- By now you’ve read Jonathan Abrams’ incredible oral history of The Malice at the Palace and George Dohrmann’s unbelievable expose of UCLA. But there’s lots more today. Let’s stay with SI — Lee Jenkins wrote a phenomenal piece on Kyrie Irving, the second great one on him in the past few days.
- This has very little to do with basketball, but wow: at Slate, Daniel Engber caught up with Dennis Rodman’s dad, Philander, on his tour of the Philippines.
- Dave McMenamin talks to Phil Jackson about The Flu Game.
- For your ears: Chris Ballard on Slate’s “Hang up and Listen” and Rob Mahoney on 48 Minutes of Hell’s “4-Down Podcast.”
- Kevin Pelton builds on Beckley and Henry Abbott’s work on late-game timeouts.
- Jay King of Celtics Town responds to Ethan’s TrueHoop piece on Rajon Rondo.
- Keith Smart on Jimmer Fredette’s difficult NBA transition.
- Lots of good stuff on Hardwood Paroxysm lately and I’m not saying this because I write there. Here is Danny Chau on Rasheed Wallace and conspiracy and Jared Dubin’s conversation with Seth Rosenthal and netw3rk about Jeremy Lin.
- Rembert Browne catches up with Penny Hardaway.
- Landry Fields is your new favorite singer:
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