While my wife and I will be toasting our love, marriage, children and grandchildren tonight on Valentines day, I will be missing the only contest in the NBA's All Star Celebration that's at all interesting. Not that the Dunk Contest couldn't be risen from the dead with more than one leaper and lots of understudies. I leave that fix to the league. I'll also leave the skills contest to the league. I'm only interested in the All Star Game itself. Let's be clear: without a modicum of D, the game is boring, just a bunch of 3s and dunkers. Yawn! Here's my fix: Create a 4 point line. Add a 5 point box at the ends of the midcourt stripe where they meet the sideline. You want long bombs, give the fans long bombs. Create a Super Dunk Line just below the free-throw line and award 3 points for such massive dunks. Dunks within that semi circle will be only awarded 1/2 points. By diminishing the value of the dunk lesser dunk, you increase the value of the 2-pt shot, floater and such. Winners of quarters receive money for their favorite charities. Charities to be represented at the game to receive awards. At half time, bring down three fans for a 1 million dollar attempt from the midcourt stipe.
Okay, that's enough for now. Even if you have an argument with my ideas, that's okay. My point is the NBA has some creativity mind fog. The All Star Game is about The GAME. That's the most important fix.
An interesting aside about the Winter Olympics: Three of America's men's figure skaters have Slavic names. I hesitate to say Russian names becayse Russians are not so popular these days, But as a Russian immigrant, what can I say. It's cool the popularity of figure skating translated from the old county to the new country. Immigration? Get it Trump. That's what America is all about, you jingoistic, homophobic, racist moron.
TIP OF THE PEN
It may be a mystery crime writing convention that the crime/murder should happen reasonably close to thre begining of the novel. I've noticed reading recent mysteries that this is beginning to get out of vogue. I'm suspicious of this trend. Unles someone can convince me otherwise I'm sticking with the quicker the crime the faster I get into the story. Note, I do NOT mean solving the crime. I want to get into my chracter(s). They will carry the story to its conclusion.
ON THE COURT ON VALENTINES' DAY 2026 By Tom Meschery
That the ball flies like cupid's arrow
That as the ball swishes
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