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  • All-Star Ramblings

    Since I spent way more time than I’d like to admit watching the weekend’s All-Star festivities, I’d be remiss if I didn’t write something about them.  Here are some scattered jottings about where the weekend left me as a hoops…

  • Love the Champ

    Kevin Love joined elite company on Saturday Night by winning the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout.  Past winners include Larry Bird (3) Peja Stojakovich (2) Glen Rice, Mark Price, Ray Allen, Dirk Nowitzki, and Paul Pierce (and other lesser-known snipers).  Announcing…

  • A Guest Post on Jeremy Lin, by George N

    Patrick J: I asked my good friend George N to write a guest post on “what it means to be an Asian NBA fan and to have Jeremy Lin intervene into his NBA fandom.” He graciously replied with his thoughts…

  • Rating the B.S. Report

    Bill Simmons works for ESPN.  He’s also called “The Sports Guy.” Apparently he writes a column called “The Sports Column.” He also has a podcast called The B.S. Report, which is a free-flowing conversation that occasionally touches on mature subject matter.…

  • Pulse of the Celtic Fan: An Unintended Guest Post, by Brian J

    (Perhaps you’ve already seen and read The Danny Ainge Anniversary Party, written by Bill Simmons and published this morning on Grantland.  In it he uses biting sarcasm and his usual wit to make an absolute mockery of Danny Ainge and…

  • Five Minutes of Fun (WOLVES 100, Jazz 98)

    What a struggle. For three and a half quarters of tonight’s Wolves-Jazz game, the Target Center crowd mixed groans with boos as Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love tried to one-up each other with ugly missed shots and turnovers.  Love was…

  • INBOX: Target Practice, the Pau and Monta Edition

    THE PAU GASOL IDEA Patrick J: With all rumors swirling around Pau Gasol, the only thing for a hard-up blogger to do is fire up the good ol’ trade machine. Wolves get: Pau Gasol Darius Morris Lakers get: Michael Beasley…

  • Mile Low (NUGGETS 103 , Wolves 101)

    Tonight was a weird, weird, game. The play was rough and sloppy. The Wolves lost in OT.

  • #linsanity + Melo’s Return = Live Blogging

    I’m a little bit behind on the #linsanity craze (my fellow PDW blogger, Patrick J, has taken to some light-hearted Lin detracting on our Twitter account–I haven’t seen enough to have much of an opinion) so I’m taking to some…

  • J.R. Rider: Back In Your Living Room

    …but he isn’t stealing your tv. At least not this time. Andy G and I won’t be missing this. (h/t Michael Rand, RandBall)