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

+ LeBron James will be rocking some apple red shoes this evening in New York. {FanHouse.}

+ On the heels of Shaq, 10 NBA folks that need to start Twittering. {Both Team Played Hard.}

+ IU receives no further sanctions from the NCAA in regards to the Kelvin Sampson debacle. Phew. {Inside the Hall.}

+ Updates abound on the Mike Vick situation. {Pro Football Talk.}

+ Non-sports: Stephen Colbert’s boots from his Christmas special are for sale. {eBay.} Bush and Obama trying to get thangs done together. {New York Times.}

Quotable:

“… it’s an incredibly fluid situation. There is so much that can happen from now until the summer of 2010, and that’s just on a basketball level. I don’t want to even get into the Worldwide Wes-in-Detroit idea, or the Jay-Z-in-Brooklyn partnership, or the everything-in-NYC situation. That concrete is even wetter. There’s nothing to steady ourselves on now, there’s certainly nothing LeBron can do with that, and there won’t be anything he can take from those benefits for years.

And here’s what keeps getting bandied about in Cleveland, but never seems to make it to the set of PTI or Around the Horn: the Cleveland Cavaliers have about $19.3 million in salary set aside for 2010-11.

They’re probably looking at over $45 million in cap space.  Should they pass on guaranteeing Delonte West’s very reasonable $4.5 million salary for that season, they’ll have even more room under the cap. LeBron and Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh have about as much a chance to play in Cleveland for max deals as they do playing in New York or Brooklyn. Assuming the Nets will even be in Brooklyn by then.” – Kelly Dwyer on LeBron James