Over at the Vulture Reading Room, New York book critic (and lifelong basketball fan) Sam Anderson will be joined throughout the week by an all-star team of hoops junkies (such as Deadspin’s Tommy Craggs and Free Darko’s Bethlehem Shoals, to name but two) to discuss Bill Simmons’s 700-page magnum opus, The Book of Basketball. Anderson, a Blazers fan, kicks things off by wondering why the Sports Guy hates on Greg Oden with so much passion. Go, now, and check it out. [Vulture Reading Room]