Whew…just started my parental leave and have been getting used to being at home with my daughter all day…must tell you, it’s the funnest thing ever…

Marcus Camby is the defensive player of the year? How about the blocked shot player of the year, but Bruce Bowen and Shawn Marion make guys disappear with one on one defence…I would have given the award to one of them…even the “Big Boring” Tim Duncan would come before Camby, especially when he had 5 blocks against the Nugs last night…by the way, the Spurs got the homecourt back with a 96-91 win sparked by Manu Ginobili’s 10-11 from the line (flopper extraordinaire…) and Iverson’s 7-20 from the field…of course, if the Nuggets don’t go 22-30 from the line (Carmelo Soprano went 6-11) than they win…

Magic got swept (97-93 loss to the Pistons last night) for a lot of reasons (like shooting 57.9% from the free-throw line in the series), but most of them originating from the fact the Detroit is a better team…however, some things continue to amaze my like:

How is it that Dwight Howard still does not have a single post move or even a little 8 foot jumper? He has one mover, a dunk…that’s it…

Why is Tony Battie playing and Darko Milicic is not? Milicic blocked Rasheed Wallace’s jumper 4 times in the series, and that’s the only 4 times Wallace has had his jumper blocked all year…

Jameer Nelson is not a starter…please, please, please play Carlos Arroyo…

Other than Hedo Turkoglu, nobody on this team can make a jumper outside of 15 feet (yes that’s you Grant Hill!), yet JJ (the Chronicles of…) Redick sits on the bench while the Pistons pack it in…

Speaking of Grant Hill, he is apparently contemplating retirement. Hill, who scored 17 points in Orlando's season-ending 97-93 loss to Detroit yesterday said: "We'll see how I feel in June and July," Hill said. "The desire, of course, is to always play. But you don't want to live on anti-inflammatories and so forth. We'll just see, at least in my case, how I feel."

Here’s a DARKHORSE for Pacers coach next year…Reggie Miller…you heard it, or rather read it here first…

Hmmm…the whole Celtics nullifing Sebastian Telfair's contract idea will probably not fly…remember, the Raptors tried that on weak-kneed centre Nate Huffman to no avail…and then there’s the Warriors failing in their bid to get rid of convicted choker Latrell Sprewell…

Ok Raptors…here are your 2 commandments…1) double Vince Carter and 2) clear some room for Chris Bosh…you cannot win if Vince Carter penetrates past Anthony Parker/Mo Pete every time he gets the ball…and you cannot win if Chris Bosh gets 11 point on 10 shots…Carter has to get banged by defenders off the ball, maybe bring in converted tight end Joey Graham for a bit to use his bulk, but Carter cannto have a free pass to the basket or he’ll go for more than 37…as for freeing up some space for Bosh, maybe make Calderon the post passer into Bosh instead of Ford, being as Calderon went 6-6 from the floor in the game and might keep his defender from sagging in on Bosh in the post…