Beginnings

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This is a blog born of necessity.

For nearly four years now I've been an ardent fan of the NBA. My love for basketball, though, began much earlier. When Hakeem dismantled the Knicks for the first of two Rockets titles, I was eight years old and was just beginning to expand my basketball horizons beyond the confines of my driveway. Through a few early years compiling a rather scant basketball card collection(Michael Finley rookie card, what what?) to my days cheering on Ronny Turiaf at Gonzaga University, my love for the game never waned.

On a night shrouded in mystery, I sat at my desk disconsolately browsing the internet for something to help me forget that the paper I should have been working on was due in less than eight hours. That's when I stumbled upon True Hoop, and forever broadened my NBA horizons. I won't claim that it was love at first sight. I didn't start reading True Hoop every day from then on, but it planted the seed of what would become a borderline unhealthy obsession with following NBA basketball.