Attention whore LeBron James should be happy more people are focusing on where Carmelo Anthony could go instead of his stupid f-cking excuses about his tweets. Every time he does something that would make him look like a jackass, he retracts his statements and looks twice as stupid.

Anyway, now that I got that LeBron hate out of the way on this post that has nothing to do with him, we’ve got updates on this Carmelo Anthony situation: he still has not left the Denver Nuggets yet. He could go to the New York Knicks (he and Amar’e could be BFFs) or the New Jersey Nets (way more likely). Also, he said he’ll be playing in tonight’s game against the Miami Heat (hey, it came full circle), so he won’t be gone for at least today.
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NFL.com is reporting that the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots have finalized a trade that will send wide receiver Randy Moss to the Minnesota Vikings. Moss played in Minneapolis for the first seven years of his NFL career before being traded to the Oakland Raiders in 2005. Rumors of the trade began swirling last night when ESPN’s Bill Simmons misfired a DM tweet that went public.

The Patriots will receive a 2011 third-round draft pick in exchange for the seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, who started his NFL career with the Vikings in 1998. Had New England allowed Moss to leave in free agency next offseason, it would have received a third-round selection in the 2012 draft as compensation.

Moss, who’s in the final year of his current contract, is scheduled to make $6.4 million in base salary this season. He wants a new deal, but he wouldn’t receive one from the Vikings as part of the trade, Lombardi reported. via.

A third-rounder? That’s the best they could get for the guy? And secondly, I’m surprised that Moss did not get a new deal from the Vikings. Those contract talks between Moss and Minnesota were reportedly the only thing holding up the trade. I’m just stunned (and somewhat annoyed) to see Moss’s price set so low.

But now Randy can go someplace where he’s more appreciated, the Vikings finally have a qualified replacement option for Brett Favre and New England can bask in the glare of its all-Caucasian receiving corps. It’s a win-win-win, really.

There was a fun story the other day about how even though Isiah Thomas’s return to the New York Knicks got the kibosh from the league because of that little matter of him still coaching a NCAA team, he’s still weighing in on some of the more relevant league matters. For instance, Thomas insists that Carmelo Anthony will be traded to either the Chicago Bulls or the Knicks. Fittingly, the Nuggets already told the Knicks they don’t have any desirable pieces and talks with the Bulls fizzled after Chicago refused to include Joakim Noah in a deal. But that doesn’t mean that other teams aren’t giving it their best.

After heavy criticism for sitting on their hands during July’s free agent frenzy, the New Jersey Nets seem desperate most-willing to work toward an amicable deal for the superstar. New Jersey has already made at least one offer but Denver is demanding Brooks Lopez in any deal, and the Nets aren’t willing to give up a centerpiece player. Now someone like Jarvis Hayes, on the other hand…

Demand that we offer Lobster Dog in any future transactions, Pro Basketball Talk:

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Either Cliff Lee constantly smells like farts and vinegar or he is just a terrible person, because the former Indians, Phillies, and current Mariners pitcher seems to move more than Travis Henry’s sperm. The latest news on Lee is that he’s practically a Yankee – a done deal, as Buster Olney’s sources tell him. Olney writes that an “executive involved in the trade talks” claims it’s “just about done,” a statement that must have made several other GMs and team presidents say, “Oh really?”

While the addition of Lee to a rotation that already features C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Phil Hughes, Andy Pettite and that other guy sounds pretty darn tootin’, it’s also not happening just yet. Other pundits are predicting that this New York media assumption that the best player available will be a Yankee should light a fire under one of the other teams desperate for Lee’s services. That’s not to be confused with Hyapatia Lee’s services, which once commanded $5,000 per hour at her peak.

Who else wants a piece of Cliff’s Lee?

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