League Pass allows even the scrubbiest of scrubs national exposure, and quite often there are diamonds in the rough. Each Friday, the Black Prezodential Caucus will convene to consider the candidacy of a possible new Black Prezodent.
This week I made the unusual move of actually watching a few minutes of my formerly favorite team, the Washington Wizards. These days, there generally aren't too many candidates of interest to the caucus in aqua or gold lame' jerseys, but following the injury to Andray Blatche, which followed the injury to Etan Thomas, which followed the injury to Brendan Haywood, the Wizards' pituitary explosion Javale McGee is getting some solid minutes, and apparently growing as a basketball player as well. I was actually initially considering him for Prezodential status solely because he actually kind of resembles a yellower, more drawn-out version of our actual Black President. Like a Gumby Obama or something. (By the way, Obama's nearly as yellow and drawn-out as can be, so to top him in both is pretty impressive, Javale.) Anyways, he pulled off a couple of nifty, left-handed moves under the basket that struck me, and though I didn't watch the next night, he apparently was good enough to make two of NBA.com's "_____ of the Night" segments, posted below:
That's on your boy Diaw's head, DeYoung!
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for an example of why so many of us former wizards fans pay scant attention to the team, please take a moment to look at the box score from the game containting the highlights above.
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with all the injuries to big men, and with a promising rookie like mcgee available, DARIUS FUCKING SONGAILA got the start and played more minutes than javale. the leadership of the wizards just doesn't get it. play your fucking young guys, (whatever your name is new coach)! songaila wouldn't make the 12 man roster for probably 95% of the teams in the league yet gets starts because of the wizards idiotic reluctance to throw their young guys out there for big minutes to see what they have in this clearly wasted season.
it's also interesting that juan dixon (fucking turtle) had the highest +/- rating for the 'zards in his 13 seconds of play. efficiency like that will see him boosting right up hollinger's ratings.
to be fair, javale's minutes are limited by the fact that he picks up a foul every 20 seconds that he's on the court.
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