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Linsanity met some real insanity last night at the Garden. The basketball cognoscenti has zeroed in on Kobe's postgame tip of the cap to Lin's sudden greatness, but the dong-texter formerly known as Ron Artest has also weighed in with his thoughts. And, like much of what's floating around inside the head of Metta World Peace, those thoughts were at once hilarious and batshit crazy. So much so that Ken Berger of CBSSports.com dispensed with trying to summarize them and just transcribed the entirety of the interview. More »
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What appears to be New York Knicks superstar Jeremy Lin's Xanga—chinkballa88.xanga.com, naturally—popped up on Reddit earlier this week, but somehow we missed it, and now it's password-protected. Drat. More »
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Your morning roundup for Feb. 11, the day a baby got a Tumblr. Original One Penn Plaza photo via Fb78. (Download a wallpaper-sized "We Are All Witnesses" here.) Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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Jeremy Lin has 18 points at the half of the Knicks' home battle against Los Angeles, and the Lakers' strategy of having Derek Fisher guard the New York sensation isn't working out so well—as you can see with this spin-o-rama drive. Expect Kobe to be be on Lin for the second half in an attempt to cut the Knicks' eight-point lead at intermission. [ESPN] More »
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Linsanity has swept New York City. This much we know. What's harder to fathom is the origin of the term "Linsanity." The big-city tabloids would have you believe their headline writers invented the portmanteau during the last fortnight. Incorrect! The term dates to an earlier era: July 17, 2010. That's when Andrew Slayton anonymously registered a Jeremy Lin-themed site that shall not be named (or linked to) here. More »
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We can confirm Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin wasn't with Kobe shooting in the gym, either. Because some reporters asked Kobe—whose Lakers will play the Knicks tonight—what he thought of Linsanity, and he had no idea: More »
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The NY Post ran a cropped version of the above photo in a story this morning about how Jeremy Lin, who's been sleeping on his brother's couch on the Lower East Side, is now searching for a home of his own, as it seems Lin will be sticking around New York a little longer. (He will also be making the league minimum $613,567 for second-year players.) More »
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Yes, Knicks insta-sensation Jeremy Lin shook John Wall with a nasty crossover last night, on his way to a highlight dunk against the Wizards. But the true measure of Linsanity comes from Washington's Maurice Evans, who sees No. 17 coming, takes a tentative slide step toward stopping him, then changes his mind and throws his body out of the picture, Patriots-against-Ahmad Bradshaw style. No one will ever mistake Maurice Evans for Kendrick Perkins, that's for sure. Don't miss Wall's open-armed gesture of exasperation at the clear-the-runway defense, the latest in his growing arsenal of incredulous-reaction moves. Wizards Basketball! More »
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Here's Howard Beck of the New York Times: More »
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Casey Chan turned to me yesterday and asked, "Are you going to the game tonight?" What? "The Knicks game. Lin's starting." What? "Yeah, StubHub's at like 11 bucks." We're going. More »
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A remarkable thing has been happening in New York's Madison Square Garden the past few days: Jeremy Lin, a charming 23-year-old with an economics degree from Harvard College, has somehow become the city's ultimate underdog and talisman. More »
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Hazell Stoudemire was reportedly driving at "a high rate of speed" when his car rear-ended a tractor trailer in Lake Wales, Fla. The Knicks have confirmed his death. He was 35. [TMZ] More »
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Flash back to the '95-96 season, when the Toronto Raptors entered the NBA wearing their cartoon dinosaur jersey. (It's incredible that this was only 16 years ago, and someone thought these were okay. I mean, they were mocked at the time, but not enough. Not enough.) A former Raps employee recalls a ceremony held before a game against the Knicks: More »
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The Knicks and the Heat are not playing this weekend. They play next Friday—on ESPN. That did not stop Sportsnation from asking if it was the best non-NFL game. Nor did it stop the fine citizens of New York and Florida from responding that yes, of course, it is clearly the best game this weekend. Missouri-Baylor be damned. More »
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That was quick. Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that Jeremy Lin is headed for a stint with the Erie Bayhawks, along with Jerome Jordan. Lin apparent failed to impress the Knicks' front office with his 1.8 PPG in five appearances, and with Baron Davis' return looming, Lin looks like a long shot to return. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. More »
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Okay, so this guy doesn't want to be on TV, even if anybody who knows him would immediately recognize his checked shirt and bald spot. But why so shy in the first place? Playing hooky from work? Cheating on his wife? Hideously and improbably deformed? (Why buy courtside seats, then?) Maybe he is, after all, simply ashamed to be in such close proximity to Tracy Morgan. [MSG] More »
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The Knicks added Jeremy Lin to the roster last night in an effort to fix the fact that they have zero depth in the backcourt. He's the league's lone Asian-American player, and he's also the only Harvard grad in the pros. Get this kid a billboard. More »
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Kris Humphries's summer sideshow was entertaining but seemed ultimately irrelevant: his dalliances with Kim Kardashian and with reality TV were in the universe of entertainment and celebrity, not our sports universe. We'd get our jokes, E! gets their ratings, Humphries and the Kardashians make a quick buck, and we all go on with our lives. But if last night's merciless taunting at the hands of Knicks fans is an indication, the Kris Humphries-as-punchline era will culminate, unexpectedly, in a basketball story. More »
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Chris Paul is a bad person for wanting to choose where he lives and works? Is that really the narrative we're going with? OK. More »
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Not everything that happens during the NBA lockout is bad: Delonte West makes his job applications public, Delonte West makes his broken-down Ford Bronco public, Chris Paul goes on Family Feud, and—provided that they cover up the Adidas logo on their shirts—Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire get to hang out with a puppet named Grover on public access television. More »
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Not pictured: 700 wives and 300 concubines. [Twitter] More »
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Ever since the final round of negotiations ended unsuccessfully on Monday night, the NBA players have been goin' rogue in the only way that they know how: With Twitter tirades! Oh, and also with media circuits to help push their personal sneakers so that their bank accounts stay flush throughout the lockout. More »
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The editors of Bon Appetit magazine—better known as Gourmet for the moderately illiterate—dropped in on a lockout dinner party at Amar'e Stoudemire's house. We learned that it's good to be, uh, staring down a year with no paycheck. More »
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One of the first things that Jay Larranaga, head coach of the Erie Bayhawks, tells the 35 players who have paid $150 apiece to possibly have a shot at maybe earning a spot on his NBA Development League team, is that they are not really talented. Well, he doesn't say it exactly like that. But everyone knows what he means, because they're all standing in a basement, Division III gymnasium in Gramercy at nine in the morning, and the players are all wearing cheap multi-colored pinnies and a few of them look like total, outright scrubs. One is actually a chubby, balding white man. So Larranaga doesn't say it outright. More »
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Knicks draft pick Iman Shumpert is playing in the Vegas league, and getting salty he's missing New York Fashion Week. He's also filming locker room videos of unspeakable horror. Shumpert and Bieber now have another thing in common, besides both being booed by Knicks fans.[Posting and Toasting] More »
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Our friends at Slate do a fine weekly sports podcast called Hang Up and Listen, which is a thing that callers to WFAN often tell Mike Francesa they will do. But Josh Levin is more insightful than Mike Francesa! More »
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Wilson Chandler almost made history last night. You'll recognize that this seems impossible—the NBA is locked out, and Wilson Chandler is probably not skilled enough to make NBA history, except as the league's Swingmanniest Swingman, even when the pros are in session. More »
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Dolan, lead singer of JD and the Straight Shot, is a true singer-songwriter. He writes from the heart. He writes what he knows. Basically, he writes about people yelling at him all the time for doing such a shitty job running the Knicks. More »
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Tipster Kevin alerts us to an ongoing case in Montgomery County, Ohio, in which an affiliate of Wachovia/Wells Fargo is suing a familiar name—defendant Stephon X. Marbury. More »
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Madison Square Garden, lest we forget, is undergoing some celebratory renovations this summer. They're ripping out the purple cushioning and replacing it with — well, probably with more purple cushioning. But the more adventurous redesigns are truly visionary. And also kind of creepy. More »
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"Curry, 28, reportedly topped 350 pounds during his late March workout for the Heat. He lost a lot more weight - in excess of 20 pounds - between that point and late June, when he auditioned again for the Heat over several days. More »
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Not so long ago, Spero Dedes replaced Gus Johnson as the Knicks' radio announcer. Sure, there's no basketball yet, but Dedes already has followed in the law-breaking footsteps of another Knick announcing legend. More »
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This month, Marv Albert celebrated his 70th birthday and joined the NFL on CBS. He announced he would leave his gig calling Nets games for the YES Network—he wouldn't have the time. The CBS job "wasn't something I was looking for," Albert said. Marv, at 70, is sports' most sought-after voice, so much so that he's getting coveted jobs he never asked for, and announcing sports (football, college basketball) he hadn't in years, on top of his usual NBA on TNT load. More »
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Yes, the story's from Chris Broussard, so we should take it with a Dead Sea's worth of salt, but it looks like things might get a whole lot worse for the poor folks of Detroit. More »
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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Isiah sits down with Stephen A. Smith. Christ. More »
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If you are a Knicks fan who flew into a panic earlier this year while reading about Isiah Thomas's secret influence on the team's operations, then this news is bad for you and your vital organs. Walsh is stepping down at month's end, after three years in charge, owner James Dolan tells the media. More »
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Chris Paul, fresh off an almost-upset in the first round, took in tonight's Heat-Celtics game with a recognizable cap atop his head and some slightly less recognizable people by his side. More »
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Forget about all the in-house melodrama resulting from the project, please be sure to check out our girl Bakes do her thing. Yes, ESPN.com is sneak-previewing today. "The Garden of Good and Evil" is on my summer reading list, for sure. [Grantland.com] More »
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