The Fuse Is Lit

Two of the NBA's most history laden teams are now engaging in some dubious behavior.

The Los Angeles Lakers have decided to sign The Motor City Madman Ron Artest (sorry Ted) and the Boston Celtics are actively pursuing career cancer Rasheed Wallace.

It's hard to believe these teams in particular would take a chance on these two wackjobs.

The Laker just won a title by surrounding Kobe with easy going, no ego types who constantly defer to him. Even Pau Gasol deffered to Kobe and he was the key to the whole run. If the Lakers needed any peices it was another outside shooter, not a defense minded, offensively challenged three. Especially now that they've lost Trevor Ariza. Now we all know Artest likes to go after Kobe, which should make Kobe happy dealing with that every day in practice, but Artest is mostly a moody, high energy type of guy. He is going to destroy everything about the laid-back Lamar Odom. C'mon, Odom said he never wanted to live anywhere but the beach. We all know that means "I smoke tons of herb." I don't think he can handle Hurricane Artest, who is due for a massive eruption. If he doesn't point it at Odom (no way it's Kobe or Gasol) I'd start keeping an eye on super-soft, lazy center Andrew Bynum or Sasha Vujacic.

The Celtics are just as baffling. They also recently won a championship with players like James Posey, Glen Davis, Leon Powe and Brian Scalabrine supporting the big three. Posey is gone and, once again, Ariza would have been a perfect addition but they are going after Sheed, who hasn't helped anybody in a really long time and is prone to bouts of quitting when not being used properly. How long until Doc Rivers screws up the rotation and pisses everybody off? Over/Under at 15.5 games. In addition, do you really want Sheed influencing Rajon Rondo? Rondo is already so hard to live with that they were trying to trade him after his triple-double playoffs. Now you want Sheed whispering sweet nothings in his ear? Crazy. Latly, how long exactly until hyper competitive Kevin Garnnett gets into it with freuently tanking Sheed. That pairing could just go nuclear.

It never ceases to amaze how teams sign names and talent without realizing that they can't chnage either one of these guys.

The one positive from a fans perspective is the possibility of Man-Ram and Artest being in the same city. I hope these two hook, become soulmates and hit the clubs every night. You think Plax shooting himself was the height of late night athlete comedy? These two could re-write the record books.