Carmelo Coming Home
A quick suggestion for whoever is looking for something to do tomorrow afternoon: Carmelo Anthony and his charitable foundation are putting on a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at Cloverdale Courts for the second straight summer. It runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and besides the 40 teams of boys and girls from area rec centers playing double-elimination, there will be "family day'' activities like carnival games, contests, a three-point contest, food and music, plus local players and celebrities. 92Q will be broadcasting live throughout the event. Expected to attend: Sam Cassell and new Memphis Grizzly (as of midnight tonight, when the draft-day trade becomes official) Rudy Gay.
If you haven't been to Cloverdale Courts - at the corner of Cloverdale and McCulloh, across from Druid Hill Park - check it out; there might not be a nicer outdoor court in the city. Best of all - it's all FREE. Just be sure to drink lots of water and bring sunscreen; apparently we're done with the rain, but it will be in the 90s all weekend and last time I looked, there wasn't a ton of shade there.
If you do go, and you see Gay, ask him if it bothers him that he fell to eighth overall the other night, or if the fact that he's on a playoff team (unlike most of the players picked ahead of him, and a few that went after him) makes up for it. Try not to ask Carmelo about the draft, though - the player the Nuggets gave up their No. 1 pick this year for, Kenyon Martin, got kicked off the team midway through their first-round playoff series loss to the Clippers and might get traded this summer.
