Former UW (and Seattle high school) stars Brandon Roy and Nate Robinson combined for 55 points last night as the Blazers beat the Knicks 92-86. Where were you guys two years ago this week--we could've used 55 points in the Louisville game! Nate led the way with 31 points, including 8 of 9 from beyond the arc. Those good at subtraction already know that Roy had 24 points. There are many Knick fans who don't......

Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, Jamal Crawford and Spencer Hawes on one squad. Our fantasy basketball team circa 2008? No, fucking reality--if you were watching the Entertainer's Basketball Classic at the Rucker courts in the Bronx yesterday. It's a two-on-two tournament. Seattle played L.A. in the first game, going with Nate Robinson and Spencer Hawes exclusively. [Pause while we cream our pants] They won that game, then the Seattles went with Brandon Roy and Jamal Crawford......

Who opens against the Sonics at the Key? Why it's the only locally-owned NBA franchise! Also the only one that: Features two players who attended Seattle high schools Is coached by one of the city's most beloved sports figures We decided to back even before Howard Schultz took a shit on the city that made him rich That team, the Portland Trail Blazers, kickoff their 2006-07 regular season here in Seattle on November 1st. That's......

A quick rundown on where our beloved Husky basketball types are now. Brandon Roy: Averaged 19.0 ppg for Portland's Vegas Summer League team. That's 8th in the league. Here's video, and a podcast interview with Roy and Jarrett Jack. Want to smile? Here's Roy swatting Jordan Farmar in last year's UCLA-UW game at Hec Ed. Marques Johnson's comment: "Woooooooooo! Get down, young fella!" Bobby Jones: The Philadelphia media is making much of Jones' similarity to......

ESPN's Page Two calls the Sonics' 1987 pick of Scottie Pippen #34 on their list of the 100 worst draft picks of all-time...sort of. 34. Scottie Pippen, Seattle Sonics (No. 5, 1987) Wait ... Scottie Pippen was a great choice! ... except the Sonics (who had acquired the pick from the Knicks for Gerald Henderson) had a deal with the Bulls for the No. 8 pick: They would draft Pippen and trade him to......

Former Rainier Beach and UW basketball star Nate Robinson scored 34 points last week against Philadelphia. Pretty good, huh? Robinson's coach, the legendary Larry Brown, didn't think so. Brown's not happy that Allen Iverson burned Robinson for 78 points in two games. And he's not happy with what he perceived as showboating by the mighty mite. Here's what Brown told Newsday: "To me, to be [showboating] when a guy who you're guarding is having that......

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to......

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi’s tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy’s most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use......

The Cougar men are for real. They beat the Huskies Saturday night, but it didn't feel like an upset to us. It felt like a pretty good team getting some timely shooting and capitalizing on foul trouble (Brandon Roy's) to beat another pretty good team. The Huskies are 1-2 in Pac-10 play. Not encouraging. But the renaissance of WSU basketball is good for the state. We could have three state teams in the tournament this......

Sonics Lose Opener: The season got off to rather poor start, after the Sonics did everything wrong in the final few minutes of last night's opener, and lost to the Los Angeles Clippers of Anaheim 101-93. Not very promising, it was of course only the first of 82 games, and last year the Sonics started their season by getting blown away by the same Clipper squad. Steve Kelley, however, says it is time to panic.......

Three Washington natives were picked in the first round of yesterday's NBA draft, an all-time record. So the Seattle Times asked the question: when did Seattle get to be such a hotbed of basketball talent? More summer camps, the emergence of Gonzaga's basketball program, and a growing population are writer Bob Condotta's reasons, but he misses the obvious one: the diminshing percentage of Scandinavians in the state. Scandinavians can't play basketball. We know, we......

Our own Alex lives on another week after a highly unimpressive showing on The Apprentice. This week, the teams had to design a gadget-friendly line of clothing for American Eagle. Alex--apparently a "self-proclaimed metrosexual"--jumped at the chance to be the project manager. Seriously, dude must be watching lots of Queer Eye, because he was all apologetic for his pleated pants. Tragedy struck quickly, as loose-cannon Chris lost the team's credit card. Meanwhile, Alex worked......

An open letter to the girls' 7th grade basketball team we coached this winter: Girls, despite what we said, "boxing out" is not the most important skill you can develop in life. Sanity, for example, is critical. Thus, we regret telling you to emulate Sonics' power forward Danny Fortson in all things. No matter how detrimental it is to your rebound totals, please be less like Danny Fortson. Fortson is nuts. He doesn't seem to......