- Kevin Pelton (writing here for Basketball Prospectus) is one of the smartest dudes out there, and he shows his work very nicely in making the case that David Robinson is probably the best center of the last quarter century. He leaves a lot of wiggle room, however, to make cases for Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon. Olajuwon, notably, really stepped up his game in the playoffs, which means a lot. You could argue about this stuff until the cows come home, but one thing Pelton's numbers really make clear is that Patrick Ewing is not in the same class as those three other guys.
- I'll say this for NBA players: They exercise. I mean, just about every single one of them looks like a professional athlete, with muscle definition and all that. Check out these baseball rookies.
- Dwyane Wade, already an iffy defender, now reportedly plans to go for the steal more often. If that proves true, Udonis Haslem just picked up about 50 more fouls trying to slow Wade's man at the rim.
- Channing Frye is a guest, along with the Dandy Warhols, and some improv comedy people, on one of the zaniest shows ever to feature an NBA player. He tells stories, for instance, about fishing in waders that were too tight in Idaho.
- For 250 actual Canadian dollars, and whatever it'll cost you to get to Alberta, you can have dinner with David Thorpe this weekend.
- Massmatics imagines a conversation (a tad PG-13) between a boyfriend and girlfriend, comparing their relationship off the court to that of LeBron James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas on the court This is the guy speaking: "If our relationship was a professional basketball team, it would be the Cavs, and on that team I would be LeBron James and you would be big Z. LeBron loves and appreciates big Z and knows that the team is better off with Z. Sometimes when Z is shooting free throws he can't believe how lucky he is to be with Z. When Z was a free agent people where saying let him go there are better centers out there. Z is slow, and he doesn't play great defense, and he never shuts up when him and LeBron are watching TV and when LeBron went to Blockbuster to rent a DVD there was another center there that he went to high school with and the center gave LeBron her phone number and said call her and then that centers cell phone rang and her ring tone was Lollipop by Lil' Wayne so you know she doesn't mind doing something. But LeBron didn't care. He said I don't care about all those other centers or their ring tones. I want Z. I am committed to Z."
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