Gulf of Mexico’s oil spill... Staten Island ferry’s deja vu crashing into St George’s terminal the European union bailing out Greece with a one trillion Euro package... what more could our minor planet endure in its 21st century...... Enter a six foot one point guard for the Boston Celtic basketball dynasty named after a musical construction......Rondo yes a whiz kid with a look alike Richard Widmark baby face,
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Once out of Tubby Smith’s Kentucky gym, a whirling dervish proved to himself and the cosmos he belongs with Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain in their triple quest......
Points rebounds and assists in the modern era. John Stockton Steve Nash Jason Kidd were field generals Eyes in back of their heads... peripheral vision ....but the legerdemain Rondo demonstrated in game four with the Cavs was breathlessly exhilarating, his lithe 6'1 obliterating time and space in his “world’s all a stage”
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A virtuoso performance. the maestro orchestrating his “brothers” to become better...”he made us better” as the supporting cast would allude to other point guards...Jason Kidd Steve Nash John Stockton
Never have these aging blues seen such a Harry Houdini quantum leap into uncharted sweats Rondo’s vision defining the playoff series two games apiece, the Picasso like free wheeling Celtics in Cleveland for tonight’s fifth transition into the rainbow.
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How does Puck in the Bard’s “Midsummer’s Night Dream” Porky in Gershwin’s “Porky and Bess” inculcate such a penetration in the paint....nail threes from downtown,,,,execute behind the back passes while crashing the boards..... Shaq faked out, the pumpkin with TonyAllen dunking with two hands, the glass shaking...
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The Holy Grail of the musica called basketball: its finesse instilled in its worshipers by Phog Allen Adolph Rupp Hank Iba Eddie Sutton coach John Wooden Clair Bee Red Auerbach Red Holtzman. .with the likes of George Mikan Bob Kurland big men pointing the calculus to another gear......
Yet in the role of ball handlers like Bob Cousy Steve Nash Jason Kidd John Stockton their genome woven in the playgrounds of their dreams and longings
To amount for something heroic in their give&go lay ups..... in the zone landscapes to make their supporting cast better....their chemistry larger than life.
Right? Right..
To overcome the Goliath challenges to their Herculean motion in poetry. What is their secret? Their potency to strip off their street clothes, galvanizing themselves as we spectators marvel at streaking tour de forces in search of themselves.
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A travesty as Rondo the Magician masterminds ... indeed poses his palpitating heartbeats that the Sherpas of Mount Everest could grasp and understand in making the 93 foot Kirov ballet part of his sensitive insensitive soul
Calibrating the flow and motion to these aging blues as Apollo.....the orbital flights and ....”One small step for man, a giant leap for the Celtics”
Danny Ainge Doc Rivers the father surrogate of a coach, his “sons”: in synch with their “father’s” aggression, the tempo in sych with Doc’s fluid state of mind weighed against the Goliath based on the Lake Erie shores.
Orestes slashing the monster of a MINOTAUR.
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“MVP MVP” screamed the spectators.... the Gods of basketball watching from their bannered heights........
Bill Russel Tommy Heinson (“the Celtic radio voice”) Havlichek off the bench Sam Jones Bill Sharman KC Jones Dennis Johnson Larry Burd The Chief Don Barksdale Bill Walton McHale Tiny Archibald Howie Schultz.....towering larger than life scorers shooters passers thru fuve decades of streaming parquet floors..
They broke the mold of hotel bellhops and sleeping car porters, Abe Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.... a century and a half comes to life as these great grandsons of cotton picking slaves demonstrate thirty lashes with a wet noodle irony.
Their competitive juices.... adrenalin if you will, thriving in this environment...steroids drug enhancing drugs cast asunder.... tapping their interiors, transcending their plantation handlers.
“Don’t look back You’ll see something gaining ..hearing those thunderous stutter steps” said Satchel Paige playing out his role..... a 46 year old relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.
NBA playoffs, game 5, Cleveland, Ohio. Cavs versus the Celtics, series tied 2-2..
