Artest: I drank during games. Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest has said that he drank alcohol during games when he was a member of the Chicago Bulls.”It’s weird because people don’t think about the whole basketball game,” Artest said. “There’s offense: Kobe averages 30 and is a great offensive player. Then you have defense. So on defense, now I have my supporting cast. … I’m one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I’m still the first option on defense.” -Indianapolis Star

Losing this much is hard to do. The Nets earned the record on merit, at least. If you are a bad basketball team and the Nets now are, officially, historically bad you might as well be at your very worst when it matters most, and it is entirely possible that in the whole history of the Nets, they never looked as bad as they did during the second quarter of last nights 117-101 loss … -New York Post

Iverson back. Allen Iverson’s first stint with the Philadelphia 76ers ended with the team yanking his nameplate off his locker and editing him out of video highlights before he was even traded. He antagonized his coaches and opponents his first time around. Perhaps humbled, he signed after being reduced to a bench player in Denver and Memphis and forced to accept the veteran’s minimum salary to return to his NBA roots. -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette