“History repeats itself”. No, not the fragmentary nature of ourexistence , chilling out the barrels and double dribbles of cyber space.
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Zen master and Knick basketball honcho, Phil Jackson (“one step at a time”). His vision contradicts the tentativeness and insecurities that beset us from cradle to grave.
Five years at @ twelve mill a year certainly is not a per diemstipend for a character building coach (makes us better in own double dribbling “winning is his game)…eleven NBA titles, Hall of Fame honor A presence that reverberates thru the culture players and coaches breathe.
A Prince Valiant hero returns to the scene of his glory. Those incipient yesterdays some 44 years ago number 6 man, sitting on the bench, next to coach Red Holzman (‘70,’ 73) .
A father mentor son relationship playing out. The player hunger to belong: the coach’s need to manage the ”five” to a “w”. On a day to day campaign… a championship and a ring at the end.
How this double dribbling duo expanded their brain neurons….their common ancestry. One from the East New York depression laden Hebrew Educational Society environs: the other from North Dakota, his parents ministers in their own grinding depression yesterdays..
To find a commonality in such a flow? How far does mutualitygo?
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The source of the coach’s all court mind set, may go back to being the child of immigrants. The Hebrew Educational Society, goes back to his East New York origins.. Sutter Pitkin, Pennsylvania Saratoga Avenues.
Jackson’s parents were immigrants of another mode. Moving from Montana to the North Dakota Badlands as ministers, inculcating their faith in the Hinterlands.
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Didn’t Ibsen in his “ When we Dead die”, scripting symbolism, an allegory..A metaphor in the reader state of mind.. A parable from real events. The Ibsen protagonist evolves in his guilt .A disease that not only diminishes his heroism, but puts an onus onhis once energized soul.
Hence thus therefore the once fountain of youth comes to itsinevitable… time clock..Cease fire.
Coach’s DNA and ascent, akin to Prometheus Bound, pushing back those boulders. Surmounting a Beethoven growingdeafness, which laid the cornerstone for seven more masterpieces…miracles as was his wont. Deleting Napoleon’sdedication when he saw the “little General” name himself Emperor of the Austria Hungary Empire!
Indeed! *Toby Belch.
Not in my life time, *Toby...
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It’s a tall order to restore the Kingdom to the Holy Grail of RedHolzman and number 6 player coming off the splinters, seems like a tall *belch.. But where else could such a restoration ofeuphoria take place. The music of double dribbling be heardonce again.
Who but a Prince in the court of the double dribble, master mind how his jocks evolve, as he once did learning the game, sitting on the bench.
March 18, 2014. The City that never sleeps
