Josh Q. Public:I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May. -The Temptations
Public Service Announcement: OK, here we go! The Phoenix Suns. Sun-sational. Sun-stoppable. Sun-believable. I know, I know. Let’s not carried away. Carry on my wayward son. There’ll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest. Don’t you cry no more. Even if it was the lowly Griz, Suns fans can stop their sobbing. At least for a little while. The Grizhave all that ails ya. The Suns scored 132 points against the Grizzlies. 617 points in their last five games against the Grizzlies. The most points by one team against another over a five-game span since these said same Suns had 618 over five games against the WizardsBullets from 1993 to 1995. Memphis is terrible. Abominable. Deplorable. De####able. Memphis has lost fifteen consecutive road games. The Suns can’t worry about that. I don’t care what they say about us anyway. I don’t care ’bout that. They can’t. They got business to take care of. Growed folks business. Post-season business. The Suns remain in sixth place in the West. The Suns have won consecutive games for the first time since early February. The Suns are doing it with defense. Knock ‘em down, roll ‘em around, c’mon defense work! Work! The Suns have been working it on defense. Not shirking it on defense. The biggest knock on the Shaq trade was losing the Matrix‘ on other end of the floor. They discounted his perimeter defense. They discounted his ability to guard the point. They discounted the numbers made by the mismatches he created. It appears they’re finally figuring out life without Marion. The Suns have finally put two games of good defense together. Together, forever, that’s how it will be. The Suns held San Antonio to 34.9 percent shooting Sunday. The Suns limited Memphis to 41.7 percent shooting last night. Larger than Jim Backus, it’s the Cactus. The Big Cactus took only one shot in 16:36 of playing time last night. It’s the first time in his career that Shaq has played more than two minutes without taking at least two shots. How about that? How about this? Shaq may have only taken one shot last night, that’s fine. He still had fitty cent. He still had three big blocks. Mike D’Antoni: “He controlled the whole game.” He did, he really did. And his boy, Amare Stoudemire, was just a beast. Twenty-nine points and thirteen boards in thirty minutes. Yowza! Stoudemire: “We’re just scratching the surface of how good we can be.” I second that emotion. Be afraid Lakers fans. Be afraid Spurs fans. Be afraid Jazz fans. Be afraid Hornets fans. Be afraid Rockets fans. Be very, very afraid.
Public Acknowledgements: Kansas, Weezer, Dionne Warwick, Third Bass, The Miracles, Peter Vecsey and AZ Central
Josh Q. Public:Who’s the newest guy in town? Go Joe Charboneau! Turns the ballpark upside down. Go Joe Charboneau! Who’s the one to keep our hopes alive? Straight from seventh to the pennant drive. Raise your glass, let out a cheer for Cleveland’s Rookie of the Year. -Super Joe Charboneau
Public Service Announcement: OK, here we go! Daniel Gibson. Even though there’s another man in my life, you will always be my Boo. Boo who? Last seen, Boobie Gibson was going five for five from Downtown Freddie Brown range in Game Six against the Deetroit Pistons. Last seen, like my main man Brock Lesner, Boobie Gibson was the Next Big Thing. What happened? Where did he go? Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo woo woo. What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away. Hey hey hey, hey hey hey. Has Daniel Gibson left and gone away? Hey hey hey, hey hey hey. My thinking is yes. My thinking is Boo Gibson has gone the way of Falco. My thinking is Boo Gibson has gone the way of the Macerena. My thinking is Boo Gibson has gone the way of Rico Suave. This got me to thinking. Thinking about another one hit wonder. Got me to thinking about Richard Dumas. What a one hit wonder that cat was. 1993. Phoenix Suns. Playoffs. Playoffs baby, playoffs. There was Sir Charles coming out of the phone booth leaping over tall buildings in a single bound. There was Danny Ainge knocking down clutch tres against the Lakers. There was Thunder Dan Majerle just killing the Sonics. Killing them, I tell you. And then there was rookie sensation Richard Dumas. Live baby live, now that the day is over. I got a new sensation. New sensation Richard Dumas. Explosive. TNT, I’m dynamite. TNT, and I’ll win the fight. TNT, I’m a power load. TNT, watch me explode. New sensation Richard Dumas was dunking over everybody. New sensation Richard Dumas was dunking over anybody. Uh, and I’m the dunkadelic relic. Yeah, I’m the dunkadelic relic. Bring in the funk baby, bring it in, bring it. Dumas brought it. Brought it all the way to the finals. Ran into MJ in the finals. Ran into drug problems after the finals. And that, as they say, was all she wrote. I fear this too, will be all she wrote for one Daniel Gibson.
Public Acknowledgements: Usher, WWWE, DC Comics, INXS, AC/DC and LL Cool J.
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shirking it on defense. The biggest knock on the Shaq trade was losing the Matrix‘ on other end of the floor. They discounted his perimeter defense. They discounted his ability to guard the point. They discounted the numbers made by the mismatches he created. It appears they’re finally figuring out life without Marion. The Suns have finally put two games of good defense together. Together, forever, that’s how it will be. The Suns held San Antonio to 34.9 percent shooting Sunday. The Suns limited Memphis to 41.7 percent shooting last night. Larger than Jim Backus, it’s the Cactus. The Big Cactus took only one shot in 16:36 of playing time last night. It’s the first time in his career that Shaq has played more than two minutes without taking at least two shots. How about that? How about this? Shaq may have only taken one shot last night, that’s fine. He still had fitty cent. He still had three big blocks. Mike D’Antoni: “He controlled the whole game.” He did, he really did. And his boy, Amare Stoudemire, was just a beast. Twenty-nine points and thirteen boards in thirty minutes. Yowza! Stoudemire: “We’re just scratching the surface of how good we can be.” I second that emotion. Be afraid Lakers fans. Be afraid Spurs fans. Be afraid Jazz fans. Be afraid Hornets fans. Be afraid Rockets fans. Be very, very afraid.
Peace out homies. Six two and Even! 
Has Daniel Gibson left and gone away? Hey hey hey, hey hey hey. My thinking is yes. My thinking is Boo Gibson has gone the way of Falco. My thinking is Boo Gibson has gone the way of the Macerena. My thinking is Boo Gibson has gone the way of Rico Suave. This got me to thinking. Thinking about another one hit wonder. Got me to thinking about Richard Dumas. What a one hit wonder that cat was. 1993. Phoenix Suns. Playoffs. Playoffs baby, playoffs. There was Sir Charles coming out of the phone booth leaping over tall buildings in a single bound. There was Danny Ainge knocking down clutch tres against the Lakers. There was Thunder Dan 
Majerle just killing the Sonics. Killing them, I tell you. And then there was rookie sensation Richard Dumas. Live baby live, now that the day is over. I got a new sensation. New sensation Richard Dumas. Explosive. TNT, I’m dynamite. TNT, and I’ll win the fight. TNT, I’m a power load. TNT, watch me explode. New sensation Richard Dumas was dunking over everybody. New sensation Richard Dumas was dunking over anybody. Uh, and I’m the dunkadelic relic. Yeah, I’m the dunkadelic relic. Bring in the funk baby, bring it in, bring it. Dumas brought it. Brought it all the way to the finals. Ran into MJ in the finals. Ran into drug problems after the finals. And that, as they say, was all she wrote. I fear this too, will be all she wrote for one Daniel Gibson.
