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Allen Houston Is Ninety to Ninety-Five Percent September 6, 2007

Posted by TheHype in Old School , trackback |

Ah, left the Unrelatedness sanctuary for a day yesterday… it feels… queasy. Played some night rec-league hoops from 8pm to 11pm — yess I can still stick that jab left, dribble right pull up J on the corner son! But my team kept on losing… so I cried a lot afterwards, dunno what that means though.

OK. Enough about me.

Allen “We Have a Problem” Houston is getting some digital ink from ES-Pee-And that his return is imminent because he’s sure sure he wants to return to the NBA. Well, that’s fine to me, I don’t really have a problem that… until…

[Allen’s agent] Strickland said that Houston is not returning for money. Houston’s last contract was for $100 million. Strickland said that the chance to mentor younger players would play a big part in Houston’s decision-making.

I’m so not buying that. It seems to be Allen Houston is now a zombie out to create another NBA contract problem, YOU JUST CAN’T STOP HIM! And besides, what is he going to mentor the kids with? “Yes, be one-dimensional as long as you can… hit a one-time memorable game winner… but after that, take as much from your team’s payroll as possible thus crippling them for decades to come… HIGH FIVE!”

See, Houston’s jump shot is/was hotter than an Iraqi firefight, but I really can’t stand to see what he represents and comes back into the lig once more.