Tomorrow, Tuesday, at 6:30, at the New York City ESPN Zone on Broadway at 42nd street will be TrueHoop's first ever real public get together.

If you go the ESPN Zone website you can, until some point late tonight, make a reservation for a table, or you can mix and mingle at the bar. At that website, you can also learn where to park to get a substantial discount.

As described earlier, the format will be much like Oprah or Letterman, only without the professional staff and kickin' backstage buffet.

The previously announced guests include superstars of ESPN.com: statistical expert John Hollinger and analyst David Thorpe.

I just confirmed that New York Knick Quentin Richardson will be the third guest, which I am thrilled about.

When I first figured out the date of this event, I looked at which NBA teams would be in the area and not playing. Of those players -- the Knicks and Sixers really qualify -- Quentin Richardson was my first thought, because he has something to say.

I'm on something of a mission to get across what the NBA is really like, as sometimes distinct from how it's portrayed through all the t-shirt cannons and fireworks.

Quentin? Yes, his life has been full of all kinds of NBA success, riches, and super fancy rims. But he could not have a more sobering and real story, having lost not one, but two brothers to violence. He has been gracious enough to talk about the easy and hard parts of being Quentin Richardson.

[Edited by - mythfaze on 10-23-2007 01:02 AM]