Search deep the cluttered archives of your recollection, my friend. Search for any memory, no matter how small, you have of Lester Hudson’s time in the NBA. There should be some memories there, half-buried yet intact under the unceasing drifts of neuronal sludge. If, by chance, you have located these lost recollections, what do they tell you?
Here’s what mine tell me:
Lester Hudson played for the Grizzlies.
Lester Hudson is not Donald Sloan.
That’s not very much. To augment my knowledge of Lester Hudson, I actually listened to the commentary of this game (usually, I turn off the commentary and put on Jock Jams). It turns out that Hudson was two-time MVP in China! That sounds cool until you remember that Shavlik Randolph averaged 30 PPG in that league. Then it sounds lame. Of course the TNT commentators will think it’s cool because they’re stupid.
Another interesting tidbit is that Lester Hudson went totally bananas near the end of the 2011-2012 season. He dropped 23, 26, and 25 in consecutive games before being traded to the Grizzlies. Now, I can’t think of any good reason why he can’t still be doing that kind of stuff. Can you think of a reason? I can’t.