I am Where Amazing Happens. Scrap that. I am Marcin Gortat's Jordan tattoo. I am Charlie Villanueva Tweeting at half time. I am Lamar Odom gorging myself on nothing but candy. I am Von Wafer's mohawk. I am the Portland Trailblazer's playoff beards. I am Josh Smith going between the legs against the Heat in the Playoffs. I am the Knicks making yet another bad decision on Draft Night. I am Kevin Garnett screaming for no apparent reason. I am Chris Andersen's entire look. I am Allen Iverson cutting the braids. I am Chuck Hayes taking free throws. I am any player who wears a shooting sleeve on each arm. I am the rebound that was taken off Lebron at The Garden. I am Monta Ellis on a moped. I am Philadelphia paying Elton Brand $82 million to ruin the team. I am Chris Bosh having his own iPhone app. I am Tracy McGrady blocking my own lay up attempt. I am the Pistons pre-game introduction (specifically Rasheed Wallace). I am The Sixteenth Man.
I am every single nonsensical, trivial and insignificant tid bit that makes the NBA great. I don't think there is any other league in the world that has the characters nor the freedom for those characters to express themselves like the NBA does. Those characters, and all the ludicrous things they do are going to be the basis of this blog. Couple this with a warped take on the regular goings on of the entire NBA and you get The Sixteenth Man.
Check back in at least every couple of days to have a look back on the 2008-2009 NBA Season, the prelude and fallout of the 2009 Rookie Draft, and the poorly written day time soap opera that is the NBA Off-Season.
So will this be a great blog? Or the GREATEST blog? I'll leave you and Mark Cuban to decide.
TSM
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