The Basketball Blog

These are the facts:

• I love writing
• I love watching basketball games
• I love writing about basketball games
  
• Most of my blog readers think I should become a professional sportswriter
• I don't play a whole lot of poker these days
• There will be one or more intriguing, competitive NBA playoff games almost every day between Saturday and the end of May
• This NBA Playoffs could be the best ever
  

I think I could and would be a top-notch sportswriter if I decided to make it my profession. Three reasons why it's not my profession right now:

1. The amount of money I make playing poker dwarfs anything I'd be making writing sports
2. I cringe at the thought of covering high school girls basketball my first six months on the job
3. I rely too heavily on bulleting and numbering

Somewhere down the line I may decide to make it my profession. I've always known this and I've always treated this blog as practice, as a portfolio, as a resume. For the NBA Playoffs, I'm going to try to step it up a notch and write about three times a week. Hopefully I can make some insightful and entertaining posts and continue to build the portfolio. I'll kick it off in a couple days with the story of the 2007-2008 Denver Nuggets.