Hooped Up

Deron Williams could be inserted into the Utah Jazz line up as early as tonight for his first game of the season against the 76ers . With all the injury news these days I’m glad some body’s coming back.

“Point guard Deron Williams informed the Jazz this morning that he will try to make his 2008-09 NBA season debut tonight, when Utah visits Philadelphia in its second outing of a five-game road trip. “He told me he’s gonna play,” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said after the team’s morning shootaround at Wachovia Center here. “We’ll probably play him sparingly. “You know how he is,” Sloan added. “He might want to get out there five minutes and say he feels great. But we’re gonna try to watch him pretty close.” 

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Williams being out of the Jazz line up is terrible news for the Utah in the deep west where every games counts and even worse news for fantasy owners hoping for a good start to the season.  

“The Jazz now say point guard Deron Williams will be out at least two weeks because of the sprained left ankle he sustained in Saturday night’s preseason game at Chicago. That means he’s likely to miss the team’s Oct. 29 regular-season opener vs. Denver, plus possibly one or two more games – including a pair against the Elton Brand-less Los Angeles Clippers, who have an injured point guard of their own in Baron Davis.”

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Pocketing that per diem and living like common folk. Chris Bosh and the Olympic gang, chow down the day before the team takes off to China. As every North American knows, nothing nourishes the heart of a champion like a Wendy’s burger. Even weighted down by all that never frozen beef, team USA cruised to a gold medal!  

If the UK wants to make a splash as the host of the 2012 Olympic games, they’ll need practice, dedication, heart and most importantly…Fish n’ Chips!

Team USA is official and here are the members selected by the USA basketball comitee.

Carmelo Anthony
Carlos Boozer
Chris Bosh
Kobe Bryant
Dwight Howard
LeBron James
Jason Kidd
Chris Paul
Tayshaun Prince
Michael Redd
Dwayne Wade
Deron Williams

This is an awesome squad but, who is going to take a back seat to who and who leads this team?

Deron Williams got the best of Chris Paul on Saturday.

Williams of the Jazz defeated Paul of the hometown Hornets to win the Skills Challenge at the All-Star Saturday, according to a Yahoo Sports report.

Williams was perfect in the final round, cruising through the course in a record 25.5 seconds. His time eclipsed the former record of 25.8 set by Steve Nash in 2005.

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