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So, the NBA is about to announce that this year's All-Star Saturday Night events will be broadcast live and in 3-D at movie theaters this year. Sounds very interesting. Superman dunk in 3D?, Rudy's (hopefully he gets an invite) ridiculous high arcing 3s? Sign me up! Read from the LA times.

Last night was one crazy night of basketball. Big props to Sacto for putting the Lakers in their place. To be honest, I only caught part of the 4th quarter (was watching SAS/DAL then POR/ORL), so I don't really have much commentary on it, 'cept CONGRATS Sacto and "You Suck!" LA. I guess we can put to rest any more stupid talk of 70 wins. Keep in mind the 72-10 Bulls started 41-3 and the Lakers already have 3 losses (actually worse than Boston, LOL).

Phoenix had a good (kinda) win last night. The offense was flowing and running and we racked up our highest points for a game (125) and the first half (74) all season. Shaq looked awesome as he dropped 35 pts on Bogut and Co. in a vintage dominating performance. Still though, I'm a bit wary of this win. The freewheeling offense looked a bit *too* much like the old Suns. We won and scored a ton, but still let MIL shoot .468 (on the road). We need to find a middle ground between the too slow/confused offense of this early season and the pedal-to-the-metal/no defense offense of previous years. It's probably a very poor and naive analysis/strategy, but I would only like us to run (but every time) on misses. But walk it up on made shots. The old seven-seconds-or-less Suns would run on makes and misses. The Suns earlier this season weren't running even on misses. I think that could be a middle ground to work from.

Fantasy wise... I've been picking up Barea in a few leagues. For the month so far, he's avg. 19 pts, 2 rebs, and 4.8 asts. Excellent percentages, low TOs, but no 3s or steals. With Josh Howard out indefinately and the Mavs on a 9-2 streak since he became a regular part of the rotation (and now a starter), I think Barea's a good play for the near future.

Real world wise... a trade just went down that sent Mike James and Javarais Crittenton to Washington and Antonio Daniels to New Orleans. WAS also dropped Dee Brown to make room for the new players. I wouldn't pick him up now... but keep an eye on James. WAS is thin on PG and if he gets the minutes, maybe James can revert to his TOR year and do a mini Gilbert impersonation. At least for a month or two until Gilbert comes back or they hand the reins to Crittenton. Btw, the only incumbant "PG" in WAS now is Juan Dixon and he's more combo guard/off the bench type anyways.

And finally, random observation. But the Celts are 20-2 in the east and the Thunder are 2-20 in the West. If we combine and divide the two teams in each conference, can we get two .500 teams? Would those two teams be better/worse than .500?

Here's how I would split them...

C. Wilcox	J. Petro
K. Garnett	J. Smith
K. Durant	L. Powe
D. Wilkins	D. Mason
R. Rondo	E. Watson
K. Perkins	G. Davis
N. Collison	J. Green
P. Pierce	B. Scalabrine
R. Allen	E. House
R. Westbrook	T. Allen

Alright, that's all I got for now...