Domo Arigato Mr. Nugato

Ray Allen sans the tights, went off against Denver. Notice the wry confident smile on Ray's face and the look of bewilderment on the defenders face. Sweet. When your in the zone what mo can you do? Party on Ray!

  Cap the end of the mini road trip with a W in Denver. Denver was outmanned. Due to injury. We haven't outmanned many this season. Our All Stars played like it. The man...Ray...39 pts. Rashard poured in 27. But to even it out, Seattle played without Rid and Danny Fortson.

  I love Earl Boykins, cause you gotta root for the 5'5" NBA guy. He made an amazing shot. Chased down an inbounds pass that was going out of bounds and heaved it, in the air, and out of bounds, and over a 6'9" Rashard, and behind  the backboard high arch SWISH! And as the ball passed through the net the red lights went on and the buzzer sounded to end the 2nd quarter. Dramatic sh*t for the home team to end the 1st half and a 61-58 lead. Should have been a momentum builder. Melo and Boykins tore it up in the 1st half and went away for the 2nd.I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello. Rashard lays in 2 of his 27. Note Melo with his trademark "Xanadu" headband. Thats right Melo, You have to believe you are magic and get physical wit yo bad ole self!

    I'll take any road W, or any W for that matter. Its back to Seattle now for a New Year's Eve tiff with the Griz. Remember when the Grizzlies were in Vancouver. No, not Vancouver, WA, Vancouver BC silly. One of the supposed selling points of that franchise to Vancouver was to develop this supposed "I-5" rivalry between Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland. Never happened. Take it from an American who lived basically on the border between Canada and the US in Blaine, WA. Canadians don't give a crap about basketball. I always thought the whole Raptors thing as "cartoonish". Everytime I see the purple uni's all I can think about is Barney! The NBA finals could be on and on Canadian TV theywould have a curling match on. Which is basically lawn bowling on ice. I lived 34 miles from Vancouver and never caught the Griz, not worth watching and I disdain lazy ball Raheem and he was they're marquee player. But everytime I think of the Grizzlies now its funny, Grizzlies in Memphis? Thats as likely as a Yeti in Manhattan! The coolest name for a Memphis pro sports franchise ever? And should be the hoops team name too is the Memphis Showboats of the defunct USFL. Where the great Reggie White got his start. Bring on the Griz, we will be ready.