Damon Jones Sings Passive-Aggressive Christmas Carols

Slow sports news day on this Christmas morning (I'm currently watching Jemele Hill debate Skip Bayless on ESPN First Take about who would win in a fight, Alien or Predator). I did, however, manage to catch this mind-numbing tidbit about Damon Jones before Sunday's Cavs-Warriors match on Brian Windhorst's Cavaliers blog in the Akron-Beacon Journal:

"Damon Jones was singing Christmas songs and inserting his own lines about wanting to be traded. Which he was doing on purpose with the media in there."

This is the type of material that just further preserves Damon Jones' place as the NBA's most adolescent player. He is truly the Freddie Mitchell of the NBA. Always searching for attention, whether calling himself the "best shooter in the world," donning ridiculous red suits and sunglasses indoors under the guise of being "stylish," or pulling stunts like the Christmas Carols bit. He is always playing sidekick to better players (e.g. Shaq, Dwyane Wade, LeBron). He always assumes people are laughing with him, not at him, such as when he played along with Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley's torching of him as "Alfred the Butler" to Shaq and Wade's Batman and Robin. And throughout his 10-year, 10-team career, Jones has won absolutely nothing. In other words, Since when does Damon Jones think there are teams that actually want him?

For Jones to add further discord to an already troubled locker room, on a team with an angry fanbase and a superstar (LeBron) weighing his options, is just downright unprofessional. Sure, it's only jokey Christmas carols, but that type of behavior may be more indicative of the current climate in Cleveland than it seems. In Minnesota a few years ago we saw a similar situation, in which locker room rumblings lead to the dissolution of team chemistry, followed by the firing of a coach, the trading of key guys like Sam Cassell and Wally Szczerbiak, and eventually the departure of Kevin Garnett. All I'm saying to Cleveland fans is stuff like Damon Jones' jingles is not what you need right now.