Battier can really play some defense

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So is this how the man who finished among the Top 5 in the 2007 Defensive Player of the Year award plays defense on rookie Kevin Durant?

Kevin Durant is a savior

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The soon-to-be Rookie of the Year hits his second buzzer-beating three-pointer to prolong the game in Seattle against the Denver Nuggets. Durant finished with a career-high 37 points along with 9 assists and 8 rebounds. This man was odenized!

Bell sprains ankle, paints with colorful language

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The Suns loose their primary sharp shooter as Kevin Durant slides his foot underneath Bell's fall. If you listen close, Bell says, "Dumb Mother %#%* stepped under my f*ckin' foot. B*tch!"

David Harrison head swat

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David Harrison gets blocks like you've never seen!

Ridnour takes a crack on the hardwood

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Doesn't look to pretty, but Luke Ridnour was fine.

Mickael Gelabale ne parle pas anglais!

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Frenchman Mickael Gelabale only makes sense if you speak French....Um, or maybe it was the interviewer who didn't make sense.

Wally Szczerbiak pulls a Webber

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Someone tell Wally Szczerbiak there is no time out!

Jeff Green stuffed by the rim

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Jeff Green creates a little bit of hilarious for the Phoenix crowd.

Donyell Marshall: Where's my jersey!?

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Donyell Marshall hasn't played in so long...he forgot to wear a uniform!

Brad Miller throws Kurt Thomas

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Can the Kings play a game without loosing their temper?

Brad Miller loses his temper after not getting a foul called. So what does he do? Complain to the referee? Bit his tongue? Imagine that he wasn't touched at all (you know, pretend reality is real)?

No BMiller decides to pick up Kurt Thomas and throw him out of the way. This could've cost the Kings the win.

I feel sorry for good people like Kevin Martin who what to make a game winner because of guys like Artest and Miller.

Sonics have PFs

Seattle isn’t looking for much out of this season.

I don’t know how they’re going to do it, but the team needs to find some more pieces to get better…and fast.

However, it seems like the Sonics seem to have a wealth of decently talented players log-jammed at the power forward position – all of whom have unique strengths and weaknesses.

With three feasible starters in Nick Collison, Chris “Weezy” Wilcox, and rookie Jeff Green who should get the nod? Who should the Sonics keep long term and can they co-exist?

Jayda Evans, Sonics reporter and blogger for the Seattle Times, answered some of my questions via email.

“I like Wilcox to start and Collison off the bench. Collison is the better rebounder, but he plays well no matter where you put him.

“Since the others are fussy, I'd give the unwanted (but still highly important) role of reserve PF to Collison, start Wilcox at PF and start Green at SF. The latter is only because it's a rebuilding year, however. If the Sonics were contending for wins, then I bring Green off the bench.”

However, this all could change depending on the moves Seattle makes before the deadline, and the outcome of the 2008 Draft, in which the team will most likely get another Top 3 pick.

It’s a long road ahead for the Sonics, and it’s not just the roster that might end up in turmoil.

Sonics = United Airlines, Advil

Water! Finally!

Forty-eight hours of no running water can really get you appreciating the everyday stuff we take for granted. I’d recommend it, but you might want to invest in a Gatorade cooler first.

*****

Not being from the Seattle area (nowhere close), I’m still new to the issues of public ownership.

Clearly, when you’re talking about anything that has to do with the people, you’re inviting those pesky old guys in blue and red ties. They bring in a bunch of other (non)issues – mostly those that can help them gain popularity – into the sporting realm.

Yuck.

A great column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer written by Art Thiel focuses on this entity that is political corruption and how it can never get the right thing done.

Thiel suggests if teams are privately owned and publicly funded, and the right thing will get done every time.

Rep. Frank Chopp came up with a plan to build a public stadium for the University of Washington. UW is a public institution, supposedly making it okay to use $300 million of public money on a new playing field.

Yet Chopp is also the biggest legislative opponent of public help to keep the Supes in Seattle! Why? Because the Sonics are a private entity.

A little bit of bigotry here? Thiel says if airline companies, private institutions, can use taxpayer dollars, so can the Sonics.

I agree.

So I would recommend that Chopp in this session immediately propose legislation to shut down the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, so that these public enterprises can be decontaminated. The private airlines and shipping companies that make millions from operations at facilities that were built and sustained in part by taxpayer dollars are, to use Chopp's reasoning, unacceptable.

If private-enterprise rodents are infecting our sports facilities, it only seems fair to exterminate the profiteers from the rest of the public realm, too.

This just seems bogus again and again. Politicians can never get it.

Here’s the answer – for collegiate and profession sports:

• Private ownership
• Public funding

Bam.