Saturday Donuts: All-Decade Dirk!

Saturday Morning Donuts … with an assortment of transactions (with Mavs-related impact?) and with Dirk Nowitzki on the All-Decade Team? Damn straight. ...

     DONUT 1: It appears to be time to add Hakeem Warrick to the Mavs’ wish list. …

     DONUT 2: … And time to take Rasho Nesterovic off of it.

     DONUT 3: A judge overseeing the Dirk/Cristal pregnancy/DNA/custody thing sounds … well … rather skeptical about Broken Cristal’s claims.

    From the news story:

     A Dallas family court judge today ordered pregnancy and DNA testing in the case involving Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki and his ex-girlfriend Cristal Taylor.

    "We know the first one has to happen," said Associate Judge Randall Grubbs during a brief hearing in a Dallas County court. "The other one may be moot."

     “The other one may be moot,’’ sez Hizzoner, meaning, “Girlfriend might not even be preggers.’’

     Kinda snarky, eh?

     DONUT 4: The other teams in the West are all getting better and the Mavs have to do more than The Matrix to catch up? If you weren’t right in thinking that yesterday, you get to be right about it today with the Blazers’ signing of Andre Miller.

     DONUT 5: Here’s The Non-Story Story Of The Morning: Utah doesn’t want to just give away Carlos Boozer, preferring to get talent back in exchange.

     No! Really?

     That's almost as shocking as the news that Memphis is waiving Stack.

     DONUT 6: My man Lang Whitaker from SLAM, bringing it in his offbeat way.

     DONUT 7: The Knicks can go budget-minded now with Tinsley (who has a bond with prez Donnie Walsh). They can go MLE with Sessions (but if that was an optimal plan, wouldn’t they have already done it?). They can just let Duhon keep the reins (again, obviously not the optimal plan). But here’s what’s getting lost in the shuffle: David Lee was considered a $10-Million Man a week ago. And now he’s in position to have to consider $5.8 mil? Is there a team with the sales skilz required to pitch that to him?

     DONUT 8: On the issue of gambling on sporting events: Let me assure you that the NFL, NCAA, NHL, MLB and NBA are absolutely, positively against anybody knowing that they are OK with it. Therefore, every once in awhile, they put up a stink. A big, bloated, loud, dog-and-pony stink. In some place like Delaware. 

     DONUT 9: The search for Mavs center help … is it taking us all the way down to Joe Smith? Well, somebody might want to call him. He’s apparently visiting with Atlanta right at this moment.

     DONUT 10: Drew Gooden is probably overstating the drama when he Tweets: “I will be making my decision (Saturday) on which team I will be playing for! Stay tuned.’’ I mean, this ain’t exactly Brett Favre …

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     DONUT 12: And here you go. The All-Decade Team from Basketball-Reference.com: Duncan, Kobe, Chauncey, Shaq … and Dirk.