Affairs at the Jupiter hotel

Jose Juan Barea, reserve guard of the Dallas Mavericks, gives men everywhere hope that you don’t have to be 6 feet tall to catch the eye of a beauty queen you just have to be savvy with text messaging.

Barea

So what if Dirk was mouthing off to Odom. Who’s to say Odom wasn’t mouthing off to him first. And this isn’t a parking lot, it’s a basketball game and the Lakers forgot that was the reason they were there. To play basketball. Not act like bushleague sore losers.

Barea is a monster in elevator shoes. He’s Dorothy in the Haunted Forest, only he’s got an axe. I’ve got 2 inches and 20 pounds on Barea and he goes places I wouldn’t dream of. Against the Los Angeles Lakers’ giant frontcourt, he spent more time in the paint than the sweat-mop guys. “Barea kicked our ass,” Kobe Bryant said after the Mavs swept them. “& 133; I know what he’s capable of — despite how he looks.”