Funny post appeared in TrueHoop today: Sneaking a suspended player on the court in a teammate’s uniform. If you’re too lazy to click, it starts with a Turkish player in his country’s top pro league. He gets suspended for fighting. While he’s serving the suspension, in an upcoming game he and his coach conspire to have him put a subpar teammate’s jersey on and sneak into a game! I’ll let TrueHoop top it off…

he was only detected…after a rival team noticed suspiciously good statistics for Tufan Ersöz, the player whose jersey [Cemal Nalga] was wearing

Sneaking players in dreamleague? Never!

I said this was funny, but at the same time, it brings up some serious issues concerning fair play.

To the other Poor Man’s Commishes out there, I guarantee you this will happen in your league, if it hasn’t happened already.

I hate to admit it, but every season in our dreamleague rec leagues, this also happens. Once again, we have evidence that what happens in the pros, happens in dreamleague!
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(Click image to view commercial.)

Soooo, about that commercial… Well, Poor Man’s Commish is in it!

Actually it’s just a “spec” commercial, meaning they’re submitting it in a contest for Doritos.

If it wins, it will be shown during the Superbowl next February.

More on this later, as I’ve got some behind-the-scenes stuff to share, but in the meantime…

• Click on the image on the left or goto http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/video/5458
• Wait till the upload number counts up from 0 to 100
• Click “Skip Intro” on the bottom right when the television screen comes up
• Enjoy!

Bill Simmons.

One of Poor Man’s Commish’s jobs is to not only pass on stories that happen in Dream League and that could only come through a hoops commish, but also things that other places may have missed. Like something that makes you ROTFL or LMFAO.  Take Bill Simmons, for example. (Btw, thanks to JoJo Pierce for teaching me those acronyms last year.)

Over the years, it has gotten increasingly more difficult to read Bill Simmons’s columns. They are just too long (kinda like my blogposts, but I’m working on that, I assure you — not to mention, they’re still one-fifth of Simmons’s rants). Then came the podcast. Since I don’t live in that wonderful Concrete Jungle where you must walk and take a subway everywhere, I didn’t have an iPod and therefore had no clue as to what this fuss about podcasts was all about.

But dude is funny and his latest two-part NBA Preview for 2009-10 (both Part 1 and Part 2) is a blast, worth the long read. Now, remember, here on Poor Man, we have a penchant for the following…
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