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

+ Turns out that’s not really Gary Payton on Twitter. {Howard Beck’s Twitter.}

+ Jeff Teague’s silly dunk last night. {Jones on the NBA.}

+ James White is back in the NBA, signing a ten-day contract with the Rockets. {Ridiculous Upside.}

+ Shoals writes about Don Nelson, as only Shoals can. {Free Darko.}

+ Non-sports: Amazing keyboard drum set. {ronwinter.tv.} Earth almost got hit by an asteroid yesterday. {Gizmodo.}

Quotable:

“One of the first things that knocked me out when I was doing this research was, I never realized how close Larry Bird was to not playing college basketball. I go back to the moment when Bill Hodges rolls into French Lick and knocks on Bird’s door, and Larry’s mom answers. He explains he’s an assistant at Indiana State and he’d like to talk to Larry, and she slammed the door in his face. “Leave him alone, why don’t you all leave him alone, he doesn’t want to play,” and so on. If Bill Hodges had listened to her, and shrugged his shoulders and said “I guess we’re not getting him,” we would never have known who Larry Bird is. So at the end of the day, I wanted this to be a coming of age story. What happens in college? You arrive a boy and you leave a young man. That is what really happened to those guys, and more than anything else that’s the story I tried to tell.” – Seth Davis on his new book