Elite defense, shooting with range, disappearing on offense down the stretch ... Rasheed Wallace can do the things that Kevin Garnett and Dirk Nowitzki do.
For two Americans in the Lithuanian finals, DC Collins and Marcus Brown, elite game preparation apparently revolves around ... watching porn and eating chicken. Two great characters talking shop on video. (Not strictly PG-13, but obviously, um, thematically mature.)
Remember Ross Perot's running mate, Admiral Stockdale? If you read a bunch of his essays, and think too much about the Bobcats, you might come up with something a little like this essay about POW camps and Adam Morrison. By the way, one side note -- I'm not at all confident in Blogcat's use of Tim Duncan as an example of a dumb or mindless player. I'm sure Duncan's quite the opposite.
Everyone is getting fired up about the pyrotechnics at NBA games. I see the complaint. In Philly, I sat very near a big fat rubber hose. As the house lights were dimmed, it became clear that running through that hose -- many times bigger than a garden hose, but apparently similar material -- was something highly flammable. I learned this by noticing the massive inferno that leapt into the sky from the top of that hose. (Visible here.) There are people who introduce flame to things like high-pressure gas hoses for fun, but they usually end up in juvenile detention without eyelashes.
Wow, did you see this? In the event that Howard Schultz wins his lawsuit against current Sonic owners, and somebody else ends up owning the Sonics and keeping them in Seattle, that new owner would be in violation of various agreements obliging the team to move to Oklahoma City. This is a lawyers' delight. Is it good politics, though? Oklahoma City has been seen as a place of cheery sports fans. Now they're looking self-interested and litigious like everybody else.
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