The NBA season starts tonight. For the longest time I considered the NBA a joke. I thought it was a bunch of extremely talented players running around going 1 on 1 and playing bad defense. I watched just about every game of the playoffs last year and I’m actually pretty excited about the NBA right now. ESPN the magazine and SI both have my Bucks having a terrible season. I hope that’s not the case. It will be interesting to see how Richard Jefferson and Michael Redd do together.
We’ve been practicing for a little over a week now. Everything has been going pretty well. My shot is looking pretty good lately and I’ve been working on my defense. The only bad thing about practice so far is that on the second or third day I hurt my thumb on my shooting hand. Last year against Appalachian State I partially tore some ligaments (aka a bad sprain). I played the rest of the season with tape on my shooting hand. Well the same thing happened and it looks like I’ll be wearing the tape again this year. Even though its on my shooting hand, it doesn’t affect my shot at all which is obviously really good.
Last week we had an Athletic Service Board meeting. Every school with Division 1 athletics has one of these. Basically a couple members from each team meet and discuss issues that are important to athletes, put together community service initiatives, help publicize games, and put on events for athletes such as an athlete only field day at the end of the school year. Last week we talked about the annual SoCon fundraiser. For the last few years each school collected the tabs off of soda cans. This year we are going to sell pink shoelaces for $1 in support of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. If you don’t know who Kay Yow you really should watch this video. She was diagnosed with cancer for the 3rd time in November during the 2007 basketball season. She missed 14 games and came back to coach while still undergoing Chemotherapy.
I’ll be back later on in the week.
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