Despite being a “tall drink of water,” I’ve only played in 1 organized basketball league, and that wasn’t until my sophomore year of college, courtesy of my friend (and starting point guard for Oxy) Hon Trieu. He invited me to play in the Varsity spring ball league. He and I had a running bet about who could garner more rebounds during the course of the season. Since I won, he took me out to Pho 79 for my winner’s meal.

Now, I’m playing in only my 2nd organized league, thanks to the invitation of my friend Cam Hackett (no relation to former USC coach Paul Hackett). At the half-way point of our season, our team is perfect 5-0!!!

I love it because while I’m the one of the tallest guys on the court, I’m easily the least athletic. So all of the other guys do the highlight reel stuff & I can just pretend play defense and get some good exercise. My only real goal is to score 10 points in one of the games so that I can see my name on the score sheet that gets posted on-line. Vegas-odds aren’t high that will happen, but its worth a shot.

Tonight, we play the 2-3 team “Actividate,” hoping to continue our undefeated season. I’ll let you know the final stat line when I get home.

UPDATE: We won, but barely and it took overtime. We didn’t play well and the team we played was much better than there W/L record. But hey, 6-0 is 6-0!

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