In the biggest signing of the day, Ben Gordon has decided to go to the Detroit Pistons, ending his 5 year tenure with the Chicago Bulls. Gordon had been offered more than $50 million to stay with the Bulls, but the Pistons offered him $55 million, 5-year deal.

Author’s note: Once again, I’m not including the last names of the people involved or identifying the university at which these events occurred. Feel free to make guesses, but understand that I will not publish comments that contain the exact names of the people or places in question

During college, I had my fair share of adventures and (more often) misadventures. I climbed a 16-story clock tower while it was under construction, participated in a few intramural sports championships, had a 50-pound stereo speaker shatter my nose during sex (seriously), helped design and build potato guns , successfully snuck into various sorority houses, got kicked out of bars, woke up in random places (and with random people) I’d never seen before, so on and so forth

Most of you have already noticed the new Basketbawful banner. I’d love to take credit for its wicked-awesomeness, but it’s actually the work of loyal bawfulite Stephen Robbins. And to tell the truth, I made very few suggestions.

Note: This is the first installment of a multi-part story about the first semester of my freshman year in college.

While the Shaq and Vince trades had us wondering exactly what lengths teams will go just to save a buck, a new round of youngsters were selected to have their hopes for NBA stardom crushed in the next three to five years. Let’s take a look..

And I don’t know if the braintust of the teams making the picks do either, but I know why it seems like teams are just randomly picking European players who may, or more likely, may not ever play in the NBA.

I think Portland got a steal by getting Patty Mills with the 55th pick. Yeah, I’m biased because he’s a Mid-Major stud, but the dude can play.

Stock on point guards. Not sure what the strategy is, or even if there is one, but at least Calathes will be playing in Europe the next couple of years instead of teaming up with Rubio and Flynn in a three point guard alignment.

Jonas Jerebko, the 6-9 Swedish forward Detroit took with the 39th pick, was this close to hooping it up for my UB Bulls. He had actually signed a letter of intent to play for Buffalo, but backed out on after blowing up in some European hoops tournament the same summer he signed the letter.