Some things just make you think...

An Announcer's All-Star Basketball

And One posted 5/12/2008 from online.wsj.com

In ensuing years, Mr. McCarthy approached his favorite players and asked them to sign the game ball. He calls them his "great player – great guy" starting five: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, Karl Malone and Hakeem Olajuwon. It wasn't just their talent that Mr. McCarthy admired; he also thought they were decent people.

The Great Ones Adapt in Real Time: Did only Lebron James and Michael Jordan get the Memo?

And One posted 5/13/2008 from thehoopdoctors.com

Dr Dime explains it all - he deserves a Jumbotron shoutout.

Hornets Shutting Up the Haters

FanHouse found this 5/15/2008 on dimemag.com

Chris Paul (photo. Mannion) Feel free to call me a hater. Because going into these playoffs, I didn’t give the New Orleans Hornets any credit. Forget their #2 seed in the West. Forget the season-long, MVP-caliber play of Chris Paul. Forget the ...

NBA pre-draft camp dates and times

AEM posted 5/15/2008 from unc5corners.blogspot.com

As the National Basketball Association pre-draft camp comes closer and closer I thought I would do a blog to outline what is going to go on and when. The event runs from Tuesday, May 27th through Friday, May 30th.

VIDEO - Michael Jordan’s Classic Italian Art Exhibition

MrThell posted 5/15/2008 from www.emptythebench.com

It was a balmy, Mediterranean day in northern Italy during the summer of 1986. The city of Triest was hosting an exhibition game of pallacanestro between Stefanel Trieste and Juve Caserta and a 23-year-old American by the name of Michael Jordan was in the house. Michael proceeded to do what the greatest cestista in history does in an exhibition game against inferior competition: put on a show.