Quick writes about Outlaw's role, Rudy with Roy starting at the wings, the players who will sit out of Sunday's game (Blake, Frye, Rudy, Przybilla, Roy, and Aldridge), and a few thoughts on Batum.

Official Statement.

He will be out without pay through December 17th, a game against Indiana. This coincides with the time needed for his ankle rehab anyway. And the Warriors save enough money to pay Ronny Turiaf this year. Everybody wins :-)

OT: If you tune in now... Terry Porter & Phoenix Suns in NBA REAL Training Camp on NBA TV.

For anybody who missed the game here is the audio (Hawks announcers).

Im sorry its been a while. I know everyone wants to know whats goin on with me. We got into Kansas City tonight. We play the Hawks tomorrow. Ive been feeling really good, the knee feels great. Preseasons been a good learning experience and now Im just really excited for the season to start.

So remember when I did that contest for 2K8 last year? Im going to be doing another contest and its the same idea but a little different. This year 2K9 is doing a fantasy league called The Other Season. Its different than most fantasy leagues because there are 8 players in the NBA that are going to be the team owners (including me). You can go online, www.theotherseason.com, and be drafted onto one of our teams and play for us. 2K is giving the winning team $10k to donate to their charity of choice so it would be really cool to have the opportunity to give this to Oregon Mentors. So my team better win!

For the chance to play on my team Ill be posting a picture on here once a week for a couple weeks and you are going to come up with the best caption. The 5 people I pick with the best captions will win a game and the chance to play on my fantasy team, good? Heres the first one..keep it G rated.

"But to me, the best news of the new NBA season is that the Jail Blazers image is a distant memory and the new image is being hinged to the powerful young man with the incredibly old face and old-school game. Greg Oden is healthy, and that is something good to shout about."

Column resembling a love letter to Greg Oden (via Ball Don't Lie).

via Truehoop, obviously

Go Von Go! The baron Von Wafer, ftw!

Check this out. It brought some bad memories of just how uncooperative this team was. It pains me to see how much wasted potential we had.

This should make you that much more grateful for having the great team we have today.