Gretzky's daughter exits Twitterverse

WHEN IT comes to his daughter, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky doesn't play.

The "Great One" not only laid the smackdown on opponents for years, but yesterday it was reported he dropped the hammer on his 22-year-old daughter, Paulina, too.

Why? Why else? Twitter.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Gretzky's daughter shut down her Twitter feed after her father reportedly didn't take kindly to racy photos she was posting to her profile. One of Paulina's last tweets read: "Having a nice sit down dinner with my dad about social media..haha." Her final tweet Saturday: "Taking a break from Twitter for a bit. Happy Holidays!!! xoxo."

Some speculate Gretzky doesn't want anything to jeopardize a deal reportedly in the works to acquire the Toronto Maple Leafs, but we like to think that, like most fathers, he didn't take to seeing his little princess, in little dresses and snug tops, posing suggestively for the viewing pleasure of the Twitterverse.

We all knew Gretzky did some great things on ice that are still unmatched, but we think he is great in his role as a father, too.

According to Yahoo Sports, the Chinese Basketball Association is not letting NBA players out of their contracts for the 2011-12 season.

Yikes.

Furthermore, the CBA passed a rule that its teams could sign NBA free agents during the lockout, but had to make it clear to the players they would have to play the full season to be given FIBA clearance letters to sign NBA contracts. The CBA season doesn't end until March.

"If they think that they're going to make things difficult, not play, create problems, what's going to happen is that the teams will not release their letters of clearance they'll need to sign in the NBA," a CBA official told Yahoo. "There's no way out."

Which means it's very likely such NBA players as Wilson Chandler, Kenyon Martin, J.R. Smith and Aaron Brooks are stuck in China unless someone comes to their jiuyuan.