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

+ The freshest Denver Nuggets warmup. {pick and roll.}

+ Here’s a projected look at the MLB draft tonight. {Baseball America.}

+ Tom Brady fell out of a boat. {ProFootballTalk.}

+ How Gary Bettman restricts speech through financial intimidation. {Puck Daddy.}

+ Non-sports: Zach Morris was on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last night, and it was all kinds of awesome. {9one.}  The five stages of iPhone ownership. {The Stimulist.}

Quotable:

“Swinging his arms wildly and taking practice strokes in the locker room just a few feet from Roger Federer’s head, Rafael Nadal cut the classic figure of a warrior preparing for battle. He had just taken a cold shower and now, with his sympathetic nervous system kicking into high gear, Nadal was in fight-or-flight mode. His heart-rate jackhammering, stress hormones coursing through his body, his pupils enlarged, he stretched and paced and pissed, making sure his urine was clear and odorless, an indication that his body was properly hydrated. Even when he tried to conserve some energy, he fiddled with the tight bands of tape below his knees, worn to prevent the patellar tendonitis that has bothered him in the past. As if afflicted with low-grade OCD, he riffled through his swollen racket bag again and again. Another ‘ritual,’ he lowered and elevated his socks until they were precisely the same height. Sitting nearby, Nadal’s Uncle and coach, Toni Nadal, offered motivation in intense staccato bursts. ‘There is no such word as ‘cannot.”… ‘Do what you have to do.’…. ‘Obligations are obligations.’” – L. Jon Weirtheim