• Julius Erving doesn’t like it when you call him Bill Russell.

(Dr. J & Bill want to know where’s Kareem’s white hair & beard)

• Here’s probably the only blogger Mark Cuban doesn’t hate.

• Ray Allen’s daughter has been diagnosed with diabetes.

• Rashard Mendenhall is on the warpath with his former Illinois team.

• Rocco Mediate knows to keep quiet around Tiger Woods. But will that silence the scorn of NBC soap viewers?

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After Boston’s 103-98 loss to the Lakers Sunday night, Ray Allen didn’t stick around Staples Center for long, instead getting quickly dressed and leaving the arena before chatting with the media.

But Allen could be excused for blowing off the post-game press: He just learned that his daughter had been diagnosed with diabetes.

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This Cedric Benson boating brouhaha keeps getting better & better.

• It’s no surprise that Danica Patrick would have men falling at her feet - but under her tires?

• Shaquille O’Neal is caught talking out of his ass again.

• Don’t tell anyone, but Ray Allen’s mom & step-dad are in the witness protection program.

• What’s in your wallet? One Florida Gator had a dead woman’s credit card in his.

• Tony Dungy takes time during a Tampa school visit to talk smack about the Pats.

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Bob Wolfley of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL, along with the Marc J. Spears of BOSTON GLOBE, reports today that everyone’s favorite ambush artists, ESPN’s E:60, will air a piece on Tuesday about Ray Allen’s family that reveals, “Flora Allen-Hopson, Allen’s mother, and Derek Hopson, Allen’s stepfather, have spent more than two years in a witness protection program, after the attempted murder of Hopson, a psychologist.

“The husband of the former wife of Hopson, Ernest Garlington, a counselor of at-risk kids, organized the attempted murder of Hopson. Recently, Garlington was sentenced to 33 years in prison on five counts of conspiracy to commit murder.”

The story was widely reported earlier this month when Garlington was sentenced, but the ESPN piece will be the first to give the story national exposure, which calls into question something.

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KING CARTOONS has this wonderful graphic recently provided by ESPN detailing a performance by Rip Hamilton:

(Oh, did we mention, it’s SPONSORED BY FLOMAX)

Game changer? We were actually thinking more along the lines of diaper changer. Those cubicled kids at ESPN need to cook up some graphics for Red Kerr and Heinsohn if they really want market penetration.

Speaking of unwitting endorsers, Mark Murphy of the BOSTON HERALD reports on the pill popper Dr. Feelgood of the Boston Celtics: Coach Doc Rivers. Read more…

The juggernaut Boston Celtics, led by the trio of Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett, assembled a tremendous 31-10 road record during the NBA regular season.

In the playoffs, they’ve played exactly three road games–and lost them all.

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It must be great to be a Celtics PR flack these days, at least compared to last season. The Celtics can’t stop winning; the city loves the players; no one’s getting in any trouble. It beats explaining the last known whereabouts of Vin Baker, anyway.

On the other hand, there’s exactly the same amount of space for the Boston media to fill and “Should Kevin Garnett get the MVP this year or should they just award it to him for the next three years now?” only goes so far. That must explain why the BOSTON HERALD got so damned excited about Ray Allen’s book-buying habits.

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