The Downbeat - 27 July 2010 - #280 - The Bentley Edition

  Al Jefferson described his move from Minnesota to Utah as going from a Toyota to a Bentley.  Before you go thinking that's a little over the top, believe me, Al knows cars.  Check out this beaut of his (via rides-mag.com),

The custom Big Al stitching is nice.  Also notice how there's not backseat and the front seat goes all the way back.  So if Minny is a Toyota and Utah is a Bentley, what team does this car represent?

  From b-r.com via @saltcityhoops.  Who were the best offensive players against above average defenses?  Here's the top five of those that get >23% of the touches against those defenses,

And look who shows up amongst those that get  18-23% of the team's touches,

  Just when I was about to write that there had been nary a word on Fesenko for a while, low and behold, Juan B tipped me off to HoopsHype who had linked to this story about a Spanish club being interested in big Fess.  Though he's a restricted free agent here, I believe he's free to sign with another league.

A couple of advantages for Fess is that he would be back in Europe and he might get more playing time.  I love the Google translate that uses "heating the bench."

  Jeremy Evans is already on his whirlwind tour of UT/ID/AZ, and WY for the Jr. Jazz.  He'll be making over 40 stops over about a three-week period.  That's quite a commitment for someone who only at this point has a non-guaranteed contract.  I guess you can look at it as a summer internship.

It's good work though.  If anyone is going to be at any one of the locations, I would love to see a pic in a FanShot.

  It looks like the KOOF may be staying in Minnesota.  Yesterday Kahn traded Ramon Sessions and center Ryan Hollins to the Cavs for Delonte West and Sebastian Telfair.  If there was a spot where they could dump the KOOF, that might have been it.  The Cavs needed a center and could have brought back the home-town kid.

Instead, the KOOF has a little less competition in Minny now with Hollins out but will probably find himself in a similar situation as he was in Utah.