Monday, May 3, 2010

J-Rich

Now that the Thunder are out of the playoffs, the only series I really care about right now is the Suns/Spurs series. I really do enjoy watching J-Rich do well. He's my boy - always will be. He was a class act while he was with the Warriors and was the only bright spot of the organization for years. I honestly shed a tear (privately of course lol) when he was traded on draft night. I would watch highlight videos of him on youtube and get teary-eyed. It's kind of pathetic, but my boy was gone. When he was traded, it was the end of that Warriors miraculous playoff run. The team was broken up before it was given a chance to do something special.

When he hit that corner three in the clinching game 6 of the playoffs and swung his arms and screamed as he ran down court...that might be one of my favorite sports moments of all time. It's like his whole career of losing culminated to that one moment and he let everything out. Every Warriors fan felt the same way at that moment. I get chills to this day when I watch it.

Here is one of the videos that I watched over and over again after he got traded (the moment I am talking about is in the video):