bling bling

The lakers got crushed, and I couldn't be happier for them. Now the focus can turn to what the Blazers are going to do in the draft. Joe Alexander seems to be getting a lot of love, the rumors are strong they will trade their first pick, but I'm betting the keep it. I trust Prichard in any event.

The big talk on the radio today was not Tiger's studly win at the US open, but Javon Walker. It was so good that Rome even allowed about 15 callers on the air, which never happens. They were all skewering him for being so stupid for essentially doing the same thing as the night when his then teammate Darrent Williams ended up dying in his arms new years eve 06. Essentially they were at some club showing off their bling and spraying strangers with thousand dollar bottles of champaign. Last time the limo got hit in shooting and someone died, this time Walker was found passed out on a street, heavily beaten and robbed.

And yeah, there's certainly an element of how proud and dumb can you be acting the gangster again flaunting in the same was as when your buddy died. He does have to be smarter than that. But what got me was that in their haste to question his judgement, even on Canzano's show nobody considered that perhaps Javon is still haunted by that previous incident. Perhaps he felt he should have been the one to have died, and went at it again in the same way because he is genuinely sick and wanted somebody to end his life in an "honorable" way. Or some kind of craziness like that that he had talked himself into because he's rich and scarred and he doesn't have friends with any balls to tell him no and that he needs to go get help. And he's too sick to go get help himself, so he does something desperate so that help comes to him. I think it's very plausible. And I was upset today that the possibility was not even being considered. Everybody is too busy piling on the black thug.