The Legend of Jesse Dunn and other miscellanea

This post originally appeared on Yaysports!.


(Jordi back again. By lawful decree, your week has started.)

Over the weekend I read one of the best basketball-related stories I have read in a while. You should check it out if you haven’t already. It is about a mysterious shoe-less wanderer named Jesse Dunn.

Lang Whitaker of Slam had a chance to interview this cat at a Waffle House in Atlanta a few years back. I heard in Atlanta they have a two-story Waffle House. Back in college I wrote an article about Waffle House for a segment on the best places to eat late at night. There is a Waffle House right across the street from Casa de Jordi. As you can see that fine chain of eatery has been a major part of my life.

Anyway, some guy from the Pacers is going to take some job with the Knicks. Yay. I’m excited. I remember way back when Larry Brown came to NY and people were like, “Our years of suffering are over! Long live Larry Brown!” When last seen, Larry Brown was still recovering from his time in NY.

Boney will be happy, the Pistons beat the Suns in overtime. The NBA, where exciting happens.
Maybe it is the pressure from running this site, but I haven’t watched a basketball game in over a week. Since I last wrote ”I watched a game”. I don’t remember what game that was. I think it was last week. I also haven’t watched one game of the NCAA tournament. If you asked me who was left in the Sweet 16 (I think that’s where they are), I would say …

North Carolina

Western Kentucky (I only care because a former 400-lb FSU center was pretty good there)

Kendall Gill’s kid’s team

(2 minutes of deep ponderance)

Wow, that’s about it.

Maybe that explains why I turned down Jack Cobra’s offer to fill out a bracket over at his site.
The truth of the matter is: I’ve never filled out a bracket. Ever. Does this make me weird? I don’t see the point in picking favorites from two teams I have never seen play. That’s exciting for compulsive gamblers, I guess.

In other news, click here if you want to see Yao Ming slowly morph into a famous Chinese pop singer named Li Yuchun.

And this, this is funny. As long as no one gets hurt.

Lastly, Kenny Baker is underrated. He is more than welcome in the Kingdom of Jordi anytime. I’ll leave the light on for him.

And yes, that dog can play basketball. It says so on his doggie Myspace/Facebook/social network site. He is probably better than me.