Starting next week, I will be out from under an avalanche of crap that has flooded my inbox, voicemail box and actual, physical mail box during a nice little vacation. Then, I will recommence posting on all manner of nasty stuff, expecially politics and sports.
Hockey and basketball are about to return (and dirtygames is hoping to have inside Raptors information thanks to unprecedented access), and American politicians are, well, making complete fools of themselves as usual.
In the meantime, please enjoy an in-depth interview with one of the most thoughtful and well-spoken athletes to play competitive sports. If you want to know excatly why basketball is such a team sport, despite the focus on individual players pushed by the NBA’s marketing department, Steve Nash will explain it to you, courtesy of Charlie Rose. It’s well worth watching.
Plus, he’s Canadian, he opposes war, he builds hospitals in his wife’s home country, he shows up to play pickup ball with kids in New York City and he’s alert enough at 9 a.m. to give the following analysis off the top of his head for an excellent Sports Illustrated piece:
“I think Canada is similar to the States, but I think even more so built on immigrants. We’re still allowing a lot of immigrants, and we’re very tolerant and accepting of that. And not only is it very diverse, but also, I find that Canada is not very segregated. People of American culture tend to stay to themselves more, or at least in their own part of the community. While here’s it’s very diverse. I kind of enjoy it; I think it’s very fun to celebrate that diversity. But I’m sure the States has that in many places. My experience is just that our infrastructure, in that way, is a lot different.”
Also, for anyone who looks at our national program and thinks that Canadians can’t play soccer … umm, Steve Nash can do that, too.
