The Zong

Most of you know this already, but let me put it here for future reference:

I hate professional basketball.

I don’t know why, except that maybe I grew up watching the Warriors play, or maybe because half of the teams in the whole league make the playoffs, but the NBA, especially during the regular season, seems to me to be either stupidly boring or unreasonably dangerous. I don’t have much to say about this past weekend’s nastiness, other than it’s not all that surprising that it happened.

This isn’t to say that I’ll always hate it. I’m trying to find some things to like, and to date, while the league is still pretty stupid, they seem to have some really creative ways to objectify women. My particular favorite are the Dunking Dancers. I don’t really know anything about them and I’ve only seen their photographs on the web, but I’m going to go ahead and let you ponder all that this photograph suggests:

I don’t understand what I’m looking at, exactly, but I like it. If this is what halftime is like in the NBA, then maybe I need to give pro hoops a second chance.

- M.G.