Throwback Friday

Yesterday, I planned to go to the movies in my 85 Toyota Pickup while wearing clothes I would've worn (or actually did wear) in high school. As a fan of nostalgia, I thought this was a great idea; I have fond memories of the parts of high school where I was able to drive, and I was going to see The King's Speech, which I hear is good.

Then I misread the time, my stereo didn't work, and I'm pretty sure I almost crashed three times on the way there because the weather was so bad. So I ended up keeping my car in the Edwards parking lot while I waited for the weather to clear (hopefully) overnight. So instead of having a throwback Friday, we ended up going to TGI Fridays and then watching a few episodes of "Louie" before I fell asleep because I do not have the impressive insomniac skills my friends do.

Just goes to show that you can't go back to the good ol' days, no matter how hard you try.

But so as to not end this post on a negative note, there were some pretty good dunks in the dunk competition today. I thought it kinda sucked that Griffin won with such a pageant type dunk when he was so solid for the first few without gimmicks and whatnot, but it was also nice he got to dedicate it to his friend who died of cancer, which was a sweet button to the night. Either way though, it was a fun one.

A Hypothetical Involving Basketball

Hey,  back to brevity for the weekend.

Say, do any of you 10-15 people who read this like basketball? If you don't, I'm sorry about this post, but I thought about it a couple days ago and thought this would be great filler on the weekends, when I strive to be brief.

Anyway, I was watching "Pardon the Interruption" when they started talking about Blake Griffin and the Clippers GM saying Griffin was "a Clipper for life." The dudes on PTI started debating it because of how shitty the Clippers are in terms of retaining personnel. They then started talking about what teams he could go play for when his contract expires.

They mentioned Oklahoma City because Griffin is a native Oklahoman and whatnot, but this got me thinking.

Oklahoma had the number three pick the year Griffin was drafted. This very easily could've been the number one pick, due to that lottery system that I only kind of understand. Which means that they could have drafted Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and Blake Griffin in a span of about three or four years.

That would be a team worth rooting for. As a man without a country basketball-wise (I'm a de facto Clippers fan because I dislike the Lakers personality-wise [plus, Blake Griffin is really fun to watch, as is Eric Gordon]), but if the Thunder had those three dudes on their team that'd be both awesomely fun to watch and a likeable team to boot!

Of course, it didn't happen, but it's nice to imagine.