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the official nba season tipped off yesterday which is pretty exciting. therefore this post is devoted to the nba and various players and teams and my love and hate for different ones. i dont claim to know anything about basketball but im slowly becoming a more dedicated and knowledgeable fan. so if you have no interest in this topic then youll probably just wanna stop reading about now...

why do i love allen iverson and the philadelphia sixers? honestly i dont have a great answer for that. im not from philly, although i have been there once, and i dont even really have any connections to it besides a couple of people (jen and joe baker and steph ward) that now reside in the great city of brotherly love. about four years ago though, i followed the sixers thru the nba playoffs and adopted them as 'my team.' and this is me when it comes to sports - i often dont know all there is to each game - all the rules, regulations, what constitutes fouls, errors, etc., however i can strangely get really into it. and im not some girl that tries to get all into sports to impress guys bc honestly you'd have to be able to spout out a lot of statistics before you impressed any guy and even with that they still probably wouldnt care. i just really enjoy being a fan, thats it. all to say, over the past years i have become a lot more interested in pro basketball and all the teams and players. the sixers remain the main team i loyally follow throughout the season but i am also partial to other teams and select players. below is a short synopsis of some likes and dislikes and ill be the first to say that yeah, i like some of the players bc honestly theyre attractive black men...however most of them are pretty talented players too!!

likes:
sixers namely AI bc he's just freakin amazing with a basketball. also love kyle korver and his 3 pointers, andre igoudala whos going to have a breakout soph. season, and sammy dalembert who if he gets better should be good as well. and yeah, im not a huge fan of the webber addition but if him and AI can figure out how to play together then they will be a great duo.
the rockets bc of t-mac and yao...i mean, who wouldnt love a 7 foot chinese guy playing bb?
the spurs, more during the dave robinson days but they still have a rep of being a good team and theres always the texas bias although im not a mavs fan. yeah, despite most of my friends being obsessed, im still not.
might follow the nets a little just to see how fellow ag, antoine wright does - that is if he gets playing time.
other select players im fond of - jermaine o'neal, peja stojakovic, jamaal tinsley, dwayne wade, chauncey billups, and steve francis

dislikes - anything associated with the lakers (mostly the team from 2 years ago) - kobe bryant, walton, fischer, payton, george. needless to say, when they didnt go the playoffs last year i was ecstatic. i think theyre the most arrogant team in the nba...having kobe bryant probably doesnt help.
shaq - yeah he goes in the lakers dislike but i wanted to single him out and say that i think hes just a big dumb animal...although watching him attempt free throws is really entertaining to me. he's only good bc hes massive - put him 10 feet from the basket and hes of no use.

so thats that - my love for the nba in a nutshell. i have joined the fantasy craze and put together a team in the salary cap challenge. im not completely sure how everything works but it will give me something else to occupy my time at work with. i'll let you know how that goes.

go sixers.