Irrelevant
Spike Lee is perhaps The New York Knicks biggest fan. With their performance this year one wonders if he’ll renew his season tickets for next year. Now for less important matters. The NBA All Star game was played yesterday and the final score was 192-182.
I chose not to name the winner as that … and this sham of a game, is irrelevant. In year’s past, scores were also inflated. It used to be that there was an agreement between players captured by…’I’ll pretend to to defend you if you’ll pretend to guard me.’
Throw that out the window now. The new agreement is…’I’ll make no pretense at guarding you if you’ll agree to smile and let me run past you and dunk the ball.’
What a sham!! No wonder fans are so captivated by college basketball and March Madness.
I watched about ninety seconds of yesterday’s game and here’s an analogy for you.
Imagine Roger Federer is set to play Rafa Nadal in an exhibition match in New Orleans. 17,000 fans jam the arena and can’t wait for the match to begin. They remember the Australian Open final a few weeks ago…five sets…nearly five hours of a war similar to Ali vs. Frazier.
Fed and Rafa will each be paid $200,000 for the match.
The thing the fans don’t understand yet is this.
Both players want to conserve energy. They have agreed to hold the opposite hand over their eyes while returning serve. Yes fans…that was the extent of the defense in yesterday’s NBA farce.
I wonder how this would go over with tennis fans who paid big bucks expecting a competitive match?
Next year, the NBA should mandate that both teams wear Harlem Globetrotter uniforms and award four points if a player can dunk the ball and then sit atop the rim.
Now that’s basketball.
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