More Doublespeak: LeBron James Misses Statistical Milestone

Now this here is what you call narrowly missing a triple double.

(Most perplexing line in the story: "The corrected statistics now have James with nine rebounds and Wallace with two"--that's Ben Wallace with two rebounds. Ben Wallace gets rebounds like a panda eats bamboo: it's the only thing he does at all, and he does a lot of it, and if he wasn't doing it, it's more or less impossible to imagine what he could have been doing out there in an NBA game.)



Feb 7, 2009, 10:28 AM     basketball · Ben Wallace · in my bonnet · LeBron James · pandas · triple double


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