The Mid-Afternoon Milk Mustache take you on a trip around the League every weekday, bringing you the best posts from around the NBA blogosphere. Unfamiliar with the below ‘stache styles? The American Mustache Institute will school you on that subject.
The Chevron: Brad Miller and Brian Scalabrine get together to discuss guns, nicknames and sprints. [The Blowtorch]
The Dali: Rey-Rey talks to Greg Esposito of the Deep Purple Suns blog about their surprising start, return to SSOL, and the Lakers-Suns rivalry. [The No-Look Pass]
The English: Adrian Wojnarowski (Thank you whoever invented copypasta.) touches on Lebron’s vow not to talk about free agency until the end of the season. [Yahoo! Sports]
The Fu Manchu: Jared Wade debuts his brand new podcast, Talking about Practice, with a guest appearance from Zach Harper of Talkhoops and Cowbell Kingdom. (NSFW for Language) [Both Teams Played Hard]
The Handlebar: What do Zach Randolph, Elton Brand, Al Jefferson and Kevin Garnett have in common? They are all members of the 20 points-10 rebounds-50 losses club. [Basketbawful]
The Horseshoe: Doc Rivers gives his opinions about Rasheed taking threes, turnovers, and key stats. [Celtics Hub]
The Imperial: Tom Ziller wonders why David Kahn is at all surprised that the Minnesota Timberwolves are not playing competitive basketball in the midst of a rebuilding phase. [NBA Fanhouse]
The Lampshade: Kevin Pelton details the critical decisions and factors that led to Byron Scott being the first coaching casualty of the year. [Basketball Prospectus]
The Painter’s Brush: Matt Sebek takes us on a clip show of some of the highlights of Blogs With Balls 2.0, including appearances by Dan Levy, Captain Morgan, and the unfortunate phrasing: “I busted Skeets.” [Hugging Harold Reynolds]
The Pyramidal: Dr. Dime introduces us to “KJ,” the best 4-year-old baller in the world. Andrew Wiggins ain’t got nothing on this kid. (Beware the very loud volume in the video) [The Hoop Doctors]
The Toothbrush: Will Bynum soars over Tyson Chandler in last night’s “Play of the Night.” [Youtube]
The Walrus: Pardeep Toor thinks about how life would be as a Raptor fan if Joakim Noah had decided to declare for the 2006 NBA Draft instead of going back to school. I still think I would rather have Bargnani. [SLAM Online]
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