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Induction Speech:
Two years ago, if someone had asked me to talk of my fantasy achievements, I would not think they were talking about sports (well, not this kind of sports anyway). This is a relatively new addiction for me, and it seems I reached the peak of my career pretty quickly, so I guess it's time to go into rehab. Immediately after the playoffs. I swear. Really. Besides, I can stop any time I want to. It's not like NBA Fantasy has any negative side effects - I don't like to sleep at night anyway. And I don't have anything better to do at work than sit waiting for the NBASE trading floor to open, repeatedly hitting the refresh button. And of course there is no better reading than boxscores and player news. Let me just pause a minute to refresh the player news page, I still need to pick my Drive to the Finals player for tonight. There, I'm back. I really don't see why people look at me strangely when I organize my transatlantic flights so that I will be online at a specific hour. Don't they understand how much money I could lose if I don't sell Stephen Jackson in time? If not, there must be something wrong with them!!! They probably picked Elton Brand in the draft and stayed with him all season. Or they may be one of these strange people who play for the monthly prize. Some people have no endurance, I tell you. I want to take this opportunity to thank all the people who contributed to my success: The people who followed the "expert" advice on nba.com/fantasy, the people who did not plan for the long term in Pick One and picked all the all-stars before the All-Star Game, and the people who planned for the long term in NBASE. I also want to thank all the enablers for my addiction: nba.com, rotowire and rotoworld (who are those people who put in the player updates anyway?), and the forum members, who gave me the feeling I am not alone, am not the most childish man in the world (not by a long shot, it appears), and helped my ego when I was not in the top of the rankings by showing that I was on pace to get there, as long as I did not take any days off. Zayfe and Silvio, thank you, you really deserve it. Finally, I want to thank Kobe, LeBron, CP3, Superman, Nash and the rest of the NBA players, without whom, following the NBA would be boring (well, technically there wouldn't be an NBA, but you know what I mean). The NBA - where me in the Hall Of Fame happens! |
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