A televised rugby match had reached the table-pounding point inside, and we immediately ordered pints of Guinness, asking where to lock our bikes.
For most of the show, he barrels into densely complicated history, boils it down and then produces a table-pounding point of view.
"I'm a little dude," the 5-foot-11, 152-pound point guard John Lucas III said.
As a 5-foot-11-inch, 165-pound point guard, Brooks stood almost no chance of an N.B.A. career after going undrafted out of California, Irvine in 1987.
As a 6-foot, 180-pound point guard, Mason was a defensive standout good enough to earn a scholarship to Drexel.
But Williams, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound point guard out of Illinois, said that joining the Knicks softened the blow of the long drop.
A 6-foot-3, 200-pound point guard, Lin is deft in the pick-and-roll — a staple of Coach Mike D'Antoni's offense — with excellent court vision and more athleticism than he is generally given credit for.
Just as reality intruded on Butler last month in Houston, it descended on the undermanned Knicks on Friday night at Madison Square Garden, neatly camouflaged in the 6-foot-1, 170-pound point guard persona of Rajon Rondo.
"Phil is worried about his 350-pound center being manhandled, I'm kind of worried about my 150-pound point guard getting manhandled," he said, referring to Lakers Coach Phil Jackson and Bryant's aggressive defense.
I also think that that his understandable disgust at exaggerated claims that a few extra pounds point inevitably to an early grave leads him to skate much too dismissively over the troubling recent rise in serious childhood obesity as well as increases in several weight-influenced forms of diabetes.
Many of the gathered connoisseurs believed that the lad, LeBron James, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound point guard, shooting guard and small forward -- sometimes he plays as if he is all three in one, a kind of hoops Swiss Army knife -- would have been taken in the first round of the most recent N.B.A. draft, possibly a lottery pick.
