A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…..I used to follow professional basketball. I loved the slickly polished court...the squick of sneakers.....the impossibly tall players and the way they used to move. I remember Shaquille O’Neal , Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant and the one…the only…Michael Jordan (I even watched Space Jam!!!*sh-udder*). The semantics of the game never mattered…for me it was all about the slam-dunk! I ♥ slam-dunks!! Poetry in motion!
...’n’ then with the attention span of an ant in the throes of puberty.....I forgot all about three pointers and forwards and alley oops and what have you……
So when today’s TOI had a fantastic spread of Nate Robinson of the New York Knicks do a super-classy slam-dunk over Dwight Howards during the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest on All-Star Saturday Night…it was a happy flasback to my teens.
Here’s are a few pix I am storing for posterity.....
