Sacramento Kings' Draft Wish List, Random TV, and Christmas Traditions

I respect the hell out of Chad Ford, but there is just no reason to start putting mock drafts and draft position rankings out there yet. 

We don’t know exactly who is going to be picking first. We don’t know what trades will be made before the season is over, how certain college players will perform come tournament time, or how Euro imports will stack up against homegrown talent. There should be a moratorium on all draft previews until after March Madness is over. 

Let’s see if Blake Griffin can perform on the big stage against better competition.  Let’s see if Stephen Curry has another magical run in him. 

Don’t we want to know every possible aspect of the potential Euro players, including health and how they respond to a full season against the European leagues?

Shouldn’t we wait to see how the coaching decisions play out since that will undoubtedly alter the draft order? Four of the bottom five teams have fired their coaches this season, and the Clippers should be seriously considering it.

With that said, I absolutely love seeing Ricky Rubio, Brandon Jennings, and Stephen Curry’s names listed next to the Kings on the lottery page. Yet another reason not to pay attention to it: I don't want to get my hopes up, and who knows if it actually will happen? 

I should never have clicked the link because now I’m watching Jennings and Rubio highlight packages against the Euro leagues on YouTube non-stop and fondly remembering Curry’s performance in the tournament last March.  

See what you’ve done, Ford! You’ve given hope to a broken man, and, as Red said in Shawshank Redemption, “Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

After all the talk about how Al Harrington looked like Earl from Dinosaurs on the last podcast, I started to think this was one of the most underappreciated shows from my youth.

Now, you may be questioning the tag I placed on Dinosaurs, but it truly was underappreciated. It was an extremely smart show despite the fact that all the major players were essentially puppets or guys in dinosaur suits and a bastard of a baby character whose only purpose was to spout catch phrases and hit the father in the head. 

Many of the characters were named after petroleum companies such as Sinclair, Phillips, and Hess. There was also a lot of satire throughout the show, and it discussed a lot of hot-button issues: war, divorce, damaging the environment, equal rights, religion, censorship, drug abuse, corporate crime, and government interference. 

I really am considering buying the series on DVD once I get my inevitable Best Buy gift card for Christmas.

Other old TV shows that I wouldn’t complain about getting on DVD: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Hang Time, The White Shadow, Perfect Strangers, ALF, Mr. Belvedere, Growing Pains, Night Court, Out of this World, Small Wonders, Silver Spoons, Coach, Just the Ten of Us, Wonder Years, Boy Meets World, Double Dare, Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude

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