Empty the Bench

- The NY Times – No-Stat All-Star: Is Shane Battier one of the best players in NBA history?
- AOL FanHouse – Forget Superman and Krpto-Nate, James White’s dunks reigned supreme.
- The Oregonian – Greg Oden isn’t proving the doubters wrong about his health.
- Ball Don’t Lie – Not gonna lie, Dwyer’s right: the ASG was a bit of a snoozer.
- ESPN – Marc Stein has all your trade buzz as the deadline approaches.
- AZ Central – Hit the road Porter, welcome back Gentry. Nice work, Steve Kerr.
- Talk Hoops – We present to you the first annual Ben Wallace Award for futility.
- NESW Sports – Dwight Howard had fun behind the scenes, too.
- Basketbawful – Finally, the true originator of The Big Balls Dance is revealed.
- SA Express-News – It’s official: Duncan the most boring man on the face of the planet.
- Yahoo! Sports – “We are not going to go back to the room and watch ‘Steel Magnolias.’”
- Denver Post – Chauncey Billups has won respect for the Nuggets around the league.

And finally, the highlight of Sunday’s big game. In what turned out to be a pretty average All Star weekend, the best moment for me was a pass from the most unlikely of sources. In the third quarter last night Shaquille O’Neal, determined all evening to have fun and entertain the fans, found himself matched up one-one-one with Dwight Howard on the perimeter.

The new Superman versus the old Man of Steel.

Howard, also doing his best to inject fun into the festivities all weekend, began wagging his tongue and bobbing his head in Shaq’s face. What happens next is priceless, especially the Dwight’s reaction:

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