Last night I asked Coach Popovich after the game if he was happy with DeJaun Blair’s performance.
“Happy? Happy isn’t a word I think about in my life. I’m never happy. Basketball isn’t about being happy. Every moment I live on this earth is a single condensed instant of pure misery and anguish. DeJuan might have had a good performance, sure, but that fact does little to ease the overwhelming unhappiness of my existence. Think of something different.”
I informed him that DeJuan Blair had eight rebounds and three assists to go with his nineteen points, but was interrupted by loud bouts of sobbing. Thus concluded our brief chat.