Report: Carmelo Anthony Not On Trading Block

ESPN.com’s Marc Stein is reporting that Nugget’s superstar Carmelo Anthony is not on the trading block. At the moment.

According to Stein, several “sources tied to potential Anthony suitors” are reporting that the Nuggets are shutting down any inquiries about Melo right away.

According to our sources, this is the case for a handful of teams, but the Nuggets continue to entertain offers from a select few franchises, with Chicago being the front-runner. The handwriting is on the wall for new VP of Basketball Operations Masai Ujiri, who will meet with Anthony in the next week, either in Denver or Los Angeles.

Nuggets brass seem to think that Ujiri can”re-connect” with Anthony on some kind of level, since they both came into the league at the same time and had a cordial acquaintance. That assertion is silly, as big-time NBA career decisions aren’t typically influenced because your homie is the new GM.

Ujiri was never in Anthony’s inner circle, so it’s baffling that the Nuggets have so much confidence in his ability to influence Anthony to stay…….

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Brandon Jennings Dimes John Wall For Dunk

Brandon Jennings and #1 pick John Wall are serving as honorary assistant coaches at the 2010 Boost Mobile Elite 24, featuring the Top 24 high school players from across the country balling out at the famed Venice Beach courts. Wall will be coaching the “Raymond Lewis” team and Jennings will be with the “Marques Johnson” team, with both squads being named after Los Angeles basketball legends.

Both Jennings and Wall decided to give back to the high schoolers balling in the event, participating in an open run at the HAX facility Wednesday night, where Jennings was spotted giving John Wall this sick dime, which Wall finished with an emphatic dunk.

Hopefully one day these 2 end up on the same squad together because they would be able to dominate for years to come.

BYD: Work Spottings At 2010 ESPY Awards

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EX-NBA’er Winston Bennett Speaks On Sex Addiction

“Looked beautiful, looked ugly, looked slim, looked fat, there’s no prejudice…I could care less who it’s with.”

Somebody needs to make sure that Tiger’s wife checks out this piece on former Kentucky legend and NBA baller Winston Bennett, who admittedly has been battling an addiction to sex for damn near 20 years. Bennett’s side boo smashing would easily put Tiger to shame as he had sex with more women (besides his wife) every week, than Tiger has the past few years combined times 2 (that’s a grip). Whilst Tiger’s boos may have been more on the quality side, Bennett was more interested in quantity, not letting a thing like looks get in the way of him getting his nut. He also admitted to rarely using a condom during his sexual conquests, prefering to rawdog aka play dick craps.

Guaranteed Magic Johnson is somewhere shaking his head thinking, “damn Winston Bennett’s lucky.”

Much like every other man on the planet that engages in extra-marital affairs, Bennett is quick to point out that while he is thankful that his real boo Peggy decided to stay with him throughout all of his transgressions, including burning (STD) her on 2 separate occasions, if his boo ever cheated on him, he would chunk the deuces no doubt. Definitely an insane way to look at things, but a pretty standard feeling amongst the majority of (non-square) males and more specifically athletes.

Even though Bennett’s actions are immoral, you have to give him a little bit of credit for being able to smash what he estimated as damn near 90 nuts a month from 90 different girls during his younger days. That’s a total that even an unemployed chronic masturbator couldn’t reach with 4 hands. Bennett has made wholesale changes in his life to prevent any recurrence of the “addiction” that seems to plagued both men and women, regardless of sexual preference. And throughout it all his Boo stood right by his side, never selling out her man. Now that is what you call down for the cause.

Ewww: Dicky V Gets His Groove On With Erin Andrews

Pop Quiz: If you know that a decently dime sideline reporter just went through a horrific incident, where she was videotaped ironing in the nude by some creepy old guy, and you yourself are indeed a creepier older guy, would you try and force her to dance with you (to “Livin’ On A Prayer”) during a basketball game with cameras rolling? Apparently Dick Vitale didn’t have the right answer for this question and Erin Andrews was yet again victimized by a sketchy-looking old head. The video was shot during ACC Tourney last week, when Vitale basically forced Andrews to dance with him as both her face and body were saying, “No thanks old dude.” Andrews played it off decently though, appearing to at least be somewhat entertained, that is of course until she felt a little poke coming through from Dickie V. Via Deadspin

LOL: Bruce Bowen Looks Like He’s Slanging Bean Pies

To be honest I really don’t know how to feel about Bruce Bowen’s thirst for bow ties, even though there is an overwhelming majority that has chosen to clown the former defensive specialist, who is now getting checks from the folks in Bristol. During his brief stint with ESPN, Bowen has become somewhat legendary for rocking the bow tie similar to a dude in the Nation of Islam, or on one of those clowns in the circus.

What Craig Sager is to flossy (but a little too loud) suits and gators, Bowen is becoming in the bow tie game. He still can’t hang with Dhani Jones just yet, but you have to start somewhere right? I’m going to go against the grain and actually roll with Bowen’s fashion style, because as Maurice TT Rodriguez once said, “wear what you dig.” Regardless, Bowen has a look similar to one of those dudes that hangs out on Crenshaw blvd. trying to slang bean pies and the latest edition of Final Call.

LOL: ESPN Crank-Yanked By Fake Brian Westbrook

After the Eagles released their (once) stud running back Brian Westbrook Tuesday, ESPN spent most of the early evening promoting a phone convo that they were going to have with Westbrook live on Sportscenter. Unfortunately the World Wide Leader was the victim of one of your sicker ookie dokes in recent history. The gag was evident almost immediately after anchor Scott Van Pelt introduced (who he thought was) Westbrook on the line and the voice that began talking sounded something like a Jersey meathead.

It was none other than Captain Janks, a Howard Stern flunky who has made a name for himself impersonating people to get on television, whilst always dropping a Stern reference at some point to let the network that foolishly put him on the air know that they have been had. The fact that someone could

LOL: Mike Leach Punks Adam James At Practice

Damn, if I got clowned like Adam James did in this video from last spring, I would probably be salty at Mike Leach too. Sadly the more info that gets released on the tumultuous relationship between the former Texas Tech head coach and his disgruntled wide receiver, the more it becomes clear that Leach didn’t deserve to get the boot. ESPN was placed in a difficult situation in trying to support analyst Craig James whilst also accurately reporting information about Leach’s alleged cruel treatment of his son.

The James family gave the game a black eye with their decision to help blow this story way out of proportion and now Texas Tech is going to have to break major bread with Leach as a result of what should be deemed a wrongful firing. Via The Big Lead