Pitchin with Pritch: Greatest of all time?
In this Covid-19 mess, I realized just how much I enjoyed watching and following high school football and college football, the same with volleyball.
In recent years, I have not been as interested in professional football or basketball, but right now I would just about go with any of them.
I am looking forward to our local teams get into their schedule and hoping that nothing goes wrong and they are able to complete the entire season.
With all of that said, the last few days I have actually been watching the professional basketball playoffs. I don’t really understand how the playoffs are put together this year, but I have watched some of the games and even stayed up way past my bedtime to watch a couple of them.
Of course my bedtime is much earlier than it used to be, so me staying up late means the little hand is usually on 10 and the big hand is on 12. Really living it up!
I have watched James Harden and LeBron James play and they are very talented players but Michael Jordan was better in my opinion.
Who was the GOAT (greatest of all time) of the NBA? Depends on how you look at it. I think you need to break it up into positions and it still would be hard.
Take the center position, Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell come to mind right away.
Wilt averaged 50 points a game one season and scored 100 points in a game once, but Bill Russell played on 11 NBA championship teams and Wilt played on two.
No matter how you compare the two players, both centers have done enough in their careers to being named the “Greatest of all Time.” You could have some pretty good debates on all the positions and never convince the person you were debating.
I certainly hope the high school basketball season doesn’t get shut down because the 14th Annual Heartland Hoops Classic, which will take place Feb. 13th, 2021 has another great lineup of teams.
Tito Martinez, head coach at Grand Island Central Catholic and Hoops Classic founder, has gotten some of the best Nebraska teams coming and two of the best out-of-state teams in the entire United States.
Sunrise Christian Academy will face 2020 Class A state champion Bellevue West. Then Oak Hill Academy will take on Millard North.
The other classic match-ups are Mullen vs Loomis, Elkhorn North vs St Paul, Ashland Greenwood vs Northwest, Mt. Michael Benedictine vs Grand Island Senior High, Grand Island Central Catholic vs Lincoln Pius X, and BRLD vs Auburn.
Games start at 8:30 a.m., which makes for a full day of basketball. Tickets go on sale Dec. 1. General Admission seats are $16 for adults and $10 for students and are good for all eight games. If you like high school basketball, it is a great day of basketball for a reasonable cost. Now we need the Covid-19 virus to give us a break and lighten up a whole bunch.