The Last Nose Job EXPLOSION

Well, it’s late in the day and the end of summer (more or less), so we thought today would be a fine day to do the last ever nose job endorsement.

Thankfully, things should be ramping up on the NBA and the Who Shot Mamba? front soon.

(Admission: part of the Mamba delay is our intention to ride the wave of the preseason for exposure purposes. Why debut during the lowest traffic month of the year, both for the net and the NBA? That said, August was our second biggest month ever, so who knows.)

Gilbert Arenas makes JE Skeets sad by being kinda sour over the Team USA thing. (Here’s the full Arenas article. We’ll have more thoughts on this tomorrow.)

The Ohio LeBlog is back, and ready for Ohio State. He’s also watching LeBron look…odd.

SacTown Royalty alerts you to Blog Day 2006. We’re not participating, because it sounds hard.

Celticsblog says this is Kendrick Perkins year, despite…well, not despite anything. We’re open to it.

Just a little while ago, Dirk stepped out of bounds with .9 seconds left, allowing France to win some 5th runner-up thing in the World Championships.

Dan Shanoff’s Daily Quickie is done at ESPN’s Page 2 – if you’re a fan, you can catch him in the blogsphere for the time being.

Basketbawful takes the $15 Starbury shoes for a ride. We considered doing this, but the only place to get them is Ebay for like $45.

Remember Luke Walton’s day on the Young and the Restless? Here it is. (via Deadspin)

That was the most pointless scene ever – seriously. We could see sticking that in your show if you’ve snagged Michael Jordan or Kobe or something, but you waste a minute and a half of your precious airtime for Luke to do that?

See, Luke’s been there before, and he knows that good old Beverly Hills rhinoplasty can really throw your game off.

We’ve got a serious problem here, in that we used the whole “get your rhino plastered” schtick yesterday, leaving us with nothing. Could we insert another animal? Maybe another plasterish material, like a paper mache type deal?

Or…we could give up and link you to this super-creepy picture of John Travolta kissing some dude goodbye.