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BREEDING CONTEMPT

Familiarity DOES breed content, even cosmically.  The fullness of time has shown that most of the NBA  title contenders who have bombarded the air ways with their oftentimes annoying commercial ads have been ousted from the play off picture in not so flattering fashions.  Of course there can only be one victor, but the contenders to the throne quite apparently left some of their best work on the cutting room floor, and not the hardwood floor.                                                            Kevin Durant offerd us a saccarine sermon after garnering the NBA MVP Award for this season, and then, BOOM !!!!, he literally fell down on the job and lost his bid to become a national champion.  Ditto Chris Paul, who's insurance commercials are so pathetically sugar loaded  that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be appalled.                Then there were two.  The great Jack Nicholson, wears his shades not to be LA cool, but according to him, folks pay good money to see his eyes perform in movies, and he is protecting his valuable assets.  Also the reason why you never see him on television spots.      Maybe some of that trait of reserve will trickle down to some of our current athletes, who talk too much, too often, and allow their personae to be dispersed too widely.                                                        We love the San Antonio Spurs, for many reasons, not the least being their adult and cerebral approach to the game of basketball, and according to all accounts, life itself.  When  Heat forward Chris " Birdman " Anderson got his first tattoo, he had one more than the entire Spurs team.  When Le Bron James inked his third product endorsement deal, he had two more  than the Texas team from San Antone.  Here here, to a resurgence of class, poise and dignity.  HRM

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