Daily Links - 2/8

WOOOT!!!! WOOOT!!!!

First comment!!!

Is it possible to organize the links by source (eg put a heading Boston Globe then all the links under that from the Globe) or put the source next to each link or something to that effect? Just a suggestion.

Thanks for the links, but no one can read that many links (at least no one at work). We either need a narrative recap with links, ala Boston media, or we need them to be grouped, as suggested above.

Harvey Araton’s quasi-defense of Isaiah Thomas on the New York Times:
"Playing for weeks without their best player, Paul Pierce, better explains the Celticsâ€â"¢ franchise-record losing streak, but is there really any doubt that in the same period of time that Bird has been in Indiana, and a few months longer than Thomas has been in New York, that Ainge has done the worst job of the three? Where is the national condemnation for collapsing the most storied N.B.A. franchise of all?

Ainge can only hope for enough rope to lasso one of the anticipated college draft studs, Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. The odds are he will get it because sainted old Celtics typically are given the benefit of the doubt, as Kevin McHale has proved in his home state of Minnesota.

Imagine if it were Thomasâ€â"¢s team that had only two playoff series victories to show for a decade with a superstar like Kevin Garnett, and not McHaleâ€â"¢s. Imagine if Thomas had been caught circumventing the leagueâ€â"¢s salary cap and cost his team multiple first-round draft picks and $3.5 million, as McHale did in 2000.

What would be an unpardonable blunder for Thomas and probably for most became a short leave of absence for McHale, who is now one of the most tenured executives in a league in which even Michael Jordan got fired. We rest our case.