A guy who killed a guy now wants to be killed. Or so reports are saying.

Jayson Williams, who played with the Nets for many years, but recently has been known for “accidentally” killing his limo driver with a shotgun, apparently tried to kill himself. The details:

Police were called to the hotel in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan around 4 a.m. after a report that the former New Jersey Nets star was suicidal, authorities said.

When officers arrived, there were empty bottles of prescription drugs strewn around the disheveled hotel suite of the 6-foot-10 Williams, police said.

Several suicide notes also were found, police sources told the New York Post. Cops came to the Embassy Suites hotel after a female friend told police that Williams was acting “suicidal” and “violent” in his room, according to the Post’s sources.

Several suicide notes? Doesn’t it just take one? I’ve got a good idea of how to successfully kill yourself — have your limo driver sit six feet from you with a 12-gauge shotgun and tell him to blow your chest open. That works better than pills. “Allegedly,” anyway.

[Fox Sports]

I’m not somebody that really cares about draft grades the day after a draft — how many times have these so-called “experts” been wrong in the past? — but since NFL is officially over, and since we’re stuck with a few boring NBA series right now and 145 more MLB games, I figure I may as well milk this post for what it’s worth.

It’s the last time we’ll be discussing the NFL until a Bengals player gets arrested in the offseason.

How’d your team do over the weekend? I’ve got lots of different opinions from lots of different people. Click here and you can see how Pete Prisco of CBS Sportsline rates the picks; click here to see how Larry Weisman, writer for USA Today, breaks down all seven rounds. Clifton Brown, writer for Sporting News Today, has his take here; for Yahoo! Sports, go here.

I’d give you Todd McShay or Mel Kiper, Jr., but they’re douche bags and charge you $39.95 a year for their services — if I could charge everyone $39.95 to be completely wrong about how a player will turn out, I would. McShay isn’t that bad, but Kiper’s looked like a weatherman with some of his recent predictions.

Enjoy the grades. They mean nothing. At the end of the day, Calvin Johnson has to catch Matthew Stafford’s passes, and DHB wasn’t a stretch by Oakland until he officially busts in Oakland. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I’m counting down to September. Fall, you couldn’t get here soon enough.

As an Atlanta Falcons fan, this has been a move I’ve been torn over since I first heard the rumors a few weeks back. Last year, the Falcons offense was fine — Matt Ryan and Roddy White and Michael Turner and Jerious Norwood all worked perfectly together. The defense, though not that bad statistically when it came to giving up points (they were 12th in the league), was atrocious to watch at times. They couldn’t stop the run. Or the pass. Somehow, though, they’d keep teams out of the end zone.

So when I first heard that Tony Gonzalez was going to cost a second round pick this year, I wasn’t so certain. The Falcons parted ways with Lawyer Milloy, Grady Jackson, Keith Brooking, and two other starters.

Now that the deal is official, the Falcons will give a second round pick in 2010 for the Hall of Fame tight end. And this makes me happy. Because it’s next year, not this year. This is just the type of deal that will make me mad next year, but just the type of deal that makes me happy this year.

I’m not saying the Falcons’ offense will be that of the ‘07 Patriots. But Michael Turner, Roddy White, Tony G and Matt Ryan are a pretty solid combo. Let’s just hope that defense can stop teams enough to get some W’s on the board.

It’s fun each year wondering who’s going to be cursed, but this year we won’t have to wonder if AP will get just 900 yards and five touchdowns all season. Per PFT, he’s said no to the Madden cover, something that used to be a real priviledge and has now become a chore. Even if you aren’t cursed, some how Madden-a-holics will twist your stats around to somehow say you were victim. And your life will never be the same.

Ask Daunte Culpepper.

Or, better yet, take a stroll down Leavensworth, and ask our boy Michael Vick.

[Pro Football Talk]

Actually, that’s Jason Taylor that played for the ‘Skins after his dancing days were over. Lawrence Taylor, on the other hand, will go back to the golf course.

The NFL Hall of Famer was bounced from the competition last night, and probably won’t have a problem adjusting back to his life of playing golf, drinking booze, and enjoying retirement. From reports, LT lost 15 pounds over the duration of the competition, either from all the dancing or all the banging he did with his ridiculously hot dancer. And I don’t even know which dancer it was. But I’m yet to find a really ugly one on that show. Tan. Nice body. And rhythm. Like me, only minus those three things.

[Atlanta Journal Constitution]

It’ll be a UGA guy throwing to a GT guy, as NFL.com is reporting. The deal could happen as early as Wednesday night.

If the deal doesn’t happen, the Lions apparently have a backup plan, having come to a verbal agreement with Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry, who will be the No. 1 pick should Stafford not like the deal presented to him.

My guess is Stafford takes the deal. It isn’t as if he’ll get more money as the second, third, or fourth pick than he will as the first pick. Beyond that, as bad as Detroit sounds, a strong arm throwing to a 240 pound, 6′5″ receiver doesn’t sound too bad, and will probably earn the guy a nice little contract extension six years from now.

[Atlanta Journal Constitution]

This is a big move for the Jags. They’re constantly looking for that go-to receiver, and they may have found him. He’s a little older now, but I’ve been a fan of Torry Holt since his days at NC State, where he tore up a top ranked Seminole defense like they were standing still.

Holt has agreed to a 3 year deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars that could be worth up to as much as $20 million.

Here’s the Power Rankings over at ESPN, where they have the Marlins, 11-1, rightfully in the No. 1 spot. They’re followed by the Dodgers, Cubs, Blue Jays and Cards. With four of the five in the NL, is the power shifting? Or does anyone really even give a damn about power rankings, anyway?

Over at Fox Sports, Florida is No. 1, followed by the Dodgers, Blue Jays, Padres and Cubs.

Not that any of their opinions really matter, but it’s always cool to read about how well your team is doing. And when your team is the Braves, it’s always depressing to watch them fall from No. 1 to No. 15 in less than a week. A .190 batting average over the course of five games willl do that to you.

[ESPN]
[Fox Sports]

It really, really doesn’t. And with the draft just five days away, I figure we can play everyone’s favorite Youtube video that highlights the Jets and what truly bad decisions they’ve made over the year. Not in this video, but sure to be in the 2010 rendition: The Jets taking Vernon Gholston, who had about four tackles all of last year. This is what happens when you draft guys that are great in their “work outs,” just not in actual game day situations.

Sorry for the lack of NBA Playoffs postings. My computer went down on Thursday, and I haven’t had it since today (thank you, Comcast). So I wasn’t able to post about the 76′ers coming from 18 down — or, better put, the Magic completely choking a game away — or the Hawks’ dismantling performance against the Heat, or the Nuggets’ thumping of the Hornets, or the Rockets spanking the Trail Blazers, or the Lakers slamming the Jazz, or the Mavericks upsetting the Spurs (I’m running out of adjectives and, thankfully, running out of games) or the Bulls shocking the Celtics.

There. That’s your update.

And tonight? Game 2 of the Boston Celtics/Chicago Bulls series, which is suddenly looking like a pretty good one, thanks in part to D-Rose’s 36 point effort in Game 1 that has the Bulls snatching home court advantage right from the pesky hands of the Celtics. Call it a hunch, but Doc Rivers getting defensive and saying KG won’t be back…. I think that might come to an end should Boston lose this one.

One game isn’t much. And I don’t want to get my hopes up early. But if Boston looks as bad on the road as they did in last year’s playoffs, this might have just been a nail in the coffin.