{"id":139650389,"date":"2023-12-13T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=139650389"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:30:58","slug":"nba-highlights-as-writing-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=139650389","title":{"rendered":"NBA Highlights As Writing Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Board Man gets paid” – Kawhi Leonard, to teammate, San Diego State University practice<\/h2>

It\u2019s not yet my time off, but I am finishing up a project and 1) anxious to be done with it (for a while), therefore making it difficult to finish and 2) of course looking for ways to get my brain ready for what I start in the new year. In this mode, I am thinking about exercises. <\/p>

Recently, we here at Shipwrecked Sailor (a division of Lazy & Entitled Productions<\/a>) made fun of the Mikan Drill<\/a>, a basketball shooting exercise in which you stand under the hoop alternating right- and left-hand layups. Even though George Mikan\u2014a white guy who won a bunch of NBA championships back when there was an unofficial \u201cno more than two Black people per team\u201d and most humans didn\u2019t grow to seven feet tall and also could\u2019ve gotten Kareem to join the ABA but he forgot to hand him a check<\/a>\u2014is a hilarious figure, the Mikan Drill is pretty foundational. I <\/em>warm up with the Mikan Drill. <\/p>

Sometimes. <\/p>

Idk, not much. <\/p>

Life is short, shoot threes. <\/p>

Anyway, I was going to make this post like five YouTube videos of basketball drills and try to come up with writing exercises. Then I thought: I do not want to comb YouTube for basketball drills. Anyone reading this blog will not want to watch drills<\/em>. <\/p>

But who doesn\u2019t like highlights, right?<\/p>

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First, For A Reminder of What We Do To The Blank Page, Here\u2019s Scottie Pippen Dunking Over Patrick Ewing<\/strong><\/p>

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