Thanks to the benevolence of our friend Bernard King's Game Face, I have two tickets to give away for Sunday's Blue-Orange Scrimmage. To earn those tickets, you'll have to win a contest today. Those of you who've been with P&T for a while should be plenty familiar with this type of contest. Here's how it works:

- The Knicks play the Nets at 2 PM today. Between now and 2 PM, your task is to leave one comment on this post guessing the Knicks' leading scorer for today's preseason game against the Nets. Since it's a preseason game and minutes are totally unpredictable, I expect that to be pretty tough. I will close comments at 1:30, half an hour before game time.

- Please comment only once, and make it clear whose name you're guessing.

- Once the game is over, the names of folks who correctly guessed the leading scorer will be thrown into a hat, and I will select one person to get both tickets to Sunday's scrimmage. If two Knicks tie for leading scorer, guessers of both will qualify for the tickets. If nobody correctly guesses the leading scorer, I'll move right on down the list of leading scorers until I find somebody that people did guess.

- Please do not enter the contest if you (or two people you know) cannot attend this event. It's at 12 PM tomorrow at Madison Square Garden.

Should be pretty straightforward, but let me know if you have any questions. These are e-tickets, by the way, so I'll email them to the winner.

Guess away!

If you were at work or in class or in the sewer licking garbage this afternoon, you probably missed "Knicks Training Camp Live", MSG's live look at a Knicks practice. We got to watch the guys run drills, scrimmage, and bro out with commentary from our good ol' announcer friends (plus the new guy, Alan Hahn). I'll put some notes after the jump, but they've now put video online, so you can just see the good parts yourself. And by "good parts", I pretty much mean this:

Talking shit to Dan D'Antoni, Amar'e Stoudemire, and one of the circuit training stations? Lavishing over-the-top praise on his teammates? Speaking to himself (Shump-Shump) in, like, fourth person? I love Iman Shumpert. I just love him. Take the jump Shump for a couple other things.

Continue reading this post »

Hey, runts! Just a notice that the proprietors of The Basketball Jones-- an excellent Toronto-based NBA podcast/blog that is, I think, one of the most unambiguously wonderful things on the planet-- are in New York tonight as part of their "No Season Required" tour. Beginning at 7 PM at this place, they'll put on a live podcast of sorts with special guests Amir Blumenfeld of CollegeHumor and Adrian Wojnarowski of YahooHumor. Here is the Facebook event page.

I will be in attendance, Osborn might be there, too, and all sorts of excellent folks from the internet and/or the area will be joining in as well. I expect it to be quite a good time. If you plan on attending, I'd love to hang out with you and stare longingly into your eyes, so don't hesitate to let me know via whatever internet method you find least creepy. I assure you that any creepiness suppressed by your efforts to find me will recouped when we actually meet. <3

I have just awoken to the most wonderful news!

EVERYBODY GET NAKED

Happy Thanksgiving to every one of you! Have excellent days and let us know what you're eating, what you're doing, and what household object your delusional Uncle Mort is shouting at.

<3!

Let us know what you're ingestin'!

I just took care of a lot of salads and a lot of pizzas and a lot of ice water. I might have some ice cream later. Let us know what you're eating throughout the evening.