the uncanny chuck klosterman

I been called a hater for rooting for the Celtics over the Lakers last June. Been jokingly (not) threatened about going to LA in my Paul Piece jersey (in response I'd bring up Paul Pierce's inglewood roots and they'd then STFU). But really, all this time I thought I rooted for the Celtics over Lakers simply because I was a fan of Paul Pierce and a supposed Kobe-hater.

But then I read this quote by Chuck Klosterman and he just basically pinpointed the real reason I'm a C's guy. I mean shit, he knows me better than I do...

Celtic People get their news from the New York Times web page, the print edition of the Cincinnati Inquirer, Grit magazine, anecdotal conversations with drug dealers, The Bill Simmons podcast, John Stossel, the subtext of Cormac McCarthy novels, and their own dreams. Laker People get their news from episodes of 24, The Huffington Post, billboards, the users guide for GTA4, unicorn-themed Tarot cards, Diablo Cody's tumblr account, Chinese menus, and Andrew W.K.

If you read this blog over the past two weeks you already know I DO indeed have NYtimes.com on my iGoogle, I DID meet several drug dealers in TST on Monday, I DO read too into Cormac McCarthy novels and that whole Bill Simmons thing...

Uncanny.

Klosterman wrote this gem about the Lakers/Celtics rivalry in his 2003 book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs:

As I have grown older, it's become clear that the Lakers-Celtics rivalry represents absolutelyeverything: race, religion, politics, mathematics, the reason I'm still not married, the Challenger explosion,Man vs. Beast, and everything else. There is no relationship that isn't a Lakers-Celtics relationship.

SO EFFING TRUE. I always knew the Celtics/Lakers rivalry represented the whole racial divide and the difference between blue collar, no-nonsense Boston and the glamourized showtime Hollywood (In Spike's Do The Right Thing, there's a scene of a White dude sporting a Bird jersey and a brotha sporting a Magic jersey. Way to go out on a limb Spike). But when you consider that Larry Legend was as middle America as you can find and Lew Alcindor was a hardcore Muslim, you get the whole religion/politics angle too.

Oh, and the perks of being a night owl: I'm possibly the first American in HK to hear this news. Bill Clinton should be brushing dirt off his shoulders about now. I tweeted about 12 hours ago he was our best President in a long while!