Written by Zach Harper | 09 April 2009

Instead of coming up with something to say before I give you my favorite links for the past couple of days, I came across this public service announcement on The Sporting Blog thanks to Bethlehem Shoals. It's easily the greatest PSA that I've ever seen and by far the best way to get through to men that it's not okay to treat your children like Bill Laimbeer treated Scottie Pippen. I think my favorite part of this is that the NBA and the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse put together this 30-second commercial and thought that this would really break through to abusive fathers.

Seriously? A guy with an anger problem (and probably an alcohol problem to accessorize it) is going to see Craig Hodges get man-handled on a loose rebound and think that beating their kids for not locking the front door is probably out of line.

And two highlights from this commercial for me are:

1) Vlade Divac having his wrist slapped by Karl Malone and him flopping to the ground from such a vicious hit. Seriously? I think that any guy in the world could slap my wrist and it wouldn't cause me to fall down like that. You've got to love Vlade's affinity to sell the foul.

2) Vinnie Johnson who committed the foul on a fast break and then ran into the camera man because his momentum was too much is apparently the victim here. Did they really just need a shot of someone flying at the camera for the drama of the imagery? Phenomenal.


And with that, I'd like to abuse you with some links that are way over due. Here are today's links:

From Lakers-fans.com via Ball Don't Lie -- Sasha Vujacic explains his big dunk on the Kings from this past week.

From Free Darko -- Shoals and Ziller have color graphs to show you the tendencies of players.

From Onion Sports Network -- Bill Bellamy was inducted into the MTV Rock N Jock Basketball Hall of Fame. Funniest part may be the actual committee members.

From Basketball Prospectus -- Kevin Pelton checks in to see if a lack of experience could hurt the Blazers' young squad.

From The Blowtorch -- Goat tells us what would happen if Vin Diesel was commissioner of the NBA.

From Empty The Bench -- Mr. Thell welcomes back Shawn Livingston to the NBA.

From The Sporting Blog -- Shoals goes over the Gilbert Arenas Complex.

And finally from X's and O's of Basketball -- Greg Oden is still a work in progress on the pick and rolls.


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