After finishing this last basketball season (just a beer league for men keeping it tight or whatever) my knees have issued me a message. "Yo...Dex....WE ARE FUCKING TIRED MAN"!!

I think I have got to give it up. It is time. I am forty two years old and have been playing basketball at a high level for over twenty years and thirty years TOTAL. My time has come. My knees tell me everyday that my personal "Swan Song" has commenced playing. I've had three surgeries on my right knee and my left is showing the same signs the right one did. Joints ache out of the fucking blue, it takes my feet a half hour to wake up after my body does! I've been stitched up, teeth knocked out, broken bones, etc.

I have been all over this country playing, met great people, made solid connections, speak two languages (somewhat), been to who knows how many countries world wide, laughed, cried, fought and gotten stupid drunk with so many good people around the world just because I can play a game that it is quite astonishing that this once skinny shy kid from Pittsburgh would have done so much with a game he just played because everybody else was.

So I am waving good bye to all potential suitors asking me to play on their teams. No more celebrity games for me. No more alumni games for me. No more competition is needed. It has given me all I can imagine and more!!

So?

WHO GOLFS HERE....LOL!!!

Maybe it's coaching time.



However, I bet you do that already.

sj1600 said:

Yeah...I have...but we will see. I like my time and I'd rather watch!!
Being a teacher, I get my full dose of kids daily and giving instructions everyday is enough. When that whistle blows...I want BEER not a basketball!!

But I say that now....LOL

Dex, I play golf.....and I'd kick your ass at it, just like I do with drinking!

abierman said:

I'd love to golf with you man!! I am not new to the game...i just have not played in about five years!! LOL!!

And your ass CANNOT out drink me...you have me confused with KarmaTornado!!

golf is the greatest game ever...kinda...

but you can drink and play it successfully, so that makes it damn near perfect...

roodboi said:

Once everything settles correctly....I am making a weekend of Sav...I am sure there are courses there right?

whatever.....see ya next season old fart

Rhondab said:

Nah....I'm done. I get in and out of cars, walk stairs, etc and my knees hurt! It's time....I have had a helluva ride though!!!

DexMSR said:

awwwww


Ive always wanted to see you play too.

DexMSR said:

dude...thay got a 9 hole course with lights that is fun as hell...drinks + half lit golf course + half assed golfers = pure entertainment...

Rhondab said:

I feel the same damn way about Michael Jordan....I have gone to plenty of NBA games...and never once seen MJ in person....but my consolation...I got to meet him and have small talk at a celebrity golf outing!!

DexMSR said:

ok..so you're like MJ in my eyes...is that what you're tryin' to say...

roodboi said:

PERFECT!!!

Rhondab said:

I knew you'd take it that way....LOL!!!

Whap!

shy kid from Pittsburgh... who? you? so when tha fuck did tha WHAPing begin?

PEJ said:

Man...I was a late bloomer in every aspect of my existence. I could not even TALK to girls my freshmen year of college. And I started out at a DIVISION 3 school playing ball. I began to lift weights with the football players and my physique just went BOOM!! And then came some latent basketball skills out of nowhere!! So that boosted all the confidence because I really no longer needed to talk to the girls...they were coming at me!

Basketball....same deal...I transferred up two divisions to D-1 and the rest is history!

Whapping began at PPML as my signature online flirty gesture!...to answer your question....LOL!!

DexMSR said:

DexMSR said:

I find the craziest shit funny...

DexMSR said:

Now that I would have enver imagined

DexMSR said:

Dex, before you call it quits...

I've played competitive volleyball all my life (high school, college, tournaments, etc.). I've also had knee surgery on both knees. I thought I was done about a year ago (I'm 39), and friends told me about glucosamine chondroitin. It's a supplement that will help your body regenerate soft tissue. After I took it for about 2 weeks, I was actually able to play again, and am back to playing twice per week. I've heard similar stories from friends, and one of teh guys I play volleyball with who is an Orthopedic surgeon told me that it's legit.

I'd at least give it a shot before quitting!

alexandernevermind said:

Your how old????




Just teasing..... I know when you are turning 40.

Glad to hear that your knees are holding up.

Golf? GOLF???!!!




At this rate I'm going to see you at bingo night in a couple of years.

shanti0608 said:

I don't mind being old...it just means I have experience baby!

Yes, my knees are holding up just fine. How are your knees?

alexandernevermind said:

They are fine Thank you though I do not play volleyball.

shanti0608 said:

Trust me...I know all about your knees.

DexMSR said:

There appears to be quite the lesbian theme running in GD today.

To basketball!!

My hubby did the same thing. He kept getting bone chip fractures in his ankles. His doctor finally asked him "Are you Michael Jordan? Are you getting paid millions to play?"

So he played for a few more years and then stopped.

Now he plays golf.

Ya'll should hook up

roodboi said:

amen!

abierman said:

Ditto with bowling. And even better - you don't have to chase the ball. It always comes back to you!

And also, the harder you swing a golf club, the worse your swing will be. But the harder you throw a bowling ball, KABOOM! (To a point.)

I love bowling.