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Bill Simmons' Brain: Simmons on the joy of pickup basketball -

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Any pickup-basketball regular battles an ongoing dilemma: What’s it worth to keep playing for as long as possible? If it’s super-crowded and you want to stay on the court for a few games, you might suck it up and jump on a team with Pickup Carmelo or Pickup Kobe — a.k.a. a one-on-one guy who will shoot half your team’s shots, only he’s good enough that you might be able to ride him for two straight hours. But if it’s less crowded? You take your chances with people who are fun to play with — a.k.a. unselfish guys who run the floor, know how to pass and cut, keep the ball moving, don’t take stupid transition shots, and generally know what they’re doing.

And ideally, this is what happens: A few times per year, you’ll find the right four guys on a crowded day, everything will click, you’ll turn into the ‘77 Blazers, and you end up laying the smack down, 2013 Heat–style, for six or seven straight.

It’s just the best day you can have. It’s the greatest. You limp out of there beaming, and when your wife or girlfriend asks you later that night why you’re so damned happy, you can’t even properly explain it. How can you explain total bliss? I love playing basketball — even now, with my body breaking down and my game decaying to alarming degrees — if only because it’s one of the few places left on earth where you can connect with total strangers like that. Age doesn’t matter, backgrounds don’t matter, nothing matters. You have four teammates, they can be anybody, and you either know how to click with them or you don’t.

(Source: grantland.com)

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50 Things That Turn 50 in 2013 -

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  1. Beatlemania
  2. The Computer Mouse
  3. Weight Watchers
  4. Push-Button Telephones
  5. Michael Jordan, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt…
  6. Marvel’s The Avengers
  7. The X-Men
  8. Smiley Face
  9. The Rolling Stones
  10. “Blowin’ In The Wind” - Bob Dylan
  11. “Surfin’ Usa” - The Beach Boys
  12. Compact Cassettes
  13. Zip Codes
  14. Tennis For Women
  15. The Fugitive
  16. The Great Train Robbery
  17. Hang-Gliding
  18. Hover Mowers
  19. Hypertext
  20. “I Have A Dream”
  21. “Segregation Forever”
  22. “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”
  23. The Election Of Pope Paul Vi
  24. Iron Man
  25. Kenya
  26. Dead-Donor Kidney Transplants
  27. Lava Lamps
  28. Cleopatra
  29. The Alphanumeric APS2
  30. Lilies Of The Field
  31. Lamborghini
  32. Women In Space
  33. The Eruption Of Mount Agung
  34. Modesty Blaise
  35. “Be My Baby” - The Ronettes
  36. Nanoseconds
  37. The Killing Of Medgar Evers
  38. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  39. The Nutty Professor
  40. Fellini’s 8 ½
  41. The Profumo Affair
  42. The Most Peaceful Violent Protest In History
  43. Skateboarding
  44. Science Of Being And Art Of Living
  45. The Birds
  46. Astro Boy
  47. Zanzibar
  48. “Pop Art” At The Guggenheim
  49. The JFK Assassination
  50. Doctor Who

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