Sports 4 Dorks

A look around the league and the web that covers it. It’s also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren’t always listed in order of importance. That’s for you, dear reader, to figure out.
C: NBA.com. Darius Songaila has been suspended one-game for getting tangled with LeBron. This is so wrong.PF: […]

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Garbage Time All-Stars is by Mark Haven Britt
and Josh Frankel: two cartoonists, illustrators and basketball fans.
GTAS post a new NBA comic on Ball Don’t Lie every Friday, but for more
wit and drawings check out garbagetimeallstars.com. Also, you can buy Mark’s critically-acclaimed graphic novel, Full Color, at Amazon.

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Sonics rook Kevin Durant addresses the media after being presented with the 2007-08 T-Mobile Rookie of the Year. What’s he sayin’? Best caption and/or KD mini-speech wins a Bowflex® SelectTech weight set.
After the jump, Ray Allen chats with Mike Bibby.
Winner, Emperor S:Ray: "You get your car back from that fake pimp-your-ride scam?"Bibby: "Whatever, […]

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I can’t possibly thank the good guys at Dime enough for pointing me in the direction of this outstanding Deseret News feature on Jazz guard and Salt Lake City heartthrob Kyle Korver. It’s chalked full of so many amusing and creepy tidbits that I don’t even know where to begin. But let’s try this:
On […]

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Warning: depressing news ahead. Peter Vescey at the New York Post is reporting this morning that former Sixers and Nets’ forward Derrick Coleman is in urgent need of a heart transplant. For whatever reason, the 40-year-old’s heart arrhythmia (an irregular rhythm of the heartbeat) has worsened, hospitalizing him. I hope I can speak for everyone […]

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Scanning the blogs and beats following the Pistons’ 100-77 series clinching win over the Sixers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals …
Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press: "It was over before it started, the way people once felt this series would be. From the second half of Game 4 to the closing seconds of […]

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Detroit
100, Philadelphia 77
If you had told us before the season that there would be a
game in which the Pistons beat the 76ers in Philadelphia by 23, in spite of the home team
shooting 20 more free throws than the victors, it would have barely registered
a response. The outcome of Thursday night’s game kinda makes sense.
If […]

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Darius Songalia’s rogue hand, Karl Malone’s shady past and Dennis Rodman getting arrested … again. Yes, it’s a terribly slow news day around the NBA today, so here’s a new-aged "NBA on NBC" video to hum along with.

Oh, that wonky audio just reminded me, I still need to set the Betamax to record tonight’s Detroit-Philadelphia […]

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Detroit
at Philadelphia, Game 6 
You can count on the Detroit Pistons for very little, but
you can count on this: the team will not be swayed by a desperate, seething
home crowd partial to the Philadelphia
76ers tonight.
This is a Pistons team that couldn’t be bothered to think
twice about the Laker backers back in Game 1 of the 2004 […]

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I was going to wait until 4:20 to post this but … In wake of Josh Howard admitting that he smokes marijuana in the off-season, a sports gambling site called BetUS has posted odds on which NBA players are most likely to admit to hittin’ the ganga next. The odds from the Detroit Free Press, […]

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