Ladewski: Bulls should pursue Al Jefferson in sign-and-trade

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derrick rose 300x160CHICAGO – After the hated Miami Heat bounced his team from the playoffs earlier this week, Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose was nowhere to be found at the team’s practice facility.

Once again, he left coach Tom Thibodeau and a few of his battered, beaten teammates to answer questions about his decision to sit out the entire 2012-13 season.

Then again, some things are best left unsaid.

For Team Try Hard, it was a season of sprained body parts and unfulfilled promise, one of too many ills and not enough thrills. The suggested title of the team video is Next Man Down.

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Mighty Moke’s Free Agency Rankings (Version 7.0)

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Screen Shot 2013-04-15 at 7.41.17 PMIn all walks of life, in tragedy there is opportunity. So today, as we mourn the loss of innocent lives in Boston, we should all take a moment to send thoughts and prayers to those affected by the horrific events that unfolded yesterday.

We can use the tragedy as an opportunity to unite and come together.

On any level, sports is a unifying force that has helped bridge economic, social, geographical and political divisions among citizens of the world, and the NBA has become a melting pot and the epitome of this idea.

All acts of terror are obviously reprehensible, but that this particular attack occurred during an event that featured unification at its finest—and on a day when Boston celebrates the beginning of the American Revolution—was especially unnerving for me, personally.

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Mighty Moke’s Free Agency Rankings (Version 6.0)

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louisvilleNow that Rick Pitino and his Louisville Cardinals have captured the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship, we can get back to focusing on the big boys—many of whom have some big, big problems. Chris Sheridan gave us a rather interesting take on 10 unanswered questions that persist as we head down the stretch run of the season, and Chris Bernucca gave us a nice piece on separating the playoff contenders from pretenders.

I am still have a very difficult time comprehending are how the Los Angeles Lakers are on the outside looking in with only five games remaining in their regular season. The Lakers are to the point where they have to depend on the Utah Jazz to lose at least one more game for them to make the playoffs.

Who’d have thunk it?

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Mighty Moke’s Free Agent Rankings (Version 5.0)

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Josh Smith 1Busted brackets and baseball.

That is what most sports fans are thinking about at the beginning of April.

While the great majority of you guys and gals have been distraught over not correctly picking Wichita State to reach the NCAA’s Final Four, many have overlooked the fact that some of the NBA’s playoff races are getting more and more interesting with each passing week. And a bunch of our pending free agents have something to do with that.

Josh Smith and his Atlanta Hawks have overachieved this season and still have a shot at catching the Brooklyn Nets for the fourth seed in the East. But J-Smoove was not this week’s highest riser. That distinction belongs to a small of very small stature.

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J.R. Smith and Al Jefferson Named Players of the Week

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booty-jr-smith-finedNEW YORK  – Nobody will ever take Tweet of the Year away from J.R. Smith. (If you click on Tahiry’s booty you can read more about it).

But that was last year.

This season, he’s making a late push for Sixth Man of the Year.

The New York Knicks’ J.R. Smith and the Utah Jazz’s Al Jefferson today were named Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, March 25 through Sunday, March 31. 

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