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We’ve had some amazing athletes grace our city in the last 25 years. Some of the greatest to ever play their game have suited up and thrilled the fans of Philadelphia.

Eliot Spitzer was a tireless crusader for the cause of cleaning up Wall Street corruption. He also was a sex-crazed fiend who would spend the gross per capita of the average Third World country on a blow job.

Philadelphia, let's start acting like real basketball fans.

Please welcome to the ranks of the Phillyist staff Mr. Chris Zakorchemny, who'll be helping us fill in the gaps in our sports coverage this summer. Chris found us (and we found him) through Flickr. Yay, sports! Yay, Flickr!

Someone should tell the news directors at ABC 6 and NBC 10 that the possibility of a thug basketballer being traded is not the story you should lead your newscast with, as they did Friday at 11 p.m. It isn’t like there weren't more important stories, like the E. coli outbreak or the congressional report on the Mark Foley scandal. About the only thing this did was make CBS 3’s story about the cold weather seem like a reasonable lead. CBS 3 did cover the possibility of the Allen Iverson trade, but about seven minutes into the newscast. Even that was excessive, since it really should be confined to the sports report.

Yes, you read the headline right -- it was a pretty good night for Philadelphia basketball in the NBA Draft. Not as good as it could have been, but at the moment, we aren't complaining.

It's been a while since any of the Sixers got in legal trouble, so I guess we're due: forward Lee Nailon remains in prison in Lower Merion right now on charges that he assaulted his wife. Arraignment on the simple assault and harrassment charges is expected today.

As you may have heard, the local pro football team has fallen upon some tough times of late. An absurd, surreal contract dispute, the quarterback's myriad physical ailments, the head coach's puzzling play calls, and a defense that somehow forgot how to be nasty have all combined to produce an Eagles squad that is, one season after advancing to the Super Bowl, in serious danger of missing the playoffs altogether. Any day now we're expecting to hear that Wilma McNabb has sliced off a fingertip while opening a can of Chunky.

When the Sixers started their year with a dismal 0 - 3 record, we promised ourselves that we wouldn't get too down on them. After all, they lost only 3 games in their long, arduous 82-game schedule.

It's not that we don't like watching Allen Iverson play. The guy is an absolute warrior - wants to play hurt, wants to play when the Sixers are up, wants to play when the game's close, wants to play when they're getting hammered. Time and time again, he gets knocked to the court, and you just wait for him not to get up, because he's not the burliest guard in the league, after all, but then, there he is, scraping himself off the floor and hobbling to the free throw line.

We've passed the era where we'd start new blog posts with something along the lines of, "If you haven't noticed, everyone has a blog now." Cause let's face it, everyone has two blogs now. Except, well, the 76ers. But they do have one.

The Sixers, in the wake of re-signing free agents Kyle Korver and Willie Green, finally sealed the deal with their top priority, center Samuel Dalembert. The six-year deal will reportedly pay Dalembert something in the range of $60 to $80 million dollars. Dalembert is regarded by many as a project still in the works, but one that has already paid great dividends. Dalembert still needs to work hard on his offensive game, but on the defensive end, he's already become one of the league's best shot blockers. We're just hoping he becomes a little something more than an eloquent Dikembe Mutombo.