Seau is the eighth member of the Chargers '94 Super Bowl team to pass

On Jumbotron, Nash asked his first car: "I went to a college that didn't pay its athletes, so I didn't have a car."

Also, Artest ranked Kobe best player, Durant No. 2. Asked where LeBron came in, he said: "I only count to 2."

Roy Hibbert is going off: "Excuse me, all the women in here, but we played like p------s."

OKC-Mia, home-grown vs. store-bought

Instead of fun size Snickers the NBA hands out $40 million contracts for Halloween

I can't believe there's ever been a more captivating quest for a No. 8 seed

JR Smith once told me you can stay out til 3 and be ok the next day, but not 5. "There's a big difference." He's not wrong

Vinny Del Negro asked if Lakers have a chance against Spurs. "No."

My cover story in this week's magazine on LeBron James, SI's 2012 Sportsman of the Year:  http://on.si.com/YHq6sm  #SISportsman

And for that, Georgia doesn't even get a BCS bid, so we can pretend the Big East deserves theirs

Finally, the Lakers will be able to defend a Thunder point guard

Once interviewed JR Smith for pre-season story and stupidly asked how his summer went. "All right," he said. "Got out of jail"

This Durant-Prince match-up features all the longest arms I've ever seen

The definitive story of the Harbaugh brothers was written two years ago by @rosenberg_mike:  http://ow.ly/gYFmW 

One of many nuggets in Lin story: Houston GM Daryl Morey cut him by phone from a Buff Wild Wings on Xmas eve. He since apologized

The list: Lew Bush, David Griggs, Rodney Culver, Doug Miller, Curtis Whitley, Chris Mims, Shawn Lee and Seau

Spent last week on the grind with the @memgrizz. The story is this wk's regional cover:  http://on.si.com/13vpHur 

My column for the website about Kobe Bryant and the breaking of the rock:  http://bit.ly/Ykyqui 

Rivers on the Buss influence: "This is where everyone wanted to play" (everyone, that is, except Dwight Howard)