First team: Kevin Durant, Al Horford, Al Thornton, Luis Scola and Jeff Green.

Second team: Rodney Stuckey, Jamario Moon, Thaddeus Young, Juan Carlos Navarro and Carl Landry.

I read. I paused. I blinked my eyes and shook my curly mane. I read again. I sat and I thought. The only thing I could come up with was acid. They must be taking acid.

For Red, and anyone else dying to hear what Aaron's up to this summer.

Warning - this is neither particularly informative nor particularly funny, and it's not even in a foreign language to add a little spice.

Lots o' stuff from Sam. Different perspective from the Ford piece, twice as coherent, and shots at Mark Jackson.

Andres "I wonder which NBA coach gave me a 2nd-team vote because I play hard and he did not notice my late closeouts and lack of lateral movement" Nocioni

Kirk Hinrich follows his 2nd-team appearance last year with a one 1st-team vote and one 2nd-team vote this year.

This isn't a defense of Reinsdorf et al, for there remains a middle ground that they don't seem to want to give. But it is some context - in the world of sports ownership, you just don't get philanthropists willing to incur massive losses on the off-chance that it all works out. It just doesn't happen. Even the Atlanta Braves and New York Knicks cut back.

It really doesn't happen. If you are angry that the Bulls have not chosen to be one of the few exceptions to this long established rule, then fine, but you'll be angry for the rest of your life. This is just how it is. If you want to enjoy sports, accept it.

this mess was pretty insane...of course an obvious total waste of time, but halfway amusing

Alan Hahn grabs a handful of superior "goo" and throws it at the wall. There's a far more interesting Avery Johnson tidbit at the bottom.

This could have been a great assistant coach next to D'Antoni, but he re-upped for one year with CSKA Moscow.