More than one way out the ghetto

The sidebar said it already, but I'm here to make it official: FreeDarko, the NBA blog regularly accused of all from incompetence to pestilence, now belongs to something great. Starting today, we are the proud recipents of a weekly spot on McSweeney's, a literary entity anyone checking for us is probably already familiar with. I start up the proverbial engines with a piece on the importance of imaginary players, which I'd like to think provides a nice, well-behaved companion for yesterday's post on potentiality. And while these may be crafted with a more general audience in mind, I'm fairly certain that a thousand words on my mental construction of Gerald Wallace and J.R. Smith fits snugly alongside anything we've ever written within our own halls.

Therefore, on this occasion I would like to summarily thank McSweeney's for this opportunity, heartily welcome anyone following a link from McSweeney's, and softly tell our faithful readers that this is as much your achievement as ours. Good luck and stay humble; I know we will.