The Final Score

Newsday's Alan Hahn reports today that the Knicks might get Marco Jaric and that "Jaric, 29, spent the offseason in New York with his fiancee, model Adriana Lima."

This is model Adriana Lima. Boy, I hope the Knicks get Marco.

... was a guarantee that he of course wouldn't hold up.

So Jamal Crawford is now a Newsday blogger?

Maybe this is my in to play point guard for the Knicks in a game?!!?

No, not to play for the Raptors, silly.

King James is going to the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend for the unveiling of "More than a Game," a documentary flick about how basketball made him what he is.

Here's a lovely story/press release for the flick.

James said he hopes the film will inspire kids . . .

"We set out with a goal when we were 8 and we accomplished it when we were 18," he is quoted as saying. "It's a great story and I wanted to get it out to kids that have a dream, that they should continue to go after it, believe in it and live it if they want to accomplish something."

Inspiration is nice, but being the best darn player in the whole wide world is the best way to success.

As Steve Martin used to say: "Here's how to become a millionaire. First, get a million dollars."

The Knicks won't take Patrick Ewing back as a coach, but they'll trade for his son. And all it took was the most notoriously pathetic draft pick in team history.

This, my friends, is the final straw.

We need a break at The Final Score.

So we're taking a break.

Not a long one, just through Labor Day weekend.

We need to refresh. And you should too.

See ya Tuesday morning.

First the shocking news that former TrailBlazer Kevin Duckworth died at 44 on Monday night.

And then the news from Oklahoma City that Wayman Tisdale (pictured) had part of his right leg amputated Monday because of bone cancer.

Makes our problems not seem so bad.

I wrote my Web column yesterday about women's tennis player Elena Dementieva, who said she didn't let go of her gold medal from Beijing for three days to make sure it wasn't a dream.

Jason Kidd, however, won't be holding on to his gold for too long.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Arizona Republic, Kidd has agreed to give his gold medal to Elaine Wynn, the wife of casino mogul Steve Wynn, as a thank-you for the hospitality the casino showed him last summer.

"Last summer, we stayed at the Wynn for (what seemed like) a lifetime, close to three weeks," Kidd told the Republic. "We met at a banquet, we got to talking, and she really understands the game.

"I told her I'd make a deal with her, that if we won the gold medal, I'd give it to her. She thought I was kidding. But I told her I had one already, and the way they treated us at the Wynn, it was the least I could do."

Here's a pretty funny video in which Steve Nash and Baron Davis mock the trailer from the Will Ferrell Step Brothers movie.

It was good to hear that the although Seattle's NBA team is moving to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season, the Sonics name won't.

It's just as well that the Utah Jazz and LA Lakers won't be joined by another team with a nickname that makes no sense:

The Jazz came from New Orleans, the home of jazz. I don't think that listening to that kind of music is even legal in Utah. The Lakers got their name from Minnesota being the land of 10,000 lakes. LA is more like the land of 10,000 tar pits.

So what will the new OKC team be called?

The two obvious choices, Sooners or Cowboys probably wouldn't go over because followers of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State would refuse to cheer for any team bearing the name of their arch-rivals.

So, I'm guessing the Oklahoma Drillers, a term that both refers to the state's oil industry and basketball sharpshooting, (Drillers is also the name of Tulsa's minor league baseball team).

What do you think the Sonics name should/will be?

I apologize for laughing at anyone who ever claimed there was a conspiracy in the NBA that favored teams like the Lakers, Knicks and Bulls, although not so much the last two lately.

Nothing has been proven, but read this story in today's Newsday.

I guess it's true that you're not paranoid if people really are out to get you.

or anyone else who can afford to bid on it in this eBay auction.

You, too, can join the likes of Walt Frazier, Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson and others who NBA championship rings - and for the low, low price of 22 thousand bucks.

The perfect Dad's day gift? Well, no. It's apparantly a ladies' size. But still, I wonder who it belongs to.

Speaking of auctions that normal human beings can't afford, has anyone out there in Final Score land ever bought or sold any really outrageous sports memorablia on eBay? If so, post a comment with all the details.