcomed addition.  
  

• Also worth noting that if Seth from Posting and Toasting is like this website's brother, then Barnesgasm is like the Weird Cousin.  Or, better yet, like I told Seth, if we merged like a reverse Wu-Tang Clan, then Barnesgasm would be our Old Dirty Bastard.  And, yes, that's an example of Hispanics and Jews making cultural references to African-Americans making cultural references to Asians.
  

• Speaking of Poasting & Toasting (mandatory link coming up), here's a post on several players the Knicks are looking at in predraft workouts.  I'll do my best to put together some posts on these players so we have some information on them (maybe Seth and I can split the list) - expect a post on Derrick Byars and Demetrius "Hot" Nichols later today or tomorrow. 
  

• Speaking of the predraft workouts... Kevin Durant is a weak ass mo-fo.  Could not bench 185 pounds, according to this article.  In fact, here is the Draft Express breakdown of the combine... check it out.  Again, these things do matter... guys like Marcus Williams slipped so far last year mostly because he looked awful at the combine (out of shape, finished poorly among point guards - even Mardy Collins outdid him).  So when you see DJ Strawberry is #1 overall at the combine, and read that he's been impressing lots of scouts overall during this predraft period - well, he might have moved himself up from a late 2nd rounder to a guy worth taking in the high 20's or early 30's.  I'll try to break the combine results down later this week.

• Another good point from the comments yesterday - The Last Poet pointed out that "shoot-first guards" (like the often-critized Marbury) are on the rise again - he specifically mentions Daniel Gibson, Barbaso, Monta Ellis.  Then another commenter, JG, adds in that the top 4 prospects in HS are similar mode of guards - OJ Mayo being the most well known.  Good points.

• On to coaches:  The Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday that Stan Van Gundy might be next in line for the Orlando Magic job.  So I guess even if Flip Saunders does get fired (and, as pointed out over at The Starting Five, it doesn't seem as likely as I thought), Stan Van Gundy isn't available anyway.  Though Jeff Van Gundy still is.

• Speaking of Marbury, and TSF:  Marbury continues to do some positive things off the court.  It's really a shame that this wasn't even reported in the local NYC newspapers... makes you wonder if they are even allowed to write anything positive about the Knicks or Stephon.  Or Isiah. 
  

• That Knicks cipher experiment is complete.  Part 1 (SML) is here.  Part 2 (Poasting and Toasting) is here.  Part 3 (The Serious Tip) is here.  And Part 4 (Son of Dippin') is here.  Okay, I want to thank Jordi, Seth and Barnesgasm for participating.  I would like to also point out that Mutoni and The Assimulated Negro are herbs.  If I had a sh*t list, I would move The Nemesis off of it just to make enough room for you losers.  Not that it matters, but as an epilogue I dug out a post from my old (very old), um, blog (under a different name), from April 2002 - it's poorly written, so not much has changed in 5 years:

"So I was at the Knick game yesterday.  I gave Patrick Ewing his much deserved standing ovation, as did almost all the other sixty people in attendance (I have never seen the Garden that empty, not even for that Pittsburgh-Providence Big East game I saw there many years ago).  There was this one guy near me who apparently still hasn't gotten over that missed finger-roll against Indiana, as he booed Ewing when nearly everyone else was cheering. 

Who is Troy Hudson?  He is the backup point guard on the Magic who dropped 29 points in 20 minutes of action.  It must have been his birthday, and his wish of "playing against the Knicks" came true.  Don't you wonder if that is what all point guards, whether starting or backups, wish for? - "more games against the Knicks".  How awesome would it be to play against a team whose starting PG wears cement shoes on defense (as does the SG, for that matter - you think the mob manufacture the Nike Air Knicks sneaker?"), and whose interior defense (after you blow past the guards) consists of a 6-9 center who can only hack (crazy eyes Kurt)!"

Um, yeah, that referred to Charlie Ward, Allan Houston, and Kurt Thomas.  I then went on to rant about how I'm sure Ashanti is ghost singing all of J.Lo's hits (remember those?), then spoof Anna Kournikova's love life ("Anna should know that she can't escape her fate to be married to a Russian hockey player - it's likeCarmen Jones, and she picked the Russian hockey player card"), then rant about a bunch of other outdated references.  On second thought, let's never go back to the archives, okay?  Everyone cool with that?

•  Speaking of non-sports stuff... The Marathon Man and I exchanged a series of e-mails this morning after noticing a coworker eating a burger for breakfast.  After e-mail him to confirm it was a burger, he suggested in might be "an oversized sausage patty, perhaps".  Then added that "it needs to be accompanied by at least one egg to be considered 'breakfast eligible'."  He then pointed out that pig is considered acceptable (ham, bacon, sausage), but not cow.  I suggested that since pig is "white meat", like eggs and chicken, it is okay, but red meat before 10:00 AM is a no-no.   It's too Argentinean for Americans... you guys can't handle breakfast empanadas here.

• Um, since I'm way off topic anyway... another coworker mentioned yesterday this TV cartoon Liberty's Kids that airs on Sunday at 11:00 AM (on Channel 11 here in NYC) about the Revolutionary War.  It has tons of celebrity voices - Walter Cronkite (as the $100 bill man), Ben Stiller (Thomas Jefferson), Billy Crystal (John Adams), Dustin Hoffman (Benedict Arnold),  Arnold Schwarzenegger (as a German Baron), and my favorite - Slyvester Stallone as Paul Revere.  "Hey yo, all I'm saying is the British, are, yo, the British are coming".  Um, -5 points to PBS because the theme song is sung by Aaron Carter. 
  

• Speaking of theme songs from odd sources - the theme music to Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO is produced by Kid from Kid N Play.  Just FYI.

• Okay, just for kicks, since I'm feeling not-so-old-skoolish I'm including YouTube of Naughty by Nature's "Craziest" video.  Too many highlights here for me to go into - the spike bat at the beginning in still the illest prop from an hardcore hip-hop video (aside from maybe the tied-up mom in the Beatnuts "Reign of the Tec" video); and how whenever they shot out a city, they match it up with footage of g's from that city... and then Boston actually has the thuggiest footage of them all (check that - not so much - this it MTV version of the video - in the BET video, which I couldn't find, there was more thug footage, culminating in the Boston shoutout, which featured a bunch of heads in a van driving up to a street corner, jumping out quickly and literally bagging a guy off the street and throwing him in the van).  Look for the quick cameo by Coolio at the 2:30 mark.

• Okay, some links to finish up with: Donkey Basketball; I've been enjoying the work lately of MC Bias and The Extrapolater; Empty The Bench thinks the Rockets are looking to trade Shane Battier, maybe for Rashard Lewis; and Temple3 has a lengthy in-depth look at Rasheed Wallace. 

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