Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today.

+ That new LeBron James commercial everyone is talking about. {Baller Blogger.}

+ More NBA to Europe speculation. This time it’s Paul Pierce. {Examiner.}

+ Why Phil Fulmer is stepping down at Tennessee. {The Sporting Blog.}

+ It appears Allen Iverson is headed to the Pistons for Antonio McDyess and Chauncey Billups. {The World of Issac.}

+ Non-sports: Death Cab for Cutie on Leno. {Hulu.} Your 2008 election night guide. {The American Prospect.}

Quotable:

“It’s at this intersection that the fabulously eccentric and gloriously illustrated ‘Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac’ resides. Written by the pseudonymous authors of the FreeDarko blog, with a foreword by the N.B.A. oddball Gilbert Arenas, it is likely the only sports almanac in existence that features a manifesto (’In rejecting the old N.B.A., we seek not to spite our forebears but to silence those who proclaim the league’s decrepitude’; cooks up winkingly abstruse statistics like ‘cancer effect’ (e.g. Stephon Marbury and the Knicks); provides an etymology of the hoop slang ’swag’ (it derives from ’swagger’and was popularized by Arenas when, after sinking a game-winner, he declared, ‘My swag was phenomenal!’; and name-drops Amiri Baraka, Martin Buber and Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen. The book knows its hoops too. In an essay about Carmelo Anthony, the star is described as ‘a gigantic basketball nerd’ who ‘works through possessions like logic puzzles.’ This gets Anthony exactly right. It’s verse, perhaps, but in the patience and exactness of its description, prose too. Phenomenal swag.“ – Ballin’ With the Dorks, PLAY Magazine, New York Times