Daily Links: Beat LA isn't looking so good...

009 NBA Summer League Schedule - Ridiculous Upside
Here's the Suns line up

Mon 7/13 vs Mavs

Wed 7/15 vs Raptors

Fri 7/17 vs D League (yippie!)

Sun 7/19 vs Blake Griffin

From the finals

• Third Quarter Collapse - an Orlando Magic blog at SB Nation
  Things aren't looking so good for our Beat LA hopes...
• Gasol blasts misguided 'soft' tag - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
  Ode to Gasol (how do you say ode en espanol?)
• Finals 2009 Blog Fan Voice
  Congrats to fellow SBN bloggers from 3rd Quarter Collapse and Silver Screen and Roll for being featured on NBA.com's finals coverage. Way to represent.

Mercury

• And they’re off … " Mechelle Voepel
  MV, the ESPN's fantastic WNBA reporter and the leader of the pack calls DeWanna Bonner the Rookie of the (Opening) Day
• Saipan Tribune - Michelle Timms to coach Aussie Opals
  Mercury Banner of Famer (BoF) Michelle Timms will coach the Aussie women's team, the Opals

Suns

• Suns scouting near and far| Valley of the Suns
  Update on the draft movers ad sliders from a Suns perspective
• Thomasville Times Enterprise - Sotomayor unworthy of Supreme Court
  This chucklehead tries to use Amare Stoudemire in his attack on Obama's supreme court nominee. Political argument fail.
• Oklahoma land of the lost: Alvan Adams | NewsOK.com
  I don't fully understand the point of this story, but it is interesting to note that the Suns averaged 3,900 fans in their first year and about 10,000 in the 1976 when they went to the finals. The Merc averaged over 8,000 last year. Just saying