One of my uncles is in town on business for the week. This particular uncle is an old-school Baahhston bloke (who happened to marry an Indian girl, mind you) who adores the Celtics and once claimed that “there is no God but Larry Bird, and McHale, Parish and Walton are his prophets.” Admittedly, this was after a night of heavy drinking with his nephews. Still, you get the idea.
Nevertheless, he’s also, after my dad, the sharpest basketball mind I know. So whenever he has to come to ‘Straya for a business trip I make sure to pick his brain.
Which I did over a plate of fried rice last night, after I sat through his whining that he had booked this trip when he thought the Celtics weren’t with a snowball’s chance in hell of making it past the second round.
He was in agreement with my theory that, when all is said and done, Stephen Curry will become the best player of this draft. Although he disagreed with me when I claimed that he’ll become better than Rondo. Which I stand by.
Then he dropped ...
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