After leading UCLA to its third-straight Final Four, Bruins freshman Kevin Love is expected to declare for the NBA draft. Sources close to the situation told SI.com that the 6-foot-9 forward will make his announcement Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles.

He is supposed to be a lottery pick, somewhere around 8, but should he go higher? Leading his team to the Final Four and one of the top college teams in the country this year and who can forget those amazing full court shots he can do.

Or him shattering the backboard in highschool?

I think he has the skill set to be a good pro, but I think he really needs to hit the weightroom first and foremost. He has a big frame, but it does not appear to be any muscle mass. I think that once he does that, he can compete with other forwards in the league.

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The Los Angeles Times reported that Los Angeles Lakers center Kwame Brown is out indefinitely with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. He suffered the injury Sunday in a 106-78 win over Chicago.

The Lakers declined guess when Brown could return. The Times reported most NBA players are out two to four weeks with similar injuries, although it can be longer.

The extent of the injury was revealed in an MRI exam Monday, and Brown will be re-evaluated next week. With Brown out of the lineup, Chris Mihm and Andrew Bynum will get increased minutes.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lakerep20nov20,1,1165807.story?coll=la-headlines-sports

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It looks like the NBA is stepping in to show Donovan and others who think that they can sign a contract and not honor it what happens if they decide to back out.  How about a 5 year ban from the NBA.  I think that something has to be done to prevent people from having a “change of heart” and not honoring their contract.  Remember, the media kills players when they want to renegotiate or ask to be traded.  I just hope that this is a lesson to those coaches who don’t want to honor that signed document that we call a contract. Read more about what the NBA is trying to do:

Billy Donovan and the Magic entered talks on Monday to terminate the contract that he signed on Friday, but the NBA might have a say in resolving the matter as well, ESPN.com has learned.Multiple sources said that Donovan is being asked to refrain from coaching in the NBA for five years as one of the terms of his release from his Magic contract. Especially in light of this newest wrinkle, negotiations were expected to continue into Tuesday.

ESPN’s Kelly Naqi cites a Magic team source saying Donovan obtained legal representation at 6 p.m. Monday to work on the complexities of the contract with Orlando attorneys.

The source also said that Donovan has called high-ranking team officials several times apologizing for the his change of heart. According to the source, Donovan said, “I’m so sorry this happened. I meant no harm. My heart is in Florida.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2892797&POLL292=400000000000000

He’d better thank the lord above if he is able to wiggle out of this one without penalty.

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Dirk Nowitzki has been announced 2007 NBA MVP after coming up short against the Golden State Warriors in this year’s playoffs.  Dirk has no doubt been the best player on his team during their 67 win stretch to the first team in a minute to challenge the Chicago Bulls 72 win record. 

He beats out Steve Nash, the MVP of the last 2 years, and Kobe ‘I can shoot over 4 people’ Bryant (I still think that you are the best player in the league.  You and Tim Duncan).  But the thing is this has brought up whether the award should be given out after the playoffs, but I say no.  He was the Most Valuable Player to his team during the regular season.  And I have a fucking problem with the award going to the person with the best record anyway.  Just because you may have the best record does not mean that you were that much the reason for that.  But Dirk I think deserved this one.  Imagine if Steve won again.  He would be up there with the like of Larry Bird and Bill Russell who won it 3 consecutive times and I can’t put him up there with them yet. 

I just think that this will go down as the worst MVP to go down in history to date because of how small Dirk came up losing the the 8th seeded Warriors.  Dirk, grow some fucking balls during playoff times when your team needs you!

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The NFL and NBA drafts have been televised for years. Now, Major League Baseball is joining the trend. For the first time in its history, the baseball entry draft will be aired live on ESPN2. Coverage will begin on Thursday, June 7th at 2 p.m. ET from Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla. The broadcast will end at 6 p.m. ET. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said the telecast, “will give fans access to see this critical function of an organization’s development.

This is an idea whose time has come.” Each team’s first round pick will be televised and all clubs will have a maximum of five minutes to make their selections. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays will have the first selection. The San Francisco Giants will have three picks in the first round, while the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers will each have two first round choices. The draft will have 50 rounds and will conclude after all 30 teams have passed on a selection or after the final selection of the 50th round, whichever comes first.

My Take:

“I don’t know if this would have the impact of say the NFL because many of us don’t know many of these guys. Even in the NBA, after the first few players in the 1st round, there are many foreign players that we have never heard of. In baseball, we have those coming straight out of high school and have not seen many of the players play like we would on Saturdays during the fall. It may be successful, but it looks like ESPN doesn’t feel too good about it either because it is being placed on their B-Team with it being on ESPN 2. I just hope that we don’t have to hear Chris Berman go ‘There it gooooes, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back!!!!’ ”

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