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Yes, it's pathetic Lon, I know.

I'm in, I've queue'd up two years' worth! Bobby Timmons The Prestige Trio Sessions Grant Green Feelin' The Spirit Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Like Someone In Love Sonny Clark Dial S For Sonny Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall (SACD Hybrid) Count Basie Basie Meets Bond (Remastered) Count Basie Chairman Of The Board (Remastered) Duke Ellington Piano In The Foreground Thelonious Monk Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (Remastered) Thelonious Monk Monk's Music (Remastered) Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream (Remastered) Thelonious Monk Criss-Cross (Remastered) Oscar Peterson Soul Español (Remastered) Herbie Hancock Speak Like A Child Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Remastered) Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (Remastered) Donald Byrd Free Form Eric Dolphy The Illinois Concert Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio (Remastered) Dizzy Gillespie An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Remastered) Dizzy Gillespie Afro (Remastered) Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (Remastered) Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Remastered)

Kobe had a personality transplant ← If Kobe knows what's best for Kobe, I hope you're right.

Bewildering! If Phil had simply been kept in the first place, we'd still have Shaq. Also, Phil has the best winning percentage of any coach in history, I'm shocked he would risk it to rejoin the Lakers. Maybe he knows something we don't! Good news overall!

This sort of thing irked me last year when discussing the Pistons, and still irks me today. In my opinion, the Pistons and Spurs are both loaded with superstar basketball players. The Pistons have the Wallaces, Rip, Chauncey, Antonio McDyess, and Tayshaun Prince--all stars, imo. The Spurs have Duncan, Ginobili, Parker, former slam dunk champ Brent Barry, perennial clutch shooter Robert Horry, and Glen "Big Dog" Robinson. No stars, my foot. "Just one of the guys." ← You can roll your eyes all you want, I still say Duncan acts like one of the guys, like I said in my original statement. He doesn't have a prima donna attitude. The whole team is like that. Yes, they are good players, and I'll maybe even give you "stars", but hell half the NBA is "stars" nowadays, given the big $$ contracts these guys get. If you tried to take Ginobili and put him on a team with a bunch of no-names, he wouldn't be able to carry them. Neither would Parker, nor Barry, nor Horry, nor Robinson. Not a one. They're good because they play together well. ← I don't disagee. Any player who thinks he is a "superstar" but fails to win is only kidding himself. If the difference is being able to lead a team to victory, then we're talking about big men. On the Spurs, Tim Duncan owns the paint. On the Heat, Shaq of course holds down the middle. On the Pistons, the Wallaces control the key by committee. All of those big men make the players around them better by occupying the defense and creating space. I don't mean anything negative towards you, Aggie. I think, and I'm sure you'll agree, what really separates Tim Duncan, the Spurs, and the Pistons from the prima donnas is class.

This sort of thing irked me last year when discussing the Pistons, and still irks me today. In my opinion, the Pistons and Spurs are both loaded with superstar basketball players. The Pistons have the Wallaces, Rip, Chauncey, Antonio McDyess, and Tayshaun Prince--all stars, imo. The Spurs have Duncan, Ginobili, Parker, former slam dunk champ Brent Barry, perennial clutch shooter Robert Horry, and Glen "Big Dog" Robinson. No stars, my foot. "Just one of the guys." When the Lakers won championships with Shaq and Kobe, their playing team ball on both ends of the court is what made them win. When any NBA team wins it is because they play team ball on both ends of the court. It's called good basketball, and it is required to win in any league. I'll agree both the Spurs and Pistons play good team basketball.

And Happy Birthday to you too, KB! Thanks for the help with Blue Note questions!

Happy Birthday!

I'm with the crowd that voted Hutcherson, though I dig most of those listed. No Teddy Charles or Lem Winchester in my collection! I'll have to correct that.

The jab at Coach K from Duke gave me a chuckle, but whatever Coach K does makes for exemplory basketball players. If I had a son with Division 1 talent, Duke would top my list of where I'd want him to play--and I'm a UCLA Bruin fan.

That brings back very distant memories. You must be using an old Mac, possibly one that can be upgraded to accommodate OS 9 or, perhaps, Jaguar. If you tell me which model you have, I'll gladly look around for possibilities of improving it. ← Warning: Mac upgrades are pricey!

I was happy to see Fisher get paid since he worked his ass off for the Lakers for so long. However, I didn't think he deserved THAT much money.

Thanks a lot, GA Russell! I've got a friend that works at EMI, I'm hoping to make a contact over in the art department and get some freelance work using the new organissimo album as a portfolio piece!

Thanks for the praise, Bruce. I'll be sure to give you the special Pistons' fan rate for that painting! Sorry to read about your house, that must be tough. Currently, I am knee deep in painting a portrait of my friend and his fiancee for their wedding. I'll post some pics of it once it's done.

Happy Birthday!

Sha-zamm! I'm jealous.

I think the Pistons will put up a much stiffer fight than those numbers indicate, I'm thinking 7 games.

Hopefully he celebrated by working on his jumper.

No way this loss falls on Shaq's shoulders. He had his team right there. He hit big shots down the stretch and 3 of 4 big free throws. Shaq doesn't guarantee victory, but he doesn't take the blame for this one. His supporting cast let him down big time.

Yeah, GREAT. It will be like watching my two worst enemies in a fist fight. Can't they both lose?

Poor Damon Jones, his turnover really killed the Heat's momentum. Then his missed free throw sealed the deal. Goat's horns. Memo to Shaq: Flash is no Kobe.

Art Tatum

Crucial.

Oliver Nelson

The record shows that Shaq makes a great guard dominant.