Can you remember when you realized you weren't young
anymore?
I can remember the incident distinctly. I was watching the Boston Celtics beat up on
a team as only they could do in the years of the Big Three: McHale, Parrish and
Bird. It was Robert Parrish's birthday
and they were saying that he was the oldest player in the NBA at the time at 39
years old.
I had just turned 39 myself.
There goes my NBA chances - I was officially older than every player in
the league!
Not that I had any chance of playing basketball for a
living, but, the dream's of a young boy die hard!
Now that I'm approaching the big 60 I still play basketball
a couple of times a week and I realized the other day that I just can't dunk
the ball anymore. Well, maybe the only
time I ever really dunked the ball was on my daughter's Fisher Price basketball
hoop. At almost 60, I might have a hard
time doing even that now.
They say that 60 is
the new 40. Well, maybe I should resurrect
my dreams of playing in the NBA!
Professor Tom Laurie
