- Michael D. Dwyer at Negative Dunkalectics, on the Cetics and grief. This is amazing.
- Matt Calkins of The Columbian tells the story of Blazers radio pbp man Brian Wheeler. Read this.
- Excellent piece on the wacky Wizards by Jake Appleman of the New York Times.
- Speaking of the Wiz, Jan Vesely is starting now. Remember when he wasn’t getting any minutes at the beginning of the season? I’m cool with this change — if you’re not winning, at least play your lottery picks. On that note, can Bismack Biyombo please never, ever play fewer minutes than DeSagana Diop in a Bobcats game again? That’d work for me.
- Smart people at GQ: Bomani Jones and Bethlehem Shoals debate the Thunder’s status as title contenders/favorites + Nick Collison talks about hazing. He sang “Baby Got Back” at dinner as a rookie.
- Ian Levy of Hickory High, showing how every team’s assists are divided between distributors and shooters. Nicely done, and check out the Wolves graph to see what Rubio looks like here.
- I’m fascinated by the weird things NBA’ers do to get a leg up on the competition, so I enjoyed this piece on the Wolves and cryotherapy. (via Bain)
- Deron Williams is up and down. The Nets win when he’s up.
- Ethan on homerism. He admits he wants the Warriors to do well — LET’S GET HIM!
- Nugget-y videos: inside Chauncey Billups’s return to Denver and the first episode of The Association.
- A video of Courtney Lee talking about a car accident from which he emerged unharmed.
- Adam McGinnis got some good quotes from Ty Lawson.
- A couple of Tweets from happy PG’s: Congratulations to Isaiah Thomas on the birth of his son, and I hope all of you are feeling as good as Armon Johnson today.
- Dallas is doing fine on defense without Tyson Chandler, thanks to Ian Mahinmi and Brendan Haywood.
- More Dallas goodness, via Rob Mahoney:
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