Let's look at the greats for a minute! The one's who jerseys hang proudly from the rafters! We can start with Julius Irving. They called him Dr. J! He wore number 6! Dude won 3 championships, 4 Most Valuable Player Awards, and three scoring titles....in the American Basketball Association or ABA, and the National Basketball Association or NBA. Crazy right? What about Oscar Robertson who played for the Milwalkee Bucks! Wore number 1, and is the only player ever to play in the NBA, to average a triple-double, for an entire season! They should have called him Mr. Incredible! What about Irving Magic Johnson. When he played with the Los Angeles Lakers, their games were called showtime, because of their fastbreak style of play! He wore number 32, and played in 9 championships, winning 5! His basketball rival Larry Bird, from the Boston Celtics. They called him the Bird Man, after the cartoon, remember!!! He wore number 33, and won 3 championships and 2 MVPs! And everybodys favorite, Micheal Jordan, from the home team, Chicago Bulls! Dude won 6 championships and 6 Finals MVP's! He personally change Chicago from the second city, to a dynasty! He wore number 23....forget that number 45 thing, and don't bring up the washington Wizards! We may not see a dude like that again in our lifetime! He was by far the best player I ever saw play! These guys have put in mad work on the basketball court. And they played until age or injury finally caught up with them! The way you are suppose to do it! And they got the hardware to prove it! Now then! Let's look at you!
First of all! I never heard of you! You claimed to have done this, that, and the third on the basketball court! You played a little high school ball, then somehow, played in college! After that, you had your little tryout in the pros, and maybe made it to the cut before the final cut, teams had to make before the start of the NBA Regular Season! Now, out of no-where, you decide that you have put in enough work, and it's time to hang up your jersey! You went ahead and did it, against your better judgement, and only crickets showed up for your little ceremony! And then you walked away like you just accomplished something big! And then you fall into the rigors of everyday life! Go to work, pay your bills, and try to salvage any spare time you can find to spend with the family! There is no time for yourself! Now! You're starting to reminisce about your glory days! You go back to the time when you was doing it on the basketball court! You and the Rock! Taking on all Competitors! Those were the days! But you know, you don't play basketball anymore! Your too cool for school now! Lost your first love. OK! But let somebody put a basketball in front of you! And it's like putting drugs in front of an addict! You start to wonder why you ever hung up that jersey! Bad move, right! Now let me ask you...How many championships did you win? How many MVP awards have you won! Or scoring titles??? Huh! What to do now?
I'm going to tell you what you should do! First of all, get that little stupid ideal out of your head, that you are done playing ball, because at the end of the day, you ain't even started playing yet! Imagine, if you were in the NBA, and you took care of yourself and your body, you might be able to play till the age of 40, with the right team and right role! But you are how old? Still 30 something?? Man, give me a freaking break! Unless you have had major surgery or something like that, your health should not be an issue yet! You should be able to keep up with your peers to about the age of 50 or so, and mind you, I said peers! If you are pushing 40 something, and you playing against mid 20 somethings, your probably going to run out of gas, sooner or later, against those cats! But please! You have to use it or loose it! Play the game, and the only thing you should loose, over time is speed! So with that being said, I think you still have a lot of basketball left in the tank! You've got an opportunity here, to get back into your element, with the Premiere Hoops Invitation. You still have time to get yourself back in some form of game shape. Get a team, and shoot for that first championship. You don't really want to stop playing basketball, until they tell you that you can't play anymore! I'll go get the ladder to help you bring down your still very useable uniform! Next up, Last Second Shot!
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