My unemployment affords me the opportunity to listen to great songs (current playing: Big Country’s “In a Big Country. This song is better than oxygen) and read random stories I find on the internet about people and things. This morning, I read a story about 7th round NFL draftee Demetrius Bell. Demetrius just so happens to be the son of former NBA player Karl “The Mailman” Malone, the league’s second all-time leading scorer. I will always remember Karl Malone, not for his scoring prowess on the court, but for his prowess at scoring off the court and for this interaction that led to the demise of his friendship with this year’s MVR: Malone was at a Lakers game, in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots, when Vanessa Bryant (the MVR’s wife) asked him, “What are you hunting, cowboy?” Malone replied, to the hispanic Bryant, “I’m hunting for little Mexican girls.” Malone is a married father of 7 children, four with his wife and 3 out of wedlock. Two of the 3 are former basketball players at Malone’s alma mater Louisiana Tech (one is current WNBA guard Cheryl Ford). The 3rd of Malone’s wedlock-born children is Demetrius Bell. Bell didn’t meet Malone until he was a high school senior. Upon the meeting, Malone told Bell that it was “too late” to have a father-son relationship and hasn’t spoken with him since. My favorite tidbit of this story however, is that Malone was a college sophomore when he impregnated Bell’s mother…who was 13 years old at the time.

New Jersey Nets forward Richard Jefferson was arrested this week in Minneapolis. Welcome, RJ, to the All-Hate Team!

We’re less than two weeks away from the NBA’s Draft Lottery. Soon after that date, my first NBA Mock Draft will occur. In a related note, I believe that Mike D’Antoni is waiting to see where the Bulls end up in the Draft. If they get the first or second pick in the draft, D’Antoni will have the Point Guard that his offense needs, in Derrick Rose, and he will leave Phoenix immediately. The Bulls are likely, however, to end up with a pick somewhere around number 9, where they would end up with a less talented point guard (perhaps Texas’ DJ Augustin). In that scenario, I don’t think D’Antoni leaves Phoenix.

I’m lacking in any creativity today that could lead to an interesting list or something of that sort. This is due to the loud Reggaeton party that the apartment across the courtyard had last night/this morning, that stretched until about 4 A.M. I had to call the police once because the noise was so loud. I’m tempted to put that apartment’s address in my blog, in the hopes that my readers can send hate mail to the white kids in striped shirts. Accordingly, I’m going to cut Mid-Atlantic Bias short today at about 500 words. I really need the readers to pitch me ideas.

Game O’ The Day: (tie) Cleveland @ Boston (Game 2) and New Orleans @ San Antonio (Game 3). Don’t expect LeBron James to go 2/18 shooting tonight. Likewise, don’t expect Ray Allen to go scoreless and Paul Pierce to be close to scoreless. Until the Celtics prove they can win a road game, by, you know, winning one, they need to win every game at home. The Celtics win tonight by 7.

In Game 2, the Hornets can put another stake through the coffin of the 2008 San Antonio Spurs. A Game 3 win by the Hornets would be so huge that I don’t think it’s going to happen. The Spurs haven’t won 3 championships in this decade because they’re good at lying down like a dead dog. They’ll come out hard. Tony Parker will at least look like he belongs on the same court as Chris Paul. The Spurs will win by 9.

Back to wrap up the week tomorrow. Remember, if you read this, you may as well request to read about what you want to read about. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go wake up the Detroit Pistons and inform them that they missed Game 3 last night in Orlando.