Revenge
The William Shatner Star Trek movie and the villain Khan played by the late Ricardo Montalban. Khan had vowed revenge against Captain Kirk and the line he uttered in the movie is classic. 1. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.-suggesting that emotional detachment and planning (“cold blooded“) are best for taking revenge.” Who is planning on taking revenge you might ask, how about the Kansas Jayhawks.

The conference challenge next season has the SEC matched against the Big 12. This sets up a Kansas and Kentucky re-match. You might remember last season Kentucky totally destroyed Kansas 72-40 on a neutral court. This time they get Kentucky at their home Allen Fieldhouse, should we suppose the results might be somewhat different this time.

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Hater
I hope this doesn’t sound as if I’m a hater; I apologized earlier to the Clippers, Doc Rivers and Austin. Last week I wrote the fat lady was tuning up; the Clippers held a 3-1 lead over the Rockets. I changed a line in the story before publication since the Clippers won making a 3-2 lead. I went to bed on Thursday night with the Clippers holding a 19 point lead in the third quarter, imagine my shock when I checked the score on Friday. Final score Rockets 119 Clippers 107, the Rockets scored 40 points to the Clippers 15 in the fourth quarter. This is written Friday so I don’t know who won last night this I do know. I have less confidence now in the Clippers than I did last week. If the Clippers won I seriously doubt they can get pass the Warriors or the Grizzlies. .

Iverson
If you thought you knew Allen Iverson you might have been mistaken. Prior to the Showtime documentary few if any people knew the “real” Allen Iverson. Iverson has been retired from the NBA for several years and why now ’m not sure why. Spoiler alert, I’m only going to detail one portion of the documentary. It told the story of how talented an athlete Iverson was, I’ve said it before and I will repeat it pound for pound Iverson may have been the toughest player to ever play in the NBA. His player profile indicates he stood 6 feet tall and weighed 165 pounds, if he’d been a boxer that would have made him a middleweight.

Iverson played as if he were a heavyweight or at least cruiserweight (200+ pounds). On the basketball court he feared no one no matter how tall or how much they weighed. Iverson was All-State in high school in two sports football and basketball; he may have been the best all-around athlete to come out of the State of Virginia. His height and weight say he should have been a point guard but his personality would not allow it, let’s just say he was a player. Pat Croce former 76er VP used another word he said; “We wanted Allen for one reason he was a warrior.”.

The chronicle continues
Thon Maker the 7-1 high school phenom made news once again, he’s reduced the number of schools he’s considering. The list includes Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas and Arizona State with none reported rated higher than another. Reports had surfaced Maker would follow the route of Emmanuel Mudiay and play overseas but that proved erroneous. Adding to the continuing confusion Maker is said to enrolling in school for the spring semester. This is the first of many unusual moves in his brief 18 years of age. Maker left South Sudan for Australia where he lived for a period of time. He then moved across the Pacific to the U.S. first to Louisiana and later Virginia. Last year he moved to Canada where he enrolled at the Athletic Institute in Metro Toronto.

Missing In Action
Rookie of the Year Jabari Parker was sidelined last December; he went down with an ACL injury and was lost to the Bucks for the season. Parker is expected to make a complete recovery so that is certainly good news. As for the Rookie of the Year Parker has not been accorded that honor that was Larry Laker checking the field and making the pronouncement before the season.

The 6-8 240 pound Parkers’ numbers were not eye-popping but given an entire season it’s likely they might have improved. All we need is to check the current Rookie of the Year Andrew Wiggins. Wiggins scored at a 16.9 ppg clip but in November when both were in action they were at nearly the same 12 ppg pace. The spotlight has shown brilliantly on Wiggins and that’s okay I maintain it may have shown just as bright on Parker if not for the injury.