Linas Kleiza

Speaking on NBA players and their tattoos, Toronto Raptors forward Linas Kleiza had the following to say: “Definitely, I like tattoos, but not on myself,” Kleiza said. “On white guys, they stand out too much. On black players, they look good.” - Source At first glance, the  Raptors  forward’s statement appeared to be a completely racist one, but then I thought about Kleiza’s former tattooed teammate from the  Denver Nuggets ,  Chris “Birdman” Anderson , and immediately had to concur...Read Full Story

Prior to the matchup against the Spurs on Wednesday, the Raptors announced that F Linas Klieza would be be unable to play, as he is dealing with a sore knee and ankle on his left leg. Kleiza previously missed the team's first 10 games after recovering from surgery on his right knee. Read more Linas Kleiza newsRead Full Story

Linas Kleiza came off the bench for 15 points, 11 rebounds, three assists, two steals and a 3-pointer on 6-of-13 shooting against the Knicks. Kleiza is averaging nearly 16 points, five rebounds, a steal and two 3-pointers over his last five games, despite not starting. Read more Linas Kleiza newsRead Full Story

Linas Kleiza (knee) returned from a one-game absence and scored 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting (3-of-3 from downtown) with three rebounds and one assist in 18 minutes off the bench on Friday.Read Full Story

The Quest is proud to announce to you that the second major improvement to Real Player Ratings (RPR) in less than half a year is now fully up and running. We are now certain that RPR is the best overall rating system in existence, and that it is now roughly as good as it will ever or can ever be. I recently developed a statistically valid way to rate the defending of players, that is, what they do to prevent scores other than rebounding, blocks, steals, and fouls, which were always included...Read Full Story

Nene is the MVP in terms of quality and Chauncey Billups is the MVP in terms of quantity for the Denver Nuggets so far in the 2008-09 season. DENVER NUGGETS REAL PLAYER RATINGS Quality of Players Includes all tracked actions and adjustments for hidden defending 2008-09 Regular Season As of Feb 20, 2009 Nene Hilario 0.864 Carmelo Anthony 0.860 Chauncey Billups 0.859 Chris Andersen 0.755 J.R. Smith 0.749 Kenyon Martin 0.724 Renaldo Balkman 0.716 Anthony Carter 0.652 Linas Kleiza 0.558 Dahntay...Read Full Story

Ricky Rubio, Dime #43 Our business is prone to over-exaggeration: It was the best dunk ever, the worst trade ever, the sickest pair of sneakers ever, etc. We have to grab your attention and we have to get advertisers and, well, that’s just how it goes. But taking away all hyperbole and being totally straight — the NBA TV announcer calling yesterday’s Spain/Lithuania and France/Canada games at the World Championship was the WORST ANNOUNCER IN THE HISTORY OF BASKETBALL … Seriously, what...Read Full Story

As expected, Linas Kleiza (knee) will be available for Friday's game against the Wizards.Read Full Story

ISTANBUL ( Reuters ) - Forward Luis Scola steered Argentina into the world championship quarter-finals with a breathtaking individual performance in a 93-89 victory over traditional rivals Brazil on Tuesday. Scola, who as a 10-year-old boy mopped the court during timeouts at the 1990 world championship in his country, poured in 37 points and grabbed nine rebounds in a rip-roaring contest against the Brazilians. Argentina, the 2004 Olympic champions, will face Lithuania for a place in the last...Read Full Story

The Nuggets want Linas Kleiza to return to Denver , enough that they extended a qualifying offer to the forward, who played last season in Greece . Denver owns Kleiza's NBA rights. Terms of the offer were not released. But Kleiza 's agent, Bill Duffy , said his client plans to stay in Greece . " We have no plans to sign with the Nuggets , nor have they expressed interest in signing Linas at this point ," he said.  Kleiza , a 6-foot-8, 245-pound forward, left the Nuggets a year ago to...Read Full Story