By sheer luck we were in Denver on Thursday before heading to Crested Butte for a wonderful Father’s Day weekend with my son’s family. This parade on Thursday was just a perfect beginning to a great weekend.
The parade started downtown near Union Station and just across the street from the offices of Antero Resources where my son works. I could have gone to a party there, but instead opted to stay at the homestead in Bonnie Brae and watch every minute of the celebration from the household and hang out with the grandkids after their morning pre-school session.
I’ve never really been a Nuggets fan per se, but I’m happy for these players and Coach Malone. What a great group of guys and if they can keep Bruce Brown from leaving in free agency…..and stay healthy—maybe a repeat could be possible. But as we all know…in the Collective Bargaining Era of pro sports any repeat is a difficult feat.
I was especially happy for Jamal Murray. He made me cry when he spoke of the journey back from his ACL injury. He thanked team owner Stan Kroenke for being patient with him. Plus, it was good to see Michael Porter smiling after his redemptive performance in Game 5.
It was all great. Almost a million people in attendance in Championship City. The Avs’ season last spring and now the Nuggets. My son’s sports cup runneth over, but as the Avs showed one key injury as they had with Gabriel can undermine a repeat in the blink of an eye. You gotta not only be good, but have some luck on your shoulder as well.
Crested Butte was spectacular and chilly. We used the fireplace all three nights and of course had one dinner at Michael’s Garlic on the Gunnison River. I had the chicken parm. It was awesome.
Well…back to the grind of being an NBA curmudgeon on the best underground Thunder blog available.
I was pleased to see the new Warriors’ GM Michael Dunleavy ship Jordan Poole’s worthless ass to Washington D.C. Chris Paul with the Splash Brothers…hmmn, I wonder if the old guy can stay healthy with a a reduced role? I can’t wait to see how that goes.
Plus, I can’t wait to see how Marcus Smart works with Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies. I can’t believe the Celtics made this trade. By the very recent admission of Joe Mazzoula it was Marcus who was the soul of the team. I guess maybe Marcus was too tough on the Glamour Boys… Jayson and Jaylen.
I still need to write a few thoughts down on here in regards to the always still yet developing Thunder. Trust me on this this…I’ll be dead and have moved on to Jonathon Livingston Seagull status before the Thunder conduct a championship parade.
My suggestion to Presti at this point is to have the championship parade if you finish second in the Northwest Division.
Peace.