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Ok... so this weekend was a wash. In terms of basketball and my life anyhow. the All-Star Game was a sham, it made me depressed - and the whole world was let down. Come on, Dave Stern - couldn't you fix it so the East would win! In Philly, for God's sake. And Kobe getting the Game MVP while the whole Union Center Statium, crowd was booing him - and loudly. Pathetic!!!
And the Slam-Dunk Contest - how is it fair if Steve Francis gets assigned to do a dunk that he cannot physically do!!! That was so stupid. He can't PALM the ball... his hands just aren't big enough. Couldn't he spin that stupid fucking fixed wheel again - to get a different dunk.
Whatever! I'm pissed.
It ruined my whole weekend.
then my roommates and I - and a bunch of other annoying ppl - watched "office space" which served to remind me just how miserable of a life I truly do lead. PHEW!
poor Allen Iverson... he only got to play like 12 minutes or some shit. And what the fuck could he do against a bunch of oversize Western forwards?
GRRrrrrrrrr................

I was so emotional about this nba weekend - I even wrote an email to the SLAM editor dude, who writes the links section - (Slam Links)

our conversation went as follows--

Date: 11 Feb 2002 16:50:19 -0500
From: "Lang Whitaker"
Subject: Re: weekend --- NBlahA
To: Margarita M

Thanks...

--lang

Lang Whitaker
SLAM magazine, Online Editor
1115 Broadway, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10010
lang@harris-pub.com
SLAMonline.com

On Monday, February 11, 2002 4:47 PM, Margarita M. wrote:
>hey, man
>I just read your Links....
>and maybe you had a good time this weekend, hanging out, partying 'n
>all... but for those of us watching at home the NBA All-Star Weekend was a
>WASH. I'm telling you - the whole pathetic spectacle totally ruined MY
>weekend. how is it fair if Steve Francis gets assigned to do a dunk that
>he cannot physically do!?!?! That was so weak. He can't PALM the ball...
>his hands just aren't big enough. Couldn't he spin that stupid fucking
>fixed wheel again - to get a different dunk.
>Whatever! I was pissed.
>Richardson was amazing, I'm glad HE won and not that weird guy with the
>lisp from the Kings...
>but come ON, I felt bad for Stevie, he didn't get a fair shot at the
>title. And how is the L ever going to convince ANY NBA stars to enter the
>dunk contest when they all saw how embarassing and ridiculous it was with
>the new rules?!?
>Saturday was annoying, but I'm glad that my boy Peja won - he deserved
>that Shoot-Out trophy, and the couple of bill$ that come with it - props
>to the Europeans.
>
>anyway, then the All-Star Game was a sham, it made me depressed - and the
>whole world was let down.
>Come on, Dave Stern - couldn't you fix it so the East would win! In
>Philly, for God's sake. And Kobe getting the Game MVP while the whole
>Union Center Statium crowd was booing him - and loudly. Pathetic!!!
>Whoever that sadist was who was interviewing Kobe during the game should
>get the mike shoved up somewheres... you could tell that Kobe was all
>broken up about it - being booed in his home town, and personally I'm not
>into the kid, but give him a break - that announcer-dude was just rubbing
>it in.
>The whole all-star show unravelled at the end when the people started
>filing out when it became blazingly obvious that the West was gonna win
>that dumb game... and I think that partly it was bad PR on the part of
>the NBA, made us look bad in front of the whole world.
>Phew... Had to get that off my chest.
>
>I haven't written to you before, Lang - but you seem like a cool guy.
>Keep up the good work with Slam and all that.
>
>peeeece,
>-Margarita
>
>PS
>Hope you're all right after all those cheesesteaks.