NBA Improvement Plan

TAN makes a stop at his basketball home away from home, freedarko.

Just some lighthearted banter about trading Kobe for Lebron, and getting the NBA to embrace the racism within. Racial All-Star game, WNBA (White National Basketball Association), the short-and-simple argument against white MVPs, and more when you head over.

They also have a nice video interview with Greg Oden, courtesy of AOL Fanhouse contibutor Miss Gossip, where he speaks on this picture to the right, amongst other things.

Association, Heal Thyself [freedarko]

Dikembe Mutombo: Never Turning 30

How old are you TAN?

Never turning 30.

This is the standard exchange when it comes to questions about my age, but its nice to see Dikembe Mutombo is feeling the age sensitivity as well, so I know I'm not alone in this. This article is pretty amusing, and reads like it was written for The Onion; Mutombo is pissed about announcers making jokes about his age, and is going to appeal to the commissioner to make it stop.

Mutombo has succeeded in convincing league officials to let him persist with his trademark finger-wagging after blocked shots -- as long as he directs that gesture toward a section of the crowd without wagging his finger in the direction of an opponent -- and believes Stern will be sympathetic to his anti-joke crusade, too.

"The commissioner and I are good friends," Mutombo said. "I will find a way somehow to talk to him.

"He's a great man. He can make it stop."

Speaking of basketball, I'll be making an appearance over on freedarko again sometime Friday. We'll be getting at Bill Simmons I believe, and that's must-see tv for any basketball peoples.

Mutombo Tired of Showing His ID [ESPN]

Thus Spach TANathustra

Over on freedarko, TAN, or rather TANathustra, wrestles with ESPN Page 2's LZ Granderson, who recently came to the defense of Coach/GM Isiah. I submit the Myth of Thomasyphus needs no defending, only acceptance.

If you like basketball, or the NY Knicks (some might say the Knicks are not quite basketball) .... check it out.

On a nominally related note, I also like these "Please Comment" avatar/icons.





Earlier:
The Geek, The Bully, & The Idiot [TAN]