The Quest for the Ring 3: Happy Mama's Day to all

Friday, May 8, 2009

Happy Mama's Day to all

Hopefully your mama brought you up so that you foul hard and hang tough, but you don't get flagrant fouls and ejections. Mamas know the difference between the tough fouls and the flagrants, and they will teach you if you will only listen to them.

So always listen to them.

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Although there is a guaranteed minimum rate of Report production regardless of traffic, IT IS IN YOUR POWER to help double or triple the number of and frequency of Reports. Simply take two or three minutes as often as you can to recommend Quest and post links to Quest on your favorite sports and other sites. The resulting automatic increase of traffic will in turn increase the resources that go in to producing Quest, which in turn speeds up reporting. If you want, e-mail how you helped (include the url of where you posted a link to Quest) and we will throw some Internet love back to where you tell us on the Internet. Thank you.

Here are some quick links that you can use to find a place where you might post a link to Quest and/or to Quest content.

HOLD MOUSE HERE TO EXPAND THIS MENU OF PLACES ON WHICH YOU CAN POST A LINK TO QUEST:

BASKETBALL SITES THAT ARE OPEN FOR CONTENT FROM ANYONE
Note: Beware of "layered" sites. None of the following are layered sites, which are sites that allow contributions from the public only in hard to find, low traffic areas, while the main areas are off limits for public input and are only for a chosen few. All of the following have at least some notable traffic, and all of them allow relatively equal and open participation. The order is from most recommended to least recommended, based on about half a dozen factors.

Bleacher Report Open Posting Site
Inside Hoops NBA Forum
Real GM NBA and Team Forums
Pro Sports Daily NBA Forum
Basketball Forum NBA Forum
Sporting News NBA Forum
Hoops Hype NBA Forum
Armchair GM Open Posting Site
SportsTwo NBA Forum
NBA Dimensions NBA Forum
OTR Basketball Forums NBA Forum
NBA Boards NBA Forum
NBA Wire NBA Forum
KFFL NBA Forum

Note: there are other forums, but they are all very low traffic and activity compared to the ones above.

MESSAGE BOARDS AT HUGE COROPORATIONS
The Fox NBA board is very low traffic, and the MSNBC NBA board doesn't exist anymore. The CBS Sports NBA Message Board is a layered site; you can NOT post topics nor expect to be considered seriously there until you have spent a few years posting there. We do not recommend CBS Sports. So the only real, fully open NBA forum hosted by a big corporation is the ESPN message board. Be forewarned though that the ESPN board is dominated by very young fans who make very short comments. On the other hand, it is a high traffic site, so we won't stop you from posting a Quest link at ESPN if you want to.

ESPN NBA Message Board

>>>I WANT TO STICK WITH THE WAY OTHER SITES PRESENT POSTS
Due to the number of, uniqueness of, and importance of the many other home page features we have, only one Report loads at a time, currently the one just above. To see the next Report (which would be the one that came out just before the one above) on this home page, click "Older Posts" that is at the very bottom of the Report showing above, just above the section header "Your Ball: Take Your Best Shot".

>>ALTERNATIVE HOME PAGES
There are three home pages, all of which have all of the Reports but which have completely different features appearing on the sidebar and below the one Report that is shown at a time. These pages have been designed so that they fully load in about 10 seconds (no more super long load times we used to be known for.)

HOME PAGE A: ALL REPORTS, READERS CONTAINING REPORTS 1-100, AND UNIQUE FEATURES
HOME PAGE B: ALL REPORTS, READERS CONTAINING REPORTS 1-100, AND UNIQUE FEATURES
HOME PAGE C: ALL REPORTS, READERS CONTAINING REPORTS 1-100, AND UNIQUE FEATURES

>>REPORT READERS: Complete freedom to rapidly choose and read what you need or want to read. The latest 40 Reports are found near the top of all three of the primary home pages (linked to just above) while Reports #41-#100 are found in three separate readers placed at various points down the page on all three primary home pages.

>>EXPRESS VERSION: Every Single Report but no Features: a Fast Loading Page: Click Here

>>FAST BREAK VERSION: The Latest 100 Reports via Report Readers Only; no Features, a Fast Loading Page: Click Here

>>QUEST ARCHIVE HOME PAGES--REPORT ARCHIVES AND A SMALL NUMBER OF CLASSIC FEATURES THAT WON'T FIT ON OTHER HOME PAGES
QUEST 4: REPORTS 101-200
QUEST 5: REPORTS 201-300
QUEST 6: REPORTS 301-400
QUEST 7: REPORTS 401-500
QUEST 8: REPORTS 501-600
QUEST 9: REPORTS 601-700
QUEST 10: REPORTS 701-800

>>FEATURES ONLY HOME PAGES: NO REPORTS, JUST FEATURES THAT WE CAN'T FIT ANYWHERE ELSE
QUEST OVERTIME
QUEST CLASSIC

>>COMPLETE TITLE INDEX: : A Complete Report Title Index, with Express Version Links to all Reports

>>LATEST 25 Reports: Direct links to the latest 25 Reports (with no truncated titles as you find with the poorly designed Google archive). This is located near the very bottom of this page.

>>GOOGLE ARCHIVE you will find this, with Reports shown by week not very far below.

>>I'M NEW AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE I WANT TO GO: Welcome to the Real Zone. Simply browse the page and see for yourself what is here. You will not be disappointed.

>>OR YOU CAN DO A CUSTOM GOOGLE SEARCH OF THE 13 BOOKS AND COUNTING CONTAINED ON THIS SITE>>>>>

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FREE ADVERTISING PROGRAM
The depression, or recession, or great heist, or whatever it is, means that we should work together, or else we will sink together. Therefore, the Quest is offerring free display advertising on this site until at least June 30, 2010. The program is for anyone who has a basketball related product or service. If the free program is not extended beyond that date, we will be offerring advertising at extremely low rates. The free display ad program is currently limited to four advertisers, on a first come first serve basis. Each advertiser gets 6 months free though if we think your product or service is especially important we will extend that indefinitely.

This program is not for large corporations; it is intended for small enterprises, especially newer ones. Nor is this program for those already affiliated with a major internet commercial site, such as ebay.

To advertise for free, email a request giving your web address and some basic information about your product or service. If you get approved, we will email you back. You will be approved unless you don't really have a basketball product or service, or unless you are a big company, or unless you are already getting a large amount of traffic. After you are approved, you can email your ad. Your ad should be sized to fit either in the User Guide or the right column. For User Guide ads, the width should be close to but nor more than 675px. The height should be 100px maximum. For sidebar ads, the maximum size is 240px by 240 px. We will even make a simple but nice looking ad for you if you want.

The email address to use is nuggets1nuggets@gmail

WHY NOT EXCHANGE LINKS WITH THE QUEST?

You can link to the Quest site with no permission needed. To link to this site, copy and paste the code below into your site. Thanks, and you can email nuggetsone@gmail.com with your site address, and we will link back if you have a basketball site. Your link will go in the right column in the same area where the other already existing such links are. You may wish to, for convenience, use the following code when you construct the link.

2008 SITE NEWS: THE NOT SO GOOD

NOT SO GOOD SITE NEWS:
--The Nuggets most likely will not make the playoffs this year, so we are no longer going to even pledge game report sets for every game; our plan is to produce 25 game report sets, with a set consisting of three separate reports: two breakdowns and one article. Keep in mind that game report sets are not far from 10,000 words each in length in total, so 25 report sets are in total at least as much real content for a single team as exists anywhere else.
--Special Report frequency is being cut to 8 reports a year. Look for special reports at the very end of all months except for April, May, June, and November. Special Reports are not going to be combined into Game Reports anymore. Special Reports and all other content is posted on the main site, but they are posted by themselves for easy retrieval on the Special Reports page.
--There may possibly be another disruption during the season, due to another unavoidable pain in the neck project that needs doing. Any such disruption will not exceed 1 month.

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PRIMARY FEATURE SITES BY CATEGORY
WATCH AND READ ABOUT GAMES LIVE
Watch Games Live
The Quest for the Ring Live

BASKETBALL MULTIMEDIA
Quest Videos One
Quest Videos Two

BASKETBALL JOURNALISM
Quest Basketball Magazine

BASKETBALL INSTRUCTION AND KNOWLEDGE
Quest for the Ring Basketball School

BASKETBALL NEWS AND INFORMATION
Quest NBA Rumors. Breaking News, & Recent News
Quest NBA Injuries

QUEST COMMUNITY SOCIAL PAGES
Ways to Join The Quest for the Ring
Quest Discussions
My Quest for the Ring

CUSTOM DESIGNED RESOURCES
Quest Toolbox

QUEST INTERNET MANAGEMENT
Quest Complete Site Directory: Internet Management

CONTACT QUEST
Contact Quest

MUSIC HUB SITE
Quest Music

RADIO

The 1Club.FM player offers dozens of stations. By default only the pop music stations are showing at first. In the dropdown menu, there are ten other music types, all of which offer specific stations to choose from.

INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Select a genre by using the dropdown menu.
(2) Select a specific station listed for the genre.

Below the player you will see a links to a web page which offers literally hundreds of direct links to radio station streams, most of which not requiring any registration. If you go there, you pick a category, and then a new page will load that has links to almost every stream of that type. Back here at Quest, below that link, there is a direct link to the sports talk genre page.

HISTORY OF QUEST TEAMS SPECIALIZED IN
November 2006-March 2009 Denver Nuggets
November 2008-March 2009 Detroit Pistons
April 2009-Present Cleveland Cavaliers
April 2009-Present Los Angeles Lakers

LANDS THAT WON THE QUEST
2009 Los Angeles, California
2008 Boston, Massachussetts
2007 San Antonio, Texas
2006 Miami, Florida
2005 San Antonio, Texas
2004 Detroit, Michigan
2003 San Antonio, Texas
2002 Los Angeles, California
2001 Los Angeles, California
2000 Los Angeles, California
1999 San Antonio, Texas
1998 Chicago, Illinois
1997 Chicago, Illinois
1996 Chicago, Illinois
1995 Houston, Texas
1994 Houston, Texas
1993 Chicago, Illinois
1992 Chicago, Illinois
1991 Chicago, Illinois
1990 Detroit, Michigan
1989 Detroit, Michigan
1988 Los Angeles, California
1987 Los Angeles, California
1986 Boston, Massachussetts
1985 Los Angeles, California
1984 Boston, Massachussetts
1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982 Los Angeles, California
1981 Boston, Massachussetts
1980 Los Angeles, California
1979 Seattle, Washington
1978 Washington, D.C.
1977 Portland, Oregon
1976 Boston, Massachussetts
1975 Oakland-San Francisco, California
1974 Boston, Massachussetts
1973 New York, New York
1972 Los Angeles, California
1971 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1970 New York, New York
1969 Boston, Massachussetts
1968 Boston, Massachussetts
1967 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1966 Boston, Massachussetts
1965 Boston, Massachussetts
1964 Boston, Massachussetts
1963 Boston, Massachussetts
1962 Boston, Massachussetts
1961 Boston, Massachussetts
1960 Boston, Massachussetts
1959 Boston, Massachussetts
1958 St. Louis, Missouri
1957 Boston, Massachussetts
1956 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1955 Syracuse, New York
1954 Minneapolis, Minnesota
1953 Minneapolis, Minnesota
1952 Minneapolis, Minnesota
1951 Rochester, New York
1950 Minneapolis, Minnesota

NUMBER OF TIMES THE
QUEST WAS WON BY CITY
Boston 17
Los Angeles 10
Chicago 6
Minneapolis 4
San Antonio 4
Detroit 3
Philadelphia 3
New York 2
Houston 2
St. Louis 1
Rochester 1
Syracuse 1
Seattle 1
Portland 1
Milwaukee 1
Oakland 1
Miami 1
Washington 1

NUMBER OF SECOND PLACE FINISHES IN THE QUEST FOR THE RING
Los Angeles 14
New York 6
Philadelphia 4
Boston 3
St. Louis 3
Detroit 2
Orlando 2
Seattle 2
San Francisco 2
Washington 2
New Jersey 2
Portland 2
Phoenix 2
Houston 2
Salt Lake City 2
Fort Wayne 2
Syracuse 2
Minneapolis 1
Milwaukee 1
Cleveland 1
Dallas 1
Baltimore 1
Indianapolis 1

EDITORIAL VERSIONS

The Quest for the Ring, in order to serve every kind of reader we can think of that we can serve, has several formats, or edits, for the original content:

The Quest for the Ring: Everything is here. Every word of original content is posted here. This is the home page of the site, and home is loaded with all the reports that we produce. The archive on this main page indexes all of these items. Aside from all of this content, there are also a massive number of other great features and links to every imaginable resource

VERSIONS FEATURING ALL REPORTS
Fast Break Version The latest 100 reports in report readers are here. Very little scrolling and a whole lot of choice is available here. The page loads very quickly since there are no features, just the reports.

Express Version All 500+ reports in the traditional, standard Google blog format. The Google archive allows you to choose reports to review. The page loads very quickly since there are no features, just the reports

EDITORIAL FORMATS FOR CONTENT SUBSETS
Quest for the Ring Real Ratings These are statistical reports, some of which are among our most popular content. Nothing escapes being rated: teams, coaches, and players are all rated using methods that have been extremely carefully developed. When you want to be as far away as possible from the hype zone, this is the place to go: raw truth rules here. One great new feature of statistical reports is that we are sometimes putting the spreadsheets from which the rankings are calculated on web pages, which enables readers to get even more details about teams, coaches, and players

Quest for the Ring Special Reports: These are magazine style basketball articles, reports, and stories not tied to individual games. Special Reports appear in full on Quest for the Ring and at Quest for the Ring Special Reports, where the parts or chapters of these reports are all in order in one place. So it is a little easier to access Special Reports in full, and individual parts of them, on the Quest Special Reports page.

Quest for the Ring Summary: This is a project in it's infancy where short but quick to read summaries of basketball best practices will be produced.

COMPLETE DIRECTORY OF ALL THE WAYS TO FIND AND READ REPORTS

THE READERS ARE IN COMMAND AT QUEST
Quest for the Ring has graduated from the "read everything we write or else" page format. Furthermore, we have now graduated from the boring, traditional "content rules" that most blog type web sites follow in general.

There are at least six ways to find, choose, and read reports at Quest. If you insist, you can read reports off our pages, by using RSS readers, personally configured browsing home pages such as i Google, or by email if you prefer. But by giving you as many options for choosing and reading reports as possible, we are doing everything we can to persuade readers to read reports at the Quest itself rather than elsewhere. We want as many people as we can get to come to our pages. We have no way of knowing how fast outside readership is growing. And if you read the content elsewhere, you will miss out on having access to all kinds of other pages and content.

So in hopes of getting as many people as possible to read reports here rather than elsewhere, we have six reading options rather than just one or two....

OPTION ONE: REPORT READERS: As you scroll down either the Quest for the Ring home page, or any of the Quest report reader pages, such as The Quest for the Ring 2, and so forth, you will come upon many separate content readers, with 20 titles appearing in each one. Each one will be labeled with the posts that are contained in that reader; the latest post is #1, the next to the latest is #2, and so forth. The reports are not actually numbered; the numbering in the reader headers is only a temporary numeric description of how each report ranks chronologically. Whenever a new report is published, the "number" for all other reports increases by one, and the readers change accordingly. Every time a new report is published, each reader will have a new report appear at the top, and what was the oldest report in each reader will disappear from the bottom, to appear now at the top of the next oldest reader. Both for the readers by page as a whole, and within each reader, the order of the reports is always from newest at the top to oldest at the bottom.

By using any of the readers, you can quickly choose between and access any of the reports within the reader, right here right now. Please note that if you read reports in the readers, you usually must use the vertical scroll on the side of the reader to be able to see all of each report.

To read a report, simply click the title, or icon on the left, and the report will appear. To close an article you have opened, click the title again or the icon on the left next to the title. The titles and the icons are like an on-off switches. When the article closes, you are ready to pick another article to read.

Here are quick links to the pages containing the report readers:

Reports #401 to #500

OPTION TWO: QUEST FAST BREAK: THE LATEST 100 REPORTS INSTANTLYGo to the Fast Break Page if you like the readers, are not interested in anything other than Quest Reports, and/or if you are in a hurry.

OPTION THREE: QUEST EXPRESS VERSION: THE REPORTS ONLY ON A FAST LOADING PAGE IN THE STANDARD, PURE BLOG FORMATGo to the Quest Express Version Page if you need quick access to reports in the well known blog format, and you do not need any of the features and resouces available on the main home pages.

Even if you usually come to the main home page, you may wish to visit either Fast Break or Express when your time is limited.

OPTION FOUR: COMPLETE CONTENT DIRECTORY: You can use the complete Quest For the Ring Content Directory. This is a separate page which has links to every single report ever posted at Quest, all in one place. Each report link will lead to the Quest Express Version, which means it will load instantly and no scrolling will be needed to read it.

On your first visit to the Complete Directory page, please read the short User Guide that is right at the top. One of the notices in that Guide is that the index will probably not load in the Internet Explorer Browser. You will probably have to use Firefox, Safari, or another browser to be able to use the Complete Directory.

OPTION FIVE: THE GOOGLE ARCHIVE: You can use the Google archiving system. The Google archive has every single report ever published. We have our reports indexed by week which makes the archive as easy and convenient to use as possible. You will find the Google archive not far above where the reports start on The Quest for the Ring home page.

In the Google archive, the small triangle icons are "switches" that open and close title lists according to the weekly date ranges. In other words, each small triangle opens (or closes) all of the reports that were published in a particular week. If you click on the date range itself, all of the reports that were posted in that time frame will be loaded.

If you click on any title in the archive, the home page will reload with that article only. Once the home page is reloads with your selection, click the yellow Jump to Reports link near the top of the page to avoid having to scroll past everything above the report.

OPTION SIX: TRADITIONAL ON THE HOME PAGE: On the main home page, you can access a huge number of features, and you can use the traditional blog way to read reports. (See option #3 above for the traditional format with no features.) This may be your favorite way of reading if you do not wish to pick and choose among many different kinds of reports, and among many different reports. You can simply immediately go to the latest report and start reading: simply and quickly. This jump link will take you directly to where the traditional format is found.

Or, when arriving on the home page, click the yellow Jump to the Reports link near the top of the page to avoid having to scroll down past everything that is above the latest report.

To be totally clear, and helpful to those who are unfamiliar with the Google blog presentation system, a quick explanation of it is in order. At any time on the home page, either a particular, single report is loaded or, if the home page in general is loaded, the Google traditional post presentation format is in effect. In this format, the webmaster chooses how many reports he or she will show with each page load. We have chosen to show four reports in full. The newest report is at the top of all reports, the second newest report is below the newest, and so on.

At the bottom of these four, you click on "Older Posts," to load the next oldest four. If you click "Older Posts" over and over again, you will be loading older and older reports, four at a time. Every time you click "Older Posts" you can click the yellow Jump to the Reports link near the top of the page to avoid having to scroll down past everything that is above the reports on the home page.

REPORTS #1 TO #20, GOING BACK IN TIME

REPORTS #21 TO #40, GOING BACK IN TIME

Friday, May 8, 2009

Happy Mama's Day to all

SEARCH THE QUEST FOR THE RING--THE EQUIVALENT OF MORE THAN 13 BOOKS ABOUT BASKETBALL

REPORTS #41 TO #60, GOING BACK IN TIME

OFFICIAL SONG OF THE QUEST FOR THE RING

THE NUGGETS THEME SONG: "LIKE A ROLLING STONE": BOB DYLAN

THE GEORGE KARL THEME SONG: RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME: DR. JOHN

REPORTS # 61 TO #80, GOING BACK IN TIME

CARMELO ANTHONY WON THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

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REPORTS #81 TO #100, GOING BACK IN TIME

ALLEN IVERSON AND PISTONS COACH MICHAEL CURRY

NBA BREAKING NEWS, RUMORS, AND RECENT NEWS

WHY NOT EXCHANGE LINKS WITH THE QUEST?

LARRY FITZGERALD--A GREAT ATHLETE WHO UNDERSTANDS HOW TO WIN THE QUEST

2008 SITE NEWS: THE NOT SO GOOD

CARMELO ANTHONY AND HIS DOG

QUEST FOR THE RING MAIN MENU

RADIO

MORE THAN 1,000 MORE RADIO STREAMS INCLUDING SPORTS TALK

EDITORIAL VERSIONS

TAG CLOUD

COMPLETE DIRECTORY OF ALL THE WAYS TO FIND AND READ REPORTS

NUGGETS LOGO AND FLAG

FIND OUT WHAT TIME IT IS RIGHT NOW ANYWHERE VIA A DROP DOWN MENU

Blog Archive

ALLEN IVERSON

RASHEED WALLACE AND ALLEN IVERSON

CARMELO ANTHONY