See Ya, Jermaine

So I had to come back from my blogging hiatus to share the Jermaine O’Neal saga with you all.

So it seems that yesterday, our good friend Jermaine went on to a reporter from Sports Illustrated about how he’d just LOVE to party with Kobe in LA. You can hear that here.

Well, I say, see ya later. Jermaine, you’ve done nothing for this team. You are a good player, but the only title you’ve brought home since coming from Portland is the Most Overrated Player award that you’ve been defending successfully since 2002.

This team will be better without you. The Pacers are better when you’re “injured”. When you’re not “injured”, every play goes like this:

1. Inbound the ball.
2. Dribble down the floor.
3. Pass to JO on the block.
4. JO poses 10 seconds for those with the benefit of flash photography.
5. JO passes it out.
6. Pass goes back to JO.
7. The crowd dies of boredom.
8. JO throws up brick as shot clock expires.

So, at the very least we’ll be more entertaining to watch without JO on the floor. We can’t get any worse, really.

But I’d like to go ahead and start the rumor that JO was told by either Kobe or the Lakers to come public with his desire to be traded to lower his trade value (a la Ron Ron) so the Lakers could keep Andrew Bynum. It makes perfect sense. Tell all your friends that you read it here first.