PG, LBJ and the rest

And now, our latest episode of Magic Shouldn'ta Oughta Said That, in which Paul George kicks all the wise guys in their revealed knowledge by signing a four-year deal to stay in Oklahoma City.

PG, remember, was supposed to go to the Lakers. Everyone said so. Everyone said so a year ago, when he signed with the Thunder for what looked like a one-season rest stop on his journey to L.A.

Well ... guess not, wise guys. And here Magic had the pullout couch ready for him and everything.

Now he has go to looking for another big-name free agent, because he said that thing he said, which is that he'd step down if he didn't sign a big-name free agent this summer. And there's still a pile of them out there, led of course by the Notorious LBJ, aka, LeBron James, who the Blob has it on good authority was in Minnesota yesterday, talking to the Timberwolves.

OK, so he wasn't. He was actually in Boston, talking to the Celtics.

OK, OK! So he wasn't there, either! But you see how easy this is, messing with people's heads?

I could tell you I have a friend of a friend of the cousin of a friend who says LeBron is staying in Cleveland, because the cousin knows one of LeBron's second cousins twice removed and that's what he said. I could tell you he's going to Philly because he used the words "cheese" and "steak" in a sentence one too many times. I could tell you he's a lock for the Lakers, because why else would Magic say what he said --- crawling out on a limb with a handsaw, in essence -- unless he knew he had LeBron locked up, and so the chances of Magic having to actually step down were nil?

All we really know at this point is more and more Americans wish he'd hurry up and make a decision, because they're sick of hearing about LeBron and they just want to watch the World Cup in peace (Uruguay! You go!). Which seems reasonable to me.

Not that reason, in a 24/7 news cycle on networks already married to All LeBron All The Time, has very much to do with much. Or anything.