As we all know, Gregg Popovich has come under fire for suggesting that the NBA create a trade approval committee in light of the largely incomprehensible (for Memphis) trade of Pau Gasol for loose parts.

The fact that he's come under fire is fine. Any time there appears to be a lopsided trade of this magnitude, someone is going to be upset. And that person's ire will in turn be subjected to return fire. I don't have a problem with any of that.

I do have a problem with stupid sportscasters (yes, I'm looking at you, ESPN) drawing repeated comparisons to Popovich getting the number one pick in the draft that netted him Tim Duncan.

Getting the number one pick in the draft is LUCK. Of course, having their top player, David Robinson, go down with an injury that he'd never fully recover from isn't lucky in and of itself, but it helped too.

But to make a lopsided trade isn't nearly the same thing as getting lucky in a lottery. It's not close at all. It takes at least two GMs working together to hash out an agreement that both prefer to the status quo.

Unless those idiot sportscasters want to argue that the Spurs somehow colluded with the ping-pong balls in the NBA lottery, they should really stop with the overblown, over-generalizing rhetoric and try to spend some time thinking of comparisons that actually make some sense.