Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew is reading today. Maybe. Today it’s basically just what Eamonn has been looking at on the Internet. Love you, Internet.

+ Oh hey there, Lakers fan. Were you enjoying your NBA title? Good. Because T.J. Simers is about to take a massive dump on the entire enterprise, which is definitely something a nice person would do right after the hometown’s NBA title. {Los Angeles Times}

+ Blogs With Balls happened this weekend. A bunch of people talked about sports blogging and held microphones. Looks pretty chill. Animated scene .gifs would be better, but whatever. {Picasa Web Albums}

+ Watch the last Basketball Jones of the 2008-09 NBA season. Then weep. {Ball Don’t Lie}

+ Coach O finna fiyah up some nigh lil’ ol’ ladies, ahurrrrrr. {EDSBS}

+ A very special non-Drew edition of Monday Morning Destroying Peter King Ruthlessly Quarterback. {KSK}

+ If this keeps up, Dwight Howard is going to develop some sort of complex. {The Blowtorches}

Non-sports: The best way to scare the AMA into shutting up and dealing health care reform? GM comparisons. {CNN} If everything should be free, why does Wired charge me for a subscription? Hmm?! Riddle me that! {The Social}

Quotable: Apparently the only thing I’m left with, after 82 games and two months of playoff basketball, is just to plead with you to appreciate what we have left.

That’s nothing new. I’m spending a good chunk of these BtBs throughout the year begging you to have fun with and coo over a game that keeps evolving and changing and growing before our very eyes. And today, the morning following the final game of the season, my effort is best suited to be spent telling you just how great the Los Angeles Lakers are.

And, just a step or two behind, how great those Orlando Magic were.

– Kelly Dwyer, who proceeds to do just that. Go read it.