At 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET, all televisions across the country should be tuned into one program. Buy a satellite dish, order the NBA package, hump your neighbor, I don’t care what you do, just make sure you get to a TV to watch the Trailblazers @ Wizards game today. How could there possibly be so much hype over such an ordinary event? How could this possibly be more entertaining than Donna Martin graduating or Simon Cowell scowling you ask? Because Gilbert says so, that’s why.
It’s so funny how a game nobody ever thought about is going to become a watched game. Even if you don’t watch the game, you’re going to look at the boxscore to see what happened. My last one o’clock game was 51 against Utah. So I’m feeling pretty frisky. It’s kind of funny because I said the next time I was going to score 50 was going to be against them, so every game I went into, my shot wasn’t on. It’s going to be more of a fun one because at the end of the day, they really do not want me to get 50. Nate‘s a tough guy so I know that there’s going to be a lot or elbows and a lot of double teams so that will just leave stuff open for everybody else.
If you read way back to the beginning of Gilbert’s blog, you’ll see where the whole thing starts. To summarize, Gilbert admits to being cut by the US National Team in the summer which upset Arenas because he felt the decision-makers used his minor groin injury as a convenient excuse to cut him. Ever since that happened, he’s taken it upon himself to avenge the embarrassment caused by anyone who may have had something to do with his being cut – that’s why he made it a point to light up Phoenix and their coach Mike D’Antoni and why he joked about going back to college to dominate Duke, and why McMillan is on the hit list today.
For the record, I actually believe Gilbert writes his blog unlike most other athletes. If not, then the ghost-writer must talk to Gil and write exactly the way he speaks, because it seems pretty real to me. I have to say that the blog is probably one of the greatest tools an athlete has used to reach the public and interact with fans. I have no doubt that it’s been a hit on NBA.com this year and I don’t know what I’ll do if he discontinues it – it would be like your favorite player signing with another team. Tear drop, sniffle, tear drop. Long live Gilbert’s must-read blog and must-see TV games against Portland!
