This seems like sort of a fluky violation, but nevertheless it could come back to haunt the Tar Heels. It appears a prized recruit spent time in Chapel Hill and played a pickup game with some former Tar Heels, contact which is forbidden by the NCAA. Uh oh.

"But can you imagine somebody playing 1,002 minutes in 110 games over a four-year career and dishing out only four assists?"

I don't want to bag on the deceased, but the Nets would have been better off not drafting anyone with the 14th pick in the 1994 NBA Draft than selecting him. Suck is life. The Nets suck anyway.

Anyone else find it odd that the league's second highest paid player last year (20.7 million) is attempting a comeback the moment his $100 million contract ends (Sunday)?

All of Knicks Nation is rooting for a successful comeback (sarcasm).

The Hawks have two lottery picks in what "personnel executives have deemed one of the deepest recent drafts." Start the rumor mill! Word on the street is that the team could use it's 11th pick in a package to acquire Marcus Camby.

I know PJ Carlesimo is a very good coach and it's been a long time since the Sprewell incident, but is a guy with that blackeye on his resume the man you want coaching your franchise. Maybe it's just me, but I'd pass. What do you think?

It could happen. Marion isn't happy in Phoenix and Chicago has the pieces to put together an intriguing package. Do you think Marion would make a good Bull?

Yesterday, there was news that the Stanley Cup Finals had lower ratings than a rerun of the West Wing. Today, it's been announced that they had worse ratings than a handful of King of Queens episodes. Wow. A new low. Thank god it's over. I didn't want to hear Game 7 got beat out by one of Andy Richter's ten cancelled sitcoms. The Big Lead has the story.

Game 3 received a 1.1 rating, the same as a rerun of the West Wing from 2005 according to NBC. Game 3 this year saw a 31% decrease in ratings from Game 3 last year and last time I checked, hockey wasn't at it's peak in 2006. Yikes!

You have to love this Basketbawful scale.

"The following list describes the current group of NBA superstars who are in less-than-optimal situations and assigns them a Sympathy Score. The scores are based on a 10-point scale, where a 1 means you wouldn't walk across the street to pee on them if they were on fire, and a 10 means you might cut off a valued appendage just to ease their suffering."

Kobe's sympathy score? Less than zero. If you have a proper analagy, list it in the comments.

Rumors are starting to swirl about Zach Randolph's departure from Portland following the team's lottery windfall. As the Big Lead explains, Philly and Joisy make a lot of sense as landing spots for big Zach.

Sort of a sad story all around. Let this be a lesson to millionaire sex offenders...

Derek Fisher took over last night's game against the Warriors, scoring 14 points in the 4th quarter and 21 overall. Even more amazing is the fact that he's playing so well while his daughter suffers from "an advanced case of retinoblastoma, a cancerous tumor of the retina found in about 300 children a year." It's an incredible story and even if you're not a Jazz fan, it's hard not to be a Derek Fisher guy.

If you didn't watch the Suns/Spurs game the other night, you missed one of the oddest endings to a playoff game ever. Nash and Parker collided well into the 4th quarter. Parker laid on the floor while Nash went to the bench to clean up a huge gash on his nose. The docs never closed the cut, Nash only made it onto the floor sporadically and the Spurs won the game.

In a show of support, thousands of fans will be wearing bandaids in a show of support for their team's leader. Expect an overdose of crowd shots.

Is it time the NBA reseeds the playoffs between rounds like the NHL does? I think so. The Sportz Assassin discusses why we're now being treated to "two premiere playoff matchups and two duds."

"Arenas has made it clear he does not want to end up like Kevin Garnett in Minnesota or Paul Pierce in Boston."

In a nutshell, there it is. The more money you demand, the less likely it is your team is going to end up a winner. Arenas is on to something. Maybe he can still feed his family with $60 million instead of $100 million.