Is there anything more shameful in sports than the NBA draft lottery? Even Khansie knew the T-wolves were going to get screwed..

“This league has a habit, and I am just going to say habit, of producing some pretty incredible story lines,” Kahn said. “Last year it was Abe Pollin’s widow and this year it was a 14-year-old boy and the only thing we have in common is we have both been bar mitzvahed. We were done. I told [Utah General Manager] Kevin [O'Connor]: ‘We’re toast.’ This is not happening for us and I was right.”

I am surprised that the Wolves got 2 though… I assumed we’d get three since it’s a “two player” draft (Duke guard Kyrie Irving and Arizona forward Derrick Williams). This must mean that Stern is softening a bit on the Wolves after their illegal dealings with Joe Smith.

There is no sport that is more corrupt than NBA basketball. The players live paycheck to paycheck; not for lack of high salaries, but for careless lifestyles. The refs are corrupt; Tim Donaghe being the best example, but it’s widely believed that the NBA selects certain refs (cough cough Joey Crawford cough cough) to influence the outcome of games. Even Mark Cuban accused Stern of fixing games. And then there is the embarrassment that is the NBA Lottery. Going back to the Knicks unlikely winning of the number on pick, to the T-wolves who have never moved up in the draft, and more often than not have moved back.

And even if none of this is true, perception is reality. Until the NBA can prove it’s clean, it’s guilty. And I continue to have no interest in watching.

The team here at SP started this list last year, but in classic SP style we never quite finished. With how bad the Twins are doing this year, it seems like it was kismit that we’d wait until now to publish. Without further ado…enjoy.
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A recent story in the StarTribune caught my eye. Columnist John Tevlin goes in depth on the family feud going on just down the road from us in St. Louis Park where we’ve seen Thanh Do (local restauranteur Thom Pham’s cash cow) close and reopen across the street in a larger space; and his adoptive sisters reopen the original location under the name “Wok In The Park”.
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Business Week recently highlighted twenty technologies that they believe are on the way out. But are they? When you ask a spokesperson for the Chevy Volt if gasoline engines are dead, can you really trust the answer?

Let’s take a look…
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Fascinating article on Yahoo! Sports this morning. The gist of the story is that NFL Referees have the role of asking coaches to call timeouts to accommodate television network needs.
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