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Unlike our beloved baseball All Star Game, we’ve tended to skip the NBA's version in recent years. However, with our hero Brandon Roy, in Sunday's game we can’t wait to watch our fellow ex-Bulldog cram some FANtastic™ action down the East’s face. However, we’ll be in Vancouver--sorry TNT.

We saw Garfield High ninth-grade basketball phenom Tony Wroten make the most incredible dunk last Tuesday, but as we'd been assured by a KING 5 cameraman that they'd caught it on tape, we didn't want to waste words describing it.

Tony Harris was a star basketball player at Garfield High School and Washington State University. After college, he played in a variety of international pro leagues: The Philippines, South Korea, Brazil.

In Garfield High alum Brandon Roy's national coming out party, he didn't have a great statistical game, shooting 6-23. But anyone who watched the Blazers 89-79 win instead of just looking at the boxscore saw that he was clutch when it mattered.

Other than the Apple Cup, Garfield High vs. Franklin High is the best sports rivalry this area has to offer.

It's got Pirelli tires, modified exhaust, custom paint, and the driver's side once held the actual ass of an NBA player.

As the amazing reality of the 2007 draft order settles in, it has become apparent that if you need to send a representative to the NBA Draft Lottery, pick a Garfield High graduate.

This month Seattlest Book Club is reading Seattle-born and -raised Pauls Toutonghi's debut novel Red Weather, just out in paperback from Random House. You'll get a discount if you buy it at Bailey-Coy or Santoro's.

Wonder why we need to spend $100 million to renovate Garfield High? Because Garfield gives the world things like this:

Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy was chosen as the NBA's Rookie of the Year on Wednesday after leading all rookies with averages of 16.8 points, 4.0 assists and 35.4 minutes in 57 games.

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Have you been peed on yet?

Ex-Garfield High and UW star Brandon Roy would seem to have a lock on the NBA Rookie of the Year award, but the Blazers aren't taking any chances. They've teamed with Portland-based Leatherman to create a limited-edition Brandon Roy tool which they'll send to 250 ROY voters. They are also selling a few.

* Sample tracks on MySpace.

The first time we saw Brandon Roy dribble a basketball, we knew he was going to be the first Garfield High guy to make the NBA. His debut, earlier this year with the Blazers, was anti-climactic.

BASKETBALL: Ex-Garfield High and UW star Will Conroy suits up for a regular season NBA game for the first time tonight as his new team Memphis hosts Dallas.

You've got your Nick Sabans and your Steve Spurriers, the guys that bombed out in the pros and headed back to college. And then there's Al Roberts.

Brandon Roy, who is as far as we can tell the first Garfield High School Bulldog to play in the NBA, started in last night's hometeam win over the Oklahoma City Sonics.

Tuesday 17th

Seth's hosting Seattlest trivia again this Tuesday at the Old Pequliar in Ballard.

Garfield High alumni and Garfield High wannabe allumni, you can now die in peace and have your cremated body spread throughout the hallowed halls. Castaways from the school are available for purchase at the RE-Store and while it may look like junk to the average Seattle transplant you can no doubt recognize it as pure gold.

Ron Silver may have been a bad guy in TimeCop, but he had a better seat at the NBA draft than the Sonics' draft pick. Yes, with their highest draft pick since 1989, the Sonics picked a guy who was sitting in the stands.

If you went to Garfield High, wish you'd gone to Garfield High (you know you do), or just want to walk the same halls that Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, and Bruce Lee did then head to 23rd and Alder on Saturday for the "Bulldog Bash Before the Smash."

Pauls Toutonghi, a product of the Seattle Public School system who now lives in Brooklyn, is in town to publicize his first novel, Red Weather. Random House is the publisher--and, as our friend Jason McDonald says, don't be fooled by the name--they don't publish just anything.

As the NBA's 10th worst team, the Sonics had about a 1/25 chance of getting one of the top three picks, and about a 9/10 chance of getting the 10th pick. They did not pick up an ace "on the river" however (if you have been unemployed in the past year you will know what this means), and so the tenth pick is theirs.

Garfield High grad and UW baller Brandon Roy was named to the AP All-America first team today. He's the first Husky to get that honor in 53 years (Bob Houbregs from Queen Anne High).

It has been prophesied. After a decade of suffering the Democratic party will rise from chaos behind a new leader. This leader will appeal to religious folk. He'll appeal to thinking folk (not that religious folk and thinking folk are mutually exclusive, the scrolls are quick to point out). He'll appeal to people who are starving for a politician who can turn a damn phrase already. He'll be young and energetic and blah blah blah.

Well, it happened. In a 7-2 vote that was never extended to the public, the King County Council agreed to spending at least $500,000 to change our logo from a crown to the likeness of Martin Luther King Jr. And to add to the surreal ludicrousness of this move, Ron Sims is designing the new logo. The jesters are now running the castle, Seattle.

While your coupled friends gaze lovingly at each other across some pork chops in a carmelized onion glaze, you're going to be alone tonight, questioning why the gender of your choice finds you so unappealing. Is it your breath? Your clothes? Your insistence on a first date "test drive"? In any case, we at Seattlest have some ideas for getting you through the evening without killing yourself.

Seattlest nearly spit up our tall decaf americano (not really, we’re just keeping it folksy today) when we learned via the Seattle Times that Garfield High is fielding a grand total of 44 valedictorians this year.

The controversial plan to close ten Seattle public schools is finally dead after the Superintendent and a few Board members decided they'd had enough roasting over the hot fires of public opinion. Critics of the plan have been vocal about how the closures wouldn't come close to solving the budget shortfall they were meant to address and the absolute horror of not having your child graduate from the same school they started at has not been lost on parents.

Brandon Roy will return to the Husky men's basketball team for the 2005-2006 season, he announced at a news conference this afternoon.