Posted by Kevin Arnovitz
- Over in Kenya, Ron Artest "huddled with a flashlight and iPhone and opened up" to Newsday's Ken Berger: "little 1-year-old babies are walking around and playing right next to [an open sewer], wearing clothes that look like they've been in a New York train station and run over by a '7' train 100 times. All the ghettos in New York City, the only thing that can compare to this is New Orleans when Katrina happened. And this is worse than Katrina."
- Pure despondency in Milwaukee from the Journal Sentinel's Michael Hunt.
- With the Blazers' signing of Travis Outlaw, it's now Standing Room Only on Portland's roster. Ime Udoka, who seems to be the odd man out, could potentially find a home in Memphis, according to the Commercial Appeal.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston slams LeBron James for "an appalling lapse in judgment" at the ESPYS.
- In Salt Lake City, "[p]eople squeezed in the doorways, leaned against the railings, and stood in the aisles" to see Kevin Durant.
- Durant took less money to sign with Nike, according to the Seattle Times. "According to industry sources, Durant declined a seven-year, $70 million deal with Adidas that included a $12 million signing bonus largely because he has a long history with Nike dating to the eighth grade in Washington, D.C."
- Luis Scola is giddy to be in Houston, but it ain't the cookin': "'It's hard to know why I did not come (to the NBA) before now,' Scola said. 'Maybe I could have done it a couple of years ago when I was younger. Maybe now, I'm just more open to change. Different food, different league, different teammates.'"
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