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NBA MVT, Season 3

This will be a quick writing.

I didn't want you to be disappointed, when you check your phone at 11:30.

I'm excited to hear more about "Green Laughs." __________

I had a good day in class, today.  I have a window, I believe, to connect with some of the kids in my classes.  I think it's worth a shot.

I want you to put "e-mail each student individually" on my to-do list tomorrow.

I think it's worth the shot. __________

I'm about to leave, to go buy cat food.  And to deposit money.  And to (hopefully) not get a cold.

I'm going to buy an unlimited card.  I'll give it to you for work, tomorrow.  And then let's make sure we're the type of movers-and-shakers who 

save money

when they get Unlimited cards.

I like the idea of us becoming an "Unlimited Couple."

(You know -- the type of couple that is always doing stuff, always running from one spot to another, around the city)

(and pays each other a dollar if they get the other one to laugh) __________

"Every laugh is worth a dollar." -- me

__________

I'm going to start writing about basketball, again.

Partly because I want to.

and Partly because I agree with you:

I think it's one of my most interesting stories, so far.

I start a league in two weeks that I wouldn't have imagined

IMAGINED

playing in one year ago.  I am into Year 2 now, of my "win the NBA MVP award" storyline.

Which of course seemed crazy, a year ago.

And which also seems crazy, now.

But here is the only real, legitimate, important question:

(drum roll please...) ______________

Is it less crazy now?

Which, a year ago, most people would have thought an unlikely -- if not impossible -- goal.

Surely, a year later, it would be crazier.

And you know what?  It still mostly is.  

But not more crazy.  

Right?

Or am I crazy? __________

__________

At some point, if I'm playing regularly with guys who have played professionally, 

then how far off is that goal, really?

Now, it may be like 'dropping off my laundry' -- the goals that are close to me, may seem impossibly far, simply because of the speed I've been able to take, so far.

But if the fundamentals improve?  If the imbalance is ironed out, with repetition after repetition?  

If we add weights, and start breaking down the muscles, and 

finally

trusting they'll come back? __________ __________

I know, on some level, my legs have been on Earth for 31 years or so.

But I swear,

on some fairly serious level,

my muscles are still babies.

If I eat right, discipline my sleeping habits, improve my breathing habits, and work-out-to-the-point-of-muscle-breakage

for the next 10 months,

I can play in the NBA next season.

2015-2016.

__________

And I'm writing that.

Which means --

and I mean this --

on some real level, 

I mean that.

__________ __________

So:  no more candy for me.

My next season starts December 8.

Monday, December 8.  8:00 PM

I'll be playing.

And auditioning.

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That's why we struggle to comprehend professional basketball. You can only play five players at a time. Those players can only play a total of 240 minutes. How those players coexist, how they make each other better, how they accept their portion of that 240-minute pie, how they trust and believe in one another, how they create shots for one another, how that talent/salary/alpha-dog hierarchy falls into place...that's basketball.

"The Book of Basketball," Bill Simmons (pg.48)