I feel great about the blog moving forward into the ’25-’26 NBA season. As a saavy, experienced NBA blogger who’s favorite team is the Denver Nuggets, and second favorite team is the defending champ OKC Thunder…it’s as if the NBA gods have parted the seas for MJ and ‘all this’ has happened in this manner.
Not to brag, but…in four of the last NBA seasons the team which MJ picked at the XMas break went on to win the NBA championship. Golden State in ’22, Denver in ’23, and OKC in ’25. I’m not saying to totally ignore Vegas and ESPN, but it is what it is.
I’m going to make a few tweaks this season though:
1 I’m replacing Smerconish as an affliate link with Firing Line’s Margaret Hoover. MJ loves Margaret and this should have been done last season. I’ve bored with Michael. He appears to have become Donald Trump’s bitch.
2 I feel as if I need some sort of Buddist statue of Big Perk on the cover.
3 Jeremy Clarkson from Clarkson’s Farm will be an added affiliate link as well. It’s a long, long haul during an NBA season and without the TNT show I worry these white people are going to ruin the NBA. We all need to laugh at ourselves..and others from time to time.
4 And …continue to ban Donald Trump from from my blog content. No more rabbit holes for MJ.
Our big September trip to SanDiago isn’t that far off. Our goal was to go from coast to coast this year and genuinely take in the beauty of our country as we observe the final days of American democracy as our parents and grand parents knew it.
The wife of 45 years and I sat out on the porch this evening as the sun fell behind our dense forest line about an 8-iron away from where we where sitting.
She looked at me and said, “We got old, didn’t we?”
I replied, ” Nah…age is only a state of mind. You have to think young and challenge yourself every day.”
Etrenal love, MJ.
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