Free Ballin’

Continuing my NBA VIEW ATLANTA HAWKS: You give a team enough lottery picks and it’s difficult to not be a good team.  If you draft  fairly well, your team will be very good, or better.  Or you could be the Hawks.  Ugh.  What a wrecked franchise.  I’ve written about it ad nauseam so I won’t go into [...]

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I arrived in Miami on December 28th ’08, without a place to stay.  I had floated numerous couchsurfing requests out to Miami CSers and received only one reply, negative.  She did direct me to an acquaintence, Brian, a recent couchsurfer, and I had an email out to him.  Without any other prospects, I checked into [...]

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Why are you here? I’ve asked so many people that question, over the last four months. Are you originally from Sacramento? Do you have family near Greenville? Was it Orlando, death, or tiki? I want to know why people are where they are. Family, school, work, and work-release are common answers. But people move to [...]

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I like the Rockets’ new point-guard tandem of Aaron Brooks and Kyle Lowry quite a bit, for numerous reasons, most of which you can find at any other basketball site that reported this trade, so I won’t go into all the “what this means to the Rockets” stuff.  I will just comment on Brian Cook, [...]

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I’m hitchhiking out of Charlotte today, up to the house of a friend of my mother’s, in Little Switzerland, NC, which I’m told is sensational, overlooking Mt. Mitchell (tallest peak east of the Rockies.) My next game is the Clippers/Celtics, on February 25th, in Los Angeles.  My plan is to stay in Little Switzerland for [...]

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Last night I was interviewed by Scott Lauer for Bobcats radio; it was fun.  Atlanta Hawks radio play-by-play man Steve Holman and Cartier Martin, just signed by the Bobcats to a 10-day contract, also interviewed.  But I think it was clear to everyone that my finale was really the highlight of  the show. Well, actually [...]

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I’m in a foul mood.  Starbuck’s woman did it.  Well, it’s been building up the past few days, but the jackass Starbuck’s woman got me there, today. I was at the Atlanta Something or Other Medical Center in the Who the Hell Knows district, and I was looking for a wifi connection.  Actually, I was [...]

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This is long as hell, and I don’t feel like editing it; transcribing is enough to put me to sleep, anyway.  So yeah, typos and whatever.  Instead, I’m going to back through and just putting asterisks in between sections, for your convenience.  How’s that? *** Nobody wants to take the 1:25 AM Greyhound from Orlando [...]

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