In a world filled with salacious sexual harassment scandals and bogus trade rumors, here's your speed read on, you know, basketball stuff that's going on in your favorite 5-on-5 association:
* Elton Brand is back at practice. Will that be good or bad for the 76ers? I guess we'll find out how good a coach Tony DiLeo is once EB returns to the lineup.
* Where did Brook Lopez come from with this? The rook dominated the paint against the flimsy Thunder with 31 points and 13 boards Monday night.
* The Celtics manned up for a 115-109 overtime victory over the Raptors. To me, though, the news was Paul Pierce scoring 39 points in 49 minutes on a bad knee. The injury bug is feastinng on the defending champs.
* Some solid links at Breakin Down The Game from D-Miz, who can't hide his anger at Gilbert Arenas. Agent Zero is indeed a zero in the eyes of the Breakin One for replying thusly when asked if he was going to come back from a knee injury this season: "I don't know. I mean, seven wins. Would you?"
* Latest from the rumor mill: Mike Conley from Memphis to Milwaukee for Joe Alexander and Ramon Sessions. A person familiar with the situation confirmed that the deal has been discussed, but said it's too early to predict whether it'll happen. Stay tuned.
* Word that Tracy McGrady will sit out two weeks to get his conditioning back and rest his left knee made perfect sense to one team executive who told me T-Mac has looked a step slow to him all season.
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Come on, what make you to trade your best player? Cause he can't play all 82 games
This make no sense. Back to last year, YAO miss the playoffs, but T-mac carry the team along.
You need to make sure that your best players available for playoffs, which they may not available for all 82 games.
Please do not compare him to Kobe Bryant, That just no anyone else as good as Kobe is.
If T-mac, Yao and Ron all be available in the playoffs, that you could expect some to happen this season