Detroit Bad Boys

As I’ve already mentioned once this season, I’m a fan of Mehmet Okur. I couldn’t help but notice he posted career-high marks with 33 points and 17 rebounds last night for the Jazz against the Bulls. That prompted me to head over ESPN.com to look at his game log:

WTF!? That’s some good stuff! And if you take out that two-point game on 11/9, he’s averaging 26 points a game! With Andrei Kirilenko out 1-2 weeks with a sprained ankle, Okur will continue to be the primary scoring option in Utah. I’m not sure what will happen when Carlos Boozer eventually returns, but it’s a good problem for Utah to have.

This is also a good time to point out that Okur’s official web site, Memo13.com, is freaking awesome. His biography section pretty much covers everything from his great-grandparents down through his childhood, where you’ll find little nuggets like this:

To say that Mehmet was an excellent student would be to stretch the truth. When he was in junior high school the big craze were Atari Game Halls that had popped up all over the bigger cities in Turkey. Every morning Nimet Okur would prepare and dress his son for school. And for 19 days Mehmet would spend the day at the Atari halls or playing soccer. He loved being a goalie in soccer. He also loved playing the Atari games. However kids needed to be in school more than they needed to be in Atari halls. Mehmet always the quick thinker was well aware of this. Therefore he did his best to cover his tracks. He would get home in time for the postman to get the notices of absentees sent from school and to dispose of them before Abdullah or Nimet Okur got a whiff of them. Everyday the school would send a boy to the Atari Hall to tell Mehmet to get to school immediately, and everyday Mehmet would tell the kid to go back to school before he got mad. Finally on the 19th day the notice got to Mehmet’s parents just in time, as if had had missed 20 straight days of school he would have been expelled.

And hey, if that’s a little too folksy for your jaded eyes, you can also just linger on the obligatory pictures of his model wife. How does he get a woman that looks like that? He’s a seven-foot Chris Noth lookalike, and what girl could resist a big Mr. Big! Plus, girls always go for older men, and he’s got that 26-going-on-40 look down pat.

If that’s not your thing, registerI found out after the fact, but they don’t check to see if you’re email address is real. and download Memo wallpaper for your computer. There’s posing Memo, dunking Memo, free-throw shooting Memo, and my favorite, sensitive Memo:

Run, don’t walk, to Memo13.com!