- Sam Amico checks in with Spencer Haywood: "Haywood played for Team USA as a 19-year old in 1968. He STILL holds Olympic records for most points, highest field goal percentage, and rebounding. As an older guy who tries to shoot 100 jumpers a day, I was especially pleased to learn that the now 58-year old Haywood still plays pick-up ball. 'Yeah, and now I stink,' Haywood told me with a chuckle. 'But that’s the problem with most retired (NBA) players -- they think they still need to be good. They don’t. It’s just exercise. I get a better workout in one hour of playing ball than I do in three hours of doing anything else.'"
- Amico also gets major brownie points, both for including TrueHoop in his list of NBA must-reads: ("I read everything I can that’s written by Windhorst, Abbott, Sam Smith (Chicago Tribune/MSNBC), Charley Rosen (Fox Sports), Marc Stein(ESPN) and any of the guys from Sports Illustrated. I’m also a big fan of Peter May’s Sunday notes columns in the Boston Globe. Fred Kerber, who covers the Nets for the New York Post, is another good one.") and for writing that by 2010 "Portland will be a serious contender in the West, with the Jail Blazer days long behind them."
- That Atlanta Hawks video from the eighties has not helped Doc Rivers in an ongoing campaign to convince his kids that he's cool.
- Bonzi Wells has a new agent, Merle Scott, who is talking to the Miami Heat.
- Steve Patterson ducks a question about the Blazers' long-term future.
- Kenny Anderson would prefer to play in the NBA instead of on Arvydas Sabobis's Lithuanian club, but Portland isn't interested. The Blazers are said to be interested in a veteran backup point guard, and it looks like it won't be Anthony Carter either.
- Gordon Chiesa was lost (after ditching the Nets about a year ago), and now the assistant coach is found in Seattle.
- Mark Madsen remembers his time at the Rookie Transitions Program: "I remember when David Stern came in to talk to us about the NBA. He was really cool to all of the guys and actually gave out his email address to all of us and said that if we ever had any concerns, complaints, or questions, to email him directly. The one area that I have communicated directly with the league on is rules for cheap shots. During a game, all of us can handle unintentional elbows to the head, throat, back, etc. What really gets most NBA players mad though is when they get hit with a cheap shot. I'm going to report back to all of you when they read us the new rules for the coming year, and if I don't like what I hear I am going to protest to the league and through our liason, Billy Hunter."
- John Hollinger says off-season winners included the Bucks, Rockets, Pacers, and Bulls. Losers were Pistons, Kings, Sixers, and Knick fans.
- Billionaire-in-training LeBron James dines with Warren Buffett.
- Who's about to bust out? Hakim Warrick, Raymond Felton, Gerald Wallace, Carlos Arroyo and others get consideration from ESPN's experts.
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