Omg.... I'm crying.... I can't believe I'm crying right now.

That is awesome. I stayed up til 3:30 East Coast time and was wide awake at 7:30. Good feelings all around. Haven't felt tired today at all. So happy.

 

This is why sports are so great. What else in life gives you such emotion? Your children and your family, sure, but the excitement, the sorrow, the deep caring? It's pretty unique in the public sphere.

 

Dame is B-Roy reincarnated.

The basketball God's took Roy away from us too soon..... So they could bestow us with Lillard. Funny how things work out like that.

 

The Roy we needed: better ball handler, just as clutch, normal knees. That's Lillard.

 

Woke up today still so drunk from last night. Watched the game from the beach house after a perfect day. I literally had a fantastic day, enjoyed the sun at the coast, had some amazing bottles of wine (I figured if be settling in, so I picked some very solid wines to bring). My daughter and I strolled the beach for two hours, the calm before the storm. She finally asked if we were close to game time; I nodded yes.

We walk back to the house, and she said we'd win (she's six, WTF does she know?). We get back to the house. I'm downstairs, sprawled on the bed in our room. The wife and her mom watch a chick-flick upstairs, my daughter joins me. We watch it all down there, even eat our burgers in bed (free-range turkey in my burgers, grass-fed beef in hers). Wife comes down with 3 minutes left. I thought she would ruin the party. We're all watching in bed. Openly last, best bottle (a bottle I'd been waiting years to open, mind you). Blazers struggling. I'm like "Maybe I shoulda waited." My daughter tells me to just relax, and the wife says "No time like now" (she just wanted me to open it, I suppose). Blazers get fucked by the refs and we're down two. I'm pissed I opened the bottle, but my wife says to wait and watch (and she's not a big basketball fan, but she watches the Blazers for me). She calls the Lillard 3. Timeout comes, then play resumes, and the magic happens. I spill my glass on the dresser (i drink it up with a straw).

We were up late drinking and celebrating. I could hear a few neighbors screaming in the distance. We opened another bottle, and I woke up still tipsy. Went for a morning walk, then headed to Florence for the day. I swear to God, almost every antique/thrift shop employee said I'd looked like I'd had a rough night (they all look like they'd had rough lives). Then said I must have watched the game. We had bloodies and a nice brunch. I swear everyone in the restaurant was hung. It seemed most people at the restaurant was talking about the game. It was pretty surreal, but a fantastic day (or two days).

 

Not used to such ups and downs in just such short minutes.

 

I figured I'd share my story real quick. The family and are were on vacation in Disneyland. Somehow, someway I talked the family into going to the ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney. There were actually quite a few Blazer fans there. We were all huddled around the TV for the last shot and the whole place erupted when he hit it and not just the Blazer fans were going crazy. High fives and hugs with complete strangers. But the best part of this story is when we flew back today and I was wearing my Lillard shirt, I had 3 different L*kers fans tell me how awesome Lillard and the Blazers were and how happy they were to see the look on Howards face when they lost. What a weird twighlight zone world that was... But all memories I will NEVER forget.

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Awesome man.

I've never seen Laker fans so vindictive towards a former player. It's really strange.

 

Does d-Ho count as a former Laker? I mean, he didn't really "play" last year.

 

Okay the hiccup stage just ended and now I'm starting 3 days of blowing my nose.

 

jlprk! Tell me you didn't steal that line from W.C. Fields! Great win eh dude?

 

Exciting series! Our defense surprised me. Good LaMarcus showed superstar potential in the first 2 games...the unrealized ambition of the unenergetic Bad LaMarcus.

 

Woke up and started watching the game at about 5:30am on a ghetto stream. It was already halfway through the 3rd quarter. Kicking myself for sleeping in. Everybody else was asleep (I have two boys, a wife, and my mother-in-law lives with us, so I really value these quiet early hours.) The sun was rising out my window and I could hear birds chirping. It's still weird for me to realize I'm living clear the hell out here in England.

Parsons snatches that rebound and gets the putback, and I'm just in utter despair. I almost close my laptop and just walk away. This one is over....another Blazer playoff heartbreak. Batum inbounds the ball, Lillard rises, and I don't even dare to hope. Shot goes in, and my 6 and 8 year old boys, my wife and my mother-in-law wake upstairs to Dad shouting, "HOLY FUCKING SHIT! JESUS CHRIST! THAT KID HAS HUGE FUCKING BALLS! I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT!" I never swear in front of the kids, so it was kind of a big deal. Dog is barking, I'm laughing, and the whole house wakes up. Eyes roll when it's "just Daddy watching another game," but they can tell it's different this time.

Later that day I took the family for a fantastic walk in the countryside and then my wife made for me a truly epic birthday cake.





That's mint ice cream in there, just like my mom used to make for me when I was a kid.

I'll always remember my 41st.

 

Happy Birthday Mookster. That is definitely a great birthday present

 

Thanks! Definitely was.

 

Bump.

Go blazers.

 

They have a cool video on blazers.com where dame talks about the shot.


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I just watched this game for the first time last night. I had taped it back in April, and then heard about the score before I could watch the recording. I've been saving it for the day before the season started.

A few observations:

Lillard hit two amazing back-to-back 3's in the first half, so it was definitely a good shooting night for him.

We got very little from Batum in this game. He really needs to dial it up this season.

We got burned by ESPN at the end just like we got burned by CBS after we won the title. ESPN went straight to SportsCenter after the winning shot. No interview with Lillard, no posts-game commentary by the announcers. Nothing. Bastards.