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We’re not on the regular computer, so we’ll have more on this tomorrow morning, all of which will be depressing.
Greg Oden is out for the year - that thing they did on his knee thing?
The dreaded microfracture surgery. There are no laughs to be had here - no jokes to be made. There’s no lambasting […]

While there’s plenty of material to mine in people calling out Isiah Thomas’ coaching ability during jury selection of his sexual harassment trial, we feel something of greater importance must be noted on this Tuesday.
No, not the fact that we’re posting on a Tuesday. That’s normal. (If this were early 2006.)
Number one overall draft choice […]

As we wrote about lasterday (Yes, this would be posts two days in a row!), Greg Oden has been struggling in summer league.
If you’re a Blazer fan who’s inexplicably looking too much into that and causing yourself a panic attack or two, your days of humbling fears are over.
Greg is getting his tonsils taken […]

Much has been made in recent days of #1 pick Greg Oden’s summer league forays, the thrust of said makings being that he’s not doing very well.
We’ve not seen either of the games he’s played - we’ve only read this write-up on NBA DOT COM, followed up by Marc Stein going all ESPN on young […]

Zach Randolph, Dan Dickau, and maybe something else for Channing Frye and Steve Francis(’s contract).
Wow, this is a great deal for the Knicks. We’re kinda jealous. Granted, Zach in NYC could possibly be a social disaster, but they also now have the best combo of quality scoring and chubbiness you could ever hope for […]

Our heart jumped more when the Celtics came out of that envelope at #5 than at any time during the Cavaliers playoff run so far.
Wow.
There’s really not all that much one can say except, “Negative 439 Tommy Points to Mr. Karma!”
We can’t even make fun of those poor fans - pick #5 is […]

(The Cavalier is on an extended leave of absence. The following was not written by him, although he has already written his Oscar acceptance speech for Best Director.)
The regular season is over and the playoffs will soon be upon us.  Happy are those who worship at court of the hardwood.
Who’s in? 
The Heat, the Suns, the […]

We made a list once (last month) of the NBA players who we imagine have the most positive influence on their younger peers.
The hardest part about it was trying to figure out what the context of the word “positive” was going to be in our tabulation.
We finally settled on “instilling the traits of […]

We sent out warning many weeks ago that should Gilbert Arenas fail to score his 50 points against the Trailblazers as stated, the result could be a massive loss of credibility in the blogosphere.
We didn’t want it to happen, but we’re also realistic, and have a fairly nice ability to read the future in […]

Don’t forget, tomorrow is the big WAS-POR game - the one that Gilbert called as his next 50-point outing like 3 or 4 weeks ago.
We’re excited, we’re pumped, we’re…not watching it.
Why, say you? Why doth thou watcheth notith? Is thy Truthbox* not working, sir?
Because of that screwy thing the NBA does where they don’t […]