In Praise of Basketball

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BASKETBALL: LIFE ITSELF

In honor of the sport of all sports par excellence;
In honor of the glorious game of basketball;
The game which is the beautifullest and most

fascinating of all sports ever

the most graceful,

 the most glamorous, charming, ravishing, exciting, majestic, fantastic, magical, mysterious;

the sweetest, the most pleasant and enjoyable,

the most touching, enchanting and gratifying,

the most marvelous, exhilerating, passionate, euphoric,

the most rewarding, fulfilling, infectious and intoxicating; the happiest, the snappiest, the happeningest,

the sharpest, the quickest, the fastest;

the most challenging,

the most tactical and technical, the most competitive,

the most astonishingly amazing and impressive;

the most thrilling, fascinating, high-flying, slamming, dunking, breathtaking,

heart-stopping, mind boggling crazy,

frenetic sport on the face of this earth

...the most attractive, addictive,

obsessively contageous and habit forming;

the most widespread, popular and celebrated,

the most covered and followed;

the most widespread, practiced and played everywhere;

in every city, town, village, street corner, school yard or college, in every home, club and park;

the sport that is in every kid's mind and dreams,

in every young man's aspirations, infatuation and imagination; the most grass roots of all sports,

the most local yet the most international;

the game that is the most worldly, the most socially-aware, the most open and welcoming,

the most equal, fair and mixed, the most multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural and colorful,

the most brotherly, the most beautiful...

basketball,

the sport that is the most cultured of all sports,

the most artistic, creative, innovative, expressive;

the most photogenic and visually appealing,

the noisiest, the most festive;

the coolest, the hottest, the jumpiest, funkiest,

fanciest and most fun of them all;

the most inspiring, the most rockin' and rolling,

the most hip hop and in-your-face,

the jazziest, the most harmonious...

the most musical to one's ears

the sport that has undoubtedly and undeniably

the tallest, the youngest and the most atractive of all players; the most healthy, lively, lovely and handsome,

the most intelligent, the most enthusiastic,

the most refreshingly dynamic and energetic;

the ones with the most flair, glare, style, poise, presence, vibrance, good looks and charisma,

the sweetest smile, the most personality,

the most athleticism and talent;

the most individualistic yet the most collective in play,

the most deadly accurate; the most disciplined,

the best trained, stubborn, consistent and resilient,

the hardest, toughest, strongest, meanest,

relentless and determined;

yet at the same time the cutest, smartest, nicest and warmest, always friendly, approachable and sympathetic, the closest to one's heart;

the most elegant, the most classy, flashy,

fashionable and well-dressed of them all,

the most extravagant, the best educated,

well-informed and well-versed,

the most sharp-tongued, the most soft spoken,

the most eloquent and articulate,

the funniest and the most humorous,

the most real, honest, sensitive, gallant, generous, genuinely gentlemanly,

the most down-to-earth,

honorable, amicable, decent and charitable

the sport which is the most fascinating and fabulous

the most heavenly, the most blessed, loved, venerated, reverred, cherished and admired;

the most divine, the most adored and the most worshipped...

basketball...

the most unique of all sports...

the one and only...

the closest to the heavens...

absolutely the best there is or will ever be...

the most pleasing to God's eyes
simply...the most wonderful gift from above...

Basketball...life itself...

The game that God Almighty blessed!!!

 



copyright 2000: by Garo Salibian

 

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