Basketball topics - happy and sad

I just had to write about basketball after what transpired the past days. There are stories worth celebrating and those that are tragic. Recent events this past week are precisely that mix of happy and sad.

Happy

I am happy after watching the games of the current NBA Finals, especially yesterday's Game 4 where the Knicks battled back from 29 points down to win by 1 and lead the series 3-1. They will now have 3 chances to win the title but 2 games will be in San Antonio including the next one. The Spurs should be desperate now as they have to win all the remaining games. Only 1 team has recovered from a 1-3 deficit and that was one that featured two stars that at the time were still in peak form - Lebron and Kyrie. That wasn't an easy task vs. a Warriors team that won 72 games in the regular season. The Knicks will probably win this series but they should not allow it to go to a Game 7.

Sad 

I have to admit my sad feelings about the tragedy of the drowning of 2 Ateneo basketball players. I learned of this after the big news of the week that is the strong earthquake that rocked General Santos City and its vicinity. One player in that tragedy had a Cinderella story of sorts coming from a poor family in Agusan and using his talent in playing basketball to get noticed to play high school ball at Ateneo de Davao. His talents led to being selected to play college basketball for Ateneo de Manila. The university has one of the stronger programs in the UAAP but has faltered the last 2 years. The The 2 players could have figured in their revival. The player from Agusan had so much potential and was en route to also giving his family a chance at a better life. That chance practically disappeared after he drowned during what was supposed to be teambuilding activities held at a beach resort in Aurora. The incident is still under investigation and hopefully can be resolved ASAP. Hopefully, too, his family will be compensated fairly.

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Venus and Jupiter conjunction

Walking out of the house yesterday evening, I was greeted with this sight in the sky:

Venus appears larger and brighter than Jupiter in the evening sky. I framed the photo using our Narra tree and the building under construction across from our home. I didn't need any filters for the shot as there were no streetlights or other significant lighting that affected the photo.

The view could have been more spectacular if there was no construction across from our house. 

[I will write about the construction across our home another time. It's a good topic especially in light of the commercial developments sprouting inside our village.] 

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A quick snack at Dunkin

For some reason, I had a craving for some donuts. If I had the time and money, I would probably get the old-fashioned donuts from Wild Flour. Unfortunately, this was a sudden craving and some less expensive options would suffice. Dunkin Donuts or Dunkin, as they prefer to be called now, is quite accessible and I like their butternut donuts (the regular and chocolate variants). And so I got me a couple of donuts and some iced coffee.

Butternut donut and iced coffee 

 

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