Is Laimbeer elbowing his way into NBA?
By Bob Kravitz

Even years after his retirement as the worst of all the Detroit "Bad Boys,'' Bill Laimbeer still inspires a special kind of hatred. Maybe it's the way he played, way back in the day when he was trading haymakers with Larry Bird. Or the way he now prowls the Detroit Shock sideline, looking like a dancing bear, constantly bellowing at the officials with that Eddie Haskell-on-a-doughnut-bender look on his mug.