After years of rooting for teams that I had hardly heard of, I can now, finally, root for my local NBA team because Chris Webber has been traded from the Sacramento Kings to the Philadelphia 76ers. For years, I've followed C.Webb around the league and have tried to root for whatever team he was on, regardless of how bad they were or how little I knew about the team or even the city it was in. This finally became enjoyable in Sac-town and I'm, admittedly, a little sad to see that era pass.
The Kings are / were a fun team to watch and I liked most of the guys on the team. However, it WAS a pain in the ass to stay up until damn near 2:00am just to watch them play on national TV (which wasn't terribly often). I look forward to watching C.Webb at more convenient time and, hell, I'll probably even go down to a game or two now. If AI and C.Webb mesh well, it could be really hot ... only time will tell.
C.Webb (and the Fab-Five) were really the reason I started to root for Michigan football which, for those that know me, has become a huge part of my life when it's college football season.
Now, if I could just get my favorite atheletes in the other major sports to join my local / favorite teams, I'd be set. For those interested, that'd be Barry Sanders coming out of retirement and playing for the Eagles and Tom Glavine making his way to Atlanta (or at least to Philly so I could watch him in person and NOT have to root for, ugh, the Mets of all teams).
Posted by languorous at February 24, 2005 11:20 AM