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* The Good Point has a must-read called Pick-Up Ball Goes Global.
* Tom Ziller has an interesting look at what makes professional basketball be about more than wins, losses and salary caps. Check out this teaser: “Last August, a plane carrying a Kyrgyzstani youth basketball team to Iran for a game crashed shortly after take-off. Ten of the players died. The NBA already had a relationship with Kyrgyzstan, with Sam Perkins holding a clinic there. This month, the federal State Department worked with the NBA and NCAA to arrange a visit for the Kyrgyzstani surviviors. On Monday, the players took in the Wizards-Bulls game in D.C.” Make sure you read Two Stories Speak To What NBA Means To Kids Worldwide.
* Andy Katz has some great insight into why Seth Curry is transferring from Liberty University and the process Stephen is going as he weighs his options between entering the NBA Draft and returning to Davidson for his senior season.
* Shoals has a great read on The Sporting Blog about the NBA’s current great rivalries.
* Eddie House and his son are going to star in Cartoon Network show.
* Say it ain’t so: Gilbert Arenas says he’s retired as a blogger.
* Do you know who Kurt Looby is? I didn’t think so. For a quick primer on the latest player to rip up the D-League check out this post on The Hlog.
* Make sure you check out the 10 minute preview for the movie “3 Points” by Josh Rothstein. It’s a new documentary coming out which follows Tracy McGrady on his trip to Darfur.
* Great article on CNN by Stephanie Chen about newspapers folding and readers moving online. Another great article on this topic is found on Sports Media Journal. Jim Caple also had a great article on ESPN about this called Newspapers are dying, and baseball fans are suffering.
* adidas has Rick Pitino blogging for them during March Madness.
* Straight Bangin’ has an interesting take on Allonzo Trier.
* Pablo S. Torres breaks down how and why athletes go broke in a recent article for Sports Illustrated.
* A Hip-Hop artist you should check out is Shad. If you hit up his website you can listen to a couple of his recent releases and sign up for a free mixtape that he’ll send to you in the mail.
* The Big Lead posted some pictures of Jason Kidd’s new girlfriend and I have to admit I’m incredibly jealous.
* Check out this comical video clip Twouble With Twitters. Here’s another one of Dwight Howard dancing to Beyonce’s hit Single Ladies. Speaking of Twitter, The New York Times wrote about how a lot of famous people have ghostwriters for their Twitter accounts.
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