Good morning. Let’s basketball.
Good morning, get ready for ads on NBA jerseys
That and much more in Tuesday’s NBA newsletter.
ON RUSSELL WESTBROOK’S FREEDOM: Bethlehem Shoals on the Durant injury and what it means for Russophiles like us.
ON KOBE: I wrote a first-person essay on why I no longer hate Kobe Bryant. I haven’t yet found out if I’ve been banned from Sleep Train Arena.
DAVID ALDRIDGE’S MONDAY TIP: Consistently one of the four best weekly features in Basketball Land (with Lowe’s Tuesday column, Flannery’s Sunday Shootaround and Stein’s Weekend Dime). This week, D.A. goes long on the impact of TV money with some interesting comments and projections from around the league. ($101 million salary cap in 2016!!!)
THE GREAT: Nate Robinson with a 40-foot turnaround jumper. Nailed it.
NOT BUYING IT: Westbrook claims to not know what memes are.
THIS IS A BAD IDEA: The Lakers have overcorrected in the post-D’Antoni era and are basically not taking threes at this point. As Drew Garrison notes, this basically flies in the face of current dominant NBA philosophy.
NBA BLOG PREVIEWS: CelticsBlog has your Boston preview.
WELL THEN: The NBA’s new TV deal accounts for who gets proceeds from jersey ads. So ... jersey ads are coming.
WHITE CHOCOLATE: Jason Williams is still playing. Here are some highlights from an Orlando pro-am league.
SICK BURN: Phil Jackson spoke at the New Yorker Festival, because of course. His comments on Jim Buss were yikesville. (As netw3rk notes, they might hit close to home for James “J.D.” Dolan.)
SNUBBED: Via SportsREDEF, James Harden is left off of BBC’s list of the top 10 beards in world sport. If only Drew Gooden still had the Jack Sparrow ...
Two weeks until basketball. Basketball! Happy Tuesday. See you next time.
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