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I have been preoccupied with Memphis’ awfulness and the Allen Iverson situation, what with me still sorta being a Grizzlies fan, but at 2-8, Memphis is not the worst team in the NBA. Far from it. And not the only offender in the passed-on-Brandon-Jennings sweepstakes.

In case you have not noticed:

—The Nets are 0-10. At least Jennings was not available when they picked at #11 overall. Does Brooklyn really want what the Nets are selling?

—The Knicks are 1-9. They passed on Brandon Jennings, opting instead for Jordan Hill. Smooth move, that. Jennings in the up-tempo Dantoni system playing the Garden? Who would want to have seen that?

—The Timberwolves are 1-10. They, even with an unseemly point guard fetish, passed on Jennings twice. But hey, they at least own the rights to a Spanish guy, so that was probably worth it….By the way, against Memphis Saturday night, this was the starting line-up for Minnesota (thanks to injuries to Al Jefferson and Kevin Love):

Jonny Flynn
Corey Brewer
Ryan Gomes
Nathan Jawai
Ryan Hollins

Revel in THAT for a moment.

The standard for worst ever NBA season remains the ‘72-’73 Philly Sixers who went 9-73. We have enough visual evidence from some pretty fuckawful teams to conclude that perhaps that mark is seriously in trouble.

Yeah, that 55 over the weekend (amassed in the last three periods solely) was an eye-opener. And then some. Good enough that I went searching out the Bucks/Mavs game last night (doing anything possible to avoid Browns/Ravens) and found it on NBA tv.

The over-riding impression from that game? That he has “it”. Not so much from his stat line, although it was damn fine (25/8/7), but from other little things. Things like:

1. At the end of the game, with it tied, there was no question from anyone on the court that the ball should be in his hands.

2. From the electricity of the Milwaukee crowd. For a franchise that has been as “in the wilderness” as the Bucks have been of late, that was noteworthy. There are good NBA fans in that city, and you could tell that they have seen enough to know that Jennings is genuinely for real.

And, I have to tell you, as a Grizzlies fan, that hurt. My hatred of the Grizzlies front office and owner Mike Heisley reached a new level of rage last night, watching the crowd respond to the fourth quarter comeback led by Jennings. The NBA really can be fun. It blows having to watch that occur somewhere other than Memphis, always.

At any rate, congrats to Bucks fans. And for the rest of anyone that wanders over this way on the ‘net, locate a Bucks game. Jennings is already worth watching.