Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, Comedy Duo

More bad news on the DeAndre Jordan front. According to Hoopsworld, Jordan’s contract has a 15% trade kicker in it, which means any team who Jordan would get traded to would have to immediately pay him a lump sum of 15% of the balance of his contract. That would be a lump sum payment of about $5 million the new team would have to immediately pay Jordan. That’s in addition to the $33 million they’d also have to pay him on his contract over the next three years.

This is going to make the very difficult task of getting rid of Jordan even more difficult.

I’d always thought the clueless soap opera actor was a bumbling fool. Now I see he’s even more of a bumbling fool than I’d realized.

I do like the humorous connection that Griffin has with Paul. It seems to be a real one.

But it’s not hard to be worried about how Paul and Carmelo Anthony are hanging around London and the Olympics together, along with Tyson Candler who is the favorite center Paul has ever had as a teammate, and will win a gold medal together . . . and how Paul made the toast at Anthony’s wedding about playing together on the same team, and how a year ago Paul was telling everyone he wanted to play for the Knicks, where both Anthony and Chandler happen to be under long term contracts.

Demote,

I’ve got three players for you:

Player A: Plays 25 MPG, has a .496 FG % w/ 5.7 rebounds, 2.4 blocks, and 7.2 points
Player B: Plays 27 MPG, has a .632 FG % w/ 8.3 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 7.4 points
Player C: Plays 29 MPG, has a .474 FG % w/ 9.6 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 5.7 points

If you guessed that one of the players is Deandre, you’re correct for once in your life.

The other two?

Eastern Conference Starting All-Star Centers

I want to see the Blake face again

I see he just did the same thing with Batum.

What soap operas did Olshey act in?

Would be greatly appreciated if we can leave DeAndre alone for a while. He’s still a kid who’s refusing to grow up faster than we’d like him to.

He’ll be alright. Expensive but it’s OK for now. Let’s foget about it and move on. Please!! There are other lil’ things to worry about.

k bye, ill pack ur bags and maybe cut ur internet line while I’m at it

It’s B. DJ has a sick career fg%

“Other than ppg Dj has better numbers across the board.”

BINGO…Kaman was a good scorer for a center, DJ is a bad scorer at center (but thankfully very efficient). Other than that, not even close except possibly post defense. For an average athlete, Kaman would bang and play relatively smart (for a caveman) post defense. But DJ makes defensive plays Kaman could only dream of.

And consider the 4 years/$44m JaVale McGee just got. Very similar players with similar strengths and weaknesses. EXCEPT DJ is a quality, likable guy. He may not be a rocket scientist but he looks like one compared to McGee.

So the Clips have a young, incredibly talented, still improving big tied up for 3 years at what still seems to be the going rate for such talent and ability. Clearly nobody looked at McGee, made the obvious comparison to Jordan, and said, uh, oh, don’t give him that inflated contract.

Here’s a comparison of career stats for all 3, I’ll take Jordan out of all of them and the price is about right (which means expensive since coordinated 7 footers with 40 inch verticals don’t come along all that often.)

http://www.thenbageek.com/players/compare?career=1&direction=asc&player_ids%5B%5D=130&player_ids%5B%5D=129&player_ids%5B%5D=343&sort=name&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the NBA Efficiency comparison for last year (the stat is notoriously skewed to those who shoot a lot, like Kaman and McGee), and still neither rates significantly higher than DJ.

http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/Efficiency.jsp?league=00&season=22011&conf=OVERALL&position=1&splitType=9&splitScope=GAME&qualified=N&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=

Bottom line: stop with all the whining about DJ, pray VDN pulls his head out and plays him the minutes he needs and deserves and that he continues to grow with a STRONG supporting cast and moving into the prime producing years of NBA players.