Is Brian Cook's beard beautiful?
Does his goofy grin make the angriest of people crack a smile?
Is his towel waving among the best in the league?
The answer to each of those questions is undoubtedly yes. Brian Cook is one of the goofiest, nicest, and best groomed basketball players in the NBA, but these attributes do nothing to affect what he does on the basketball court.
Unfortunately for Cook, he is a truly horrific basketball player. And seeing as his contract was up at the end of the season, Cook did what all terrible basketball players do and signed up to play for the Los Angeles Clippers on a two year, $2.3 million deal.
Simply put, this move may be the biggest head scratcher of the offseason. The Hawks signed Joe Johnson to an enormous $119 million deal that he surely was not worth, the Timberwolves retained Darko Milicic at a steep rate of $20 million, and Amir Johnson even got a $33 million pact.
However, the differences between the Cook deal and these other contracts is that these contracts made some sense when they were signed. Resigning Johnson ensured that the Hawks would continue t ...
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