Secondly, this puts the Knicks at... 18 players. For 15 spots. But all signs point to a buyout for Dan Dickau. It's a good deal in that case - Dickau isn't going to get much burn, and better to buy him out to let the youngster sit on the bench and get some experience.
Jordan lead the NCAA in assists the past two seasons. Of course, he's also slow and plays poor defense. In other words: best case scenario is Brevin Knight without the steals.
Oh, and Jared Jordan is 6'0 with a wingspan of 6'0. Or, like he commented in this old post of mine, "I'm Vitruvian man!"
Also from that post: He has no hops, and is kinda out of shape (7% body fat was highest among guards). But he does have excellent court vision, and is a solid distributor of the ball. On the Knicks that is much needed.
Excellent point made by Posting and Toasting: this is the third straight year Isiah Thomas has acquired a player with the initials "JJ". Jerome James and Jared Jeffries are not good omens.
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You Tube time: Here are some good old clips from Saturday Night Live. Here's Public Enemy, complete with S1-Ws (I really used to dig those moves, man), doing the classic "Can't Truss It":
Flavor Flav is on top of his game here, and so is Chuck D. True story: I was at Rock The Bells on Randall's Island this year. Public Enemy was performing (complete with Professor Griffen), and at one point I swear I heard Chuck D. give a shoutout to "Harry Hibbert" (okay, that's just a terrible pseudonym I just came up with), or the same name as this owner in my fantasy baseball league who I had never met. He was a friend of one of the guys in the league, and joined the league this season. I kinda joked to my friend who is also in the same league, like "yo, did Chuck D just give a shoutout to that dude from our fantasy league?", and we laughed about it.
A few weeks later I was at my friend's barbecue, and this guy from the fantasy league was there. We start talking about the Rock the Bells show, and he mentions that Chuck D. gave him a shoutout. I was floored.
Turns out they worked together at Air America or something.
And here is Queen - this is supposedly the only time they ever performed on a TV show:
Freddie Mercury is the greatest Parsi of all time. Parsi(s) are Zoroastrians (one of the oldest religions in human history) living in India, but of Persian decent. There are still about 100,000 of them left, some in Iran, most in Indian.
Finally, a commenter named "Volucris" on my earlier post about Andy Samberg's tribute to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mentioned that the sample he used came from a song by Aphex Twin called Avril 14th. Here's the clip of that:
Worth noting I had no idea what Aphex was, so I looked it up. It's not a word. They got their name from Aphex Systems Limited, a sound equipment company. And with that, I've run out of useless info to share....
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After you brought up the wingspan thing, I had to check out his physical stats, and it turns out, Jordan is a physical specimen in terms of how non-NBA playerish he is.
Shortest wingpan in the draft despite being maybe the tenth shortest player
Lowest no step vertical in the draft by 8.5 inches, at 14.5 inches
Slowest guard in the draft
Only 6 bench presses
I think I may come closer to dunking than Jared Jordan, and I'm really excited about that prospect.
Also, the "JJ" theorem is copyrighted Son of Dippin material. Respect.
You know, it is Son of Dippin material. Still my favorite joke on the topic - Jacob Javits, Center. NYC-oriented humor!
I humbly apologize. I do not wish to have to "suck a dick" or have to do anything related to that "crack" you are always writing about.
Oh, Jared Jordan is basically as athletic as Jerome James, but shorter.
On the plus side, we can now hope that Walt Frazier calls him "white Jared" when he's in the game at the same time with Jared Jeffries....
My friend told me the other day that "Jacob Javits, Center" was the funniest joke I'd ever written on my site. That made me realize that perhaps writing exclusively about fellation, crack, and peripheral ex-Knicks was a bad idea.
But I'm still doing it, so, there goes that line of thinking.
SML,
You wanna program an episode of "Old School Friday?" Just let me know. You had mentioned possible crossover posts, week before last.