Steve Kerr just sent me a text message to let me know.  I can't find anything on the internets and I'm about to go into heavy-work mode for a few days so I'll have to leave TheDirty.com hunting to others.

I'm pretty sure it has something to the with the JRich DUI.  We need a scapegoat.  I bet Dee was forcing him to drink and/or Dee was supposed to have been the designated driver.

Remeber this picture (I voted for him)?

The NBA.com highlights have the Shaq-to-JSun reverse dunk but not the LB to Sweet Lou lob.  Youtube doesn't seem to have anything, either.  If anyone's got it on TiVo or something, let's get it here.

In the meantime, enjoy this tidbit:

Forward Louis Amundson on combining his inspired play with his penchant for riding his bicycle to the arena, "I am trying to get a bike deal."

I'm still not sure about this guy.  I like the rebounding and blocks and defense just like everyone else.  It's great.  He can also (usually) finish in the open court.  However 1 for 6 free throw shooting really bothers me.  His turnovers are atrocious.  At one point, he had a mismatch on a guard and got a three-second call while trying to post the guy up.  From my seat, it looked like he just wouldn't stop moving and jiggling around enough to get the entry pass.

I originally likened him to Bo Outlaw, but he is a better player.  However, I'm not sure how much better.  Normally, I ridicule teams that rely on such players. 

I hope his New Year's Resolution was to find some grace and a semblance of touch.

The Suns were up by 23 with 5 or 6 minutes left in the game and still playing their starters.  Only after they lost the lead with a 13-0 run by the Clips and then regained enough points to stave off a loss, Lou Amundson et al. got into the game with 30 seconds left.  Really, though, it looked like the starters wanted out and were just playing not to get injured.  I figured (like they did) that after the t-shirt toss timeout with 6 minutes left, they wouldn't be in there.  The Suns packed it in 6 minutes early when the reserves really should've received some PT.

More on the t-shirt toss later.

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  VS.

Steve Nash vs. Monta Ellis Baron Davis

JSun RichardSun vs. Eric Gordon

Grant Hill vs. Al Thornton

Am'a'r'e Stoudemire vs. Zach Randolph

The Big All-Star vs. Marcus Camby

Game Time: 7:00 p.m. local

Coverage: MY45 TV and 620 KTAR

It's cliche to say, but I didn't feel like finding a Clippers logo to put up there so here it goes: the only team that can beat the Suns tonight are the Suns.  With Stan searching for game tickets in L.A., everyone else stepped back and left me to do the preview.

Comments and thoughts below.  This will also be the live game thread.

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With more in-depth (or, potentially, fabricated) coverage of the Barkley arrest, TheDirty.com insiders spill more beans:

Six bottles of booze?  But at least he's an appropriate tipper (20%).

Drunken mugshot.  Blood results come back in about a week.  Any takers that he wasn't over the limit?

Breaking news on thedirty.com first.  That's an old video from over the summer, I think.  Mmmmmm ... Bear Claws.

I'm confused as to how Steve Urkel plays into this.

Paparazzi photos from TMZ.  He sure was shaking a lot of hands.

I didn't realize that there was a Dirty-TMZ connection, but it sure makes sense.

The day after I posted the poll question of whether Shaq's free throws or his dunks have done more damage to the rims, Hollinger puts on quite a statistical analysis of Shaq's inability to make a free toss.

It's an interesting read, so go take a look at it.  Apparently, Shaq is just a few misses away from 5,000 misses.  There's a good chance that the cowardly Pop and his hack-a-Shaq Sp*rs put Shaq over the top.  Perhaps my favorite tidbit (and the conclusion to the article):

Shaq's teammate Nash has missed 253 free throws in his 883 NBA games. At that rate, it would take him 17,451 games to miss 5,000. If he played every regular-season game for 200 seasons, he'd still fall short.

11 in a row ... The longest active streak in the league ... Roy goes 0 for 9 ...

I guess sometimes even a blind squirrel cand find an acorn every once in a while.

Well, sorta.  That, and the fact that Suns couldn't guard Roy.  Shooting guards seem to have a tendency to go off on the Suns (I'm already having nightmares of Ginobili driving left on Christmas Day.  "He's left-handed!"  "Guard his left!"  "Force him right!").

I blame Porter playing a zone against a hot-shooting team.  I dont' know that much about basketball, but I know that outside shooting can kill a zone.  When the points are coming from the backcourt and off jumpers, why are the Suns in a zone?

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