NBA Essentials provides the must-see links, quotes and videos of the day.* "Announcing an NBA game is frigging hard. I mean, it's really, really hard. ... The whole thing was like running a marathon at sprint speed. This was happening, that was happening, people were getting injured, T'd up, Dick Bavetta was reffing, refs were missing calls. I was just trying to keep up. Man was it hard." -- SLAM.
* Vladimir Radmanovic: "The war is over. We don't need another." -- Orange County Register.
* "Oh, sweet! There's a path to the basket. I'm totally cutting there, mate. They won't even notice me; I'm Sean Marks. Crikey! I'm gonna be open. I'm gonna be SO open. Thaddeus Young definitely lost track of me. Well, I'm Sean Marks, mate. Not too surprising." -- The Blowtorch.
* "Some may call this being a shameless homer but I believe this is "liberated fandom" flipped on its head: The beauty of pledging one's allegiance to a franchise is the intellectual malleability it grants." -- TrueHoop.
