- If you were to ask me: "Henry, have you seen some strange commercials with NBA players in them?" I would have to answer yes. But nothing compares to this one.
- Bad moments in referee history.
- Peter Vecsey has never been more confusing.
- The Bobcats are really bad when Emeka Okafor doesn't shoot much.
- The Spurs preach defense, teamwork, spreading the floor, and neutering your pets.
- From time to time we debate business things like whether or not LeBron James could make mroe money in the long run being in a major city. I grew up a small market fan in a small market, but I 100% believe a media star is worth more in a media capital. My latest bit of evidence: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago are not going to win awards for best-run franchises, but nevertheless, according to Forbes, the three largest cities in the U.S. still have the three most valuable NBA teams. Which makes you think there's something really valuable about being in a big market.
- Watch the video here. In the second highlight, Brandon Roy torches Ricky Davis (#31), and then Davis is throwing his hands up irate at ... what? Alonzo Mourning for not helping? Daequan Cook for his hedge? The referees? It's unclear, but that's a man in blame mode, for sure.
- In the new DIME magazine, Shaquille O'Neal is still talking a brand of trash talk that's so modified and restrained it probably would be better to get off the topic of bragging entirely: "The only thing those young guys might have on me now is speed. Sometimes they can run around me, or my be and sometimes even over me. But never through me. Never." He also says that people wanted him to go to Iraq. He declined, not wanting to make a photo op out of a real war: "If I'm going to go, I'm going to go for real, you know?" But I think he's underestimating his ability to inspire people. Go, if you are so inclined. Put some smiles on some faces. It's no small thing.
- Speaking of O'Neal, how did he do last night against the Blazers, who are without Greg Oden? Basketbawful: "Another sorry performance for the self-proclaimed Most Dominant Ever: 8 points (3-9), 7 missed freethrows (in 9 attempts), zero assists, 4 turnovers. Most telling, however, were the 5 personal fouls that limited him to 21 minutes of action. Shaq looks slow and terribly clumsy. He can't stay in front of people, and he can't move his feet. It's like his body just won't listen to his brain anymore. And the saddest and most pathetic moment came at the very beginning of the game, when Shaq made one of his signature awkward lurches to the basket and headbutted Joel Przybilla, then fell on him and drove the basketball into his face. Przybilla got knocked out of the game for a while, but he returned in the second quarter and did a good job containing Shaq when the big man was actually in the game. Yes, it's officially gotten to the point where Shaq can't overpower Joel Przybilla." Barkley muttered that perhaps O'Neal would be suspended for that. Portland's Mike Barrett sure thinks he should be. It looked mean and painful. (Shoddy replay.) But on the off-chance that the whole was just some bumbling mistake, it would be terrible to suspend him for aging ingracefully.
- The Akron Beacon-Journal's Brian Windhorst says that Cavalier fans should stop dreaming about Jason Kidd: "First of all, after talking to some NBA executives today, the word Nets president Rod Thorn is putting out there is that he's not interested in trading Kidd right now. Obviously that's fluid and things would change if Kidd came out and demanded to be traded. That hasn't happened yet. Secondly, the Cavs probably don't have the assets to pull this deal off. The Nets will want a star (which the Cavs don't have to trade) or a package of young talent (they have some there) instant expiring contracts (which they don't have enough of) and draft picks (they have next year's No. 1). It would've been interesting if this happened last week, because maybe there could've been a sign-and-trade with Anderson Varejao to help." Windhorst says Andre Miller might be a more realistic target, especially with a new sheriff in Philadelphia.
- Jared Reiner blogging from Spain, where he now plays: "So I am in Leon, Spain and I walk up to the hotel clerk. I ask if I can buy Internet for my room and swear that I hear him say my name. The rat gets on the wheel in my head and I realize that we just checked in and he doesn't know what room I am in. How can he know my name? Being devilishly witty I say, 'How do you know my name?' He then tells me that he followed my NBA career and even has a few of my rookie cards. The question of to whom has my mother been selling cards to on the Internet has now been answered. Now I only have three more lost souls to search the earth for."
- Somehow, through it all, the Maloofs are making money.
- Amazing list of players who have more blocks than Zach Randolph.
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