Game 91

Round Two - Game Three
CHI 99               CLE 96

There is some Butkus quote
About today’s players
Celebrating after making the plays
They’re supposed to make.

Or even after not making them.

About how stupid it is.

Commentary on how the game
Has become more foofoo.

Makes me think
Of the intros for an NBA all-star game
A few years back--

Might’a been the Outkast year.

Some grotesque spectacle--
All tinsely and decadent,
Like Christmas at the mall.

Anyways,
As the starters were introduced
Most of them did silly little dances.

Look at me--
I’m the show--

There was something sickening about it.

The kind of desperate
Typically reserved for children
Waiting at the window for daddy.

Not for grown men--
Not for millionaires.

The only starters
Who seemed more interested
In basketball than cameras
Were Rose and Durant.

Quiet and Dignified.

Now,
I know these guys like cameras,
But it’s not their job to dance.

You ever seen Kobe dance
The camera?

He does it by killing people.