Le Basketbawl

The beginning of the NBA season is a time of optimism as every team starts out with a fresh slate and a bunch of dreams. Well every team starts out with a fresh slate ; some teams dreams are more realistic than others. There is a group of teams that even at the beginning of the season no deep in their hearts there is no Frickin way they are going to make the NBA Playoffs.

Now that list fluctuates with some teams improving and leaving the group while other teams decline and take their places. However for the last few years you can count on at least four teams not ever in the Post Season race. New York Vinnie will bite the bullet and admit that “MY BOYS” the New York Knicks are one of the Frickin groups charter members. Isiah Thomas put the Knicks back into the Frickin stone age over his four year reign of Frickin terror. And so far Donnie Walsh does not have a Frickin clue how to turn things around.

Two other core members of the Frickin “Hall Of Shame” are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Clippers or as New York Vinnie refers to them as Upper and Lower Slobovia. Neither one of these Frickin teams are even in the right Frickin country never mind the right path to winning. Although both teams have some nice young players injuries have already hit both teams and are going to retard progress by players like Kevin Love and Blake Griffin.

The fourth and final team of our Frickin Motley Crew is the Sacramento Kings. It has been a lot of years since the Kings were thought of as legitimate contenders and with the Western Conference as deep as it is this is certainly not going to be the Frickin year they break on through to the other side. The Kings have again a few good players but they got rid of two of their cornerstones last season and did not get much back in return. Sacramento traded John Salmons and Brad Miller to the Chicago Bulls last season which helped solidify that team and put them in the Playoffs.

The Kings now have Andres Nocioni as compensation for that trade; a player that as far as New York Vinnie is concerned is pretty close to nearing his Frickin expiration date as far as fulfilling his potential. Now playing in his sixth NBA season Nocioni has career averages of 11.8 points and 5.0 rebounds per game. Not great numbers to someone you are paying $7.5 million this season.

The “Sacramento Bee” on Friday said that the team’s best player Kevin Martin has a difficult decision to make. Martin Monday night suffered a hairline fracture of his left  wrist against the Memphis Grizzlies. Here are his choices; he can play with a soft cast on his hand but he could make the wrist much worse by doing that including breaking it completely. He can wear a hard cast and hope that in about six weeks his wrist will have healed. Or he can have an operation where they insert a screw into his wrist and six weeks later he will be back almost good as new.

Yo Kevin, New York Vinnie does not understand what kind of a tough decision you have? Are you going to play for your Frickin terrible team and risk breaking your Frickin wrist? Why would you do that My Man? Chances are you will not even be with these Frickin bums when you become a Free Agent. Kevin; your team is going nowhere this season so have the surgery take the time off and get yourself well. Listen to Your Old Pal New York Vinnie on this; you will thank me later.