Cavs’ center Zydrunas Ilgauskas is willing to make a trade.
A Plain Dealer report revealed this morning that the ball that Z used to enter the Cavs’ 10,000 point club walked out of The Quicken Loans Arena after the Atlanta Hawks game. The ball was tossed in the crowd and the individual who caught it, never returned it.
Obviously they can’t do much with that ball, so it would be nice to get it back. If somebody would bring it back, I could sign my jersey or trade something. I could ask LeBron to sign something for them, Ilguaskas joked.
The 11-year veteran is only the fourth Cavalier to hit the 10,000 point mark for a career, but he’s somewhat ambivalent about the ball’s return, saying that the accomplishment means more than the actual ball.
If they want to hold it, go ahead. My career wasn’t based on that. It was just a ball. If they want to bring it back, yeah, I’ll take it . Who knows? Maybe some kids are playing with it right now. Maybe they need it more; they can keep it.
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i’m with you big z. the ball doesn’t matter. get the ring. that is much more consequential.
^^ What he said.
Pluto and Windhorst have the ball but I’m afraid to think about what they might be doing with it.
I lol’d.
larry d., you’re joking, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it indeed wasn’t a joke.
Speaking of Pluto, today I was listening to a podcast that Bill Simmons had with Klosterman’s old colleague at the Beacon Journal, Chuck Klosterman. During a very interesting discussion about the decline of newspapers and newspaper sports columnists whose skills are eroded or are just plain running on empty, Klosterman took a MASSIVE one-punch shot at Pluto, a blow that recalled Mike Tyson at his killer peak. It wasn’t personal, it was just within the context and the flow of the conversation, but if it had been one of Tyson’s tomato cans, the guy would now be buried six-feet-under. Simply brutal.
If you or anybody wants to check it out, it’s a two-part podcast on espn’s site, the reference is in the second part. Klosterman is extremely interesting and compelling in his own right, so you might as well listen to both parts of the podcast in their entirety, not just for the Pluto reference. The first part is dated 3/12/09, the second part is dated 3/13/09.
heyy. Z
im sorry that ur ball got stolen
and i think they should give it bac
but also the ring is also good but the ball means something to u
alan,
at what time in the second part? i’m only interested in that part.
Don’t know, didn’t time it. Do yourself a favor, Klosterman is interesting anyway, listen to it.
interesting to drop a bomb against pluto on simmons’ podcast. simmons is a pluto fan (as well as a windhorst fan).