Did anyone catch the last game between the Cavs and the Celtics? If so then you would have seen the “wrap-around” foul Paul Pierce committed on LeBron James. I was surprised it wasn’t called a flagrant foul however LeBron James’ mommy was even more surprised. Notice in the video as the two go into the court side area under the basket, LeBrons’ mommy comes to the rescue only to be told “Sit your ass down!” by LeBron. What a post mothers day present!

Yesterday was my birthday. I hate it. I rarely acknowledge it but resistance is futile, I’m getting older. I need to accept that. Like every birthday I think back to the days of my youth. Thinking of all the good times I’ve had. Even though I don’t do the types of things that I did in my youth such as sleep around, drink and stay gone for days on end, it’s tempting to try and relive those days of blissful joy.

Apparently two former Gamecocks attempted to relive their college days recently. Judging by the outcome maybe I should be thankful I’m older and wiser, then again I never sold drugs, carried weapons illegally or ride around with open bottles of vodka either.

First on the list is former USC basketball standout Carlos Powell. Powell is the Gamecocks’ sixth all-time leading scorer. He scored 1,541 career points at USC from 2001-2005 and averaged 11.7 points a game for his career. He played in 132 games, third most in school history behind former teammates Brandon Wallace and Tre’ Kelley.

The 6-foot-7 Powell led the Gamecocks in scoring three consecutive seasons, and was their leading rebounder two of those years.

Powell with current USC basketball player Sam Muldrow who is also his cousin, was stopped by the Florence Po Po because of all things, the taillights on Powells’ Chevrolet Caprice were not illuminating. Since the Gamecock football team seems to be the only male players arrested Powell must have been “training” Muldrow on what it means to be a Cock.

Since these are Gamecocks of course you already know the officer noticed a strong odor of the sweet sticky weed that only Cocks can get. Surprisingly though Powell told “the man” that someone recently had been smoking pot in the car but there was no pot in the vehicle.

What “the man” found was a half-full bottle of Grey Goose vodka and a gun under the passenger seat instead. Go Cocks!!!

Powell was arrested and jailed on gun and alcohol charges in his Florence hometown which was a new experience for him since he was so familiar with the Richland County Detention Center or as the USC players call it, the Cocky Athletic Dorms.

Oddly though cousin Muldrow wasn’t charged even though he was the one driving the car, after all Powell is rather useless but Muldrow is the future of USC, if he can stay sober and not kill anyone.

This is another black eye for the USC basketball program since Darrin Horn has taken the coaching reigns. Last week Devan Downey the only player with any talent, was arrested on charges of simple assault.

Normally I would have written a post dedicated to Downeys’ arrest but a USC Athlete getting arrested…not exactly news any more.

To make matters worse for Coach “I Was Lucky To Even Make the Sweet 16 so Toot My” Horn guard Trevor Deloach, who was redshirted this past season, is transferring.

“We expressed to Trevor that he had a scholarship at the University of South Carolina, but he felt it was in his best interests to pursue other opportunities,” Horn said in a statement.

“We wish him the best in his future endeavors.”

Apparently Deloach has some character left or he thinks Coach Horn is a prick.

Next up on the reliving the Cock youth brigade is Troy Hambrick.

Hambrick played three seasons at South Carolina. As a freshman in 1996, Hambrick relieved Duce Staley vs. Clemson long enough to rush for 135 yards and two scores in a USC victory.

He even made it to the NFL.

Hambrick’s NFL career spanned five seasons. His best year was 2003 when he rushed for 972 yards and five touchdowns for Dallas.

Now he’s enjoying the lovely Tampa area for say…five years.

Hambrick pleaded guilty to one count of distributing 50 grams or more of crack cocaine.

Hambrick sold the drugs in 2007 to a confidential informant near his home in Lacoochee, which about 40 miles north of Tampa.

As much experience he has leaning about doing, stashing & selling drugs he obtained at USC, one would think he would know what a sting is…then again once a Cock always a Cock.

The Knicks are now being shown in “3D” - Dolan, Donnie and D’Antoni, who is taking over a team that hasn’t produced a winning season in seven years and has chewed up and spit out coaches with more impressive résumés. (See: Wilkens, Lenny; and Brown, Larry.)

You can make Jesus Christ himself the coach of the Knicks. It still wouldn’t be good enough for the masses of whiny New Yorkers.

Mike D’Antoni reportedly told confidants that he was hoping to end up coaching the Chicago Bulls, while Donnie Walsh was telling Mark Jackson that he was the favorite to succeed Isiah Thomas in New York.

Of course neither happened.

Mike D’Antoni, according to his agent, didn’t like the criticism he received from the Suns’ fans during this year’s playoffs. If he doesn’t like the sound of the word “boo”, he might just want to consider having his ear canals permanently plugged. Welcome to New York, Coach.

Does he get to bring Steve Nash and Amare Stadamire with him? Knicks are still gonna suck…

As Mike D’Antoni is set to be introduced as the Knicks’ new coach, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf told the Chicago Tribune that the former Suns coach “misled” him in his talks with Chicago, saying he didn’t want to coach the Knicks.

Reinsdorf = scorned ex girlfriend.

“I’m disappointed in him,” Reinsdorf told the Tribune. “I don’t know what else we could’ve done. He chose to go to New York knowing there was a good chance we would make him an offer. If he had really wanted to be in Chicago, he would’ve waited. Instead, he misled us. It’s not the end of the world, but it is somewhat rude.”

Is Reinsdorf really whining about being “misled?” It’s a BUSINESS. OF COURSE he misled you. It’s called negotiating. Ridiculous.

“He said nothing had to be done over the weekend. I also said if this proceeds to where we want to make an offer, we don’t deal with coach’s agents. He said that’s not a problem and that money wasn’t the most important thing anyway. He said he wanted a job where he was going to be happiest. He said he didn’t want to coach the Knicks.”

Jerry Reinsdorf since he joined Jenny Craig

Typical of Reinsdorf to deflect the blame onto others. He and GM John Paxson always find somebody else to blame for their own lack of success when it comes upgrading the team and their personnel. They overpay for Ben Wallace (one of the worst free agent signings of the last 3 seasons), miss out on the Pau Gasol and KG fire sales, and now this. Too bad Scott Skiles isn’t around to take the fall for this latest bungle.

Somewhere in this mess is Mark Jackson.

Jackson was so confident that he began reaching out to prospective coaches to assemble his staff and was even debating whether to move back to northern New Jersey or live near the Knicks’ training facility in Greenburgh in Westchester County.

At least one former Knicks player called Jackson last week to congratulate him and to ask him when the official announcement was coming. Six days later, D’Antoni accepted the position.

“I was obviously interested in that job, but they went in another way,” Jackson said during ABC’s telecast of Saturday’s Celtics-Cavaliers playoff game. “I wish them nothing but the best as I look at other opportunities.”

The real winner here is the Chicago Bulls. While D’Antoni is a good coach, he never showed the ability to get Phoenix from Point B to Point C, and the Suns are far more talented than the Knicks.

Walsh consulted with Dolan regarding the hiring of D’Antoni, who seemed to fit the Dolan profile: an expensive big name. Wilkens and Brown also received lucrative deals, only to survive 81 and 82 games, respectively, and get publicly humiliated along the way.