G-Men make the right moves

Before anything, I would like to congratulate Stephon Marbury on his first game with the Boston Celtics last night.  In 16 minutes of play, Steph had 8 points on 4 of 6 shooting with 3 assists, a rebound, and a steal.  Promising start, we'll see how it plays out for the future.

Yes, I know, many of you are most likely thinking..."Wait, this kid lives in Boston, loves the Sox and the Celts, but is a GIANTS fan?  What gives?!"  Well, to defend my preference, my mother's side of the family is obsessed with the Red Sox and if I didn't follow, I think my 80 year old grandfather might try to assassinate me (and trust me, he is in good enough physical shape to probably accomplish that).  My father's side of the family is overly fanatics of the Giants, to the point where every Christmas and birthday I receive at LEAST 2 Giants items.  So I'm a mutt.

Anyways, this past week, the New York Giants sig

ned star running back and my personal favorite, Brandon Jacobs, to a 4 year contract through 2012.  This move secured one of the most dominant RBs in the entire league, considering you get a gazelle mixed with a rhino in one man.  Good move, G-Men.

As I was composing this blog and monitoring some headlines, BREAKING NEWS came up.  Matt Cassel, the New England Patriot's tremendous quarterback from last year, was JUST traded to the Kansas City Chiefs.  Although I am a chronic opposer of anything Pats, I definitely respect Cassel as a player and think he did one hell of a job stepping up and leading that team.  If they went with anyone else after Tom Shady went down, there is no way they would have even come close to the playoffs (although they still didn't make it).  It will be interesting to see what the Pats will do if Brady ends up re-injuring his knee or has some sort of complication throughout the season (I did call that he would go out the first game of last season).  However, putting it in New England's perspective, Matt Cassel has way too much talent to be sitting on the bench for 16 games, so dealing him to KC for their second round pick.  It was obvious, after this season, that Cassel would get picked up if the Patriots were to deal him, and I congratulate him for his success and wish him all the best with the Chiefs.  

Hopefully he'll come back and spank the Pats.

Jacobs literally running over Washington's LaRon Landry

"It is very easy to root for guys like Matt Cassel, who do everything the right way and flourish as a result. As much as we would have loved to continue working with Matt, we wish him nothing but the best as he takes this next step forward in his career."

-Bill "Spygate" Belichick

"Gar-bury" is on his way to Beantown....

I wasn't going to post tonight because I had a really loooong day.  However, as I was sitting here watching the 7 News at 11, I found that the nightmare that I have been waking up to in a cold sweat all week has finally come true.  Stephon Marbury, the deadliest, malignant cancer from the New York Knicks is coming to the Celtics.  It was confirmed tonight in a text message that he's on his way.  Okay, so I may be a little harsh on the guy, since he hasn't done anything to harm the Celtics yet besides have his name on the back of a C's jersey, but I can't see ANYTHING good coming out of this deal.  Now I know there is argument that he is a 2-time All-Star and over his 14 seasons, he has averaged 19.7 PPG with 7.8 APG.  But that doesn't make up for the fact that over the past two NBA seasons, he hasn't played more than 25 games total, let alone suit up for most of the games.  All I remember him for is sitting on the end of the bench slumped over with his hand on his cheek and bringing nothing but negativity to the Knicks.

Do we really want a guy that gets beat out at training camp by Chris Duhon and instead of accepting his role to come off the bench to play 35 minutes per game, he refuses to play?  Then, ultimately gets banned from practice and games because of his lack of cooperation and selfishness?

I played basketball for 13 years and no matter who I played for...rec ball in elementary school all the way to JV my junior year of high school (which ended abruptly with my glorious ACL tear), the ONE thing that my coach told us every single freaking game was that teamwork was the essential kryptonite to defeat any other team.  Stephon, I'm not sure if you've ever huddled up after a time out, but if you didn't know, the chant usually goes..."1, 2, 3, team."  The current Celtics team portrays this exact quality, which brought us our 17th banner.  Can you handle that Steph?

Any thoughts?

"The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team."

-Phil Jackson