Real Deal

James and Wade waived their rights to an MVP award when they joined hands in Miami. The likelihood that they win one, being on the same team and putting up big numbers together, has decreased drastically. They'll record split votes, if any, just as Kobe and Shaq did in LA. Sucks, but that's how the voting goes.

Huh? That doesn't make sense. So, a $12 million player can be traded for a $30 million? Haha...whoever wrote the article must have misread the information.

Start out by pressing and releasing the "O" (gives you a little momentum) and then quickly hitting P+Q to lift the first leg off the ground (you sort of have to hold it for a couple of seconds also). Then, right before he steps down with that foot, hit O+W to raise the other leg, then P+Q to raise the first leg once the second foot is about to hit, etc.

The Knicks are going to have to have a .610 winning percentage or higher before I consider Amare the MVP. They are on pace to have a winning season, but less than 50 wins. The streak looks nice, and Amare's personal scoring output is good, but look at what Durant did last season with his 30+ point games, blowing Amare's streak out of the water.

I have Matthews as my second pick, but that'll change if he keeps up his most current play. I have this feeling that Beasley has that Kevin Martin disease. The thing is, Matthews and Beasley were basically on the same level last season, and as of today, Beasley is looking like the better player...so that's how I stack them against each other right now. If Matthews keeps dropping 20s and playing defense, though, it'll push Beasley out of the top spot.

He's going to retire. I stated it in the off-season, and I'm sticking to it. I just don't think he's going to recover from that injury the way he'll need to in order to play at a high level, extended minutes, and for Yao, there's no reason to stick around and play out the rest of your career that way.

About time. Once I started seeing the Heels play and fall to teams they were supposed to beat, and seeing Barnes not able to step up and change those games, it was clear he wasn't worthy of the top pick in the draft. I would say he's not even top three right now. He's got a lot of work to do.

Seems like every single wrestling YouTube video contains a bunch of Cena hate in the comments, and it's not the "heel hate" that wrestlers get, it's the "he doesn't know how to wrestle or do anything different" hate. I'm sorry, but I can never, ever stick Cena into the top 10 of all-time. Add female fans, let them buy his merchandise and show me all of the sales, whatever...doesn't make him one of the greatest wrestlers OR entertainers of all-time, just another cash cow with above-average mic skills. Rick Rude without the wrestling skills and the awesome finisher. As far as HHH goes, I would say Foley, Rock and Flair all had their hand in making him one of the greatest. HHH talked about how he idolized Flair and had plenty of sit-downs with him about how to work matches and the crowd, etc. The Rock and Foley put it all together in the ring and produced some of the greatest matches the fans have ever seen. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter what anyone thinks, I guess...and that includes me. It's not really an opinion...that wrestling is definitely not what it used to be.

Suns blew it in that fourth quarter. I saw about half of the fourth, unfortunately, but Portland took it by 13 and basically won the game in that last 12 minutes.

62.7 meters! http://i53.tinypic.com/b5glkh.jpg I'm getting tired, though...gonna quit for tonight.

Why in the hell are the Lakers playing like they've never won a game before?

Pretty move by Bryant.

The pattern seems to be OW, QP.

I reached 18.9 meters. It's too difficult...but funny as hell.

LOL, I've been laughing the entire time playing this... http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/skill/qwop/index.htm

He plays little to no defense, and with Drew out and Odom so inconsistent (even though he's doing good tonight), we need Gasol to drop points. We aren't as good, defensively, as we were last year...so the team has to continue scoring points. We can't rely on Bryant to drop 30 every night in the first two months of the season. He complained and said he was tired, the reason why he was missing easy baskets. Well, he's had 4-5 days off...and he's still missing shots. He has to step it up if he's going to take 11 shots in the first half of this game.

Seattle didn't even support their team when they brought in Kevin Durant. The attendance still sucked. I don't see why they deserve a second chance right now.

Pau Gasol sucks again.

Well, half of the fanbase will be from Kansas. KC lays in both states. There's a reason why I absolutely hate the Chiefs. There are so many fans around the area, and I'm in southeast Kansas, hours away from KC. The state is flooded with Chiefs fans.

Griffin got in the face of a player back in HS and when he played at OU, and while I don't know what his HS coach did, the coach over at OU (Jeff Capel) sat him during the next practice and nearly kept him out of the next game for it. Blake wants to win games. Even if the Clippers turn out to be the worst team in the NBA in April, he will still count those victories as progression towards a winning season. Miller blindsided him, knocked him off-balance, nothing more. It did absolutely nothing to him emotionally, and I'm sure it didn't hurt him physically, either.

The fan support will be off the charts. The state has been pressing for another pro basketball team for years (Kansas and Missouri).

If Cena went heel, he would have to really go hard on the mic. I'm thinking Triple H, in Cena's body, where a lot of his hate would have to come from the fans, and delivered TO the fans from him. A heel version of Cena that only took his anger out on other wrestlers would basically be him right now, but instead of going after Nexus, he would be trying to topple faces (don't know of anyone off the top of my head, just now started watching wrestling again). The female fans would still like him because they think he's cute, and while he would lose a few of those female fans, there will be male fans that start to like him a little more, as opposed to hating him due to how he has never changed. Same Cena. The WWE needs a heel that the fans truly hate, and a face that every single fan loves. It seems like nobody knows which one Orton is, half of the crowd likes Cena, and...I don't know...it's just not there. I'll put it this way: back in the day, when my friends and I would talk wrestling, we would be talking how someone needs to destroy the Nexus (assuming they were around in the late 90s), not how they need to be better-represented in the business. When Hogan dropped a leg on Macho Man, it was devastating. Fans were throwing cups, booing, absolutely HATING a man that breathed life back into wrestling in the 80s and early 90s. But, it was good...and that's what Vince needs.

Dude, Hogan is on another planet. I don't see how anyone could EVER stick Hogan in the same sentence as Cena. And you don't consider Flair a bigger superstar than Cena? Come on. Maybe you like Cena a little too much, or maybe not at all (I have no idea, really), but Hogan made an impact no other wrestler has ever touched, especially during the Gulf War, when he was "at war" with Slaughter and supporting America. Him turning heel was also one of the greatest moments in wrestling history, not to mention him slamming Andre in front of 90,000+ people and those two literally being the reason the WWF was put back on national TV. Cena has done absolutely NOTHING when it comes to Hogan's accomplishments. I won't need to go into detail about Flair. He's arguably the greatest technical wrestler ever, formed the most hated stable of all-time in the Four Horsemen (some will argue NWO, which is fine), and Flair wrestled anyone in any match, lost to anyone, and cut himself open anytime. Didn't matter the age. He has done more for wrestling, the sport, than Cena has done for the WWF/WWE, and that's not even debatable.

Out of those, it's easy to say Michael Beasley. He gets my vote, but you have to consider the opportunity he's been given. I think it's more about his situation improving, and not necessarily him. Same with most on there.

Quick question: I heard the name "Billy Kidman" the other night (think it was last week's Raw), and I swear they associated it with him writing for the WWE. Is that Billy Kidman, the former wrestler?