hi basketball lovers
i am flea
i love basketball with my heart.
i love the sound of it
the poetry of it
the ballet of it
the fluidity of it
the aggression of it
and the breathtaking quiet of it
i love driving to the game and getting on the pregame talk radio
and seeing how long i can stay on by keeping the guy (chick hearn, how
i miss the greatest sportscaster of all time) interested
listening to the callers and yelling at the ones i disagree with
eating terribly unhealthy food
screaming at the top of my lungs
cheering with the greatest elation
seeing a perfectly arching fade away jumpshot rainbow through the sky
and watching the new swish
i could blather on all day about what i love about basketball

i grew up on it
it was my social world
it gave me a family
got to school early to play
stayed after late to play
the feeling of it
aaah
basket ball and music were my life as a kid
though i ended up with a career as a musician which i love
basketball has always been a constant in my life
i don't play much anymore,
i live in malibu where there are no pubic courts
the call of the fresh ocean air and the surfboard is a mighty
call.........
i get great pleasure from watching it
i am a hoops junkie
junkie is not a good word for it
it is too healthy and beautiful for that
throughout my life
no matter what insanity has been going on
the nba is always there for me
a triple header on sunday
is the cure for anything that ails me
when all the thousands of people are together in the arena watching
it is a giant group mediation to me

basketball is america's great gift to the world
basketball and jazz
magic johnson and art blakey
elgin baylor and charlie parker
billie holiday and jamaal wilkes


i might as well let you know now
i am a laker fan
i am a crazed maniacal laker fan
i bleed purple and gold
the greatest sports franchise ever
the traditon
when it comes to the lakers
i am pig headed
arrogant
and i make no sense whatsoever
basketball, nba, in general? i think i am a fairly good judge of what
is going on
the lakers?
i love them too much to make sense
i am warning you...
i am gonna write this blog all season long
i am bound to say something ridiculous like
"slava medvedenko is a better basketball player than amare stoudemire"
or
"the lakers will go undefeated all season this year"
count on my insanity
it is reliably absurd and my wife thinks i am an idiot
but to me there are the lakers and there are the rest of the enemies

but when i do not think of the lakers, i do love lots of guys in the
nba and do appreciate the greatness of other teams
especially ones with great lakers (like the grizzlies, with jerry west)

Anyways
Last night was opening night for the lakers. they won in o.t.
KOBEEEEEE!!!!! drained a jumper in the face of some stooge on denver in
o.t. with a second left and whoooooo hooo i was dancing in my living
room. smush parker looked great, devean george looked good and even
though lamar did not have a great game they still won, and believe me
lamar is gonna start having good games. I have faith in kwame, he knows
this is a great second chance, once he learns the triangle and is
comfortable i think he is gonna have a great career as a laker. i love
andrew bynum. he is earnest, humble, and has skills. he seems like a
super intelligent, really nice kid. i am very happy to have him on the
lakers, i think he is gonna be a great nba basketball player. so great
to have phil back, the d looked way better, they kept their cool when
the going got tricky.

I must say that the heat seemed unbeatable last night.
how in tarnation did they get gary payton, white chocolate and antoine
walker?
jesus, it doesn't seem fair
in the second half they were just laughing, running up and down the
court
whooping the tar out of the grizzlies

the spurs look unbeatable too
this amnesty thing, man they got michael finley..
he is a great player . a solid guy
what was dallas thinking???
and nick the quick
that doesn't seem fair either
they are just too good

i am sad that amare stoudemire is out for so long
he is the most exciting player in the nba
black jesus
i do love him
i love black jesus

it is a drag for the nuggets to lose nene on opening night, what bad
luck
especially after losing voshon like that last year

i am so excited and happy the season is underway

the kings are done, stick a fork in 'em

the sonics luck has run out
even though rashard lewis is awesome

watch out for baron davis he gonna have an incredible year

and remember

world be free!!!

always,
flea