NBA scorekeeper anonymously admits to fudging box scores:

http://deadspin.com/5336974/how-an-nba-scorekeeper-cooked-the-books
http://deadspin.com/5345287/the-confessions-of-an-nba-scorekeeper

I wonder how much this came into play come contract negotiation time? Lazy GMs who put too much stock in numbers.....

Also, Hollinger = PWNED.

Anyone else heard that rumor that Jason Maxiell is eating babies in Africa?

Jason Collins has agreed to a one year deal with Atlanta, a league source told Yahoo Sports

Golden State Warriors sign F/C Mikki Moore: http://bit.ly/19ug3W

Anyone else heard that rumor that Jason Maxiell is eating babies in Africa?
Geez... can't believe no one bit on that...


http://www.freep.com/article/20090901/SPORTS03/909010333/1356/SPORTS/Africa-next-stop-for-busy-Jason-Maxiell

Charlie V had a pretty nasty dunk for the Dominican Republic last night

Bruce Bowen Announces Retirement: http://bit.ly/1BpS5n

Stein: Ex-fiancee of Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki is not pregnant

Maury: Dirk Nowitzki, you are NOT the father.

http://www.all-nba-all-basketball.com/images/DIRK_NOWITZKI1.jpg

Dime's top 10 "sneaky dirty" NBA players.

http://dimemag.com/2009/09/the-sneaky-dirty-top-10/

They invoke the memory of Laimbeer, but Mahorn was dirtier by a long shot.

This list is just fucking sad. I miss the quality enforcers.

I think Rip is dirty as hell. Remember, he caught Artest in the junk before his flagrant in the ECF. Every cut is a pushoff.

Kobe is blatantly dirty.

New Orleans has traded Antonio Daniels and a future 2nd rounder to Minnesota for Darius Songaila and Bobby Brown, a source tells Y! Sports.

Bucks are letting the Twolves have Sessions.

Knicks made it official: Gabe Pruitt signed. Hearing it's a non-guaranteed invite to training camp.

One of the Bobcats owners died. I'm sure MJ will ramp up his purchasing efforts.

yeah sessions to minny. where is my buddy k-stat, who admonished me and said there was no way the bucks would let sessions go...?

sun yue to knicks

-Ronald Dupree sighting in Utah

-Greg Ostertag attempting a comeback, possibly with the Blazers

Heat's Riley, coach take pay cuts http://bit.ly/1jO5Az

When does the friggin season start?

Usually around Halloween

Another way to describe that is 'not soon enough'.

First Games are Oct. 27th i believe. that is "not soon enough"

Dez Mason is gonna sign with Sacto

Sacto's loss.

Juwan to the Blazers

Cavs guard Delonte West was arrested last night outside Washington D.C. on a weapons charge after a traffic stop.

^ those crazy kids.

^poor taste

Delonte West arrested with multiple guns he had with him while riding on a motorcycle http://bit.ly/18M6U5

One of them was a shotgun?

Delonte rolls hard.

@blazersedge: lebron was on hand last night to take delonte's mugshot with the same invisible camera he uses pre-game

lol, had to RT this one

Delonte rolls hard.
http://werollhard.com/forum/index.php?topic=39859.msg208241#msg208241

^not sure he'll see that link here

NBA has formally declared a lockout of the referees.

I don't understand the link to the WRH login screen.

Should be to a post. Huh. It takes me there, but I'm logged in. Sorry for the spam.

NBA has locked out officials, and one GM just texted: "If we have to start the season with the replacements, all hell is gonna break loose."

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West was arrested Thursday after officers pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle while carrying two loaded handguns and a loaded shotgun in a guitar case.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4485441

He's apparently trying out for the next Desperado movie.

Breaking News

Andre Iguodala has his cable turned off


@AI9: I woke up and no sportscenter! Cause I forgot to pay my cable bill!-->classic!!

classic?

Delonte rolls hard.

http://www.upload3r.com/serve/180909/1253310649.jpg

Spurs signed Keith Bogans

Look out now

4 Teams Interested in Walker?
Posted: 9/20/2009 7:40:00 PM
Source: Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated Via Twitter

Antoine Walker has been in contact with four teams and expects to get a non-guaranteed deal prior to training camp.

Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated bumped into Walker while covering Saturday night's Mayweather-Marquez fight in Las Vegas.

"Just bumped into Antoine Walker at the MGM, says he is talking to four teams and plans on being in a camp on a non-guaranteed deal next week," Mannix wrote on his Twitter page.

Does #48 belong in the fantasy thread?

Fatoine, there's more casinos in Europe...

Felton signed the 1 year QO in Charlotte

Nets sold
Russian mogul Mikhail Prokhorov has bought a majority share of the New Jersey Nets

The TWolves are expected to waive Mark Blount (expiring)

Pistons killer.

Russian billionaire buying 80% of the Nets:

http://www.freep.com/article/20090924/SPORTS18/909240439/1066/Sports18/Russian-tycoon-buying-Nets

The Brooklyn "Nyets"?

Lee, Nate Agree To Terms

The Knicks have reached agreements in principle on one-year deals with restricted free agents David Lee and Nate Robinson, Marc Stein reports. Story (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4501088)

Lol , Sheed is at it again. Anybody else see his quote about the replacement refs?

What's the exact quote?

Bill Laimbeer and Joe Dumars confirm that the new NBA is a buncha pussies!


Oct. 1--MANKATO, Minn. -- There's a training camp rule in the NBA that limits teams to one "contact session" per day. Timberwolves assistant coach Bill Laimbeer is still trying to get used to the rule.

After the Timberwolves completed Wednesday morning's practice at Bresnan Arena, Laimbeer sent a text message to his good friend and former Detroit Pistons teammate Joe Dumars, now the club's president of basketball operations.

Laimbeer told Dumars the Wolves had a "non-contact" practice. Laimbeer said Dumars replied: "This is the new NBA, Billy."

For Laimbeer, a 6-foot-10 power forward who developed a notorious reputation for physical play during his 13-year NBA career, watching basketball for more than two hours with minimal contact is strange, if not absurd.

"We would scrimmage twice a day," Laimbeer said of his training camp days with the Pistons. "We would line up five on five, throw the ball up and play."

The rule, installed in 2005 to reduce injuries, limits teams to scrimmaging in either the morning or evening practice during camp. That leaves the other session for drills, conditioning and implementing new systems for offense and defense.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/135930951

What are they fucking college kids?

I didn't even know they had that rule...thats fucking stupid

Insert Richrod joke here.

outdoor NBA basketball tonight at 930 on TNT....tune in to watch players bitch about the wind making their shots miss

Not the October thread.

Out door basketball seems kind of gimmicky to me.

unless you're a kid or a group of regular peeps doin the pickup thing.