Two quick notes before you become completely overwhelmed.
Larry Brown’s ordeal with the Knicks is over - David Stern cut the deal, although terms were undisclosed. T-minus 4 hours before Peter Vescey has the number.
Ryan over HoopsAddict started like a magazine. That’s one of those things that’s like a website, but on paper. You can access the whole thing at this link, and read an interview with Josh Smith, among other professional-type pieces.
Now…you may or may not have noted it, but we’ve been periodically linking to a site set up by that bastard Jeff at Celticsblog.
It’s a nice lil’ project wherein he got all the major NBA bloggers to preview their teams. Last piece of the puzzle is this spasm of html we just received linking to all of them. It’s as follows, as if you haven’t read enough previews this preseason. They seem to be endless, yes?
As (now) hardcore, 5-day-a-week podcasters The Basketball Jones noted, everyone makes the playoffs in these previews.
Full links after the jump - otherwise, this post would take up way too much space.
(And yeah, the Roundie’s still got one more division to go in his video previews. The oh-so-delightful Pacific, home to one…wait for it…you know who it’s ending with…who it’s all building to…that’s right…
Anyway, word is the Celtics, as expected, are dedicating this season to their iconic leader, and will do so on the court by wearing a tribute patch on their jerseys.
The Boston Celtics will wear a black clover leaf on their uniforms for the upcoming season as a tribute to former coach and general manager Red Auerbach, who died Saturday of a heart attack at age 89.
The clover will appear on the right side of the jersey and will be inscribed with the word “Red” in green lettering.
We don’t claim to have the vibe of Boston fans by any means, but we have this knawing feeling that Red himself would prefer (if anything) a simple black band, like the ones most teams use when they have a death in the organization.
The shamrock with his name just seems like too much, and not something he would want at all, much like Celtic Dance Teams and other such modern “look-at-me-isms”. Are we totally off here?
Other than that, we can’t help but be a little put off by all the columns from the media that read like they were written four years ago with a “insert approximate date paragraph here” field left open at the start. (Link is to NBA.com’s extensive, link-filled coverage.)
Dunno - it all feels a little cold and manufactured to us, but then, we’ve never been good with death and tributes and all of that stuff.
Alas, rest in peace, Red Auerbach - you did a lot for the NBA, which is a league we obviously (we hope it’s obvious) love. Hopefully the Celts can do the impossible and pull off a playoff appearance you this year, allowing the media to unroll their follow-up eulogies they wrote back in 1998.
After spending “several hours” with Wii Sports, IGN’s Nintendo editor Matt Casamassina doesn’t like the game due to flawed controls with the exception of Wii Bowling which he calls “totally rocking.” Regarding Tennis, he had this to say: “You don’t control anything except the swing of your player’s racket. The movement of these Mii-alike athletes is all done automatically by the game. You simply swing the Wii remote back and forth to make your on-screen character do the same thing.”
True dat. Though we enjoyed the game at E3, it’s unproven how long the fun lasts with tennis (from our limited play test). Regarding Baseball, Casamassina contends: “When you want to throw a curve ball, you don’t actually motion it, as you might suspect. No, why would you want to use a gesture for a console whose primary purpose is to promote unique and innovative ways to play? To throw a curve ball, you first select it on the D-Pad and then make a standard throwing motion.”
Though no one should be expecting deep gameplay from the pack-in, a flick of the wrist puts spin on a moving bowling ball but not a breaking curve? Bush league.
After spending “several hours” with Wii Sports, IGN’s Nintendo editor Matt Casamassina doesn’t like the game due to flawed controls with the exception of Wii Bowling which he calls “totally rocking.” Regarding Tennis, he had this to say: “You don’t control anything except the swing of your player’s racket. The movement of these Mii-alike athletes is all done automatically by the game. You simply swing the Wii remote back and forth to make your on-screen character do the same thing.”
True dat. Though we enjoyed the game at E3, it’s unproven how long the fun lasts with tennis (from our limited play test). Regarding Baseball, Casamassina contends: “When you want to throw a curve ball, you don’t actually motion it, as you might suspect. No, why would you want to use a gesture for a console whose primary purpose is to promote unique and innovative ways to play? To throw a curve ball, you first select it on the D-Pad and then make a standard throwing motion.”
Though no one should be expecting deep gameplay from the pack-in, a flick of the wrist puts spin on a moving bowling ball but not a breaking curve? Bush league.
Kind of a quietly fascinating game tonight on “Monday Night Football:” The Patriots, who keep winning even though no one’s particularly impressed by them, travel to face the Vikings, who have attempted to fix their sex boat-related woes by hiring a bald mustached man who appears to have never had sex, let alone been on a boat.
We’ve actually enjoyed coach Brad Childress’ attempts to tweak Bill Belichick and his injury report hijinks by playing coy with his own hurt players, but we’re more concerned about the unrelenting Belichick love that will surely be coming from Theismann tonight. (Meanwhile, Kornheiser will make a tiny sex boat joke and then you’ll actually be able to hear him biting his tongue.) It won’t involve Drew Bledsoe imploding on national television or our Buzzsaw completely a historic collapse, but it should still be fun.
Inspired by some of the fantastic late-night discussions going on during the World Series, we’ve decided to carry it over during the regular season and invite you to discuss the game in this thread, with win or Jager shots or whatever. So welcome to our Monday Night Football discussion experiment. See if you can imagine what Kornheiser would be saying, had he not forgotten why he was hired.
You might remember, back in those halcyon days of two weeks ago, that we made a wager with Alex Balk, editor of angry sister site Gawker and Tigers fan, that whoever’s team lost the World Series would have to take over the other’s site for a day. (We know you remember this, because Gawker’s comment section has never been more active than it has been for the last few days. Which is beautiful, by the way.)
Well, it’s payup time: Tomorrow, Mr. Balk will be your humble editor around these parts, and even though there’s a part of us that wonders how winning the bet means not doing our site for a day — this is our first day off since February, and we don’t plan on taking any more for a while — the day has come. Tomorrow, Mr. Balk — with assistance, as always, from the vastly underrated Rick Chandler — will be your Deadspin editor. Expect plenty of references to Matt Lauer, the Meatpacking District, Greg Lindsay and all kinds of people who wear extravagant hats. So we hope you’re ready.
We’re gonna spend out day off outside enjoy nature and maybe taking in a museum or something … naw, who are we kidding, we’re just gonna watch Game 5 over and over. But anyway, enjoy Mr. Balk’s handiwork — you should email him with your tips at the tips@deadspin.com address — and after a couple more posts today, we’ll see you Wednesday. We hope the place is still standing.
You might remember, back in those halcyon days of two weeks ago, that we made a wager with Alex Balk, editor of angry sister site Gawker and Tigers fan, that whoever’s team lost the World Series would have to take over the other’s site for a day. (We know you remember this, because Gawker’s comment section has never been more active than it has been for the last few days. Which is beautiful, by the way.)
Well, it’s payup time: Tomorrow, Mr. Balk will be your humble editor around these parts, and even though there’s a part of us that wonders how winning the bet means not doing our site for a day — this is our first day off since February, and we don’t plan on taking any more for a while — the day has come. Tomorrow, Mr. Balk — with assistance, as always, from the vastly underrated Rick Chandler — will be your Deadspin editor. Expect plenty of references to Matt Lauer, the Meatpacking District, Greg Lindsay and all kinds of people who wear extravagant hats. So we hope you’re ready.
We’re gonna spend out day off outside enjoy nature and maybe taking in a museum or something … naw, who are we kidding, we’re just gonna watch Game 5 over and over. But anyway, enjoy Mr. Balk’s handiwork — you should email him with your tips at the tips@deadspin.com address — and after a couple more posts today, we’ll see you Wednesday. We hope the place is still standing.
Two quick notes before you become completely overwhelmed. 
Kind of a quietly fascinating game tonight on “Monday Night Football:” The Patriots, who keep winning even though no one’s particularly impressed by them, travel to face the Vikings, who have attempted to fix their sex boat-related woes by hiring a bald mustached man who appears to have never had sex, let alone been on a boat.
You might remember, back in those halcyon days of two weeks ago, that we made a wager with Alex Balk, editor of angry sister site 