Media Day Kicks Off Week

To me, this is always an odd way to kick off the first official week of the NBA season. Every team does it, and it's very necessary, but it's still a bit of a strange day. But, then again, I always thought it was weird that we had picture day during the first week of school. My son has picture day tomorrow in pre-school, by the way, and the odds are very good that he'll shine the whole thing and run for the art room (this happened last year- you could practically see two hands in the photo holding him to the table).There are some NBA players who would love to take a page from my son's playbook and run like hell when the cameras come out on Monday. But, they're usually pretty good about it. They change into full game uniform, and then go station to station through the event level at the Rose Garden, stopping to take photos, record radio liners, meet with the media, and take part in several different videos that will be used on the big screen during games. This is ...