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I would venture to say that I know at least as much about basketball as anybody on this site, having played, coached, refereed, watched, read about, written about, and dreamed about it since long before the Kings moved to Sacramento, where I grew up.

If you can read an off-the-ball screen, you can be on my team.

I hate setting one up and then looking like an idiot when my teammate (who typically has and earring or three and several tattoos) just looks at me like, hey old man, what are you doing, and why are you wiggling your one hand and protecting your jewels with the other and staring at me like that? I know my best days were behind me when, one time, this kid who was guarding me turned to me (earrings juggling) after I made a nice jumper right over his outstretched hands and said "nice shot, sir". I was speechless at being called "sir" in a pick-up game. Then there was the time some kid thought it would be cool to put a one-man full-court press on me, like I'd be an easy target as 30-something senior citizen, and if I'd pulled his pants down he wouldn't have been as embarrassed when I did a simple Mullenesqe cross-over, nothing so fancy, and left him in my dust with his friends all laughing at him. These kids, if you don't go around the back and though the legs and break dance with the ball, they're not impressed, so some of these basic skills fall by the wayside... Anyway, I gotta stop with the "the older I get, the better I was" nonsense. Getting off topic.

Preaching to the choir.
ps- I worked in Manhattan for a couple months years ago and used to play on Bleeker and 6th or somewhere near there.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 3/1/2010 12:56:46 PM

Sacramento and Cleveland are the same size, more or less.

The link to the Nets game was just a bit of levity.

What i can tell you about Greece after 8 years that i live in Thessaloniki (2nd biggest city in Greece around 1.5M), you can find almost everywhere a court to play. Ive seen guys to play at 2 at the morning.

Even in Cyprus that basketball is not popular at all, almost every school (elementary or high school) has a court that you can go and play after the lessons. Also i think that Italy loves basketball too...

i don't know. i just saw the movie "idiocracy" and i wonder how many of all the basketball fans in the u.s. could actually, you know, play this game. i know they can jump up and down rythhmically, and paint blue letters on their emaciated chests, that is, when they are not turning their bodies into billboards for mom and metallica and da boyz in da hood, but i wonder how many can, you know, follow a text-based strategy game where there are no 360 degree dunks.

i don't know. this is a great, vast country, with well over 300 million people, so i suppose it is not impossible to find 20,000 people that do anything (within reason -- i doubt if we graduate 20,000 PhDs in the sciences in a decade), so i can see a day where this game reaches that level in the u.s. -- but we still won't rule bb-land, and will complain about the all advantages the little countries (i.e. the rest of the world) get.