Its the day before the NBA Draft and the rumors are flying, especially here in NYC.  Knick GM Donnie Walsh is looking for ways to ressurect the Knicks like Dr. Frankenstein raised the dead.  With the 6th overall pick are rumored to look for Stephon Marbury's successor at point guard.  UCLA's Russell Westbrook is the strongest of names being flouted about.  Also in the mix are D. J. Augustin of Texas, Jarryd Bayless of Arizona, and Eric Gordon of Indiana.

Also burning up the radio the last 24 hours is the trade rumor of David Lee and Malik Rose to Memphis for the 5th pick, therefore giving the Knicks #'s 5 and 6.  Ain't happening.  Lee is a nice player, but worth the 5th pick?  To a team, like the Knicks, looking to get better?  Lee's NBA worth has been established - he's a hard worker that is a complimentary player, but no team will win with him as a starter.  Memphis is better off drafting Brook Lopez, a 7 footer from Stanford (and rumored to the Nets at #10).  So wake up Knick fans and realize there will only be one selection in the first round.

Now, back to the selection.  The Knicks are hemmoraging at so many locations on their roster that they need to address the selection with the best player on the board.  If Walsh could manufacture David Lee into another selection in this deep draft he will be considered a miracle worker.  More, the Knicks will see success quicker.  Good luck Donnie, we're rooting for ya!  Game Over.

What a Classic!  It truly lived up to its title as 8 divisions fought it out at six different locations throughout NYC to take home the title of Game Over Classic Champs.  Oh yeah, and a bit of trophy bling.  The tourney started on Friday evening and concluded out in the Bronx with the crowning of the 11 and Under Champs late Sunday afternoon.

90 teams came from as far south as Washington DC and as far north (and out of the country) as Canada.  The competition was tough as most games were decided by 5 points or less.

Be sure to check out the videos on our Home Page for highlights of the Classic.  www.gameovernyc.com 

Below are the winners of each Age Division and the Runner-ups.

If you scroll down our stories you will find not only did gameovernyc.com correctly predict a Laker-Celtic Final, but that the Celtics would win it in 6.  What no one could predict was the manner in which Game 6 would be won.  Put simply, the Lakers got Wille Randolphed - dragged accross the country only to have their collective heads handed to them.

What occurred last night wasn't so much a massacre but a complete clinic on man-on-ball pressure, weak-side help, and understanding the passing lanes.  Coaches, take the tape you ran last night in the VCR and make copies for all your players.  While they may not have the physical attributes of these elite players, they can learn the techniques and strategies of the game.  The game is so much more than just putting the ball in the hole.  It is the coming together of 15 players with their coach in how to accomplish a collective desire, winning games and a championship.  All fifteen, and most importantly the superstars, bought into Doc Rivers defense first philosophy and today we all say championship with a distinct Boston accent.

The Lakers have nothing to hang their heads about.  They will be back.  Next year.  Not having Will Bynam may have been the difference in this series.  He will be back ready to go at training camp.  And with a championship run under their belts, the Lakers will be the strong favorites to repeat in the West.  Unless, of course, Kobe repeats his off season request to be traded.  Game Over

The 2008 Game Over Classic  will be held June 20 - 22 in New York City.  Age groups for the Classic are:

10 and Under; 11 and Under; 12 and Under; 13 and Under; 14 and Under; 15 and Under; 16 and Under; and 17 and Under.

The Entry fee is $425.00 per Team.  Money Orders and Bank Checks accepted (no Personal Checks).  Please make checks payable to GO Sports, Inc.

Registration Deadline is Friday, June 10, 2008

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Be sure to check out all the Game Over Classic action at www.gameovernyc.com.  Click on the Game On tab and then the Game Over Classic button OR http://www.gameovernyc.com/basketball/go-classic/ 

We know that you look at gameoveryc.com as your basketball site, but its more.  We cover it all.  To demonstrate that thought, imagine our surprise (and yours) when we hear on our morning radio that the Mets won last night in Anaheim and fired Willie Randolph.  The papers and talk stations are all over this as cowardice for firing Willie and two of his staff 3000 miles from home, after a win, at 3:14 AM New York time and the list goes on.  What, no one would hear about it?

Most likely a change needed to be made.  But now?  With Jerry Manual, a more-of-the-same type manager?  Rumors have flown that maybe Bobby Valentine would return.  Talk about back-page press.  The one coach they whould be beating down he door to acquire is Leo Mazzone, the former Atlanta Braves guru that made the pitching staff of the 90's with Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz and others.  The Met's staff has the talent and needs some tinkering.  Mazzone is the right man for that job.  Remember, pitching coach Rick Peterson (also fired this morning) was forced upon Willie when he was hired.

There are all types of speculation that Met GM Omar Minaya was not available for comment after the firing (assuming he was the one doing the firing).  A press conference will be at 5 PM NY time today where we are going to learn that ownership is the one that fired Willie, is hanging out Omar to be the bad guy, like they did former GM Steve Phillips when he "didn't" get A-Rod, and then put an unaspiring staff into place to try to turn around this season.  Folks, welcome to 1977.  It's going to be a long summer.  Game Over

Of all the things that we, the fans, should be talking about today, the morning of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the fixing of games, by the League Office is surely the last thing Commisioner David Stern could conceive.  Where to begin in this quagmire of potential destruction of the NBA is equally tough.

We could write several articles on the topic, but we will stick to some of the major points.  Allegations of fixing during the David Stern Era goes back as far as the Knicks winning the rights to Patrick Ewing.  If there is a conspiracy, we want it acknowledged that the Knicks have won 9 Championships since 1985 and that wasn't John Starks forgetting how to shoot in Game 7 or Patrick Ewing inexplicably deciding to finger-roll in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Championships.  After all, the refs and the League office can only help so much.

The jokes, and by now we have all heard the jokes, are how the NBA needs to change its letters to the WWNBA.  We are hearing the last rants of a desperate man going away for a long time about similar acts of of peers.  We here at Game Over Headquarters went into our vault and reviewed that famous Game 6 of the Lakers and Kings (we sat on a stoop and talked about it).  We all remembered watching the game and shaking our heads.  We don't need Michael Wilbon of PTI telling us that it may have been the worst refereed game, worst refereed game in a play-off, ever.  But wasn't that Doug Christie who tried to run and hide rather than taking important shots?  That none of the Kings stepped up?  Are the Kings accomplicies to the crime?  How deep does the League Office go?

To today's game.  Who wins?  Do the Lakers have enough?  Enough pride to stretch the seriew back to Boston?  Or should we ask David Stern.  After all, the Lakers couldn't be that bad that they could open a 24 point lead in the first half and then cough it up starting in the 3rd Quarter?  Is Doc Rivers the second coming of Red Auerbach that he could pull off the greatest comeback in Championship history after his team could only manage 14 points in the first 12 minutes?  Well kiddies, the fix is in and if we were conspiracy theorists we would hit Vegas with the Lakers coming back to win the whole thing, down 3 games to 1.  It'll be the first time it will have been done in the Championship round.  And a fitting ending to a scandalous aroma that is preoccupying our attention.  Game Over.