Garnett traded to Boston

The Minnesota Timberwolves have finally traded Kevin Garnett - two years too late, but whatever - to the Boston Celtics for five players and two picks (not loaves and fish, as you might expect). This is weird on so many levels, but not least of all is the fact that this wll probably make Boston a good team next year, if you also account in the previous Ray Allen trade. And that's just a weird thing to think about. Boston being good? Preposterous. No team run by Danny Ainge and coached by Doc Rivers could ever be good......could it?

Boston now has the best 1-2-3 trio in the NBA with Garnett, Allen, and the incumbent Paul Pierce. They are absolute pap from the 4 through 9 spots, and are also committed now to a helluva lot of salary for not very many players. But how could they NOT do this deal?

Minnesota now has the best young post prospect in the league in Al Jefferson, plus a slightly improved financial situation and some other good youth, plus the picks. They now have way too many swing men on the roster, and still some bad contracts to work around, but the more I think about it the more I like this deal for them.

As for what this does league wide - Boston is now in amongst the best-in-the-East discussions, Minnesota will prop up the arse end of the West for a few years, and the Clippers still aren't going to get the Minnesota pick that they are owed.

But hey, at least Minnesota can tank less subtlely this season now. And the Boston vs Minnesota preseason game in London that I intend to see just got that much more interesting.

How Danny Ainge fluked himself into this situation is something that I think will confound us all for a long time yet.

Stuff that changed

As you can see, this front page is now consistent of a blog. I had wondered for the longest time about what to put on the front page here, and eventually decided that the Sam-Cassell-grabbing-his-cock picture wasn't getting it done. A blog, therefore, is probably the way to go. It'll consist of updates and that, some musings, and some terrible jokes.

Speaking of the pictures, they are all gone. We're moving in a new direction, see. They may or may not come back at a later date, depending on how other things pan out. Additionally, it will be great fun to see quite how other NBA wives copycat sites are going to keep their files updated now that they don't have these available to steal without asking.

What is also gone are the player notes on the player profiles - this is because they are being re-written into a far longer, more substantial and irreverent format. There's 918 of the things at the time of writing, and only 129 have been done so far. It's very boring to do, and so is taking a while. But it'll be worth it.

2007 offseason shit

Free agents listed by name
Free agents listed by team
Free agents listed by position


Draft index - draft results, draft night trades, status of signed picks, etc.

Free agents movement - if someone signs somewhere or has an option or anything, then it's here. It's also on the Transactions page, but it's all about the differing formats and that.

Salaries updated now for the new season. Sorry that it took a while. But it was really sodding boring to do.

Paul Shirley's book

Paul Shirley wrote a book. Buy it.


Additionally, when buying the book, be sure to mention that you heard about it from here first. If you do this, you're entitled to absolutely no refund at all, but it'd pacify me.