Drafting Lines: Starbury Works Hard to Make You Look Good!

Trey Kerby over at Ball Don't Lie! blogged that Stephon Marbury is returning to China for three more years of international basketball. Starbury will also have stores in which to sell his shoe-line, which apparently breaks ankles even with killer cross-over sold separately. Kerby's Starbury And 1's led to ankle twistage due to "a nasty Bruce Bowen-esque, foot under my foot ninja trick."

At hearing this, I wondered if this would be a problem to all the Chinese ballers picking up Marbury's shoes. How high does the average Chinese baller jump? Could we someday soon see White Men Can't Jump 2: Chinese Men Can't Jump? Am I being horribly racist? Or is that the point of the joke/social commentary? You tell me.

Smackdown Thoughts: Dead Men Don't Swim

Smackdown showed stronger story-building on the road to Summer Slam. It’s important and shows positive progress for WWE creative.  Instead of having mirror images for RAW and Smackdown (see: Jericho/Punk ripping on crowds for heat...I can’t remember other examples; Nexus broke my memory), RAW has one huge storyline, Smackdown six.

Nexus Art Cafe, coffee cup - Day 63, year 2, originally uploaded by purplemattfish.

Good vignettes for the sometimes repetitive Alberto Del Rio build. It seems Kofi has a switch he turns. Since the Orton feud, meh.  But it’s back on for Ziggler. The SES and Kane angles are logical builds. I’m hoping LayCool takes the one title and purposefully hot-swaps it, thusly monopolizing. (Nexus’ eventual strategy?) No-DQ good for Swags and Rey, but after Summer Slam? Mysterio heel turn?

Decent amount of wrestling despite DQ’s.

Results:
Christian rolled-up McIntyre
Ziggler DQ’d Kingston
Show DQ’d Gallows
McCool faith-breaker Tiffany
Swagger something Mysterio