Wassup Blogosphere?!

What can I say? My dreams have been fulfilled, I finally have a blog on the world wide web and it's about basketball. And life. I hope to turn around a few lives and really make a difference while I'm here, all accomplished through my writing about basketball. Prepare to get your respective heads blown, every last one of you.

I'd like to thank my man NC for hooking me up with an invite to the blog. NC, thank you for taking 2.34 seconds out of your busy schedule to click your mouse a couple of times. You're a real stand-up guy. You will regret this decision, I hereby make my solemn promise to you and yours.

So, basketball. I like it, you like it. It's why we're all here. Why should you care about what I have to say about it? Because I'm badass, and you'll find out why soon enough.

I'm currently a pretty hardcore Raps fan, but first and foremost I'm a basketball fan. I like it so much that I subject my 5'5" frame to a fairly regular schedule of ball, and if you're a smaller player you know how sadistic that can be sometimes. I get blocked a lot. Stuffed, whatever. You name it. But I keep coming back for more, and if that's not true passion you can all eat it. I have a few jerseys from more recent eras (mid 90s recent) and I currently have my eye on a Chauncy Billups Nuggets jersey.

So while this blog will focus on the Raps, it'll be in perspective with the rest of the NBA. I follow the league as tenaciously as our local squad, so this isn't written by someone who only watches the Raps with their head in the sand regarding the bigger picture. With that in mind, I have to say that overall I feel pretty positively about this team. Conversely, I feel pretty damn negatively about the doom and gloom that seems to have already arrived in our great city.

Bosh's pending free agency. Turkoglu's hurt and played like crap at the Eurobasket. Possible inability to gel as a group. Still can't play defense. Tough schedule early on. Inexperienced coach. The rest of the conference got a lot better.

Guess what? It's September 22nd and the season is still 6 weeks away. All of these comments are pointless. We won't know any answers until they hit the court.

Know what? I'll bet that Turkoglu suffers a catastrophic injury and the rest of the team doesn't get along and we wind up with a 32 win season. Worse than last year by one game. Ouch.

Know what else? I'll wager that the Raps are going to have an excellent year, both Bosh and Turk make the all-star team, we get past the 1st round of the playoffs, and hell, maybe we'll even challenge for the conference title.

Who knows? I sure don't, so I'm going to sit back and try and catch some classic games on TV until the season actually starts. It's called chilling the fuck out, and I think some of you need to try it.

Now I am off to get NC to lend me his Celtics and Knicks DVDs. He owes me for writing this blog after all.