After an off-season that seems to have never actually ended and with a season ahead of us full of seemingly foregone conclusions, the NBA season is back on tonight with two pretty highly-touted games. Boston and Cleveland will tip off the season at 8pm, a game of interest with the movement and back-and-forth between the teams late in the offseason. That will be followed at 10:30pm by the up-and-coming Houston Rockets taking on the defending champion Golden State Warriors. It’s as if the NBA schedule writers KNEW the NFL would be mired in knee-deep shit with the protests and beefing with the fuckboy in chief 45 and decided to throw out some games of interest right from the start. As much time as I would love to expound on the virtues of basketball, I am already 138 words in and I have a short attention span. I will get right to the NBA season predications. Rookie of the Year LaVar Ball, Los Angeles Lakers…...
I knew this damned day was coming... I knew as soon as I was "done" with it in September that I had not heard the last of this situation, and I said as much at the time. I guess my only real source of "surprise" is how little time it took to come back to me. To be totally honest, I shouldn't be all that surprised about that either. I say all that to say -- and y'all know it -- my phone rang. Me: "Hello?" Her: "I'm bugging out right now!" Me: "I'm fantastic, thanks for asking!" Her: "Huh?" Me: "You know you haven't spoken to me since the end of May, right?" Her: "Oh, oh yeah right... And I had the problem with my brakes and my landlord." I know where this is going, but she don't know that so I'mma play dumb or at least treat this conversation like it is all news to me. Remember, she came to PHILLIP for advice because she has known me before Moe Phillips existed. Her l...
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