So I had the privilege of watching the Wizards get blown out by 30 at the Verizon Center tonight. Seeing Andray Blatche go 1-10 shooting was almost as painful as watching the Terps blow a 20-point lead at home three nights ago. Maybe I should just give up on all forms of basketball for about a year.
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Of course, the Magic feature former Duke standout and poet J.J. Redick. Redick rides the next-to-last seat on the Magic bench, playing in only 25 games the season to date, averaging 8 minutes a game, and most recently whining like a little bitch about his lack of playing time and demanding a trade. Which means that when the Magic were nursing a 25 point lead in the fourth quarter, the Verizon Center crowd got the pleasure of seeing Mr. Backne check into the game.
If J.J. were a condor, he would fly back to Duke, where he didn't ride the last seat on the bench.
From the second Redick checked into the game, the Verizon Center crowd heckled Redick. Everytime he touched the ball, the whistles and boos fell from the rafters. It was unbelievable. I thought only Terp fans hated Redick, but clearly he was universally despised by many more basketball fans than those of us who bleed the black, gold, white, and red (it's a special talent to bleed four colors). The taunting and heckling was so bad, it got a mention in the Game Notes section of the Washington Post article.
I felt oddly satisfied to be able to heckle Redick one more time. My hatred for Duke basektball cannot be healthy.
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Nice. I think it's just a J.J. thing.
Heh, well when Orlando came to Memphis it was a totally different reaction when JJ stepped on the floor. Everyone cheered. It even made it to the Commercial Appeal recap, probably because it was the most memorable thing that happened that night because another Memphis lost doesn't mean much anymore.
Jeremy, you don't think an overwhelming number of the hecklers at the Verizon Center were Terp fans?
Take JJ out of ACC country (like, say, Memphis) and he's not going to be heckled like that.
Ben, Georgetown fans hate Dook too. That pretty much covers everyone in attendance.
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