Last Week of Basketball Season

Another beautiful weekend and I spent Sunday with friends out on the golf greens enjoying the warm Seattle sunshine. Fantastic, really...and I wasn’t quite ready to get back to my job, or my blog today.

I am aware that there is an NBA final going on right now and I have been neglecting coverage, both astrological and mundane. This has nothing to do with the Sonics not being in the finals, nor with the anticipated move of the Sonics to Oklahoma (or wherever they’re going...Nebraska? Maybe).

Nope, I’m just not a big NBA fan...haven’t been since the days of Coach Karl. Call me crazy, but I’m just not that into basketball. I once read an article in a Seattle paper that described basketball as ballet on the hardwood. Personally, I think this is absolute garbage...had the journalist ever been to the ballet? He had no idea what he was talking about.

All that being said, I do glance occasionally at the plasma widescreen when I’m at the sports bar and I have caught a bit of the action. And I have to say I am impressed with some of these players...okay, specifically with this Tim Duncan cat. I watched a couple games in the Spurs series with the Nuggets (and, yes, in my heart I was rooting for Denver, only because Karl is their coach, not because of Allen Iverson). And this Duncan guy was just impressive as hell. He was just playing solid, no frills basketball...the kind of stuff that my coach was drilling us on in the 4th grade. Except he was just...well, near flawless (I didn’t see any flaws anyway). I was having a blast just watching him execute.

Of course NOW I’ve bothered to read up on the guy and realize he’s known as The Big Fundamental and you can tell I’m not much of an NBA fan as I’ve never heard of this guy before this season and he’s a three-time champion and league MVP. Sheesh!

Then there’s LeBron. LeBron, LeBron, LeBron. Now this guy I’ve heard of, even if I’ve never watched him play (true story...I go to about one Sonics game per year, and usually against the T-Wolves so my transplant friends can see their old team). This guy even I’ve heard of...and now I’m reading articles about how this is his “break-out season” and his real chance to shine in the play-offs, etc. Um...he hasn’t already shined the last five years?

Apparently, Mr. James is finally “living up to the outsized expectations that have surrounded him” (according to today’s USA Today). Actually, the article discusses the NBA’s inability to draw fans to the finals because of the lack of “big-name stars” and rivalries in the finals. It quotes a bunch of analysts with a variety of negative things to say about the NBA’s rating and the relative star power versus “box office draw” of the players.

You know what? I’m not going to go over the USA Today article any more than that, because, quite frankly, I find it insipid and silly (hmmm...is it my imagination, or are these guys really starting to chap my hide?).

Here’s the astrological skinny folks: Tim Duncan (3-time NBA champ and MVP that folks should be writing about) is a Taurus. LeBron James is a Capricorn. Both of these are EARTH signs...non-flashy, down-to-earth, quiet and reserved. They’re not the guys that take up the spotlight...they just get things done. Earth signs are deep and practical…they’re not known for being explosive, verbose, or attention grabbing. You see that kind of thing more in Air and Fire signs. Let’s look at some of the “past legends” mentioned in the media:

Larry Bird – Sagittarius (Fire)
“Magic” Johnson – Leo (Fire)
Michael Jordan – Aquarius (Air)
Wilt Chamberlain – Leo (Fire)
Kareem Abdul Jabbar – Aries (Fire)

Now just because Mr. Duncan and Mr. James are Earth signs doesn’t mean they don’t have any Fire or Air in their nature. Fact of the matter is EVERY PERSON has EVERY SIGN in their chart. The signs are simply archetypes of human personality after all. But, as I may have stated in an earlier post, in different people, different signs are emphasized in different ways. And the sign of a person’s Sun colors the rest of the chart.

Anyhoo…it’s late and I’m gonna’ hit the hay. I probably will end up watching a few of the NBA final series this year; I’m curious to see how these Earth signs match up against each other!