Set the earth reverberating/With a mighty cheer/RAH! RAH! RAH!

Katie Smith Katie Smith Katie Smith!

And her back is better apparently!

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

The Suns
Earl Clark has been sent to the D-League. This is really good because he'll get more playing time there. Hopefully he'll come back with more awesomeocity. It's also cool, because my Earl Clark-fan friend can see him play online, if she wants to.

New JMZ video! I'd like to find video of his dunk. But so far I've come up empty.

I did find this though:


And speaking of video, I'm waiting on video from this.

Other NBA news
It appears that his PR team finally got through to Gilbert Arenas.

WNBA
I never thought of stats as something that were exclusively the providence of men's basketball. Apparently I'm not alone on that, but I am in a very small group of people.

Today marks two months until the start of the WNBA season. It's also 24 days before the draft. So here are two mock WNBA drafts. They both have the Mystics taking a big post presence, which I think would be a great thing. They don't agree on which on, so I guess we'll see.


The Mystics
Last year the Mystics gave a lot of lip service to "creating a culture of winning." I think they got a great start on it, but in case you were wondering what it meant, Swish Appeal is here to help.

The DC Basketcases posted an entry on Saturday that was mostly about the Shock signing Marion Jones but also talked about tomorrow's press conference.

They seem to agree with my theory of it being Katie Smith. My favorite reason is that this picture:












is an awful lot like this one:

You and me could write a bad romance.

The Suns
First off, the (kinda old) video that brought me back to the blog:

As this person says, the Phoenix Suns are probably the most fun-loving team in the NBA. Hence, my love for them.

Amare on kids radio!

Maybe Goran can be the Point Guard of the Future!



Lakers v Suns
Tonight is making me hate the Lakers even more. Fouling Grant Hill so hard that he loses his contact and requires stitches. Lou Amundson getting flagrently fouled and not getting the call, causing Alvin Gentry to be ejected. Evil usually wins, I guess.

As a pick me up, have a picture of a napping Earl Clark:














(Courtesy of Jared Dudley's twitter account.)


Mystics News
It's not actually news yet, but on Tuesday the Mystics are having a press conference to announce an apparently awesome new signing. My guess is Katie Smith, which would be super good, but I'm also holding out hope that it's Deanna Nolan (even if she's not a free agent). I don't think it could possibly be Penny Taylor, and she's the only other option of this magnitude.

So I guess we'll see...