SU has been following the DeAndre Jordan saga.  He had a handshake deal with the Mavericks for $80 million over 4 years and then had 2nd thoughts about perhaps returning to the Clippers.  He was not feeling the love from Chris Paul and the Clippers made a house call to Houston to change his mind.  Mark Cuban of the Mavs flew to Houston but didn’t know where Jordan lived plus apparently Blake Griffin had barricaded the door to the house.  The Clippers brass and players stayed until midnight last night which is when teams can officially sign free agents.  You can’t make this stuff up.

SU says it’s a bad precedence.  Look: the road is littered with teams that are spurned by free agents (see your NY Knicks for the past 700 years).  But if a player agrees to sign with a team, and then that team starts to make other moves given that “agreement”, it’s really not fair to then back out like this.  And there is likely a ripple effect on other teams that made moves as a reaction to what Dallas was doing with their other players.  Jordan was not even man enough to talk to Mark Cuban to explain himself.  Dallas had already let Tyson Chandler leave and is now a mish mosh of players that look like the Knicks roster from last season.  The NBA may need to reconsider this moratorium period and just let players sign after some date end of story.

Meanwhile, and more importantly to SU (and likely no one else that reads this), Jeremy Lin has signed a 2-year deal with the Charlotte Hornets.  Per usual, the social media experts were not in the know of what was actually going on here as there were no rumors to this effect.  SU has mulled it over.  Charlotte traded Lance Stephenson (very good as he is a wild man), drafted Frank Kaminsky (okay move) but also has Kemba Walker at the point.  However, it seems likely that Lin and Walker could play together at times.  SU likes the move and is encouraged that the Hornets’ coach wants him there.  Of course in the NBA, you always run the risk of the coach getting fired and Byron Scott being hired to replace him thus ruining your career chances.  SU is officially on board and will re-up for the NBA Season Pass to watch Lin.

Stephen Drew hit another homerun last night thus committing the Yankees to play him for the next 25 games.  That’s how it works with Drew.  Just when you are about to let him go, he hits a homer and you are stuck with him another month.  I can see him playing with the Yankees until he is 47 years old under this scenario.  And now he is even saying that he has been hitting in tough luck with lots of line drives being caught.  SU says when you hit .160 last year and .178 this year, it’s more than “tough luck.”  And by the way, let your manager make that excuse for you – fans don’t want to hear it from him.

Met fans continue to moan and groan but you are half way through the season, in 2nd place, and only 3 games out of 1st place.  You have a great young pitching staff and the Nationals have lots of injuries and are not world beaters.  Ownership just needs to throw the fans a bone now and sign a bat or two.  Surely they can rent a couple of players for half a season right?