The DC Sports Bog has the skinny on Ron Artest's massive (some say 300 pounds) brother Daniel, who is on Sacramento's summer league team. Most think that Daniel is only there as a favor to Ron, but the larger Artest counters that if Ron has so much influence, would Daniel really be sitting all game every game?
Kyrylo Fesenko wants a really cheap car, as we learned yesterday. Today, we can get to know "Fes" better than ever thanks to the magic of YouTube. (Stay until he does the funny voice at the end.) And, we can also learn that if he gets a terrible beater of a car -- perhaps he'd like mine? -- there's a decent shot some big contract teammate will bail him out. Wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened, after Shaquille O'Neal nixed then-rookie Mark Madsen's dented Toyota Previa.
ESPN's John Hollinger (Insider) manages to use words like "ringgit" and "forint" in a spectacular criticism of Desmond Mason's market value.
Las Vegas is not nearly as wild as last time I was here, for the All-Star Game. But it's still crazy. ESPN's Marc Stein saw a guy eat a McDonald's burger while seated in the famous In-N-Out burger joint, which people flock to from miles around.
A first-hand witness to a major crime: it says here that Robert Swift stole the candy. (And if we're going to be talking about kids taking candy from other kids, please tell me you have read the David Sedaris masterpiece on this very topic.)
Etan Thomas talks to Michael Tillery of the Starting Five: "I don't know if I would want to run for congress or anything, but at the same time, I wouldn't rule it out. There are just a lot of things that I see that aren't fair, and that's what drives my passion for politics. Whether it's the war, the school system, health care, police brutality, the death penalty, there is just so much in society that isn't the way that its suppose to be. Not to mention foreign policy, immigration, the environment, abortion, gun control, which are topics that simply cannot be ignored."
Video tryouts for the NBDL continue, and I don't know if the DL is ready for "BA" or not. Also, when this guy makes it huge, I want a cut: he tells me learned about the contest from reading TrueHoop.
As a guy who has pushed the nickname "Feist" on both Alonzo Mourning and Kyle Lowry, I should at least acknowledge the singer with the same name.
Best dunks of Vegas so far. Plenty of good ones, but I'll vote for one that is not shown: Jeff Green over Nate Robinson.
An agent talks about how great it is for his client to be seeking a small contract instead of a large one. Weird moment.
After parting ways with his team, Derek Fisher has now reportedly also parted ways with his agent, and has now signed up with Kobe Bryant's agent. Thoughts about
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