Thursday, February 25, 2010

Trade Deadline Come and Gone. What did we Learn?

Well the NBA trade deadline has come and gone and all the talk now is how will some of the trades that were made will effect my team. But what I am looking forward to now is what is going to happen next season. With so many teams making trades to collect expiring contracts and other teams just receiving cash for players, I want to take a look at the winners of the trade deadline: the Salary Dumpers.

Now I know that I will probably sound like a huge homer for this but, I think the winner for this year was the Chicago Bulls. They were already sitting $12-$13 million under the salary cap for next year, but when the Bulls dumped the salaries of John Salmons and Tyrus Thomas and received 4 expiring contracts in return, that brought them to $21-$22 Million under the salary cap. This is the best case senerio that could have come out of this for the Bulls. This means that they could possibly sign 2 of the big names that will be in free agency this year (HINT: DWAYNE WADE AND CHRIS BOSH)

Another winner at the trade deadline was the New York Knicks. With the fact that they got $22 Million that will come off of the books when the season ends and Tracy McGrady's contract is up, this sets them up really nicely to pursue LeBron James and possibly someone else as well. The one thing that I didn't like for them was the fact that they got rid of Nate Robinson and sent him to Boston and really got nothing back in return. Yes it was all about cutting payroll for the Knicks, but the fact is that they dont have any kind of PG there cause Chris Duhon has shown his true colors there, they will be having to hope to lure a great PG to come in there next year. Robinson was not a great PG, but he was good enough that you should have thought about getting rid of some other parts.

Now when the summer hits and the NBA Championship has been handed out, everyone will have just one thing on there mind- what will the Bulls and Knicks be able to do with all of the payroll that they now have in there pockets. Will any of the big stars go to those two cities or are both of these teams just living a pipe dream that will lead them to the cellar of the NBA? Only time and money will tell!!!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Does Danica Really Stand a Chance???

When we all hear the name of Danica Patrick what do we think of? We think hot, attractive, and intelligent. But the title of race car driver gets laughed at alot by tons of people because Danica has never really been sucessful as an IndyCar driver. But this weekend she becomes something new. A NASCAR driver. Danica in the "Silly Season" of NASCAR signed a deal with JR Motorsports which is attached to the Hendrick Motor Racing stable to race in the ARCA league for most of this season while also choosing to race in 13 races in the Nationwide Series, then on top of that she is also racing in a full time schedule of the IndyCar series. Most people are saying that she is a joke and what is Dale Earnhardt Jr. thinking???

I know what he is thinking, he's thinking "I can see the talent that this driver has and I want to be the one that brings this driver to the world of NASCAR." Yes I know that she has only won 1 IndyCar race and most people say that she won it because everyone else ran out of gas. BUT SHE STILL WON. Most people will also say that she has never won a championship in IndyCar. Some of the best racers in the world that have been in IndyCar have never won a championship in that series. Do the names Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart ring a bell to anyone. That is where they got there start and they never won a championship there. And also most people say that she has never won the biggest race in the IndyCar series season, the Indy 500. Lets look at the facts here too. She is the only female to ever lead any laps and the Brickyard, and also she has finished in the top 10 there twice in 4 seasons of her in IndyCar.

So when you look at all of the facts, you should be able to plainly see that she has not completly failed at IndyCar like most people say she has (The men that are scared of her being sucessful). I think that she can and will go into the NASCAR series' and learn from some of the best racers within the Hendrick stable and become one of the most sucessful racers that we have seen male or female.

So when you try to answer the question "does Danica really stand a chance at succeeding in NASCAR???" You have to say a resounding YES!!!