My dad passed away 5 years ago. He owned an extensive library, with a large chunk dedicated to sports, especially basketball. I found a book of his in a pile today that I didn't recall seeing before. Picked it up and his bookmark fell out.

I had Mo Salah captained for the Premier League fantasy team yesterday. I was out running errands, saw that Liverpool beat Bournemouth 9-0. I had visions of the mountain of points Salah had earned me. 90 minutes. 0 goals. 0 assists. 3 points. Doubled to 6. Splendid.

Dennis Rodman on guarding LeBron and KD:

Thinking of doing some light summer reading...

So much this.

The 2004-05 edition of the Warriors. 34-2, winners of the Les Schwab Invitational in Oregon & the season-ending Champions Classic in Boone, NC, among other tournaments/events. Not sure who they lost to.

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Since I know none of you have anything better to do on a Saturday night, here's some (I believe) difficult basketball trivia.

Name the first player from an international league to be selected in the NBA Draft.

Go.

According to a troublingly large segment of #NBATwitter this group, in their primes, couldn't beat a decent high school team today.

I wonder what #VinScully would have sounded like calling a basketball game... It may have been too fast-paced for his storytelling style, which was perfectly suited for baseball... but I have a feeling he would have adjusted.

Want to catch Moses Malone's career offensive rebound total ? Just play every game for 20 seasons and average 4.8 per game.

If Andre Drummond maintains his current 4.5 average for his next 1,018 games, he'll catch Moses.

Youngest was looking through a box of my basketball cards and pulled this one out. It isn't worth much, but it's damn cool.

Who did I forget? What's your starting 5? Full roster?

Pearl Washington and Darryl Dawkins are waiting courtside to pick up 3 from the losers and run it back against the winning team...