Waxing Poetic About Team USA vs. Celtics

It was only a matter of time before someone started the “could the NBA champs beat Team USA” debate. After all, the NBA champs are unselfish and love each other, Team USA is a bunch of apathetic slobs who only met yesterday. Of course, it’s a little harder this year, when the core of the championship team was three sublimated stars, and Olympics success seems to depend on that same concept. Also, when the same argument came up with the Pistons four years ago, people ignored the curious fact that Larry Brown coached both, which probably should’ve short-circuited the whole mental exercise.↵
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↵Well, Ken Scarbinisky of The Birmingham News feels strongly about the matter. So strongly, in fact, that he’s pushed the “insert a line break every two seconds for emphasis” school of sports writing to an impassioned extreme that can only be described as, well, poetic. An excerpt:↵↵⇥Did I hear this right? The U.S. Olympic basketball team is calling itself the Redeem Team?↵⇥
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↵⇥Please.↵⇥
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↵⇥Enough with the slogans.↵⇥
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↵⇥Enough with the pros.↵⇥
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↵⇥Does it really matter if this collection of American millionaires wins the gold medal the 2004 collection did not?↵⇥
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↵⇥Does it really matter if the Americans fail to medal at all?↵↵I need to get my bongos out of hock and pick up some cheap wine, but meet me back here at 9PM for some free-writing and Exquisite Corpse. Ramble on, Ken Scarbinisky.↵
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↵(via Celtics 17)↵