Switching Uniforms

<---Recently, these guys all got traded to the Cavs. And this link on ProBasketballNews.com broke it down really well.

Medical Miracle?

According to the Associated Press, Agent Zero will remain on the bench for some time. With his team holding down semi-solid playoff positioning, it's hard to say if Arenas' absence won't propel the Wizards to another level in a Joe Osteen kinda way.

However, Arenas hasn't been the only Wizard who has missed a number of games this season. Antonio Daniels (^left) is enjoying one of his better seasons (when not in a suite himself). Caron Butler "isn't ready to go," and the trade deadline has come and gone. If the playoffs started tomorrow, the Wizards would play a really healthy Orlando team anchored by one of the hottest players in the sport right now. Having watched the Wizards in the last couple of season's playoffs, I've kind of begun to look forward to how they play with their backs against the wall.

My question, which, by evidence of my comment counters, I'm sure, I am only posing to myself is : With a healthy Caron Butler, can the Washington Wizard get out of the first round of the playoffs without Gilbert Arenas?

BASKETBALL MAGAZINE WATCH

BOUNCE #14:
White Boys

Bounce has been around for a minute now and is like a graffiti magazine about basketball. They always drop knowledge on some dope streetball shit. Check out their newest issue, if you can find it, for an incredible oral history of the white players of the New York City playgrounds.

Not only do they go in-depth on Jack Ryan, Randy "White Chocolate" Gill, Grayson "The Professor" Boucher, but they get into other, almost forgotten white playground ballers like Chris Avignone, Billy Rieser, even Ron Naclerio gets his props.

There is also an interview with Tommy Baker, a ball handling wiz, who runs with the NYC based "Street Godz" crew I wrote about for SLAMONLINE once. As a whole, Street Godz is pretty dope, but Baker is the Bobby Brown of this New Edition to the alternative basketball landscape. I've seen Tommy, who is from the UK, do his thing live and man, he puts on a dope optical scene.