Clippers Take One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.

Normally, when your team trades for an All-Star, it should be a happy day for you and your fellow fans. Sadly, when the Clippers trade for an All-Star, most fans can do nothing but let out a sigh and say "here we go again..."

The Los Angeles Clippers agreed to a trade today for New Orleans Hornets superstar Chris Paul, who is in his last year of his deal with the team, and was looking to be traded. Sadly, what the Clippers gave up in return was a future All-Star Guard in Eric Gordon, solid every day starters in Al-Farouq Aminu and Chris Kaman, and a possible #1 Overall pick they had gotten from Minnesota. It's very likely that this will lead to two straight NBA Drafts where the Clippers had the #1 Overall pick, but had traded it away (they traded a pick to Cleveland last year, and that pick turned into the #1 overall pick for 2011, Kyrie Irving from Duke).

As a Clippers fan, we are used to this kind of mismanagement from the front office, but we aren't used to getting an All-Star in return, and before we get all excited about Chris Paul, lets remember a few things: He has just about no cartilage in one of his knees, so how long does he last as an Elite Point Guard in the NBA? He is still only signed through the end of the 2011/12 season, and although he has said he will sign here for at least two years if traded, what are we basing that on? His word?

I know I should be excited, but I'm just not. I was looking forward to watching Eric Gordon grow into a superstar, or who we would take with the #1 pick in the 2012 Draft. Now, I know what I'm going to get. Alley Oops from Chris Paul to Blake Griffin. We win about half our games, make the playoffs and get swept in the first round by the Thunder.

Lebron Apologists: "Best 0-1 Team EVER."

I'm not a big Basketball fan to begin with, but this game was downright boring. The Heat fell behind early, and never really made it a game again. They scored a total of 9 points in the first quarter, and never fully recovered.

Cleveland Pariah Lebron James scored 31 points in the losing effort, but the "Big 3" went 17-48 with 52 points. Chris Bosh was especially disappointing (other than his amazing ability to look like a Brachiosaurus), only scoring 8 points in 38 minutes.

I want to say that this team will get better with time, but it really looks like they have a long couple of months ahead of them before they get their feet under them. I still think they win the East, but they wont be winning 73+ games. This year...

Good News, Everyone!

In a few short hours, you will need to type even fewer letters into your internet browser to reach Angels Nation! We will have become Angelsnation.net. The leading source of grammatical errors and Los Angeles Angels Cynicism on the internet!

In more good news, the season officially begins tonight in Anaheim as the Rangers come to town (bringing our old friend Vladdy, whom they have held captive in an ugly blue uniform). Tonights matchup is Scott Feldman vs. Joel Pinero. I've got a good feeling about tonight. The rest of the series, on the other hand, not so much...

The division is at the point where whomever wins the season series between Texas and the Angels is going to win the division. These are as close to must win games as we will get in June.

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Also, the Lebron James sweepstakes is only 2 days away, well, actually closer to 30 hours away. It will be interesting to see how the next few weeks shapes the next few years in a sport I care little about. I'll post facts when they arise.

I will also post absolute rumors when I think of them.

For example, The Lakers are rumored to be trading Lamar Odom for Miles Austin of the Dallas Cowboys, in order to get an attractive Kardashian sister attending games.

I Hope The Angels Sign Him.

He could play third base.

Anyway, with the Angels finally getting an off day, I had time to watch the NBA playoffs. Boston and Cleveland were playing in Game 6 of their series, with Boston having a 3-2 series advantage, and they got to play Game 6 at home.

Sounds to me like they should have won... well, they did.

Cleveland even had a 3 point lead at one point, but they just never looked like they had the drive to win. So they didn't.

I really dont know what to say here. I only watch like... 5 basketball games a year. Even so, I could tell Cleveland didn't have "it" or even really care.

Lebron is liking going to leave Cleveland, and sign with another team in the off-season. Many people think it will be the Knicks or the Bulls, but who knows.

This was a pretty haphazard post, I'm sorry. I have no idea what I'm going to do when baseball is gone.