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God bless you, Linas Kleiza. Look what you gone and done did. The Nuggets downed the Jazz Thursday and it was Kleiza, scoring an out of nowhere 41 points with nine boards, two dimes and a steal. W.T.F., as the intertube youngsters say. Heading into the game against Utah, Kleiza was averaging his lowest total for any month of the season, scoring wise, with only 8.4 points per game (and he was not even playing 22 minutes a contest either). 41 is (obviously) a career high, and while it is spectacular that Linus thrashed the Jazz, elite numbers will not continue. A nice role player for all fantasy intents and purposes, but let's not get silly.

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Kleiza was not the only one busting out for career highs though. Marcus Camby is no role player -- he would be a lock job first rounder every year if he was not always hurt -- pulled in 24 rebounds with 11 blocked shots. You can score negative points, as far as I'm concerned, at that point for my fantasy team. Shoot 0 for 12 from the floor and put one in for the other team; I don't care. 11 blocks? Re-dick-a-lus. But let's face it, Camby gets hurt. We will not call him "injury prone" because that label is silly, but it's worth noting that he gets hurt. A lot. But at this point, your opponent has started looking past that at his sickner block totals and thinking, "Maybe Marcus isn't going to get hurt this year..." and that's when you swoop on him. Snatch his underperformers, his lethargic stars and his yet-to-breakout rookies. And you plunder. Assuming, of course, you already have blocks and boards of your own.

Yes, Kwame Brown was guarding Amare Stoudamire. But that doesn't excuse posting a line, as a starting center, of eight points, six boards, seven turnovers and five personal fouls in 25 minutes. It is my humble and personal opinion that despite the starting gig, Kwame will continue to be worthless in LA for the rest of the season. I own Andrew Bynum in puh-lenty of leagues and I have usually been seeing offers of Kwame Brown to filll his spot. However, I am passing on all of them, because I want nothing to do with Kwame. I'm going to suggest the same thing to you.

From KUSI in San Diego:

A San Diego Charger was shot Sunday morning by an off duty police officer. It happened around 3:30 Sunday morning..when an off duty Coronado police officer started following a man who was driving erratically. Police say the driver is Chargers linebacker Steve Foley.

The officer identified himself several times as a police officer, but Foley would not pull over. Foley then drove to his own neighborhood in Poway where he got out of the car and his girlfriend got behind the wheel. Police say Foley came at the officer who fired a warning shot. The woman then drove the car at the officer. The officer fired into the car, then shot Foley. But police say Foley kept coming, and the off duty officer shot him several more times. Foley was taken to Sharp Hospital for surgery. The woman was taken into custody. No charges have been filed yet. Steve Foley was arrested back in April for battery on a police officer and public drunkenness.

Neighbors describe him as tough on the outside, but nice on the inside. From the few words I have exchanged with him, and from hearing him in interviews, he does seem like a level-headed guy. I don't want to go so far as saying he has a problem with alcohol, but people end up in treatment after repeated incidents like this, especially when they involve the police.

KUSI has the video here. The news reporter doesn't confirm the player's identity, but it is indeed Steve Foley. Apparently he was shot three times, once in the stomach, once in the hand, and once in the leg. Foley is at Sharp Hospital where his injuries are not life threatening, although he lost a lot of blood.

UPDATE: The San Diego Union Tribune has a story up on their website about this incident:

The officer again identified himself, pulled out a gun, and ordered the suspect several times to stop, Brugos said.

"However he continued to walk toward the officer, making the statement, 'That's a bb gun'," Brugos said.

UPDATE # 2: Here's the AP story.

STATEMENT FROM THE SAN DIEGO CHARGERS ON LINEBACKER STEVE FOLEY:

"We have confirmed that linebacker Steve Foley was shot early this morning. We'll try to provide more information as it becomes available. Right now all of our thoughts are with Steve."