- Is there no quality control on the ol' contests at the Palace? The Pistons are holding, I kid you not, a hairiest back competition.
- Footage of Yi Jianlian making a bunch of dunks that look to me like they would likely be blocked, or stolen on the way up, in the NBA.
- I told everyone to watch that Kobe Bryant video. Bethlehem Shoals followed orders.
- I've linked to this before, but Rod Benson is still, as a writer, the most entertaining basketball player in the world. Read his personal website, and his blog on DraftExpress: "The next day when we got back to 'The Biz' as I’m calling it now, one of my closer friends on the team, Curtis Stinson, was released. I guess that’s how it goes. A few of us went to our local watering hole called 'Bucks' to show him one last good time. We stayed at Buck’s until closing time (not without dancing for 2 hours straight first) then headed back to the apartments to play monopoly until 3 am. Bright idea I know. Well, we had to get up at 6am for a flight to Sioux Falls, but my retarded self forgot to pack the night before. So I had to pack in the morning running on empty – an event I don’t even really remember. The whole pack job is a complete blur in my mind. When we got to the airport I noticed that everyone else had big bags with them. I had two backpacks -- hmm first sign that I didn’t do it right. I say to Kevin Lyde: 'Hey, Kevin, how many days is this trip?' 'Four,' he replies. Oh snap there couldn’t be FOUR DAYS WORTH of essentials in my backpack, no way. I open up my bag and look inside. Ok, there’s one collard shirt, one pair of jeans, a pair of sweats and a jacket. NO WAY I didn’t pack ANYTHING else. No Underwear. No Socks. No toothpaste. No deodorant. No Phone charger. Obviously it was the best packing job of all time." Keep reading that post for "sumo stance" vs. "the hug." I pray Rod Benson makes the NBA and keeps up this kind of storytelling.
- Magic Johnson is big time. This commercial is not big time.
- Can't find it online, but the current Sports Illustrated quotes Steve Nash: "At Santa Clara coach Dick Davey emphasized mental toughness, being able to not let your performance be affected by a mistake... The funniest was when Coach Davey challenged the whole team to a fight during practice. I would say that he was fairly ticked off."
- The Carnival of the NBA.
- Mark Madsen's favorite Jack Nicholson impersonator.
- SuperSonicSoul is reveling in the fact that Seattle just passed Portland in the standings. Don't get too comfortable. You're headed back to the basement soon enough. I think I feel a wager coming.
- Gregg Doyel does not want to see Dick Vitale in the Hall of Fame. Not at all.
- Andrei Kirilenko makes good paternity jokes.
- The numbers say there are three really good teams in the NBA, and only one of them will make the NBA Finals.
- Cleveland got a really big win, and I'm having visions of LeBron James marching them through at least a round or two of the playoffs. I mean, he just woke up in last week or so, and already they're already nipping at Detroit's heels in the standings. They could set some kind of record as the team with the most disappointing regular season ever to make the NBA Finals.
- LeBron James is fantastic all of a sudden. Shaquille O'Neal is fantastic all of a sudden. Steve Francis ain't bad all of a sudden. My new advice to anyone interested in knowing which game they should buy tickets to: the one in March, when everyone starts playing hard.
- Charles Oakley hopes you love the Brooklyn Nets. And he hopes that, when you clog Brooklyn with your car as you go to a game, you will stop off and get gas at his nearby gas station and auto detailing place. (via NSFW Can't Stop the Bleeding)
- Jamal Crawford makes Eddy Curry better. Howard Beck reports: "Curry had averaged 20 points a game over the last three months, but is averaging 15.5 in Crawford’s absence. Curry converted 63 percent of his field goals in January and February, but has made 20 of 45 (.444) over the last four games. 'You miss those lob passes and those just easy passes, easy buckets, they kind of get you in the flow of the game,' Curry said of Crawford."
- The Celtics are back!
- Ian Thomsen has some good news for the Kings: Ron Artest is the least of your worries!
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