NBA Essentials: Better Popcorn Than Cake

NBA Essentials provides the must-see links, quotes and videos of the day.

* "Walking down a hallway by the Pistons locker room at halftime, spied Kwame Brown coming out of the press room with a full bag of popcorn. Seems he'd ducked in to grab some food put out for the grunts and others." -- Toronto Star, via Basketbawful.

* "[T]o make the All-Star roster, shouldn't the standard be that the player just not actively hurt his team's chances? That is, while MVPs win games, in putting together All-Star-like numbers our stars in the cellar only have to pass the Hippocratic test of not doing harm." -- The Sporting Blog.

* "Terry Porter is more like the kindly older bus driver shuttling the unruly brats then the fiery hard nose competitor we were expecting. He's acting as if he's afraid to discipline this team and you wonder how much respect for him they have at this point." -- Bright Side of the Sun.

* DVRs are stuck in the 2007-08 season, SLC columnist suggests Von Wafer is immature because Von Wafer raised his hand after sinking an early three, and win and losses don't tell the story of Indiana's season.