Our man on the PNW sport beat, Seattlest Seth, has a modest proposal that could be just the thing to turn around the fortunes of the Golden State Warriors, and it has nothing to do with hiring some egghead from Stanford as coach. Chris Tomasson of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver is publishing a series of articles in an 'expose' about marijuana use in the NBA. Apparently, basketball players like to smoke pot! Well, who doesn't, really. But here in California, you can get a prescription. Seattlest Seth has the perfect solution:
I've always thought that Golden State Warriors should recruit the NBA's biggest weed smokers. They'd love the Bay Area because of the medicinal marijuana laws. Whenever they sprained their ankles or jammed their fingers during the game, they could recuperate with huge bong hits. Get Snoop Doggy Dogg as the team trainer and put a huge bag of Cheetos at the end of the bench and you'd be set. I'll bet Sam Perkins would come out of retirement for this.
Yes, we could definitely see Big Smooth now, taking a pass from J-Rich and lobbing a three from way outside the arc, with Troy Murphy and Mike Dunleavy watching red-eyed and laughing their asses off. They do call it Oaksterdam for a reason. We would suggest Too Short to be the trainer, though. Snoop's a SoCal beeyatch, and besides, he says he's given up the endo.
We wonder why Chris Webber never spoke to a doctor about getting a script for his back pain? In the meantime, the Sonics are at the top of their division while the Warriors, not surprisingly, are taking up last place in their own. Though The City did kick Seattle's ass at the Key Arena on Wednesday. For places to go for Warriors news (because it depresses us too much to write about it here), check out The City and Warriors Watch.
AP photo by Ted Warren.