All Star Break

Bones apologizes for the long hiatus but in case you didn't know the first two weeks of February constitute the All-Star break for bloggers. The festivities coincided with the Star Wars convention in Vegas and Bones came home garnishing a Poster signed by Darth Vader, the MVP trophy and his winnings from a 21 team, 7 sports, 5 day long parlay. Bones will know give you a second to soak in the vast improvements he made to the blog over the break and a second is all you need to realize there are none. However, Bones did reread, critique and disect every word of all 33 magical entries and he came to three conclusions. Writing the blog at work led to far too many aggregious grammatical errors, none of the last ten entries had anything to do with sports and the fact that grillenwitgill is not world reknown is hard to believe. I apologize for conclusion 1, will address conclusion 2during this entry and urge my loyal readers to take care of conclusion 3. Make the internet a better place by forwarding http://www.grillenwitgill.blogspot.com/ to anyone and everyone so that in 10 years you can tell people, "I was with Bones back before he sold out." Letting this haven of hilarity rot would result in Bones' brilliance only being appreciated posthumonously as if he was a 16th century artist.

As Bones has previously stated, he loves the NBA. I have spent an inordinate amount of time watching games, doing research and following every bounce of the ball on ESPN gamecast during the first half of the season. For those who have yet to discover the meaing of life and have not done the same I begrudgingly present a list of what you have missed thus far. I do not need to state that the Spurs have another run in them, that Elton Brand was not a good signing for the Sixers, that the Knicks might make the playoffs and LeBron will win the MVP because I already did so in my Nostradamus like NBA preview.

1) Adam Morrison and Robert Swift have the worst cbssportsline pictures of all time and desperately need to form a band featuring Chris Kaman as the front man. The trio would undoubtedly need to be called Army of Satan or Black Rotting Death.

2) Juwan Howard is still in the NBA...true story.

3) The Iverson Trade ruined the Pistons - If the citizens of Detroit did not have far more important matters to attend to Joe D would be nervous about his well-being right now.

4) The Nuggets still posess the most tatted up team in the NBA - This is impressive considering they lost both Iverson and Marcus Camby this year. This is made possible by adding Chris Anderson and still having J.R. Smith, Anthony Carter, Dohntay Jones and Kenyon Martin. Bones' dream is for Denver to deal Linas Kleiza and Johan Petro to Chicago for Larry Hughes and Tyrus Thomas.

5) The Jazz are the biggest potential playoff suprise - Carlos Boozer and his 1o AM shadow are not far from returning from injury. A healthy Boozer coupled with one of the best point guards in the league (Deron Williams), and one of the best coaches (Jerry Sloan) and they have a shot at the conference finals no matter their seed. In addition they have the potential to have 4.5 white people or more than any team in the playoffs since the 1960s. The line up of Deron Williams, Kyle Korver, Andrei Kirilenko, Matt Harpring and Mehmet Okur would leave fans thinking they somehow got ESPN classic for free and lead to a reverse remake of Glory Road.

6) Steve Kerr destroyed the Suns- I would love to sit Mr. Kerr and Mr. Dumars down in a room and ask them what is wrong with winning 50 plus games every year and making the conference finals. After the Shaq trade Kerr said that if the Diesel could return to All-Star form the deal would result in the Suns being contenders for the championship. Bones has two problems with that statement. They were a Roberty Horry hip check away from making the finals 2 years ago and Shaq just made the All-Star team and the Suns are currently 9th in the West. Bones envisions Nash going to the Big Apple in 2010 where he will be reunited with D'Antoni and LeBron James to form the funnest team to watch in sports history.