Saturday Mavs Donuts: Oh That Baker's Dozen!

It's Saturday Morning Mavs Donuts, featuring the underappreciated Bosh, TNT's homework on Dirk being eated by C-Webb's dog, "Around The Horn'' messiness, Marv Albert vs. 50 Cent, Bill Simmons thinks police officers ought to take the time to recognize his level of celebrity, and, just to keep things light, a KKK rally at a football game. ... They're not only good -- they're good for you! Donuts!

   DONUT 1: Chris Bosh thinks he is underappreciated.

   “Sometimes I do feel left out," Bosh says. "I'm talked about but not talked about enough. I feel that I'm one of the best forwards in the league and I don't think I get recognition for it, but all of that is going to come with success. I just have to make it happen.”

    Chris, you are right. Next year, you deserve recognition. You deserve to be on a real team in a basketball town. You want recognition next year?

   C’mon home, son.

   DONUT 2: And speaking of being underappreciated (though he’d never dare say so) …

   TNT’s List of All-Decade Playoff Performers must’ve like, got cut off part of the way through or something. Maybe the dog ate TNT’s homework?

   No, I know: The chairman of the nomination committee was C-Webb.

   DONUT 3: Marv Albert, age 68, got roughed up by 50 Cent's posse until Jimmy Kimmel’s posse broke it up.  Hooray for Hollywood!

    DONUT 4: Fun times expected at the Ole Miss football game today. … the KKK is staging a university-approved rally. 

   DONUT 5: Ziller sees Dirk as just behind LeBron in the MVP race. Shoals sees Dirk behind nobody. 

   DONUT 6: Steiny-Mo assembles an All-NBA-Lefties Team. 

   DONUT 7: Don’t forget, today’s the day! This and every Saturday at 10 a.m. it’s “Mavs Magazine’’ hosted by Mike Fisher (that’s me!) on the Mavs’ flagship station, 103.3 ESPN Radio!

   DONUT 8: The Mavs are certainly in the Thanksgiving spirit this week. Now it’s James Singleton and he’s giving away turkeys! With the help of Kroger, James Double-Doubleton will visit a childrens home in Dallas on Sunday to hand out 200 turkeys to needy folks.

   Well done, James.

    DONUT 9: Josh Howard isn’t ready to play. But he’s still going to mix and mingle with fans as he will sign autographs at Academy Sports & Outdoors on Saturday from 4-6 p.m. Howard will sign from 5-6 p.m. J-Ho will be at the store at 8050 Forest Lane in Dallas.

    While he’s at Academy Sports, I hope he buys him some rehab aspirin and some rubbin’  dirt. Get healthy, kid!

    DONUT 10: Woody Paige hates bloggers. But he reads them, refers to them, maybe steals from them, and misspells more words than them. 

    DONUT 11: And in other “Around The Horn’’ news, did Jay Mariotti big-dick himself into a Chicago barroom beatdown? 

    DONUT 12: A “It’s a step-by-step process,” coach Rick Carlisle says of French Cuffs’ development. “But as he gets more experience and continues to do good things, it’s going to facilitate more opportunities for him to be out there.”

    Last night in the win over Sacto, JJB played 16 and Roddy played 14. I’m ready for the next step … and the next …

    DONUT 13: Love me some Bill Simmons. (And Bill loves DallasBasketball.com!) But I think he is tired from all his book-promo travel. His latest column is a ramblin’ wreck, lowlighted by his claim that as a young boy, he became an expert by watching 12 hours of NFL football every Sunday. Hmmm. Who wants to do the math/research that obviously debunks that claim?

    The truth about Bill: He’s funny and smart and interesting and mad about the NBA. But while he uses his celebrity to schmooze his way out of speeding tickets, he’s not any more of an “expert’’ than you are. In fact, I thought him being “just a regular fan, just another season-ticket holder’’ was kind of the point of the whole “Sports Guy’’ persona?