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Coming up with ten thoughts about sports the week of July 4 isn't all that easy (especially when you don't follow tennis and hot dog eating isn't a sport), but we'll do our best.
1) There will be some movement this week on the football recruiting front. There are multiple players committed privately who are not committed publicly. Again, it doesn't mean much until it's public. Many coaches don't even put commitments on the board until it's stated publicly because too much can happen. We expect at least one commitment to become public this week and possibly more. We wait for the video guys to finish their jobs.
2) Speaking of which, I came across this last night:
No. Emphatically no. Kevin Durant is a grown ass man making millions of dollars. Reporters owe him absolutely nothing to let him make an announcement on his company Instagram channel. As soon as they have that news, they run with it.
It's different with a 17 year old high school kid. This isn't national news. Most people don't know who these kids are. So let them have their moment in the sun, announcing their commitment on Twitter, before we break a story (even though we very often know beforehand what's going to happen). I'm amazed someone would think that a reporter would owe it to KD to wait.
3) In Mizzou related free agency news
There may not be a more perfect marriage of player and organization. DC just works his ass off every single day and squeezes every drop out of what he's got. There's not a single basketball skill in which I would say DeMarre is the best Mizzou player I've seen. In fact, I'm not sure there's a single skill I'd put him in the top three. Except for his motor. I don't think I've been around a Mizzou player who put more into being good than he did and does. This will be his 11th season in the NBA. Most forget (as I had) that it didn't really look like it was going to be nearly that many. After playing 71 games for the Grizzlies as a rookie, Carroll played in 16 games and scored a TOTAL of 22 points over the next year and a half with the Grizzlies, Rockets and Nuggets. For all intents and purposes, he was probably done. But he appeared in 20 games with the Jazz in year four, 66 in year five and has played in at least 67 games in five of the six years since, averaging at least 25 minutes, scoring double digit points five of the six years and getting five or more rebounds in four of the six. He's made himself a hell of an NBA career. If he plays two more seasons, he will match the 14 year career of Anthony Peeler. Their numbers are very very similar.
Carroll: 554 games, 24.2 min, 9.1 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 1.3 apg
Peeler: 827 games, 24.7 min, 9.7 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 2.4 apg
Those two are in the discussion with Larry Drew (9 seasons, 714 games, 25.7 min, 11.4 ppg, 1.8 rpg, 5.2 apg) as the Tigers who have had the most successful NBA careers. Not bad.
4) In other Mizzou/NBA news, ICYMI
5) This was, bar none, my favorite moment of the first day of NBA free agency
I'll just say that 99% of us wish we were as good at our jobs as Adrian Wojnarowski is at his.
6) That's the most I've ever talked about the NBA, so let's move on. TJ Sikkema made his pro debut yesterday
He'll be an interesting one for Mizzou fans to follow over the next few years. I hope he gets traded in the next few seasons because I'll never root for anyone to be good as a Yankee.
7) Meanwhile, a Mizzou pitcher who's already established himself at the major league level is on fire
Somewhere in that month, he bunted a ball of his own face and broke his nose. Hall of Famer. First ballot. No question.
8) Folks that live in the UK sure don't have much idea what baseball really looks like. They were treated to a two-game series between the Yankees and Red Sox in which 50 (yes, FIFTY) runs were scored. The Yankees won game one 17-13. The over/under for that game was 11.5. The over hit...in the first inning. It was tied 6-6 after one frame. There were four half innings that featured six runs. Sunday's affair was a pitcher's duel the Yankees won 12-8. The over/under for that one was raised to 16.5...and blown away. On second thought, maybe they know exactly what MLB looks like. Teams are scoring more runs than ever and the Yankees and Red Sox have been making games last five hours for years now.
9) What to watch this week:
My wife ran through both seasons of The Good Place on Netflix last week. It's decent mindless entertainment and I'll watch pretty much anything Ted Danson does.
On Saturday, we took our son to Toy Story 4. It's the worst of the four in my opinion. It's still worth watching though. Toy Story 2 was the first movie we took my oldest too in the theater. That series of movies is something my kids' generations are going to remember forever. Really well done and, to me, the movies that made animated features appropriate for all ages.
I got no podcast recs for you this week. Still working my way through what's on my phone. So I'll self promote and make sure you listen to episode 63 of the Greatest Pod in the South
10) Reading recommendations:
With the Kevin Kietzman news dominating this week, I'll point you to an old article I'd never read on Jason Whitlock and his radio career in KC
Inside the World's Craziest Ice Fishing Party
How Bob Ley became ESPN's most important broadcaster
Ten years after his shooting death, football coach Ed Thomas still binds his Iowa community
NCAA President Mark Emmert is the lord of a feudal state that knows its time is over
How Southern dogs are brought to Maine by the thousands
Maya Moore left basketball. A prisoner needed her help
Facing his own cancer, Gary Pinkel finds his post football purpose by helping children
NFL stars Elliott, Bruce continue to cultivate the game in St. Louis
He cyber stalked teen girls for years--then they fought back
Hooked: A raging heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer's year-long 30 bank robbery spree
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