Milk Carton All-Star of the Week....5/12/09

With so much attention paid to baseball over the past few weeks(my A-Rod blog, Gabe's Manny piece and the past two MCAS of the Week), we've completely neglected the fact that it's NBA playoff time(well, except for Gabe's playoff thoughts), so to make up for it, we decided to show the hardwood some love(that's what she said!) and christen our first NBA Milk Carton All-Star of the Week:

This, ladies and gentleman, is the aptly named God Shammgod(sarcasm alert). God(or Shammgod, however you'd like to reference him) was highly touted coming out of NBA pro factory, Providence. So much so, that the Wizards snatched him up in the 2nd round of the '97 Draft, ahead of other promising stalwarts like Mark Blount, Ben Pepper and Eric Washington. More notably, he was taken three picks behind Warriors good samaritan Stephen Jackson.

In his one year in Washington, Shammgod averaged a stunning 3.0 points and nearly 2 assists a game, with a career-high of 12 points....which is almost as many as Dirk Nowitzki scored in the 4th quarter of last night's Game 4 against the Denver Thuggets, er, Nuggets. Those of you in or around the Portland area can catch Shammgod's basketball stylings as a member of the Portland Chinooks of the International Basketball League.

So let's give it up for the poor man's Tyus Edney, God Shammgod!