What did he say?

By Craig Kwasniewski

Lamar Odom speaks out about... well you try to figure out what he's saying. This is from the LA Times:

"As you can see, all those balls look exactly the same. They're cute."

"Other balls, they change color [when wet], they have different flavors, but you can depend on those things. When [the new ones] get wet, guys perspire on them, they get real slippery."

Excuse me?

Actually he's talking about the NBA's new official basketball. As mentioned last week, the whole ball controversy is waaay overrated. At Rucker Park, do they stop the game because the ball their playing with gets slippery with sweat? Exactly...this is such a non-story.

This is why David Stern is a marketing genius and still the best commissioner in professional sports.

Last season, during MLB Playoffs and mid seasons of NFL and NCAA football what was the sporting world talking about? One week into preseason, we were talking about the NBA dress code.

So what is the water cooler talk these days? The new NBA ball.

Gary Bettman, are you listening?

Comments

[Jack]

It's just something to talk about, something for guys to complain about. Everybody likes to complain.