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Star-Ledger Photo Gallery (via NetsDaily): Why not just let these two guys have a crack at that oil spill?

Yahoo Sports (via Slam): No matter how negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement pan out, it's clear that this is going to get a whole lot messier before anything is resolved.

FreeDarko: The most talented NBA writer on the most talented NBA player playing basketball in June 2010. This piece is the equivalent of Kobe going off in that third quarter.

"I had a major breakthrough: Physically, Rondo isn't an alien, or a dinosaur. He's an alien-dinosaur. Or, as Kevin corrected, a dinosaur-alien. Alien-dinosaur would just be a space lizard; dinosaur-alien is creature from other realms overlaid with the qualities of a raptor. This is the first of several times I will repeat this statement: This is no physical being like Rondo. Yes, his arms are long, his speed beyond speech. But there's also his wiry strength, his internal gyroscope (at its best when spooling along with a bit of wobble), those impossibly broad shoulders, calculating gaze, and a face too smooth and empty for this town.

We are nearly arrived at the point of actual basketball. There's a pause here, a beat, and then no turning back. Here's what astounds me most about Rajon Rondo: He is pure style, with an almost nasty disregard for formalism."

Steve Nash YouTube Video: From itsrhymetime: "I love that Steve Nash is 36 years old and yet he still loves making short films with the fervor of a teenager. This commercial, along with his Avatar spoof, make me wonder if Alvin Gentry is instituting the league's first mandatory film history course."

Another Steve Nash YouTube Video: We'll double dip. Steve Nash plays a douchey version of himself who berates Robin Lopez for missing passes and not being as awesome as Steve Nash. He also wears inexplicably tight jeans and forces his crotch in Fropez's face the entire time. The title: Balls Talk.