THE SPORT COUNT

‘The People’s Bust’ Kwame Brown is reportedly locked in to sign an $8m, two-year deal with the Detroit Pistons, finally ending the months and months of speculation which have accompanied the former #1 pick’s every move (see here).

Kwame Brown - a Purple Pterodactyl

Kwame Brown and the Detroit Pistons agreed on a two-year deal – including a player option for the second season – worth $8 million, team president of basketball operations Joe Dumars told The Associated Press on Monday night.

Dumars is a guy who has gotten major kudos over the past few years for making great moves — all Darkos aside — but this has got to rank up their with his most potentially misguided gambles.

Sure, $4m a year isn’t a great deal of cash, but it’s more a case of principle; we just hate Kwame Brown, and so does pretty much everyone who has any sort of sense in the NBA stratosphere.

Kwame is boring. Kwame is fat. Kwame is the type of guy who you hope loses all of his money in an unfortunate pyramid scheme (and I’m not talking about Browns’ attempts to fit into the triangle offense over the past three years). Kwame is the type of person who would come to your birthday party without a gift, drink all of the booze, then spill stuff on your stereo.

Kwame is the black Chris Andersen. Kwame is the living Eddie Griffin. He has small hands. He can’t defend. He can’t score. He has no upside. He also looks a little bit like a pterodactyl.

Great work, Detroit. You just found a way for me to hate you more.

Posted by: James