The Cleveland Cavaliers choose Christian Eyenga out of the Congo with the 30th pick in this years NBA Draft. Eyenga is a 20 year old shooting guard/small forward who is said to be very athletic.

While Eyenga is said to possess the tools physically succeed in the NBA he lacks the fundamentals to contribute to the Cavaliers right away.

Eyenga stands at 6' 6'' and weighs 210 pounds. Here the rundown of the first round of the NBA Draft.

After Chinese businessman Huang Jianhua purchased a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise last month, the move sparked rumors that Houston Rockets' center Yao Ming might be making the move to Cleveland. Yao has remained mum on the subject - until now.

During an interview with Shanghai TV, Yao said:

"It's still unknown. I've already been with Houston for such a long time, I still have much affection for this team. Moreover, this past season we were very successful, and that let me see some hope.

Regardless of whether its a Chinese boss, or a foreign boss, they're both bosses and a boss is just a boss."

The Cavs have not publicly expressed an interest in Yao, 28, who has a $75 million, five year contract with the Rockets that expires in 2011. A opt-out clause for the last season means that he could opt out after the next NBA playoffs in 2010. According to league rules, if Houston wishes to extend the contract they have the privilege to renew it beyond 2011 this summer. However once Yao decides to get out of the contract in 2010, Houston would have to compete with other teams if they'd like to retain his services in the future.

NBA Finals, Game 4 - June 11, 2009
Amway Arena - Orlando, Florida
Game 4 preview and in-game recap

Tonight the Lakers look to put a choke-hold on the series while Orlando looks to even things up. I’m interested to see how Kobe Bryant will come out with all the talk of him being tired lately in the media. I think he will come out firing and will this team to victory. Game 1 was the only game that hasn’t been close, but there hasn’t been a game yet that the Lakers haven’t been in control or have been close late. The Magic shot 62.5% from the field in game 3 and still only managed to win by four. The Magic have been in two out of the three games, but in my opinion they haven’t shown enough where I can see them taking control at home. If the Lakers win tonight, which I think they will, there’s a good chance this series will be over in five.
First quarter recap and some things that stood out:
-Orlando 24, Los Angeles 20
-Orlando is outshooting L.A. 50% to 35% from the field and only leads by four (8-16 to 7-20)
-Dwight Howard had 3 offensive rebounds and 3 blocks, but only took one shot.
-I’m sorry Magic fans but Amway Arena just sounds like somewhere an NBA developmental team would play at.

Not that it is nice to root against people, especially someone who seems as classy as Stephen Curry, but if you're a Cleveland Cavaliers fan you may want to do just that. LeBron James and Curry are known to be rather friendly as James watched the Davidson standout many times during his college career. The New York Knicks, drafting with the eighth pick in this years NBA Draft, looks like they are the frontrunners to land Curry with their selection.

Curry, whose father Dell Curry was a former player on the Cavs in the late 1980s, had a solid workout for the team yesterday. A headline appeared in today's edition of the New York Post that read "Curry Shines in Knicks workout". The article itself stated:

During his pre-draft workout, the former Davidson star put on another dazzling shooting exhibition against likely his main competitor, UCLA's Jrue Holiday.......

The Knicks pick eighth on June 25, and, barring an unforeseen drop by Arizona power forward Jordan Hill, Curry is a favorite to become a Knick if he's still on the board.

And maybe the most worrisome bit read:

Cleveland’s Forest City developers get walloped by N. Y. Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff for the design of a new basketball arena in Brooklyn N. Y. “A colossal, spiritless box,” he writes.

Ouroussoff writes that the arena design for the Nets team would make it “fit more comfortably in a cornfield than at one of the busiest intersections of a vibrant metropolis.”

Ouch!

Forest City’s Bruce Ratner and company dumped Frank Gehry’s exotic design for the more pedestrian work of Ellerbe Becker, the firm that designed Gund (Quicken) Arena here.

Writes Ouroussoff, “But what’s most offensive about the design is the message it sends to New Yorkers. Architecture, we are being told, is something decorative and expendable, a luxury we can afford only in good times, or if we happen to be very rich.”

Here’s a link to the Times column.

Really? It’s not? You’re saying to yourself, this guy is a complete and utter moron, how can he be asking this still now? I was so tired of hearing about this five years ago, and you’re asking this now?

Ok, back to reality, yes, Kobe is by far the superior player now. But think about this one, I’m not going to go as far as to say the NBA is fixed, but out of all the major professional sports, it’s the one that I’ve questioned the integrity of most, even before the whole Tim Donaghy debacle.

I am a Cavs fan and now I’ll probably be called a conspiracy theorist, which I’m not, but I think this is definitely food for thought. If you’re David Stern, not only would the Lakers winning be ok with you because Los Angeles is a major market, arguably a top three star in your league in Kobe Bryant would get another ring, and Kobe would get his first ring without Shaq. Of course this has been talked about over and over, Kobe has gotten all three of his rings with Shaq, yadda, yadda, yadda.