- Emeka Okafor is well ahead of Kobe Bryant in the Dallas Mavericks' proprietary statistical rankings, which Mark Cuban is blogging about. And Jason Kidd is second in the league. The core of the system is much like the adjusted plus/minus at Basketball Value, although it has many different adjustments.
- Really killer "amateur" highlights of the Blazers vs. the Knicks. Somebody needs to give this guy a job. Don't you want to see a highlight package like this for every game? UPDATE: And another highlight package, this one of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James taking turns having big nights in Madison Square Garden.
- Did you see this shot clock incident from a recent Rockets vs. Wizards game? There's something wrong with the system when the shot clock can have more time on it than the game clock. But then ... here the game clock has 24.1 seconds left on it, and the shot clock has 24 as the Wizards get the ball. So, you're thinking, the Rockets are guaranteed at least 0.1 with the ball. Then the Wizards lose the ball out of bounds with 1.7 left on the game clock. And the shot clock is ... oops ... off. The referees meet on the sideline with the clock operator. It is decided to reset both clocks as they were, to 24.1 and 24, and then run them down until the game clock says 1.7. So they do that. After some jiggering, they end up with 1.7 seconds on the game clock ... and ... two seconds on the shot clock? And that's how they played it. This was the end of a first half of a regular season game. I just hope nothing like this ever happens at the end of a playoff game -- because this happens repeatedly, where NBA shot clocks show more time than game clocks. UPDATE: Mark Cuban has blogged about this shot clock oddity. Shot clocks, lacking tenths, count from 24.9 to 0.9, not 24 down to zero.
- Two official team websites average way more weekly pageviews than the others. They are the mega-market Lakers and ... any guesses about the second one? That's right -- the Cleveland Cavaliers. The operating theory there is that superstars matter more than market size.
- Starting point guard on this junior varsity high school team is three-foot-ten, and according to her teammates, Tatiana Montoyo is "mad good."
- Portland is much better in the second half of games than in the first half. Wonder why that is. Deep bench paying dividends, perhaps?
- One Bulls fan to John Paxson: Please don't get us Amare Stoudemire.
- The Hornets beat the Timberwolves without Tyson Chandler and Chris Paul. David West must have had a huge game, huh? Nope. He was ejected in the second quarter. Ryan Schwan of Hornets247 on the night's star: "... our MVP of the night was Rasual Butler. 23 points on 15 shots, eight rebounds, three assists, one steal, one block, and several aggressive drives right into the teeth of the defense in the fourth. Telfair and Foye had trouble even bothering him -- and Miller didn't even really try. His defense was solid as usual as well."
- Both of Minnesota's quality big men are best suited to playing power forward. But for some reason down the stretch in this game, Kevin Love and Al Jefferson split time at center, and never got on the floor together. And now, it'll be some time before they get on the floor together. Mini tragedy: Al Jefferson has a torn ACL.
- An ode to the first half of the season.
- This is must-read ... a look at Paul Pierce's best clutch performances.
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