Sports Redux: Our Days Of House-Related Puns May Be At An End

Eddie House knows how this goes.

You don't play on eight teams in ten years without understanding the business. You don't spend the early part of your career getting waived by chumps like the Bucks and Bobcats, only to find yourself a key rotation guy on a championship team, without realizing that basketball is a crazy world. And since he seems to internalized the fact that he'll be a Knick later today - "I have friends that I will have for the rest of my life on this team, but it’s life. It’s not the end of the world" - we're glad he's OK with it. Since we're still not sure if we are or not.

Eddie's still (as of this morning) with the team in California, but Doc told him yesterday that practice was optional. For what it's worth, Nate Robinson, the guy who would be traded for Eddie, missed last night's Knicks/Bulls games with what they're calling "flulike symptoms". Great. It was a busy day as the NBA approached the trading deadline, with the Cavs picking up Antawn Jamison from the crash scene that is the 2009-10 Wizards, the Rockets picking up Kevin Martin from Sacramento and sending loafer Tracy McGrady to New York, and the Knicks swapping Darko Milicic for Brian Cardinal in possibly the most unexciting trade in the history of the Association.

More to the point for the Celtics, Kobe Bryant says there's a very good chance he'll be too sore to play tonight. Before you get too excited, though, he's missed 4 straight Lakers games and they're 4-0 against some decent teams. Maybe Phil Jackson is the best coach ever.

Today is the official Pitchers & Catchers day in Fort Myers; apparently, the truck didn't get lodged in a snowbank on its way through Maryland and Virginia. The big story surrounding the Sox today is about Mike Lowell, who hurt his thumb and then got traded to Texas and then got untraded and is getting back in shape to either back up Adrian Beltre or get himself traded for real this time. His existential monologue to a local radio station deserves its own paragraph:

It doesn't matter what I think or say. The only time I had that decision was after the World Series when I was a free agent. That's the only time that I had the say. After that, you're a product of the industry. I'm not sour about that. I'm cool with it. If you told me that I'd get traded and then they'd take away my contract, then I might have a much bigger issue with the way things are going.

We think Eddie House would concur.

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