Aug 22nd 2008 8:30AM by Tom Ziller (author feed)
Filed under: Clippers, Knicks, USA Basketball

Eddy Curry grew up with dreams of being a gymnast. Let your imagination run wild. (Bela Karolyi got nothing on Coach Starbury.)
You can take the players [Team USA, in this case] out of the NBA, but you can’t take the NBA out of the players. Nor should you want to.
One nation, under LeBron. [Three notes: 1) Yes, I’ve already used that line once this week. I’m a bum. 2) Obama should name LeBron as his running mate — no, LeBron should name himself as Obama’s running mate. 3) The photo used on the website has been at least 1,200 places this week. You done good, photographer Dusan Vranic.]
Shaun Livingston remains mysterious.

John Amaechi clears up the Kobe thing. Conversations through bus windows can get awkward, I admit.

This isn’t really basketball, but it’s too beautiful to pass up: Second-graders who love John Coltrane’s raise money to turn Trane’s dilapidated Dix Hills house into a learning center/museum. There light left in this world.