1. A story that I, and I assume every thinking person, thought was just a way to make every one of Bill Simmons' columns 50,000 words long, seems to have materialized into something real. Durant and Westbrook fought and, one can only assume, will take each other out via an elaborate game involving multiple assassins and the Baltimore City special drug investigations police unit.
2. The Utah Jazz had 22 turnovers yesterday, not quite enough to average the record 24.5 of the 1976-77 Nuggets, but the season is still young, and no one can handle the ball, whatsoever, so I'm not giving up hope. These Jazz are in good historical standing, though. Malone is the all time turnovers leader.
3. Sure, he's only played a couple of minutes against the scummiest of garbage time opponents, but Alec Burks' PER of 40.13, along with his passing, jumping, and scoring abilities, tell us that he should be starting, or at least grabbing way more minutes than CJ Miles.
4. Proud losers: A good post on being a Knicks fan and way Jared Jeffries is way more of a Knick than is Carmelo.
5. David Aldridge, as usual, writes a warm and compelling article about the return of the NBA and all of the different things we have to look forward to this season.
6. After never believing in the Mavericks in the past, John Hollinger never believes in them even harder this time around as he draws this conclusion after two blowout losses.
7. Americans and basketball fans everywhere let out a collective sigh of relief after the news broke that Micheal Jordan is engaged (finally).
8. Lost in the shuffle of last year's playoff excitement, Darko was finally freed. Freedom is never really free, however, and with the departure of this blog we have lost our best opportunities to hear podcasts devoted to ghosts, to read posts about the racial structure of the NBA and of America, and to learn about basketball from some fun writers.
9. Here is this video that has been linked to by every other website on the internet. We only ask that you use our link to view it.
10. Another nice piece, this time by J.A. Adande, about why we are so happy this holiday season.
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