Nick Anderson just missed 4 free throws in a row followed by The Jet hitting from the top of the key to send the game 1 of 1995 NBA Finals into OT. This is what happens during midafternoons when you work at home...you find yourself yelling at the TV over a game that happened 11 years ago, and being excited when it goes into OT. I was debating going to the pool or watching L&O and I decided to check the next NBA TV game...it’s the 2001 Finals Game 1. My Philadelphia 76ers against the Los Angeles Lakers. Possibly the greatest game in Sixers/Allen Iverson history, and a game I never saw because in 20 years of being alive, the one year I decided to spend a week in Europe was the year the Sixers decided to go to the finals. My family taped it for me, but by the time I got back the series was pretty much decided and I never watched the whole thing. I can’t explain how excited I am to watch this and to see that team together again...Iverson looking much younger...Blue bringing the ball up, Tyrone Mugill, Jumaine Jonzes, Cookie Monster, the indomitable Matt Geiger. Even seeing Shaq back in prime shape. Ah the good old days.

How much do you miss the NBA on NBC? And whatever happened to Hannah Storm?

On an unrelated note, looks like Borington is continuing towards its goal being composed exclusively of Starbucks and condos. This explosion of condo construction really stresses me out. It first hit home last summer when my favorite bar at the shore was closed to become condos (and turned out to be one of many others that closed for condos over the winter). Since then, several multihundred-unit buildings have gone up in a 6 or 7 block radius around my apartment, not to mention construction all over DC and even in Philly (where I discovered last weekend that those fancy-looking pale-exterior buildings popping up all over Clarendon had made their way to the Main Line too). How can there possibly be enough people with the desire and/or income to inhabit all these places? While I’ll admit I’m not good with change in general, I can cope with neighborhoods/stores/etc... changing and evolving. It’s just everything being bulldozed only to be replaced by homogeniety that makes me anxious. I feel old enough as it is at 25, I don’t need to feel like the things I enjoy now, like architecture and single-family homes, will be obsolete by my twilight years.