Welcome to The Hangover, a semi-regular offseason item I’ve elected to start on weeks such as this, when children/work/travel/obligation have elected to cut deeply into both my subconscious and my time. The promise of two things per week holds true, and thus has been born this attempt at offering tips, tricks and tales for better living until college basketball returns.
Other Basketball
As junkies do, I’ve elected to make do with a substitute in the NBA now that my main fix is no longer on the streets. I am eagerly anticipating this moment from Lunardi, Parrish and the rest of the college hoops writers cognoscenti sometime in June.
Until then, I’m happy to go along for the ride with the NBA. The Light The Beam Kings are a house favorite. The Lakers are the most dangerous seven-seed in NBA history (I haven’t done the research but I feel pretty confident in this statement). The League has figures right now—Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Edwards, Aleksej Pokusevski—of the sort that it simply has never had and even some I didn’t mention, like Joel Embiid, who can do a reasonable impersonation of a great (like Hakeem Olajuwon). We’re staring at the possibility of Kings-Nuggets in the West and Giannis-Embiid in the East, and if that doesn’t get you amped then basketball and this blog are simply not for you and I ask only that you pay double to remain in our good graces.