NBA Essentials: Seattle Hoops Ain't Dead Yet
FanHouse —
... Deuce of Davenport, via ShareBro KOGOD. Watching sports improves your brain function. Remember this when preseason basketball starts in four weeks. 4. Upside and Motor. Even with Pops Mensah-Bonsu on board, Great Britain will have a frightful team in London 2012. 5. Ball Don't Lie. Rod Benson starts his French career off the right way. 6. Detroit Bad Boys. Dave Bing, mayor of Detroit? Permalink | Email this ...
The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... : “A new poll for Detroit Renaissance, to be released today, suggests how that race might shape up: Dave Bing, the former Pistons great turned industrialist, would beat all likely comers in a special election to replace Kilpatrick. Some 72 percent of those polled believe Detroit would be better off with someone other than Kwame Kilpatrick as mayor, and 75 percent say the city charter should be amended to elect council members by district.” [Via Detroit Bad Boys] ...
Dave Bing Could Be Detroit’s Next Mayor
SLAM Online —
... about a likely run for mayor, Bing says. “But you’ve got to perform. You’ve got to deliver results. That’s what my life’s been about, so that doesn’t scare me.”.
A wildly successful business man following his playing days, Bing suited up in the NBA for 12 years, making the All-Star team seven times. He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1990, and later named as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players.
(Via: Detroit Bad Boys)
Wednesday Mini-Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman has a fascinating take. He's worried that the local colleges will be bad influences on the incoming NBA players. "If I'm Clay Bennett or Sam Presti or P.J. Carlesimo, I'm putting down only two rules. 1. Don't go to Norman. 2. Don't go to Stillwater. Hang out at Bricktown all you want. Frequent Bobo's in the witching hour. Heck, visit the Habana Inn if you want. Just stay away from the ivory towers. There's trouble in numbers. College athletes are cursed by masses. There's so danged many of them. Meanwhile, the NBA guys are going to get to town and be an exclusive club. OKC is doing all right, but that doesn't mean we've got a glut of ...
The 10-man rotation, starring Mark Eaton's movie script
Ball Don't Lie —
... That's for you, dear reader, to figure out. C: Crazy Parkite Productions. Check out the first eight pages of Eaton's feature film. Very inspiring! (Thx, Matt B) PF: Truveo Video Search. Cuttino Mobley needs help selling his house. Enter mom. SF: OC Register Lakers Blog. Still no word on whether this guy beat LeBron James at H-O-R-S-E this afternoon. SG: Detroit Bad Boys. Will Dave Bing be the next mayor of Detroit? The polls think so. ...
