Larry misses a heckuva game
For those who are new to Utah and the NBA and Planet Earth, ESPN offers another take on Lar
ry Miller's favorite bit of lore about himself: Miller doesn't attend Jazz games if they fall on a Sunday.
Instead of being courtside to watch the Jazz beat the Lakers, 123-115, in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals, Miller was driving ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski into the trackless wastes, as Wojciechowski sees it, of Utah.
ry Miller's favorite bit of lore about himself: Miller doesn't attend Jazz games if they fall on a Sunday.Instead of being courtside to watch the Jazz beat the Lakers, 123-115, in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals, Miller was driving ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski into the trackless wastes, as Wojciechowski sees it, of Utah.
This is what he usually does on those rare times that the NBA and the networks schedule a Jazz regular-season or playoff game on a Sunday. He goes to church from 9 a.m. to noon, returns home, changes clothes, has a bite to eat, gets back in the car, and drives in a Jazz-free zone until the game is finished.The New York Times outed Bree Kasten, a season-ticket holding Mormon, who attended the game:
I’m not supposed to come, but I did anyways. It’s kind of sad because my religion is supposed to be first and foremost to me, but it’s the Lakers and I couldn’t help it. I read my scripture before I came.Wojciechowski offers several paragraphs of bad sports writing applied to the Utah scenery and Mormons, then is oblivious to the most significant moment in the journey:
We're near the Little Dell Reservoir. I know this because Miller, who was born and raised in Salt Lake City, is all excited about seeing the water levels of the reservoir. Nerd territory. And then he says he sometimes drives up here in his '63 Falcon convertible so he can listen to the meadowlarks.Larry, of course, is looking at the reservoir and thinking: Little Dell is finally filling up again. Maybe the Jazz drought has ended, too.
I'm going to give Miller the benefit of the doubt and blame the meadowlarks thing on high altitude.
1 Comments:
Larry should come up to Park City on the weekends. He has a plane flying around with a banner promoting the Jazz so low and so loud that you can't watch or listen to anything. Thanks Larry, glad you are enjoying your sabbath, cause we can't.
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