Top 5 Player Tweets of the Week - In Pictures!

From Skillanueva's half-time tweets to Gil's fateful outburst, we're keeping tabs on this whole Twitter thing. Each week we wade through the rants, shout outs and sheer insanity to bring you the best micro-blogging the NBA has to offer.

5. "AIRPLANE MODE BACK TO LA!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

- James Harden

4. "I call a pretty girl a "Fox", I say "jive" a lot, I call the police the "fuzz"....& I'm calm all the time. My shii is so 70s. #CatdaddyFresh"

- Chris Dougey-Roberts

King of the World

By now, you've probably all seen Artest's amazing quote from ESPN the Magazine about his favorite movie. But my favorite part of the interview is when he is asked where he's most at peace:

"At the beach. Man, give me a mango drink, some sand, that water, and it's all good. I love running in the sand. But sometimes I'm scared as hell of water. Whenever I'm out there, I'm thinking, 'Damn, some tidal wave is about to come!' Okay, so maybe I'm not totally at peace at the beach."

See! This is why we love him! He has just as much anxiety about unlikely death scenarios as the rest of us! Neurotic athletes: they're just like us!

No Regard Field Trip: Bring the Rucker

It had taken me six years of living in New York City to attend a basketball game at Rucker Park. This is unforgivable, and the excuses I could come up with--school, work, forgetfulness--are all unquestionably weak. Luckily, last Wednesday night, along with Rhymer and Spangler, I finally made it to the hallowed ground at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

Bibby's World: I Accidentally Ate Cat Food

Don't know how we locked this down, but we'd like to introduce you to No Regard's newest blogging sensation... Mike Bibby! He'll be checking in whenever he can, just to remind us: It's Bibby's World, we just live in it!

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So, I accidentally ate cat food.

Here's what happened...

JaVale McGee Back In Bidness

JaVale McGee and a Muppet. Courtesy of truthaboutit.com

It's being reported that JaVale McGee has been added back to the Team USA roster. Presumably the real story here is that Brook Lopez has unfortunately opted to drop out of the world championships to fully recover from mono. As a blog that often blatantly favors the Nets, we should be troubled by this news, but after buying into McGee's Summer League hype, we couldn't be more excited to have another chance to see him this offseason, even if it's only for a few minutes, presumably at the end of a quarter of a blowout against Puerto Rico.

The Return of 3-D

I had forgotten about this, which is irresponsible of me.

For a good chunk of my basketball salad days, I had a go-to shot in Horse that I called "The Dennis Scott." I would set up for a corner three, then take one giant step to the side, so I was about two feet out of bounds. This came from Scott's turn in the '96 Three-Point Shootout, when he set up on the wrong side of one of the corner racks. Next time I play, I'm going to unveil "The Dennis Scott Remix": I'll pull an SUV onto the court, blast Biggie's Life After Death, scream out "Do not ask me for my autograph, ask me to explain the rage that's inside of me!" and drain a three. That'll surely be good for a letter.

[via Elitaste]

Team Dreamin' 2011: SUNS

At No Regard, we love basketball. We love the spectacle and strategy of the game, but sometimes the league's lack of imagination confounds and disappoints us. Call us optimists, visionaries, or kids who watched too much Space Jam, but we have ideas. Damn are we gonna share 'em.


Suns, we love you.

But who are you? You let all your children run away. And you had so many good children. Why did you pack their bags for them? With the amiable departure of Elijah and Leandro Barbosa this summer, Steve Nash is the only member left from the original Seven Seconds or Less squad. Your team's identity is being questioned, and if we've learned anything from "The Simpsons" (and we've learned so much from "The Simpsons"), we've learned that you need a soul to write your name in the condensation of ice cream freezers and history books. Look: I like off-season acquisitions Josh Childress, Hakim Warrick, and Hedo as much as the next blogger (I probably like Hedo more than most), but these three disparate role players will not pack a singular personality in the toiletry bags they bring to Phoenix; they will pack odd sizes for their positions and a touch more talent than you thought they had. But nothing more.

Suns, we mourn you.

But we've hatched a plan for you. We promise it will get people excited about your team again, let them know who you are, and in the process show you who you are.

Steve Nash should retire from the NBA. Wait for it...

Sacramento Drift

During Memorial Day weekend Tyreke Evans was caught ripping down some freeway racing a silver car. Now the police have released almost 13 minutes of aerial footage clearly displaying the event.

Nice. Good looks Tyreke.

Not much to say, quite frankly. Now we have indisputable proof that the young Kings star is good at driving his really expensive car brutally fast, and does not realize or care that said action is extremely illegal. Cool. If he's suspended, then that sucks because he's really fun to watch, but who would blame Stern. Dude proved he's got no regard for human life, but in a bad way.