Carmelo Anthony Trade

Monday night the Denver Nugget announced that they've traded their star player Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks. The trade involved 12 players and three teams the teams that were involved were the Minnesota Timberwolves, New York Knicks, and the Denver Nuggets. The players that were involved that are traded to the Knicks from the Nuggets are Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams, Corey Brewer, Anthony Carter, and Renaldo Balkman. The players traded to the Nuggets from the Knicks are Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, a 2014 1st round draft pick and a 2012 2nd round draft pick, and a 2013 2nd round draft pick. The players that the Knicks sent to the Timberwolves were Eddy Curry, and Anthony Randolph. The player that the Timberwolves sent to the Knicks was Ronnie Brewer. Carmelo Anthony will be wearing #7, Chauncey Billups will be wearing #4, and Ronnie Brewer will be wearing #2. The Knicks gave up 3 players from their starting lineup to get Melo and 3 draft pick. This all started when Melo signed an extension  that would've kept him in Denver for 3 more year but then he got traded and now he will be returning to Madison Square Garden where he played college basketball for Syracuse.     

Money Ball

         What would you do to improve a Major League Baseball team if you were a general manager? In the book Money Ball by Michael Lewis, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is followed for a year. Being a general manager for one of the smallest teams in the MLB is hard, but Billy makes it look so easy.

         Money Ball has a few things that I can relate to.  When I play MLB 2010: The Show, I always play as the general manager of a team.  I always trade all my players away to get better ones.  In the book, Billy trades ¼ of his roster away to get players that are better and cost less money. But he also makes some bad decisions on what to do with players, which I do a lot. It was easy for me to tell what the bad mistakes were because the book was made in 2003, and I know who the good and bad players were. 

         Players on a team are always important, but the person who runs the team is even more important. Billy Beane is still currently the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, even though he got a job offer with a big market town. Baseball has always been with Billy; he played minor league baseball in the New York Mets farm system. Although the Oakland A’s aren’t doing so well, Billy Beane is trying to improve the team so they can have a taste of the playoffs.

         When Billy and the A’s were on top, no one could stop them. They had 55,000 fans coming to the ballpark to watch them.  Now, in 2011, they only come if it’s a rainy day or on a field trip with summer camp. That shows what can happen in 8 years with the loss of good players and no wins. 

Timmy Chang

Author's note: I would be typing a chain story that I started and by class wrote but I wasn't able to edit it to make a decent story so I'm just going to writes a creative piece.

Timmy Chang was free agent as a rookie and  signed with the Arizona Cardinals in 2005. Timmy Chang is the first Asian NFL quarterback even though he did not play a NFL game. Timmy has also played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2006 and the Detroit Lions in 2005. Timmy Chang went to the University of Hawaii and is a NCAA record holder in many categories, he has the record for most interceptions with 80, the most total offense with 16,910 yards, he has record in about 5 other categories too. He wasn't quite good enough to be a NFL quarterback so he decided too play football in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played for the Rhein Fire in 2006, Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2007-2008 and the Winnepeg Blue Bombers in 2008. He is currently a free agent in the CFL and is not playing football.    

Zack Greinke

Zack Greinke is a major league baseball player that now plays for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2009 while he played for the Kansas City Royal he won the 2009 Cy Young award. Also in 2009 Zack Greinke was the starting pitcher for the American League. Another good thing that happened for Zack was having 16 wins and only 8 losses in 2009. When Zack Greinke pitches on opening day for the Brewers he will wear the number 13 instead of wearing number 23 as he did in Kansas City.

Yao Ming

Yao Ming is a Professional Chinese basketball player who now plays for the Houston Rockets. Yao Ming is 7 feet 6 inches tall , he is the tallest current NBA player. Yao Ming was drafted by the Houston Rockets in 2002 with the first overall pick. While he was living in China he also played Pro Basketball in the CBA (Chinese Basketball Association) for the Shanghai Sharks. He is a 3 time gold medal winner with the China National Basketball team they won the FIBA Asian Championship tournament 3 times.

NBA All-Star game

The NBA all-star games is going to be played on Sunday, February 20th 2011 in The Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The All-star game brings 28 of the best basketball players in the NBA to square off in a real NBA game. The teams are picked by the fans and the ballot consist of two teams The West and The East. The players on the Ballot are the Starting players on the opening day game for each of the 30 NBA teams. The players that are selected are in the game have the highest amount of votes for their position.