Emilio Sparks - The Charlie Rose of Hip Hop

Hi, I’m the big Scunge (pronounced scoonge, as in “scungile”); I’ve been assigned to start writing about sports by my defacto boss @emiliosparks. So here it is; its called “Scunge Sports”.

So the NBA lockout is over. So what does that mean? Does it mean anything? I mean, it means something if you’re a fan (nothing if you haven’t watched since MJ called it a career, just keep watching Hardwood Classics on NBATV). What we’re getting is a truncated season that starts late, ends late and is minimalized. How so? To what degree? Well right now it looks like a 66 game season beginning on Christmas Day (December 25th for those not in the know) and ending the last week of June; playoffs included.

Now if you ask me, this is one of the better things the NBA has done for the fans and itself in recent years. For one, we get a less arduous season of meaningless games up at the front. The NFL is still captivating us and treating the sports fan as if every game between all teams carry meaning, first two weeks of NBA games not so much. Also; a point which most fans of the casual sort at least have failed to notice is that they are attracted to superstars. More often than not, these superstars are a lil older, have a few more nagging injuries and boo boos and the extra time off will only be to their benefit. So at least we’ll be seeing them at their healthiest.

At the end of the season, come playoff time, around the beginning of June, it should be a nice quiet dead zone in sports. The Stanley Cup will be wrapping up, people won’t even start thinking football yet, and baseball won’t even be sniffing the all-star break so the NBA will potentially have the eyes of the sports world. Personally, being a New Yorker without a vested interest in the Knicks, the 2011-12 season brings me one year closer to hitching my band to the wagon of the newly crowned Brooklyn…whatevertheyregonnabecalled.

So get nice & toasty by the fire and get ready for the NBA. Ima go watch some football. Adios.