Hardwood Recap "Shut Up Favre"

What's with all of these stories of "Is this Favre's last game at home?" Favre is obviously coming back next year and after the drama he put us through last offseason, he doesn't deserve any publicity talking about retirement. So Favre, shut up with the whole "I'm not sure about my future" bit, it's played out, especially by you. The reporters in this photo are wasting their time. This won't be your last game at home so stop acting like it is. Moving on to basketball, there were only two games last night. One thing has been made clear to me. The Pistons still own Lebron and the Cavs even without Ben Wallace. In order to get over the hump in the Eastern Conference, Lebron is going to have to lead his team past the Pistons, at least in a regular season game. In the other game, Kevin Martin had a surprising 40 point game against the Wizards after missing just one game with an ankle injury.

Washington Wizards

Antawn Jamison is quietly having a great year for the Wizards as their second option to Gilbert Arenas. In last night's game against the Kings, Jamison outscored Arenas 33-30. Jamison also had 13 rebounds, 5 treys, 4 steals, and went 10-13 from the FT line.

Sacramento Kings

It looked as though Kevin Martin's season was getting more and more dissapointing, as not only had his scoring decreased, but he went down with an ankle injury. But after missing just one game, he exploded against the Wizards last night going for 40 points on 13-23 shooting including 5 treys and 10-11 from the charity stripe. He also chipped in with 4 rebounds, 4 assists, a steal and a block. It looks as though Kevin Martin can keep up his outstanding play. As I was looking at the box-score from last night I realized that John Salmons played 44 minutes and finished the game with 23 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. With Artest constantly injured, I looked through the rest of the Kings depth chart and I noticed that there are really no scorers on the team other than Martin. So I got to thinkin, why not John Salmons? As long as Artest is hurt, I think Salmons could go for about 20, 5, and 5 almost every night. If you have someone to drop, Salmons might be a valuable pickup.

~Brian Melnick aka Big Mel

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