The Draft

I'll be on a Mexican vacation with my wonderful wife and her amazing family, so the Wimby and the World Cup and the start of the NBA free agency bonanza we can only hope lives up to the hype will have come and gone. I won't be thinking much about it on the beach, but I digress...a few comments:

NBA Draft

This year's NBA Draft was like any other--a whole lot of talk about outcomes of which we can never be certain. There were two players most think will make a splash, but as with most rookies going to mediocre teams, they might as well be a tulip planted in a desert, left alone to wither until more help arrives.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to see John Wall out here in DC, but I don't have high hopes for 2010-11 season. He'll make some plays, but who's he going to create for? Andray Blatche? (Ok, they have a few more pieces than that, but they mostly have a lot of B- players that used to be B+ or A- players)

What they ought to do with the draft (as I said on the air 6 weeks ago at 980AM...very impressive), is give the top pick to the team that just missed the playoffs, and picks 2-4 to the worst three teams. Why reward a team for tanking with 20 games to go so they get the #1 pick? Give the pick to a team that's a star away from being legitimate. Sure it might undeservedly reward an underachieving team, but wouldn't it make things interesting if Toronto, Houston, or Indiana had the chance to get a star to round out their rosters than teams like the Nets who have nothing but holes? Something to think about, Mr. Stern. Will you think about it?

Wimbledon

More on the state of tennis to come, but the only thing anyone can or should talk about thus far is John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, and the fifth set that made history. The thing I find most intriguing about the match is the second day, not because it went 7 hours without anyone breaking serve, or that it went so long, but the fact that round two of suspended matches rarely last long, and this one did...very long. It seems to me like whatever happens on day 1 of a suspended match, whatever rhythm or momentum each player has, is wiped clean for day two. The second day is up for whichever player can get in a rhythm first. I'm not saying it's no longer an equal playing field, but it may not be the outcome had lights been on.

With Isner and Mahut, they maintained that determination to win, for 7 hours, acing each other at record paces. One of the best matches ever.

That's all...have a great 4th of July!