1. Blake Griffin, L.A. Clippers — 54.8 percent…
2. Jonny Flynn, Minnesota — 12.9 percent
1. Blake Griffin, L.A. Clippers — 20.6 percent…
2. Jonny Flynn, Minnesota — 11.8 percent
1. Jonny Flynn, Minnesota — 40.0 percent
“He plays like he’s been playing in the league already. He’s got that whole swagger about him.”
(I should note that David is one of my oldest friends and has been telling me how smart he is for decades, starting when he interned at the Los Angeles Times. Of course, if I claim to be his mentor, I have to account for failing to teach him how many point guards to draft in the same lottery.)
It’s fashionable, or mandatory, to sneer at McHale, who’s actually one of the coolest people in the NBA, even if he’s a little on the stubborn side (the Lakers offered him Lamar Odom and Andrew Bynum for KG, instead of Al Jefferson and all those Celtics who are no longer there.)
What is forgotten is what McHale did for the laughingstock franchise he took over with Christian Laettner and J.R. Rider, whom Kevin cleaned out en route to making the Timberwolves respectable, even if that was as far as they got in the West.
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