There are several bloggers who I regularly have give-and-take with here on FOX Sports. I think for the most part we write for each other's company since nobody at FOX seems to be paying any attention to us and I have'nt seen any inkling of another contest coming up anytime soon.

Nevertheless, we write and we write and we write, and we argue some, then we shout at each other, call each other morons and the cycle continues. Regardless, it gives those of us who actually enjoy writing and working on our craft an audience no matter how small and irrelevant.

I personally, love the blogging community. I think it's information exchange at it's finest and in several years as major news network anchors become more and more obsolete, people will simply choose which blogger they believe more and that is where they'll get their information from.

I have about 15 blogs and several podcast across the net under different names and subject matter. I'm like the blogging version of Prince (or rather the artist formerly known as Prince).

Lately, however, I see an increase in the number of people who have music on their blogs, a concept which I do not understand at all.

My personal favorite musicians or groups, in no particular order are, Kurt Cobain, The Aforementioned Artist who goes by different names, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Jodeci, KRS ONE and yes the Allman Brothers. In fact, "Midnight Rider" barely lost out to
Redman's "I'll Be Dat" as my personal theme song (see 'I'm Gonna Get You ####a'). And yes all of those artists are in the MP3's of the Caddy and the Range right now.

Many of you probably do not like all if not any of those artists for all I know. So I will not burden you with having to endure my personal favorites when I'm priveledged (sic) enough to have you stop by my blog to pay attention to what I'm thinking at any given moment.

We meet up here for sports talk, this isn't MySpace!

So what gives with all of the musical pages. There are several things to consider when you decide to blast us with your musical faves on your sports blog:

#1. What if your reader happens to be at work or at home late at night while his/her family is sleeping and all of the sudden we click to your page and ...Mama don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys!!!!
What if your boss, who is in the office next door, actually likes Cowboys?
What if my wife doesn't like country music disturbing her sleep?
What if that's the song me and my ex broke up to?

Can you see the hysteria you may be causing?

#2. What if I pull into my driveway and my wife and daughter are on the front porch with a little bird they found in the front yard, and I spend the next hour online trying to figure out exactly what kind of bird it is and playing various bird sounds to see if I can get a reaction out of the bird when I shift gears, go to FOX Sports, click your blog and I get...Music makes you lose control!!!!

I guess I might be too old school for many of today's younger bloggers, judging by my musical tastes, that's probably a safe assumption, still, if you want me to hear your tracks, just give me a hyperlink to your MySpace or Facebook page and I will happily check them out.

As for the sports blogs, unless it's a vintage Cossell - Ali verbal sparring session, a classic Harry Carey or Billy Crystal 'take me out to the ballgame' rendition, or a hilarious Mike Tyson ear or children eating montage don't you think that we could find our own way to hot tunes?

Just my opinion.

There are several bloggers who I regularly have give-and-take with here on FOX Sports. I think for the most part we write for each other's company since nobody at FOX seems to be paying any attention to us and I have'nt seen any inkling of another contest coming up anytime soon.

Nevertheless, we write and we write and we write, and we argue some, then we shout at each other, call each other morons and the cycle continues. Regardless, it gives those of us who actually enjoy writing and working on our craft an audience no matter how small and irrelevant.

I personally, love the blogging community. I think it's information exchange at it's finest and in several years as major news network anchors become more and more obsolete, people will simply choose which blogger they believe more and that is where they'll get their information from.

I have about 15 blogs and several podcast across the net under different names and subject matter. I'm like the blogging version of Prince (or rather the artist formerly known as Prince).

Lately, however, I see an increase in the number of people who have music on their blogs, a concept which I do not understand at all.

My personal favorite musicians or groups, in no particular order are, Kurt Cobain, The Aforementioned Artist who goes by different names, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Jodeci, KRS ONE and yes the Allman Brothers. In fact, "Midnight Rider" barely lost out to
Redman's "I'll Be Dat" as my personal theme song (see 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka'). And yes all of those artists are in the MP3's of the Caddy and the Range right now.

Many of you probably do not like all if not any of those artists for all I know. So I will not burden you with having to endure my personal favorites when I'm priveledged (sic) enough to have you stop by my blog to pay attention to what I'm thinking at any given moment.

We meet up here for sports talk, this isn't MySpace!

So what gives with all of the musical pages. There are several things to consider when you decide to blast us with your musical faves on your sports blog:

#1. What if your reader happens to be at work or at home late at night while his/her family is sleeping and all of the sudden we click to your page and ...Mama don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys!!!!
What if your boss, who is in the office next door, actually likes Cowboys?
What if my wife doesn't like country music disturbing her sleep?
What if that's the song me and my ex broke up to?

Can you see the hysteria you may be causing?

#2. What if I pull into my driveway and my wife and daughter are on the front porch with a little bird they found in the front yard, and I spend the next hour online trying to figure out exactly what kind of bird it is and playing various bird sounds to see if I can get a reaction out of the bird when I shift gears, go to FOX Sports, click your blog and I get...Music makes you lose control!!!!

I guess I might be too old school for many of today's younger bloggers, judging by my musical tastes, that's probably a safe assumption, still, if you want me to hear your tracks, just give me a hyperlink to your MySpace or Facebook page and I will happily check them out.

As for the sports blogs, unless it's a vintage Cossell - Ali verbal sparring session, a classic Harry Carey or Billy Crystal 'take me out to the ballgame' rendition, or a hilarious Mike Tyson ear or children eating montage don't you think that we could find our own way to hot tunes?

Just my opinion.

Of course we wanted to get either the #1 or #2 overall. But since we didn't, we don't have to make the mistake of drafting Jerryd Bayless, another shoot first PG (like we need anymore of them on our roster) or O.J. Mayo, who I think is the new Mike Dunleavey (decent but not good as you thought he would be and definately not worth a top five pick ).

Now the Knicks can keep their fingers crossed that three other teams will fall asleep at the wheel and not draft Danilo Gallinari  who aside from being the third most NBA ready player in the draft, fits right into D'Antoni's coaching style.

Brook Lopez is going to be a solid NBA player but will not have the impact worthy of a top three pick (see Andrew Bogut, Marvin Williams).

Eric Gordon...I don't think so.

Russell Westbrook...h**l no!

Kevin Love - yeah but not if Gallinari is still on the board.

Donte Greene is this year's sleeper in the lottery. I watched this kid quite a bit playing at Syracuse and if he gets coached right he will be a stud. Allowing him to only have to move right down the road from the Carrier Dome to MSG will help his cause as well.

But if the Italian Stallion is available we should get him before we over-think the pick

In about two seasons D Wade is going to pull a Kobe and start demanding to be traded. Where would he like to go? Home to Chicago of course. Which is why I suggested earlier that the Heat should not wait until that inevitable fiasco befalls them and make the trade to the Bulls of:

Wade - Marion to Chicago for

Gordon, Duhon, Thebolosha, Deng and Gooden.

Now that the Bulls have the #1 overall, if they made that trade and drafted Rose they would then have a starting five of:

Rose - Wade - Marion - Noah - Thomas [ Bench - Nocioni - Hinrich - Hughes]

Miami could then Draft Beasley and start:

Gordon - Davis - Deng - Beasley - Blount [ Bench - Jason Williams, Udonis Haslem - Cook, Wright].

If Miami doesn't leverage their current position and draft status, they will pay the price when Wade decides to go and they lose trade leverage.

If the Bulls do not make any trades, then they should draft Beasley and resign Gordon and Deng.

Hinrich - Gordon - Deng - Beasley - Thomas [Bench - Thebolosha - Nocioni - Noah - Duhon]

The Bulls lost most of their leverage to trade Deng and Gordon when they didn't pull the trigger on a trade for either Kobe, Garnett or Gasol. Why should they draft Rose when they have Hinrich, Gordon and Duhon on the team and no other NBA teams will give them a trade worth value because they know that Godon and Deng have already turned down contract extensions? Seems like a no brainer to me. Then again like Bill Simmons says...it's the No Balls Association.

Oh yeah, Danilo Gallinai
Hands down the third best player in the draft. Because nobody else seems to think so, the Knicks and D'Antoni might get lucky and he'll still be available at #6.

The big question is will teams draft for need or popularity?

Your thoughts?

1. Bulls - Michael Beasley
6-10 PF, Kansas State

2. Heat -  Derrick Rose
6-3 PG, Memphis

3. Wolves - Danilo Gallinari
6-9 SF, Italy

4. Sonics - Jerryd Bayless
6-3 PG, Arizona

5. Memphis - Brook Lopez
7-0 C, Stanford

6. Knicks - O.J. Mayo
6-4 SG, USC

7. Clippers - Eric Gordon
6-4 SG, Indiana

8. Bucks - Anthony Randolph
6-11 PF, LSU

9. Bobcats - Roy Hibbert
7-2 C, Georgetown

10. Nets - D.J. Augustin
6-0 PG, Texas

11. Pacers - Brandon Rush
6-7 SG, Kansas

12. Kings - Kevin Love
6-10 PF, UCLA

13. Portland -  Darrell Arthur
6-10 PF, Kansas

14. Warriors - Chris Douglas-Roberts
6-6 SG, Memphis