Caught on the fly.(Know It All)

After a fast start, the Redskins have hit a "downward spiral," says Steve Spurrier. That's still an upgrade over last season, when they didn't have a spiral all year.

Walker gets run out of Beantown

By trading Antoine Walker, Danny Ainge has become Public Enemy No. 1 (and to think, Boston was the only place that liked him to begin with). Raef LaFrentz may not be plucky enough to handle the locals (check out his first name spelled backward), and the jury's out on Jiri Welsch. Insiders say the issue isn't so much that Ainge didn't get enough for Walker, but that he had had enough of Walker (which was evident when it took about, oh, 10 minutes for FleetCenter workers to start taking down pictures of No. 8 outside the locker room). And Antoine felt the same way; he ripped the organization and said the deal definitely was personal. What, you expected him to leave without taking a shot.

Fly's 5: 'Toine, continued

The best scoring race in the NBA won't be T-Mac vs. A.I. or Shaq vs. Kobe, it'll be right on the Mavs' stat sheet: 1. Dirk Norwitzki; 2. walker; 3. Michael Finley; 4. Antawn Jamison; 5. Steve Nash.