THE SPORT COUNT

A style soon to be seen all around Europe.

In all the fuss about Josh Childress heading to Europe, we — and every other basketball pundit — missed an extremely important point: America is totally exporting the world’s most ridiculous hairstyles (and yes, Brandon Jennings, it does look ridiculous. And we love it).

Marty Burns follows some players at business school. One highlight is an excerpt from Zaza Pachulia’s notes during the week: eighteen doodles of a hawk (including a hawk with ‘vampire eyes’), a couple of notes to Quentin Richardson (‘do you want to buy a Denny’s franchise together?’), and 189 versions of his signature (‘I’m going to have to sign it a lot,’ he told reporters. ‘All of Childress’ fans will come to me this year probably’).

The Timberwolves have new uniforms. I guess they weren’t interested in my proposal: a wolf with blood red eyes, its head on fire like Ghost Rider. Tell me Bassy Telfair wouldn’t enjoy wearing that. He’d wear his uniform to the club.

A brief whine: I loved Sam Smith’s columns at The Tribune, until those Spaniards at HoopsHype poached him. My issue is that he’s not even writing for them consistently. It’s like the Bulls signing Luol Deng to a $70m+ contract and then letting him ride the bench all year.

Doctor Steve Alexander at Rotoworld takes a look at some fantasy sleepers. Jesus, I love fantasy sleepers. (My sleeper for the year? Zaza Pachulia. His game can only benefit from his newly-discovered business acumen).

Posted By: Anton