UPDATE!  8th August, 8 PM Central

I agree, we should also have a fantasy league during the season.  Here is the draft order I random generated (I swear):

1st round:

1.  PhoenixStan

2.  JSun?

3.  hbcblankscreen

4.  PanamaSun

5.  rosewood

6.  AZSEAfan?

7.  KJ7

8.  ZonaFlash

9.  RealTangiblesGuy

Each subsequent round will be in reverse order.

If you're on here but you weren't interested, just let me know and I'll remove you and bump everyone up one spot.  Also, try to get pick your players on a timely basis.  I'm not going to hound anyone, but if you think you're going to be away feel free to tell me a quick order of who you want and I'll just select whoever is available and highest on our list.  I'll also try to keep a running list of each team.  PhoenixStan, you're up!

If you're like me, nothing in life is more devastating than surfing on over to the Phoenix Suns Blog of the Universe and finding no new posts (well, that and finding a new post by JSun linking to another Diaw post in the Dirty).  .  So, in the interest of sanity, I propose a game (which I stole, not created):

Whoever wants to play, gets a "team" and is the "GM."  After people sign up, we'll put together a random draft order and each draft players.  Then we trade.  Then we all vote on which team would be most likely to win a championship and that person becomes our recommendation for GM to Sarvar when he calls Phoenix Stan for our advice.  If you're interested, read on:

I have a few suggestions that we can discuss before we start.  For the draft, I suggest a format where the draft order is reversed each round. I suggest we only do 8 players a team so we spare ourselves the torture of selecting between Sean Marks and Eric Piatkowski.  We can increase this number if only a few people want to participate.  Also, I suggest we do away with salary cap/trade restrictions of all kinds since the point is to have fun, not do work.  So you can trade whoever for whoever and whoever.  Also, I suggest we imagine that the NBA will only exist for 1 more year so stuff like future draft picks and age are not issues (to decrease complications and make it easier to pick a winner).  Also, at the end, I think the vote should be open to everyone and not just participants.  

I'm willing to keep track of stuff and update rosters and all that.

There are a few questions I'm not sure about, though. 

1)  Maybe we should imagine that no injuries will happen to make the game more fun.  The argument about whether D.Wade is more important to a team than Yao Ming is much more fun than the argument about whether D. Wade is less likely to be out for the season than Yao Ming. 

2)  Should there be time for trading after the "lottery" and before the drafting so people can move around?

3)  How about this draft order:  1st round determined by lottery.  Second round reverse order of first round.  Third round Identical to second round.  Each subsequent round reverses order of previosu round.  This would, to some degree, even out the advantage of having one of the top 3-5 picks since in basketball, the top handful are really important to winning a ring.  This would reward skill more and luck less. 

4)  Also, I think it would be fun to make trades public for like 24 hours before they "go through" so that others can offer more if they think one side is getting ripped off ala Chris Wallace. 

So, if you wanna do it, let me know which team you wanna be the GM of.  Feel free to pick an NBA team or make up your own team names.  If you don't want to participate, then you suck and you're not my friend.