- Adrian Dantley tells Chris Dempsey of the Denver Post about shorts: "I tell the guys all the time, if I played now I'd still have my shorts high. At least medium. There's no way that I could dribble between my legs with these big pants they wear now. Guys tease me now, the way I wear my shorts when I come to practice. But there's no way I'm going to wear some shorts below my kneecap and hanging below my waistline in the back area."
- Antoine Walker stays home with a "passport problem." Where were the 'Wolves off to, Toronto? Rome? Beijing? Nope: Cleveland. You tell me. (UPDATE: I am in idiot. The 'Wolves were in Toronto last night. They play in Cleveland Friday, where Walker is also not expected to play.)
- The decline of Jamaal Magloire.
- Dave from BlazersEdge after watching the ugliest Blazer win anyone can remember, over the Clippers: "Excuse me while I go bleach out my Tivo." Honestly, I don't think you can make much of a case that any one player from either team had a good game. With stars Chris Kaman, Elton Brand, and Brandon Roy missing, I guess that's what you get.
- David Stern makes the case to Congress that the government need not mandate drug testing for professional athletes.
- The Knicks find a team they can beat: the Bobcats without Gerald Wallace or Jason Richardson. No one made a big fuss about it -- he only had four points -- but Knickerblogger's Owen points out that David Lee was the hero: "He played 29 minutes, had 14 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 assists, 0 turnovers, but scored just 4 points. And despite his low volume of scoring, his +/- for the game was a team high +37. No other Knick was better than +21. On more than one occasion David 'Good Things' Lee sparked the team with a quick outlet pass after a rebound that led to a fast break. On another play he ran into the crowd to save a possession. Lee wasn't asked to speak to the crowd after the game, didn't get mentioned in the post game interview, barely got mentioned in the recap, didn't get quoted, but was clearly the best player on the floor, as his Win Score of 18 indicates. Not that this is surprising. He was the best player on the Knicks last year, and entered the game with the best WP48 this year, the best PER, the best on/off on the team at +8, the best Roland rating, the most Winshares, and the best ORtg. The Knicks have been outscored by 329 points through 57 games, but have been outscored by just 54 points with Lee on the court."
- Every now and again, I guess, you have to check in on the circus surrounding the Knicks, and hear the latest about who might be getting which job and all that.
- George Karl talks to Jayda Evans of the Seattle Times: "'Every time I come up here I say I would be glad to talk or work with anybody,' said Karl of reaching out to the grass-roots organization Save Our Sonics in pursuit of keeping the team in Washington. 'I don't want to get into a fight with an owner, but I would be heartbroken if the Sonics leave Seattle.'"
- Basketball without contracts.
- Stressful time to be a Kings fan.
- The Sonics have, for obvious reasons, put Kurt Thomas gear on steep discount. I mean, Thomas is not even on the team. But it's a bad sign for Robert Swift, I'd guess, that his gear is similarly discounted.
- On David Berri's per-minute basis, Amir Johnson is the best big man on the Pistons' roster.
- The Celtics crack the code on the Cavaliers.
- Chris Paul: 25 points, 15 assists, and six rebounds in a win against the Suns. He's really something.
- Utah's Kyle Korver on his loves: Christianity, peanut butter and jelly, and, evidently, snuggling a coach pillow.
- Hakim Warrick was owed an apology.
- The latest in an ongoing series of diaries about the grueling job of a beat writer.
- Michael Grange of the Globe and Mail on how to get Sam Mitchell to yell at you: "[Coach Mitchell] got up to call a time-out and Calderon either didn't hear him or tried to get cute with it and beat Sebastien Telfair while he was napping in anticipation of the time out. Except Telfair wasn't napping, and when Calderon tried an around-the-back dribble Telfair guessed right and Calderon ran right into him, losing the ball. Minnesota took the ball the other way and scored. The whole time Sam and all the assistants are standing up in anticipation of the timeout that wasn't. Sam finally got his timout after the basket, and Jose made sure he was the last guy back to the bench."
- Greg Oden just endorsed Barack Obama, and now he's reaching across the aisle to introduce Laura Bush.
- A Jewish school hopes for a Saturday off for religious reasons, and is told no by the Colorado High School Athletic Association -- which forbids games on Sundays for religious reasons.
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