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Link(s) o'Day

Reminder that I will be on a plane all day Wednesday and then with family in North Carolina for a week. I do have time carved out for the draft on Thursday night but if more craziness goes down tomorrow you are all on your own. Be safe. Oh, and Daily Links might be less then daily for a little while. Try and hang in there.

• Silver Stars rally past Mercury - WNBA - Yahoo! Sports
  Yahoo! recap of the Mercury 91-87 loss to the Silver Stars. Needless to say, I am not doing a full recap of this game. I saw the final 3 quarters and mostly the team just looked tired. Cappie missed shots she normally makes. Mental mistakes lead to turnovers and give the Stars their due for taking advantage and playing well. The Mercury are in the middle of a tough stretch of schedule and they have two more road games left on Thursday and Saturday before getting four days off. They need to find a way to overcome and avoid losing their third straight game. This is a very good team that still has some holes.
  
• Hardwood Paroxysm " Blog Archive " The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
  Steve Nash, hipster or dork? You decide.
  

Suns

• azcentral.com blogs - Coro's Suns dish: The draft's top 15?
  With the Suns picking 14th in Thursday's draft, the NBA's draftee invitation list of 15 players is interesting. Tyler Hansbrough, Austin Daye and Terrence Williams made the cut of players that will be in New York for media interviews on Wednesday, meaning they likely will be the ones at the Garden's WaMu Theater on Thursday night. Earl Clark, James Johnson, B.J. Mullens and DeJuan Blair did not make the list.

Mercury

• WNBA.com: WNBA.com Power Rankings: June 23, 2009
  Merc are #2 behind the Storm. Seems fair to me
• Point Guard Rankings Update & Surprises: Cappie Pondexter and Jia Perkins...Top 10?
  More statistical evidence of why the Mercury are so good

News from the trade front

• 3 Team Wolves Trade - Canis Hoopus
  From the Wolf den..nope, still doesn't make ton of sense from this side either. These teams can't be done dealing and wheeling
• Yay Guards? - Bullets Forever
  Wizards bloggers are puzzled over the trade and rightly so...this can't be all for either team
• Source: Spurs acquire Jefferson for 3 players - ESPN
  Didn't see this one coming. Actually, I saw exactly this deal coming :)
• SportingNews.com - The Baseline
  White Men Can't Ball
• The Ty Lawson Report - Blazer's Edge
  Ben goes in depth with my guy Ty
• Kings Blog and Q&A: Bee exclusive: Rubio reacts to Kings workout
  I love how Sam Amick and the Sac Bee are embracing the internet and blogging as a legit format. Cutting edge stuff from a print pub. Oh, and there's some good stuff here about senor Rubio
• Eddy Curry, J.R. Smith in car questioned by police while live on Internet webcam : InsideHoops
  Nice. Online brings you into the car with Eddie Curry and JR Smith (quite the combo there)