dwight howard

(again)

was this post prescient? selfishly, i would argue, "yes". not that i was the only person in the world calling dwight howard a superhero after his sticker dunk last year. i was only one voice among the masses that were ready to hail dwight howard as our king. last year, we nominated him. this year? he won the election.

i won't fawn too much over him. i didn't even get to see it live. i was indisposed at our church's wildly successful spaghetti supper. but i watched the highlights when i got home from church today. and oh. my. god.

most dunk contests, you are lucky if you get one bright and shining moment to remember it by. this year, dwight had three of them (and gerald green had one. that's four! four bright and shining moments!!!). from bouncing the ball off the back of the backboard, to the superman dunk, to the left-handed tip off the board to himself, all were elegant and powerful and athletic in ways that i cannot even dream. i am serious. when and if i dream of dunking a basketball, it may be something like a stiff, two-handed jam in the lane. what dwight howard did last night was outside the realm of my imagination. just incredible.

so, here's to you dwight howard, basketball god. good job by you.

off the subject, but funny still i found it to read the last couple paragraphs of my post from this time last year. i haven't come very far in my search for "answers" yet and the momentum for church i picked up in late 2007 has completely waned. i guess i can't and shouldn't count on dwight howard, nba basketball freak, to bring me out of my mire. i won't ask him to save me. the nba dunk contest is quite enough, thank you.