Not just any joke, but a running joke in my newsroom. It’s odd because people still challenge their ineptness.
The other day, the Warriors beat the Wizards 119-98 on Monday. In response, my boss says he think the Kings, who played the Wizards Wednesday, will beat Washington as well.
Maybe you’re not catching the drift, so I’ll spell it out for you. He thinks the Warriors and the Kings are on the same level. I was shocked. Really, I was.
The Kings suck. All they have to go on is Kevin Martin. Every now and then, John Salmons surprises me. Same for Spencer Dawes. But in general, the collection of people that wear those purple and white jerseys are losers. They’re hurting — hard. At 10-33 Friday, they’re one game away from tying with the bottom of the NBA barrel (Washington 9-33, LA Clippers 9-32 and Oklahoma City 9-34).
The Warriors aren’t far away from this territory either. They’re 13-30, far out of the playoff hunt and still looking for their first good run.
The difference is, the Kings have had their full lineup and star player for at least 20 games when Martin came back from injury. Monta Ellis is returning to the Warriors tonight after that famous moped incident he lied about. It’s his first game of the 2008-2009 season.
Here we are almost at the all-star break, and we’re just getting our star player. (If you didn’t know, I’m a Warriors fan. I know, it hurts inside some days. I’ll get over it.) How are we supposed to compete in the ultra-amazing Western Conference when we don’t even have the guy that spurred the W’s management to let Baron Davis go find himself in La La land? We can’t. We won’t. Hence, 13-30.
What’s the Kings’ excuse? Firing Reggie Theus? Please, he was caretaker for rebuilding phase the owners weren’t aware of. I wrote about that before the season started.
Oh, and the Kings lost that game to the Wizards 110-107.
Man, it sucks ripping these teams. But you know what, if they don’t want to get ripped then maybe they’ll start winning some games. Or at least beat the other teams that suck. Geesh.
Tim
/ January 26, 2009Why you dirty, rotten son of a … how dare you! First of all, this is kind of a funny argument, that the Warriors don’t suck quite as bad as the Kings suck. Maybe so. But I don’t think we’re THAT much worse. We’ve got a lot of young guys that makes me excited for the future – Spencer like you said, Martin, whoever we draft with the pick we get for Brad Miller, and Jason Thompson looks like the real deal too. I don’t understand why these guys can’t win a few games this year, but could it be that we’re after a top draft pick????
Zuri
/ January 26, 2009So you respond by saying they’re going to tank the season on purpose for a draft pick??? Funny argument. Tell me how that works out, will ya.