Running Scared

"Ima call my momma too cuz they keep messin' with me!"

Winston Churchill once said, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” The British author J.K. Rowling chimed in with this, “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” Old man Mr. Willie that sat in the vacant lot always said, “If you keep letting these boys punk you every morning it’s gonna always be a long walk to school baby boy.”

At some point y’all are gonna listen to me bruh! I told you back before the season started that Dwight Howard and Kobe Bryant could not play together. Kobe is like the old man that’s been working in the mill for 35 years and doesn’t care how abrasive he comes across because he’s about to retire. Dwight is as soft as drug store cotton candy mentally and he’s the cat that Mr. Willie watched get beat up every morning on the way to school because he wouldn’t stand up for himself.

On Wednesday before they took an “L” in Memphis 106-93 the Lakers held a team meeting to address any problems and to air out any differences. Both Steve Nash and Kobe spoke up. The Black Mamba went right at Buster Brown to ask him if he was bothered playing alongside of him according to the LA Times. In hood terms he essentially asked if he had a problem with him. Of course, ole Dwight was despondent and did not offer much of a reply according to a team source.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!  Real cats can’t hang out with busters. It’s something about the way the cosmos is structured playa. They can’t occupy the same space and when they are forced into the same space there is an erosion of both elements. The real cat becomes so irritated by the buster that he can’t function naturally and the buster just gives up and falls apart.

Now let me use the term "REAL CAT" loosely when referring to Kobe Bryant because he's a mark too but just not on the court! Boyz forget all about how he violated the code when he threw Shaq under the bus when he initially got arrested in that whole sexual assault joint. It was like if they were playing hide and seek as kids and both Shaq and Kobe were hiding in the bushes but Kobe's feet were sticking out. They catch HIM and he jumps out of the bushes and says, "Come on man! They caught US!" Naw playa they caught YOU!

During the first half of the game Dwight complained about a shoulder injury and did not play in the second. This dun wasn’t anymore hurt during the game than he was before the joint started! His feelings were hurt more than anything because a real competitive dun stepped to him and took what was left of his manhood. Whenever you let a cat step to you and ask you if you’ve got a problem with him in front of boyz and you crawl into a shell like a turtle it’s a wrap. He may as well have taken off all of his jewelry and gave it to him.

Stop looking at sports as just being sports homeboy! On some real talk, its real life in those locker rooms with cats from REAL hoods, suburbs and rural areas. Let’s be honest, a typical NBA or NFL locker room is more than 65% made up of hood cats that all come together to play a game. Just because a boy is playing pro ball doesn’t mean that he left his natural instincts at the crib. I don’t care how much bread you put on top of a situation natural instincts that a cat came up with are always going to rise to the top at the end of the day.

There are affiliations and sets in every locker room! In the suburbs they call them cliques but however you decide to spell them they exist. So depending on what you have in there is what you’re going to get on the floor. The set that runs the locker room runs the team and that gives you the product on the floor. If boyz are naturally aggressive then you'll have an aggressive team. If you've got a bunch of passive busters then you'll have a soft team getting mugged every night by the more aggressive one.

The best predictor of future behavior is to look at past behavior. Didn’t Buster Brown quit on Orlando last year right before the playoffs to have a back surgery that really could have been done after the season? This dun didn’t even try to play and left his boyz hanging. Now Kobe is ridin’ him and he all of a sudden he has a shoulder injury that’s so bad that he can’t play in the second half. Now I realize that the joint has been giving him problems but while his feelings were hurt it was a perfect time to sit and pout. I’m just sayin’! What’s that Mr. Willie? “It’s gonna be a long walk to school baby boy!” You know I hear that Mr. Willie! Just make sure these boyz don't break in my ride while you still sittin' out here!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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