Channing Frye is constantly expanding his repertoire (one could say "faster than Kevin Pritchard is picking up new weapons," but I think that's immeasurable). First he becomes a class-A blogger. Then he decides that he is going to be an outside shooter for a Portland team that might have 43 viable starters. Witness. Frye.



Not too shabby, no? And it makes a lot of sense; big men that can shoot the ball from the outside and spread the defense are highly valuable weapons. And that's just what the Blazers need. More weapons.

I'm not sure where exactly Cris Collinsworth was trying to go in this interview with Kobe Bryant, but thankfully it's a place that Bryant wouldn't allow Collinsworth to take him. Listen to the way Collinsworth asks Kobe if he thinks it's "cool" to say he loves his country, because to me, it seems like Collinsworth is expecting a much different answer than the one Kobe responds with.



Note to Collinsworth: it's the Olympics, dude. Athletes are representing their country against athletes from other countries around the world. Of course it's cool to be patriotic and say what an honor it is. I don't know if Collinsworth meant the question to be a legitimate one in the context of our country's current political climate, or if he was just looking to catch Kobe saying something controversial. But either way, Kobe's answer left Collinsworth looking like an unpatriotic, self-loathing American. Probably not the qualities that NBC was looking for from one of its Olympic broadcasters.

[via Awful Announcing]

The NBA's downtime had led to some lack of Charles Barkley in the media. Well, unless you count Lake Tahoe, where Barkley would appear to be kicking it recently, based on these YouTubes from You Been Blinded, where he lets everyone know that a) he will not be gambling again and b) he will "never be unsuccessful". I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I've been wasted behind an electric keyboard and realized how much of a winner I was.



Or it's entirely possible that Barkley is just suffering the after-shock of some earlier ingestion of some clear liquor ...