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

+ Mike Mussina calls it a career. {Larry Brown Sports.}

+ Gilbert Arenas is already thinking about lucky ping pong ball bounces. {Mister Irrelevant.}

+ Are the Knicks going to get Al Harrington in exchange for Jamal Crawford? {Knicks Fix.}

+ Duke and Michigan are now playing twice in two weeks. Odd. {FanHouse.}

+ Non-sports: Michael Lewis’ own life experience with the subprime crisis. {Portfolio.} A great explanation of the Mark Cuban SEC case. {New York Times.}

Quotable:

“Playing on the perimeter of coach Lawrence Frank’s zone, Kidd stays on his toes, never adopts that shuffle-your-feet-and-look-like-you’re-moving type of defense that characterizes so many zones. He’s out front, he’s in the middle covering the rim, he’s dashing to the corner. When a pass comes back outside, I can sense Kidd calculating that he won’t get there in time to steal it. It’s going to be close, but he knows he can’t get it. So he waits for the precise moment that the Raptors player, Jose Calderon, catches the ball, and only then does Kidd smother him, using his strength and quick hands to wrench away the ball.

He finished the Nets’ 96-91 win with a classic Kidd stat line: eight points, 10 rebounds, 15 assists. Nets forward Bostjan Nachbar had this to say to Kerber about Kidd: ‘He could not have one single point and yet he could easily be the best player on the floor.’ It’s a classic basketball cliché but absolutely true.” – Jack McCallum, 2007