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Blogger Rob Benson earns an invite from the Spurs. Jamie Mottram reports.

Rod Benson Blogs and Plays His Way Into an Invite From the San Antonio

by Jamie Mottram (Columnist)

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February 19, 2008

NBA, San Antonio Spurs, Media

If you’re unfamiliar with baller/blogger Rod Benson, learn yourself with Too Much Rod Benson on Yahoo! Sports as well as his home site (recent and recommended is the V-Day music video) and D-League player page. He’s funny, smart, and web savvy; a compelling storyteller with an endless reservoir of ridiculousness. Plus, he’s made a rockumentary,

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writes poetry, and rebounds like a champion (11.8 per game).

His game is enough to be a D-League All-Star (breakaway dunk!), but it’s his blogging that may get him to the Association. Check this letter from San Antonio Director of Player Personnel Dell Demps:

Great blog. I am a fan.

We would like for you to come to our summer league and mini camp. You can have as many shakes as you want.

Have a good season. Keep playing the right way.

Brilliant! (To get the line about shakes, read about Rod’s workout with the Nuggets.) It’s about time an NBA exec learned to stop worrying and love the blog. Not that the Wiz and Raps (and NBA, really) haven’t already embraced Gilbert Arenas and Chris Bosh’s shenanigans, but I’ve been waiting for Rod’s warm embrace. Good to see the Spurs, along with Sporting News Radio and Bill Simmons, wrap their arms around Boom Tho. They won’t be the last.

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