As the Stern Turns

Booooo. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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NBA Goofus General Manager and Gallant General Manager (#1)

GOOFUS GENERAL MANAGER Pete D'Alessandro offers a professional basketball player a lot of money before he's ready to commit, gets cold feet, retracts his offer, and now comes off as untrustworthy in the eyes of all other professional basketball players. You know, the people you need to like you so that you can then group them together and make something called a team.

GALLANT GENERAL MANAGER Flip Saunders offers injured and marginal professional basketball players contracts that are kinda sorta overvaluing said players' worth, but at least all other professional basketball players know that he is a man that can be trusted (to kinda sorta overpay them).

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Tales of the jilted NBA fan: Chris Paul edition

Do you remember, Chris? Do you remember what it used to be like to say, “I’M IN!!!" when you were with me? I REMEMBER.

Your newest “I’M IN!!!" feels cold, heartless, and covered in the musk of a lying Doc Rivers.

Don't ever Tweet those words to me AGAIN.

I'M IN!!! #CLIPPERNATION

— Chris Paul (@CP3)

July 1, 2013

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We don't need a source to tell us for us to know: free agency edition

Despite free agency opening at 12:01 EST, Andrew Goudelock remains unsigned.

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Transcribing a taped segment of NBA TV ... during a commercial break of Iron Chef America

Dennis Scott (quickly mumbling): something-something Doc Rivers something-something Chris Paul

Isaiah Thomas (low, child-like voice): Doc Rivers ... quarterback ... Atlanta Hawks ... He will help Chris dealing with animosity.

Matt Winer (authoritatively loud): EVERYBODY WANTS THIS GUY ON THEIR ROSTER.

David Aldridge (voice cracking): Welllllll I think there's a chance ... I don't think the Clippers are in any major hurry. Wouldn't shock me.

Matt Winer (changing gears): He's affordable. Chances he'll stick in Denver?!

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Extended political analogy: Charlotte Bobcats edition

A. Clay Mitchell (DidCharlotteWin.com) records the Charlotte Bobcats fans' (?!) reaction to management selecting Cody Zeller with the fourth pick in the 2013 NBA Draft.

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B. Massive Demonstrations in Egypt as Protestors Flood Streets (Gawker)

A year after the inauguration of President Mohamed Morsi, Egyptians deeply frustrated with his leadership have flooded the streets of Cairo, massing outside of the presidential palace and marching on Tahrir Square.

Thousands of protesters have pledged to keep their demonstrations going until Morsi is removed from office. Right now, security forces have yet to confront the protesters, and the demonstrations have continued peacefully through the afternoon.

“It has been a difficult, very difficult year, and I think the coming years will also be difficult,” Presdient Morsi said in an interview Sunday with The Guardian. The difficult year included spotty public services, long lines for gas, and an alienating ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Current event tangentially related to basketball (#1)

From the Atlantic Wire: "The Great Twinkie Drought Ends on July 15"

A current event NBA teams must weigh when considering signing free agent Andrew Bynum.

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The Woj Watch: 6-30-13 @ 0012 hours

He's tweeting about Dwight Howard. 

Y! Sources: Anchored as frontrunners, the Rockets will make the first free agency pitch to Dwight Howard. http://t.co/YVG1Uwh74s

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA)

June 30, 2013