Donuts: At The DB.com Complaint Window

Sunday Morning Donuts … featuring a crooked NBA scorekeeper, David Stern's head on a platter, a scout who never misses, the confident Spurs, Reunion Arena on its last legs and a brand new DB.com Complaint Window:

   DONUT 1: First of all, with our influx of new DB.commers (by the skillions!) has come a complaint or two. “Fish, you need to write even more!’’ or “Fish, can you make a T-shirt with exactly the design that just I want?’’ or "Fish, I Got Kicked In The Gortats!'' or “Fish, more donuts!’’ or “Fish, you are so handsome it hurts my eyes!’’ Stuff like that. Well, for everyone who is complaining – especially you playful pups who frequent DB.com Boards – I’ve set up a special DB.com Complaint Window, just for y’all.

   DONUT 2: Conspiracy Theorists Who Want The Head Of David Stern On A Platter … unite! Here’s the semi-shocking story of an NBA scorekeeper who purposely fudged on stats like assists and blocked shots seemingly on a whim.

   It’s not Donaghy-level crap … it doesn’t prove the games are fixed … but it kinda proves the stats are fixed, and it’s a quality-control issue that Chancellor Stern cannot possibly be ignorant of.

   DONUT 3: To be clear: We know the baseball scorekeeper leans toward the home-team pitcher who is working on a no-hitter. We know assists in hockey can be pretty loosey-goosey things. But an official NBA scorekeeper padded the assist numbers of Nick Van Exel because the scorer was a Lakers fan?!

   Chancellor Stern? Knock-knock? Anybody home?

   DONUT 4: Pop talks with the Boston Globe and offered some details on where he thinks his Spurs are. "If we can stay healthy, we are back in the championship talk,'' he says.

   DONUT 5: The Houston Chronicle has a story up about the 7-foot Aussie David Andersen, who has signed with the Rockets. Good story, whatever. But I’m much more interested in the assertion from writer Jerome Solomon, who says that a scouting friend of his endorses Andersen and … well, read on:

    A scout whose opinion I value — in the 15 years I have been asking him about players, he has yet to tell me a player would be good and the player turned out not to be so good …

    What the what?!

    No disrespect to Andersen and no disrespect to Jerome, but … there’s an NBA scout who IN THE LAST 15 YEARS HAS NEVER BEEN WRONG ABOUT A PROSPECT?

    Who does this guy recruit for? The Globetrotters? Her Majesty's Secret Service? God?

   Find me the Never-Been-Wrong Scout and even I – head spongeman in the Washing Donnie’s Truck project – will personally escort the Never-Been-Wrong Scout to a seat behind the desk in the Mavs GM’s office.

   DONUT 6: Borrowing from my man Techsan: No, I don't want Marcin Gortat to land head-first onto the floor and injury himself. But I wouldn't mind if it happened to Otis Smith.

   DONUT 7: Nice little add by OKC: Maurice Cheeks is now part of the Thunder coaching staff.

   DONUT 8: Surely Rick Pitino was simply trying to do the right thing. Maybe he was pitching in $3,000 to help the lady with her personal Health-Care Reform Bill?

   DONUT 9: Have I been too hard on Pitino? Not in comparison to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who is unafraid to connect the logical dots:

    “Beyond Pitino’s ill-fated dalliance with a blonde townie and the $3,000 to bankroll an abortion, there are several layers of issues … here’s the story that’s getting too little attention but speaks prominently to Pitino’s world: His assistant equipment manager – a pseudo-make-believe position given to his driver with the Boston Celtics – took a stunning, sobering bullet for his boss. Six months after Pitino’s ‘indiscretion’ with Karen Cunagin, crony Tim Sypher married her. Maybe Pitino didn’t order it, but he had to think it was a good idea. It would’ve never been allowed otherwise. Pitino must have feared her on the loose, feared the information she possessed. He had to want her quiet, wanted her looked after, and this was the easiest way. What a dysfunctional, bizarre universe that existed at Louisville. Yet those are the lengths his yes men will go to stay on the payroll, to protect the mythology of Rick Pitino. This is how it works with Pitino …’’

     DONUT 10: Misty Mav. Buy a DallasBasketball.com T-shirt from her, please ... Do you by Tuesday and I might just get Jason Terry to sign it for ya! Oh, and by the way: As per your request, more T-shirt styles are coming. I had to take out a second mortgage on my house to finance the damn things, but … they’re comin’. Oh, and Instant updates on the Mavs and whatnot from DB.com are available at twitter.com/fishsports… (P.S.: That’s not one of the dozen donuts today. ‘Cuz you get a Baker’s dozen! Wheeeee!)

   DONUT 11: From the Denver Post:

   The writer goes on to compliment Dallas on its moves. Quite a different tune than we hear locally, eh?

   DONUT 12: Speaking of which: Here’s one of those deals – it’s a “who’s better?’’ comparison between Kidd and Nash – that suggests that Jason Kidd is more respected around the country than he is by some Mavs fans.

    DONUT 13: And your Baker’s Dozen donut: Old friend Kevin Sullivan with a snapshot of what Reunion Arena looks like at this moment, teetering toward destruction.