Funkywhiteboy wrote:I'm surprised that the Knickerbockers didn't dump Marbury, as he and Francis
play the same position.
No they don't. Marbury plays the Marbury position, while Francis has lined up at Francis his whole career.
Equally surprising was that the Magic acquired in the trade Penny Hardaway's bloated
and expiring (at the end of the season) contract.
The hard-to-believe part is that Anfernee is still in the league.
If I was getting paid like $15 mil or thereabouts to do nothing except whine every once in a while, I'd damn well find a way to keep my job, too.
I remember going to a Blazer game the year after Shaq left Orlando, when Penny was carrying that team. He was such a whiney little tard, I couldn't stand the guy. My buddy and I ended up showing up way early, back in the days when they'd open the doors and let people hang out, rather than the "new deal," where if you show up early (heaven forbid you work near the arena and live on the outskirts, and go straight from work to the arena) they just leave you lined up outside in the cold until one hour before the game...wtf? Anyhow, we were among the first people there, and went down from our nosebleeders to near courtside. During the pre-warmups/shootaround, we made it a point to let Penny know how we felt about him, in no uncertain terms(did I mention that we were wasted out of our gourds at the time?).
"YOU SUCK, PENNY!"
"You're shit without Shaq, you little whiner."
Etc, etc. I know dude heard us, but didn't acknowledge. Then the game started, and we upped our Penny-bashing. It's a 100% certainty that he was hearing us, even from the cheap seats.
And I'll be damned if that little faggot didn't win that game singlehandedly. I think his stats line went something like 37/14/17. The best (worst) part was after a particularly brutal verbal onslaught, dude got the ball at the top of the key...got double teamed...got triple teamed...put the ball on the floor, and the other two defenders locked on him, too...took off at the free-throw line...and had the most wicked 360 throwdown in the history of the game...with 5 dudes hanging on him.
After suffering through our indescretions for most of the game, as he dropped from the rim and headed back up court, he finally acknowledge the tards in the cheap seats, and looked up at where we were and smiled and waved at us.
Worst. Game. Evar.
BODE Penny.
And back to the present --
The Blazers were drooling over Penny. They wanted that expiring contract badly. Had to settle for Voshon Lenard's exprirng deal, instead. Jiminy, how old is Voshon now? Dude's gotta be pushing 60. Didn't some poor team have to decide if they wanted to draft Lenard or Bob McAdoo?
