game 3 already tomorrow of the nba finals and until now i still have the vaguest inkling of what former coach, now ESPN presenter, Mark Jackson means whenever he yells “hand down, man down” every time a player completes a spectacular shot.
a friend, a raging queen, dismisses my ephemeral fancy with nba, calling me sport-tragic. that clunky neologism makes no utter sense to me but it sure is catchy as the cadence in coach Jackson’s phrase.
not that i demand any logic to anything in my life these days. but oh the sweetness of it all when something really clicks as whenever shooting guard J R Smith bobbles into the TV frame and I hear coach Jackson bellow “Mama, there goes that man.”