Pick and Scroll: Day One of the NBA Offseason

Your daily (Mon-Fri) roundup of links from around the blogosphere, typically Trail Blazers related.

• First off, congratulations to Adam Morrison’s Los Angeles Lakers for winning the NBA title and congrats to Ron Artest for giving the best ten minute post-game interview in the history of everything (see the post below for full video). “Kobe passed me the baaaaaaallll, he never passes me the ball!” kicks the crap out of “Shrek and Donkey.”

• The takeaway from last night’s festivities for Blazer fans is that dominant rebounding can cover a multitude of sins. Should Portland’s bigs get healthy, a rotation of Greg Oden, Marcus Camby, and (possibly) Joel Przybilla has the glass cleaning skills to hang with the toughest of foes. Personally, I like the idea of only giving the ball to the other team after a made basket. 

• Also, would Blazers fans riot if the team won a championship? People are so gentle here. Maybe they’d overturn a fixed gear bicycle?

• Darius Miles is making a comeback cue “don’t know whatcha got, ‘till it’s gaaawuuun.” If Miles had put this level of dedication and grit into his career when he was healthy, perhaps he would be remembered more fondly.

• Dave Deckard ponders “whether Iguadala?” in the latest BlazersEdge Mailbag.

• Henry Abbott takes the time to thank the NBA staffers who made last night’s production possible. If you’ve ever worked as a stage hand or any similar position, you know exactly what those employees were feeling. It’s the moment, but it’s not your moment. A perfect scenario is if no one notices you during the production—like confetti covered ninjas bearing championship schwag, you get in, do your job and get out unnoticed. To the audience it seems as if the shirts, the hats, and the stage just manifested from thin air. Usually, people only notice these hardworking employees if something goes wrong.

• If you want the “how” and “why” the game turned out as it did, Sebastian Pruiti over at ESPN TrueHoop Network sister site NBA Playbook has you covered.

• Over at the ESPN Draft Blog, Chad Ford and the crew engage in a different sort of mock draft. Though personally, I think that the real draft should play out something like this. I think other GM’s should be able to make snarky comments about the Bucks drafting Joe Alexander or roll their eyes and scream “KHAAAAAAN!” when the Timberwolves take three more point guards.

• Ben Golliver wants you to keep an eye on recently resigned Suns executive David Griffin as a possible Pritchard or Tom Penn replacement.

• Brandon Roy talks knees, Nate Robinson and patriotism on KJR-AM radio. 

• ESPN Draft guru Chad Ford discusses how to identify players that were “okay” in college but can blow up in the NBA (INsider).

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