NBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day.
1. A Stern Warning. Eddy Curry grew up with dreams of being a gymnast. Let your imagination run wild. (Bela Karolyi got nothing on Coach Starbury.)
2. The Sporting Blog. You can take the players [Team USA, in this case] out of the NBA, but you can't take the NBA out of the players. Nor should you want to.
3. New York Times. One nation, under LeBron. [Three notes: 1) Yes, I've already used that line once this week. I'm a bum. 2) Obama should name LeBron as his running mate -- no, LeBron should name himself as Obama's running mate. 3) The photo used on the Times website has been at least 1,200 places this week. You done good, photographer Dusan Vranic.]
4. Clips Nation. Shaun Livingston remains mysterious.
5. D.C. Sports Bog. John Amaechi clears up the Kobe thing. Conversations through bus windows can get awkward, I admit.
6. Wall Street Journal. This isn't really basketball, but it's too beautiful to pass up: Second-graders who love John Coltrane's Interstellar Space raise money to turn Trane's dilapidated Dix Hills house into a learning center/museum. There is light left in this world.
