Here’s a fun little sumer diversion (via the always amazing Henry at True Hoop): Over at the site Rum and Monkey you can answer a few questions and, just like that, find out what NBA player you are. I’m Jason Kidd (although I swear I have never hit my wife).
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Staples Apathy
I was there the night the building opened, when Bruce Springsteen walked on stage for the first notes of “My Love Will Not Let You Down.†I cheered later when he looked out at Staples Center and said “too many (luxury) boxes.†I was there for maybe the defining basketball moment in the building’s history […]
Carnival of Movies
The new blog Maverick Moneyball has put together the newest Carnival of the NBA, and done it with a movie theme. It’s great to see what the other bloggers are doing here in the slow season. And he made an oddly ironic choice with pairing this blog and “The Matrix” — my brother-in-law won an […]
Quintessential Jerry West
Not a lot of basketball to watch these days, so why not enjoy maybe the greatest shot in Laker history one more time — Jerry West in the 1970 NBA Finals.
Suggested Reading
Time for a new thread, if for no other reason than to move on from the moot discussion of Al Harrinton or whether we can blame Mitch for not following through on trade scenarios we came up with in our head. I’d start one about Team USA’s close game with Brazil, but I didn’t get […]
Bynum = the future?
Lord knows at age 19 I was not ready for serious responsibility or anything that would have required a concerted work ethic — I was more focused on trying to figure out how to steal a bell off the old-school Taco Bell near my college campus, because I knew how cool that would look in […]
What about the rest of the world?
We saw Team USA demolish Puerto Rico, and get to see them again tonight against China and tomorrow against Brazil — but what about the other top teams going to the world championships? Just how good are they? Commenter Xavier, who lives in Barcelona (don’t you love the Internet, where would we have gotten this […]
Team USA Thoughts
Thank God we got to watch Team USA in action so we didn’t have to rely on Chris Sheridan’s reporting any longer (more on him later). One game is just one game, and you can’t say much bad about a 45-point win, but here are a few thoughts. • I didn’t see him on the […]
Fast Break Thoughts
Not much new, working on a few things, but wanted to comment on some recent happenings and point you to a few things worth reading. • Update 2: It’s official, Devean George has signed in Dallas. Two years, second one at Geroge’s option, for $4.2 mil. This is a good fit for both sides, George […]
This Is Not the Classifieds, but….
I return from vacation 93 days before the Lakers tip off against the Suns on Halloween night and with very little news to comment on — what little Laker talk out there is not just rumors but pretty much pure speculation. So we’re reduced to talking about Chris Mihm’s golf game. Instead, let me mention […]