Deep thoughts, cheap shots & bon mots …
The 49ers’ No. 1 pick is a wide receiver with no runaway ego and no diva issues? That is a huge red flag.
David Stern is no pushover. Had Metta World Peace killed James Harden with that elbow, Stern would have ordered World Peace to apologize at the funeral. 1World Peace is planning another name change. Under consideration: MMA World Peace … World Peace LOL … Metta Upside-a Your Head-a … Krazee-eyez Killa … and The Cowardly Lion.
Your grandma could have torched the Warriors’ ragtag team in that final game, but Patty Mills (34 points and 12 assists for the Spurs) is for real. He just might turn out to be the Australian Jeremy Lin.
Ryan Theriot was hospitalized with flu symptoms but (according to The Chronicle), “He said he checked himself out of the hospital … because he was not getting any better.” Reader Ben Woods observes, “Finally, a sensible plan for keeping health care costs down.”
Yes, I recently kidded Andrew Luck and Stanford because Luck scored only a 37 on the 50-question Wonderlic test. Several readers pointed out that a 37 puts Luck in the 99th percentile. What’s a percentile?
Only the NBA could turn the draft-positioning process into a really bad TV game show for math nerds.
The Warriors will never reveal which front-office guy masterminded the Andrew Bogut trade (Yeah!) or the Charlie Bell amnesty (Boo!). That’s one benefit of the new single-voice general manager — we’ll know who to blame.
Regardless, a fond farewell