Chris Paul Is Hot Like Hansel. And Michael Grieco.

ESPN.com's John Hollinger says Chris Paul is the best rookie point guard in the past 45 years and the best overall rookie guard since Michael Jordan. (And yes, that includes Magic.) Hollinger also predicts Paul, based on his rookie stats, will be the best overall PG in the entire NBA within two seasons. In other news, Deron Williams, another guard taken one spot ahead of Paul in the 2005 Draft, is the best rookie point guard named Deron in the history of the league. So he's got that going for him.

* Proving it's never a dull offseason in Washington, Sean Taylor's felony assault trial was delayed once again yesterday after it was revelead prosecutor and assistant state attorney Michael Grieco was using the case to promote his side career as a Miami Beach DJ. Feel free to re-read that sentence again if necessary. I know I did.
SeanTay's defense team alleged Grieco (for a time I thought his first name was Richard, which would have made this already awesome story better by a factor of 70) was linking to press clippings about the trial via his page on MySpace. That page, which has since been shut down, promoted Grieco's nighttime-gig as a club DJ. Luckily some enterprising soul on Redskins message board ExtremeSkins.com found the erased page on Google and, also luckily, Mike at the Redskins store told me about it this morning as I was purchasing a 'Skins jumper/bootie set for my niece. Click here to access the page and be sure to keep in mind that this guy is an assistant state's attorney.

* As predicted, nothing went down last night at the much-hyped Pedro/Nats showdown at RFK. Except the Nats continuing to be terrible, that is. They're really, really bad. At least they sent down "leadoff hitter" Brandon Watson today (he of the .399 OPS) and called up last year's rookie sensation Ryan Church. Of course, Church is currently batting .130 in AAA New Orleans, so consider my enthusiasm curbed for the moment.