Brandon Bass is on the MAgic!

Fuck. There's a built in 19 seconds of silence on a recording I made; what's up with all these odd flips of rotation guys that is supposed to serve as the NBA off-season so far? Something far more sinister than one could conjur up in his wildest thc soaked dreams, perhaps. Marcin Gortat and Brandon Bass do the "step"

So, we all want to know when Barrington Levy is gonna get his tryout with the Memphis Grizzlies. I think Jadakiss should get a look from the Hornets. In a perfect world, 10cc could become the starting five for the Indiana Pacers. THe NBA is incredible!

Whose The Last Guy on the End of Your Bench?: New Jersey Nets

Kendall Gill is a boxer? Jamaal Magloire smokes weed? Ed O'Bannon sells cars(Wow, those fuckers at deadspin are organized...)? Jason Kidd's kids are unequivocally scary (This makes me a bad person)? YEs, I too am still coming to terms with my inability to perform sporting activities at any satisfactory level; it's pretty embarrassing. When I see all the deadspin articles about baseball players who are on the dl for mental problems, I think it's not suprising, but obviously it's in the best financial interest of a team to keep their original 25 man roster together; call-ups mean big bucks for these guys (the contract is full of random incentives, this is how agents spin the game of the player gaining traction over the owners (A real AMERICAN dynamic if there ever was one.)

So the nets have some pieces; namely Keyon Dooling, aka Al Thornton before Al Thornton was dropping buckets for a non-contender, non-also ran embarrassment. Does Vince Carter take his culture of winning with him to Orlando? HA!

Anyways, Lawrence Frank is the least intimidating coach I've ever seen sweat in a suit. It's all about his lieutenants in this gang world tho, so get to know Roy Rogers, that is if you forgot about the guy who got picked 6 spots after Kobe Bryant, of course you did.


Selected 22nd overall in the 1996 NBA Draft out of the University of Alabama, Rogers spent three years in the NBA. In 137 career games with four teams (Vancouver, Boston, Toronto and Denver), Rogers averaged 4.8 points and 3.5 rebounds. Rogers also played four seasons (2000-04) of professional basketball internationally, in Russia, Italy, Greece and Poland.

Who's the last guy on the end of your bench?: Phoenix Suns Addition

Have you read :07 seconds or less? Are you a big enough douche to use SSOL in your online weblogging? I am. Jack Macullum wrote one hell of a good book. I used the OhioLink system at Oberlin to score a copy from Antioch College, even though they shut their academic doors 2 years ago. mantastic.

Anyhoo, get to know Igor Kokoskov.

Highlighted facts:

Prior to joining the Pistons, Kokoskov served as an assistant with the Los Angeles Clippers from 2000-03 under then-Head Coach Alvin Gentry, becoming the first full-time, non-American assistant coach in NBA history. He also became the first European coach to hold a fulltime position with an NCAA Division I-A school when he served as an assistant at the University of Missouri during the 1999-00 season with current Milwaukee Bucks General Manager John Hammond.

Kokoskov, who was an assistant this summer for the Suns’ Las Vegas Summer League squad, has served as an instructor internationally in the NBA’s “Basketball Without Borders” program and has administered other clinics throughout Africa and Europe.

What a guy!

Re: BIRTH! (The sdtrck) [vowel movements] {weird}

Not everybody spends time online at facebook, while reading blogs and doing a bajillion other things at randomly assigned speeds. I've been trying to upload lots of mp3s, cause I need to get this stuff out of my head.

Joe Tex-Men Are Getting Scarce (Off of a 25 greatest hits collection acquired at the PREX! Back to Pton in a few days, bangin'
The Byrds-Lazy Days (Dig the Flying Burrito Brothers Version on Burrito Deluxe, if you're a diehard)
Galt Macdermot-Princess Gika (Sampled by DOOM on "Born Like This", my vote for album of the year (my criteria? It resonates the loudest, despite being challenging as any of his best labirynth like rhymes)
Make Believe-Small Apartment Epiphany (all you need to know is that at some point we can stop talking about MJ's death and just understand the way we've all changed because of him. Does this make Rihanna's producers some type of brilliant avante-garde production team? I hope not!)
A song I made; samples a non-included Joe Tex track, I am on guitar and synth.
Dr. Doom-R.I.P. Dr. Octagon (I like this message for some reason, more and more)
Teenage Fanclub-The Concept (She wears denim wherever she goes, says she's gonna get some records by the Status Quo; Still she won't be forced, against her will, says she don't do drugs, but she takes the pill)

Jowls

Huh? Have I suffered like an African-American? The Kennedy Analogy is SO telling of his type of solve the world condescension that Halberstam really did debunk oh so weyell. Mcnamara passes, and it goes largely unnoticed, but no worry Bono pulls up the slack like he was in Teenage Fanclub.

Red watches "Off the Grid"; people try to live without anyone else. It doesn't go well! How do you reconcile your self-induced exile? Travelogue almost OVA like Hova's career; what if Lebron becomes an evil monster? The next Karl Malone?!?!?!? AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT WORSHIP FALSE IDOLS!

Princeton Haters?

Q: I caught a foul ball off the bat of Jacoby Ellsbury today. As my hands were raised in victory, I thought about your ongoing quest to catch one of your own. I then laughed. To be fair, I am 15, and I've been to upwards of five baseball games in my life. I guess I was just due.
-- Eric Powers, Princeton, N.J.

SG: Hold on, I need to dig out my file for "My top 500 reasons why I hate Princeton" and add this e-mail … just give me a second here …

Hey, fuck Boston, and fuck Bill Simmons; I'm still gonna buy his fucking basketball book. He's the Borges of this basketball shit. I heard on a deadspin podcast that Simmons brings out the worst in Chuck Klosterman. That's a thought...

fun time stops.

Rick Betzel in heaven

Did you guys know that Betzel is pretzel in german?!?!?!?! How germane...