Driving > Disco

(the following is ripped from the headlines, law & order style. well, maybe not that important, but it was in Bill Simmons' latest Mailbag on ESPN's page 2)

Q: If you're an NBA GM, is Chris Wallace your Amazon Gold Box Deal? Pretty much any time of the day, you can go find something 25 percent cheaper than retail, and then every so often it's like ... WHAT!? A new Weber grill for $100!!? I need to get this!
-- Dan Groff, Lancaster, Pa.

SG: In fairness to Wallace, I thought he did a nice job of resisting dumb offers that wanted him to give away that No. 2 pick; instead, he just screwed up the pick and took the wrong guy. I think that's progress -- he's only screwing up his own team instead of affecting the manifest destiny of the entire league. I am proud of him. But if you were giving him a nickname, wouldn't it be "The Money Launderer?" Has any GM been a peripheral third or fourth party that facilitated more cap-unfriendly trades more times than Chris Wallace? I always picture other GMs calling him and asking, "Hey Chris, would you like to help out three teams that you're competing against for no real reason at all? (Listening.) You'd love to help? That's fantastic! Thank you!"

At least now I can rest a little easier, knowing that who we draft will never be relevant, as long as C-Dub is at the helm. Ahhhhhhh