- Kevin Love sets a world record by making a 90-foot basketball shot. The show explains how the velocity a ball needs to travel so far gives the ball a tiny margin of error -- it has to be more accurate that easier, shorter shots. That's the longest documented shot that long, so Love is in the record book. But don't we all know that people out there have certainly made longer shots? (This guy makes one about that far while doing a flip.)
- Incoming Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is happy to talk to the press, so long as the press wants to talk about biathlon.
- The president and CEO of the company that owns the Pistons has resigned.
- Matt McHale of By the Horns: "Consider Luol Deng to be a second key (the first, of course, being Derrick Rose) to what kind of team could lure a superstar to the Chicago. Still only 24 years old this April, Deng needs to stay healthy and maintain his solid status an 18 ppg scorer throughout the rest of the season. If he can live up to that 'great third starter' status on a Rose /(Wade/Bosh)/Deng-led team, then maybe one of the two guys in parentheses will actually realize the potential that those of us who follow the team with regularity see."
- Rob Mahoney of the Two Man Game, on the new Mavericks: "With the game on the line, Rick Carlisle went with a lineup that he was comfortable with: Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, Shawn Marion, Dirk Nowitzki, and Erick Dampier. It didn’t really help; the Thunder still closed out the game with authority, holding the Mavs at arm’s length the whole way."
- Manu Ginobili is on the court, typically, when the Spurs are playing well.
- Kevin Arnovitz, on ClipperBlog, not loving his team: "Chris Kaman is entirely ineffectual, scoring four points and racking up seven turnovers. The good news? He’s looking to pass out of the double-team. The bad news? He’s incapable of doing so. Witnessing Kaman on nights like this, you begin to appreciate Zach Randolph on the low block. Better to be unwilling and unable than willing and unable. I don’t doubt that Baron Davis truly believes he’s doing what’s necessary to establish his bona fides as team leader. What Baron doesn’t understand is that you can’t be undisciplined and indiscriminate and expect people to fall in line. You can’t launch nine of your 11 attempts from 18 feet and beyond -- draining only two of the nine -- without hurting your team. That’s not leadership. It’s gluttony."
- A big list of D-League players describe how they'll get to the NBA.
- Atlanta's Joe Johnson says that with all the talent they're assembling, the Cavaliers are just being selfish.
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