DeShawn Stevenson looks forward to LeBron James' comeuppance (Getty Images)

If former Dallas Mavericks guard DeShawn Stevenson was firing a "shot" at the Miami Heat following Miami's 108-78 drubbing of Stevenson's Nets on Tuesday, then it was likely his most accurate shot of a season that has seen DeShawn barely make a quarter of his looks from the field. That's right, a guy shooting 25 percent from the floor on the season took a dig at how LeBron James played in the NBA Finals last year, when Stevenson's Mavs downed the Heat in six games.

And, somehow, Stevenson was completely right. Here's DeShawn:

"I think we were just a better team than them," Stevenson said. "And then obviously LeBron didn't play like he should have played [in the Finals]."

DeShawn's wrong, here?

Poor Orlando. With nothing on the trade horizon that makes any sense to trade for in return for All-Star center Dwight Howard, it'll simply have to fall back on playing with its MVP-level center from here until the playoffs, where it'll probably make it to the second round while taking in a fair amount of playoff gate receipts.

Poor Orlando Magic fans. They've been disappointed by both players (Jameer Nelson, Rashard Lewis and Vince Carter falling off the face of the earth, plus Gilbert Arenas' fitful one season in Florida) and front office types on their way to what Howard considers an untenable situation. It's so distasteful to him that the center might turn down more money (much, much more more money money, maaan) to go play for a team in Brooklyn that won't even make the playoffs this year.

Poor NBA fans. This time last year you had one Carmelo Anthony rumor per day to look forward to in anticipation of the trade deadline, and then the Deron Williams shocker soon after. Then, late on a busy trade deadline day, Kendrick Perkins weirdly went to Oklahoma City. This time around? With just over a week to go before the March 15 trade deadline, there's absolutely nothing in the air unless Orlando completely reverses its stated course on Howard. Trade deadline day might be completely overshadowed by the opening round of the NCAA men's basketball bracket, and you have Orlando to blame for that.

Kevin Love sports the retro Minnesota Muskies jersey. Kenyon Martin just sports. (Getty Images)

A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: FS North. Very cool story from Joan Niesen on the history of the Minnesota Muskies.
PF: DIME. Ananth Pandian with a delicious must-read on how various teams celebrate getting to 100 points.
SF: The Classical. Bethlehem Shoals on why the NBA needs Twitter. Badly.
SG: Got 'Em Coach. Debuting 'The Got 'Em Show.'
PG: YouTube. Via Nate Jones, here's a great clip of a rookie Michael Jordan against the Lakers.

Diana Taurasi tries to explain whatever a "LifeLock" is (Getty Images)

When the NBA's board of governors -- a group of team owners that will convene with no fan and/or player representation -- meets in April, the participants will actively discuss possibly putting ads on NBA jerseys. As it currently is with most European football teams and WNBA squads, the ads would likely be prominent and, to most NBA followers, jarring. And we don't mind falling in line with the obvious reaction in pointing out that the brand abuse and cynical sellout would in no way be worth the potential millions these ads would raise in terms of sponsor exposure.

That is to say, "Can the conversation now, you greedy [blanks]."

We don't like mentioning brands by name here at BDL, nor essentially acting as a shill for shoe companies or products whenever they have a video or product release to pass along. But we're not stupid, and we know that the only reason you can read this site for free (or any of the various newspapers and publications we derive stories from on a daily basis) is because we are ad-supported. We try to walk that fine line, reverently. And ads on jerseys, we're sorry, is jumping far, far over that line. Sports Business Journal (via Pro Basketball Talk) details the thinking of the minds that are considering jumping this line:

John Kuester, Rip Hamilton, and a play with a shelf life of four more seconds (Getty Images)

If you blinked, you may have missed John Kuester's two years as head coach of the Detroit Pistons. If you paid attention, you'll probably only recall the time his players referred to him as "Sean Penn" (as in, "a dead man walking"), or that one night that they laughed at him when he was ejected in a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. Following his dismissal at the end of 2010-11, Kuester gladly took on a gig as Mike Brown's assistant coach (a role he played to much acclaim before Detroit hired him away from Cleveland in 2009) in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, those Lakers will be in Detroit. And Kuester is playing nice in his return to Auburn Hills, to his credit, in an interview with Ramona Shelburne at ESPN Los Angeles.

"I have no complaints, no complaints at all. I wish we had won more games. I wish some things could have been different. But you're dealt a certain hand, and now we go ahead and move on.

Fran Vasquez, Magic for life (Getty Images)

If you thought that rookie point guard Ricky Rubio was Minnesota GM David Kahn's Great White Whale, remind yourself of the saga of Spanish forward (and former Rubio teammate) Fran Vazquez. Vazquez was selected as a lottery pick 11th overall by Orlando Magic GM Otis Smith in 2005; he's yet to do more for the team than posing for the picture you see above, and there's a chance (ooh, a chance!) the scrappy power forward could come over to the Magic this summer after his Spanish League contract expires.

And, in a move reminiscent of a distraught Toni Kukoc coming to Chicago just as Michael Jordan first retired in 1993, he'll get here just in time to see Dwight Howard possibly leave Orlando as a free agent. Still, that's what happens when you draft a player that professed to have no ambition or interest in playing professional basketball in the NBA, as Vazquez did back in 2005. This might change soon, though. From Brian Schmitz at the Orlando Sentinel:

Smith said Vazquez' contractual situation will allow him to come over to the states and maybe finally attempt to make the Magic's roster.

Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd, not being fouled (Getty Images)

On Monday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder topped the Dallas Mavericks in a midseason thriller that reminded of the close back-and-forth basketball we saw when these two teams met in the Western Conference finals last spring. The Thunder were aggressors throughout, and earned 23 more free-throw attempts as a result. The Mavs, as you'd expect, were not happy with that disparity, thinking that Dirk Nowitzki should have earned far more than the three freebies he was awarded. To say nothing of a tough call against Mavs center Ian Mahinmi late in the fourth quarter.

Jason Kidd, for one, is being portrayed as someone that thinks the Mavs should earn those coin flip calls as a byproduct of winning the championship in 2011. We're not on board with him, but we're also not totally sure that this is what he was attempting to complain about when he was quoted, by ESPN Dallas, as saying this:

"We don't get the benefit of the whistle," Kidd said. "I don't think we're looked upon as champions, but that's a whole other story."

A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: Larry Brown Sports. LeBron James sprains his ankle on a woman's nearly bare foot, and yet she seems to be the one that comes out unscathed. The human body was made by a maaaaad scientist.
PF: SB Nation. Andrew Sharp comes through with a must-read feature on Andrew D. Bernstein, the go-to NBA photographer for Getty Images.
SF: The Good Point. The Oklahoma City Thunder has two MVP candidates on one team. Not you, Daequan.