Offbeat Photos from around the NBA

Manu Ginobili: "The spider heard I swatted a bat and he's come for revenge."

Julius Erving, Flava Flav, Magic Johnson: "Life's too short to mourn this Phil Jackson thing forever!"

Metta World Peace, Mike Brown: "So the fastest way to the Chick fil-A is the 405, right?"

Katy Perry: "Holy crap, Chris Duhon, I knew you were going to be bad, but ... wow."

Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan: "... So then Bynum just didn't join the huddles for months and Brown had no idea what to do."

Steven Tyler: "The same guy cuts our hair, and I was at the barbershop, and just spur of the moment, I was like, `Sure, I'll go to a game with you, Rumble.'"

Nicolas Batum: "It's cool, Nic, you can look now. Terry Stotts put his starters back in."

Raptors fan: "$40 million to DeMar DeRozan isn't going to ruin this party!"

LeBron James: "I haven't seen my ring since lunch! Where was I? What was I doing? Oh, no, the dishes. The sink. No. No. No."

P.J. Tucker (left), Marcin Gortat: There isn't a quip for this one that doesn't involve testicles.