Eureko!

Heady times here at ILB HQ. I recorded a rare trifecta in the last 48 hours or so.

1) Get love from The Bog, (not once, but twice), Mr. Irrelevant, Free Darko, Deadspin and the print edition of Express for my Swag Scale interview.

2) Have the "ballers" at Slam Online throw some hate my way for the same thing. If I'm pissing them off, I must be doing something right.

3) Get mentioned in a Marketwatch article about the WaPo blogger summit. Sadly, only by firstname and not url. Tom also got some love.

On a more serious note, the Celtics season is officially over, and it could not have happened in a more excruciating way. In Wednesday night's game, Tony Allen blew out his knee when he landed awkwardly after a dunk attempt. And did I mention that this was after a foul call, so the play was dead? And that yesterday was his 25th birthday? And that his 80 year-old grandmother flew to Boston just to see him and witnessed the whole thing? Jeezy Creezy. He's done for the season. Pierce's return got pushed back 11 days, so no DC for him. Wally's hurt, as is Scalabrine, Delonte too and Gomes is sick. We only have nine players available for tonight's game v. Toronto. Our SG/SF rotation, the strength of the team at the start of the season, now consists of Gerald Green and Allen Ray. Wow. Greg Oden, here we come.

Duke's not fairing too much better. They lost to a good Ga. Tech team on Wednesday and dropped to 0-2 in the conference. It's going to be a long season. Our shooters aren't athletic enough to get their own shot and our athletes can't shoot. I'll be happy to finish .500 in the ACC. We should be able to do that.

Related: I can't even begin to tell you how happy this makes me. #5!

Much like Truehoop, I like the Steve Blake for Earl Boykins deal for Denver.

The Bog tracks down Esky and gets his thoughts on the trade and Becks.

This got me all excited until I realized they were just talking about the record, not an actual tour.