The Worst NBA Player Is Either...




Name:                   Brian Cardinal
Height:                  6'8"
Weight:                  240 lbs.
College:                Purdue
Years Pro:             8
Games:                 287
Games Started:   29
08'-09  MPG          9.0    (Minutes)
08'-09' PPG          1.5     (Points)
08'-09' RPG          1.2    (Rebounds)






Name:                      Brian Scalabrine
Height:                      6'9"
Weight:                     235 lbs.
College:                   USC
Years Pro:                7
Games                     417
Games Started:      56
08'-09' MPG:            12.4
08'-09' PPG              3.0
08'-09' RPG:            1.2



And the winner is...






But not by much!  If both of these guys were five inches shorter, they would be slightly above average recreation league players.  The fact that The Brians have carved out 7+ year careers as professional basketball players is simply astounding... 






Oh, one more thing about Scallie.  With Kendrick Perkins out of the lineup earlier this week, Scalabrine held Amare Stoudemire to 3 points, 1 rebound and 0 assists in thirty minutes of action.  Something tells me that KG may have helped out a little bit though.  Although Elton Brand and Shawn Marion have been the biggest disappointments this season, Amare isn't too far behind...  







In my November 25th RealGM.com Fantasy Hoops column, I named nine NBA coaches who deserved to be fired.  Well, nearly two months later only four are left after the Memphis Grizzlies brain trust (and I use that term very lightly) finally decided to give Marc Iavaroni the axe last night.  

Although their record currently stands at 9-32, one of the four still standing is Los Angeles Clippers head coach Mike Dunleavy.  There really are only two possible reasons why this is the case:  

1) Owner Donald Sterling doesn't want to pay both Dunleavy and a new competent head coach who can lead the team back to respectability or 2) Dunleavy is in possession of several pictures of Sterling having carnal knowledge with corpses and/or animals

For several weeks I was under the impression that #1 was the correct answer, but now #2 suddenly doesn't seem so far fetched...