• During Sunday's matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Metta World Peace (formerly known as Ron Artest) threw down a monster dunk on two Thunder players. Right afterwards, and accounts vary on the purpose of the action, World Peace threw a pretty vicious elbow in the direction of James Harden catching him right below the left ear. Harden collapsed and displayed concussion like symptoms.
• World Peace’s history of bizarre both on and off court behavior lead to the NBA suspending him for 7 games. This will make him miss at least 6 games in this year’s playoffs as there is only one more regular season game for the Lakers.
NFL Draft on Thursday
• This Thursday is the first round of the NFL Draft. The annual process by which the NFL dispenses college players to its 32 teams. This year the first two picks are almost as widely known as in any previous year. However, after those picks, the rest of the picks are up in the air.
• The Indianapolis Colts are on record saying they will pick Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, and the Washington Redskins traded their first round pick this year and that from the next two years for the second overall pick. They are widely expecting to select Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III.
• The Minnesota Vikings, own the third pick and they have three different options that they are considering. Left tackle from USC Matt Kalil, Wide Receiver from Oklahoma State Justin Blackmon and Running Back from Auburn Trent Richardson are expected, in some order, to be the next three players off the board.
• The second and third rounds of the draft are Friday night, and the fourth through seventh rounds will be Saturday.
The NBA needs to change its name to the NTA (National Thugs Association).
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