Today's Best - 11.29.07

5. nate robinson - it's hard to have anything positive to point to when your team combines to score only 59 points en route to a 104-59 defeat to the hands of the hated celtics. but the seemingly meaningless 37-foot 3-pointer that nate robinson drilled at the end of the game ensured that the knicks exceeded the franchise record low of 58 points. it also ensured that the knicks finished the game with at least one player in double figures. i'm no elias sports bureau, but i can't imagine a team goes an entire game without a single player scoring at least 10 points very often if ever. so thanks to nate robinson's heroics, the knicks narrowly avoided joining that club. instead they joined the "teams that play so poToday'orly that eddy curry somehow had a +/- of -36, while malik rose led the team with a +/- of -4" club.

4. chi mcbride - with the news that hbo is planning to make a movie based on "game of shadows", it marks barry bonds' first return to the big screen since 12-year old henry rowengartner struck him out in "rookie of the year". of course, it is unlikely that he plays himself in this movie like he did in that movie some 14 years ago which means the coveted role of barry bonds will have to be filled by someone else. and for whatever reason, the first large, bald, black actor that came to mind was chi mcbride, who coincidentally played a character named barry in the film "let's go to prison". and since barry bonds was recently indicted and could become a real-life barry who goes to prison, i think this is too perfect not to work. but that's also what i said this morning about using ketchup instead of milk in my cereal so what do i know?

3. brett favre - yes, brett favre threw for a paltry 56 yards and added two interceptions before getting injured, but if we've learned anything from the coverage leading into last night's packers-cowboys game, it's that brett favre and tony romo are actually the same person. so technically, the final score of the game wasn't cowboys 37, green bay 27, it was brett favre 64 and improved his record to 22-3 on the season and almost certainly ensures that he gets a first round bye. one that he will surely spend at jessica simpsons' house.

2. every person on earth that isn't on the denver nuggets - not only did the nuggets lose 127-99 to the lakers last night they did so while allowing sasha vujacic to score a career-high 22 points. this is completely unacceptable. sasha vujacic's previous career high was a game where he scored zero points but had several shots that hit the square on the backboard. but tonight, he scored 19 points in the fourth quarter alone. and if we extrapolate his gaudy fourth quarter numbers over a full game, he would have lit up denver for 76 points, 8 rebounds, 12 assists, and 8 personal fouls. that's how bad it was. conclusion: if the nuggets want me to take them seriously as western conference contenders they need to stop making basketball players who are barely better than a pickle jar look like pickle jars that are incredible at basketball.

1. carmelo anthony - carmelo finished with 23 points on a super-efficient 11-15 shooting but more importantly, in the fourth quarter he was ejected for a flagrant foul when he hit sasha vujacic in the throat. whether or not it was intentional is not important. what is important is that sasha vujacic got hit in the throat and then went on to score seven more points, which is clear evidence that his 22 point outburst steroid related. what other explanation can there be when last night, three sasha vujacics would have beaten the new york knicks by seven points? especially since on any other night, it would take one billion sasha vujacics just to screw in a light bulb. anyways, i'm hoping that hbo has taken notice so that sasha vujacic will be included in their "game of shadows" movie adaptation and is played by air bud.