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If you don’t like the NBA, just keep on moving.

NBA team owners voted overwhelmingly in favor of allowing the Seattle Supersonics to move out of Seattle and into a market that is more than a million people smaller than Seattle. It is ridiculous.

The great news is two of my favorite NBA executives were the ones who voted against the deal.

Mark Cuban, the famous owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Paul Allen, the slightly less vocal owner of the Portland Trail Blazers. That’s it, everyone else voted for the move.

Let me just say that I am happy that Allen is the owner of MY basketball team today. If the owner of your home team voted to allow a deal like this, I wonder what their intentions could be? Maybe they want the flexibility to move their team when the city or state won’t pay 500 million for a new arena (after a 74 million dollar renovation 13 years ago).

I am feeling overwhelmed on my friends page about the new baseball season (something I could really care less about) so I figured a basketball post would be worthwhile. Specifically, a top 10 of the worst of the “jail blazer” era.

Now in case you’re not familiar, there was about an eight year stretch where my NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers, were basically a bunch of criminals playing together. You worried if any of them were violating their probation by hanging out with other criminals. It was an embarrassment.

Recently, the Blazers have cleaned up their act (which is great) but I was reminded of this past era when I was listening to the radio on the way home from

work yesterday (1080 the fan). They put together a top five of the worst Jail Blazers. I am going to put together a top ten list of the worst Jail Blazers and why. And just as a note, this is an “all time” list so it is going to include everything (even when they weren’t with the Blazers). As if we need to demonstrate that most of these guys had issues before and after they came to the Blazers.

So without further ado:

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The SEC blows and I get tired of hearing about “The Greatest Football Conference Ever.” From my time down south, I can tell you that they have the most obnoxious fans in the world. Example:

All three of those fans are sanctimonious pricks deserving of a good, healthy beat down. Especially that guy on the far right as he has a very punchable face and the woman on the bottom isn’t half bad either.

NY, LA and Boston sports fans don’t have anything on these guys. And while I secretly knew that OSU wasn’t going to win the BCS selected fake championship game, I couldn’t help but to root for them with as much energy as I could stand.

I really hope NCAA football goes to a playoff system of some sort. I’d like the championship to be played for, not narrowed down to two using subjective measures.