11-19-2019, 10:16 AM
Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Have lived in New Orleans, Madison Wisconsin, Dallas, St. Louis, Columbus Ohio, DC, and various environs of the Omaha area where I currently reside. My older brother made me an absolutely rabid NBA fan in the early '90s, and in 1995 I finally had the chance to move to a city which had an NBA team. Of course, that was heading into the second year of 3-Js mania. Ugh. Was excited when the Mavs finally righted the ship from the Zachanelli iceberg by hiring Nellie, but found his first few moves rather hair-raising. I can truthfully claim that Dirk was the precise player that I hoped that the Mavs would draft in '98 for a couple of weeks before the draft. Was disappointed but still optimistic after his rookie year; ecstatic ever since. Moved away from Dallas in '99 but have still steadily followed the Mavs. I can truthfully say that Clutch and some others made me excited for the Mavs to get Luka in the run-up to the '18 draft, hah. Currently on an 11-game hiatus from watching Mavs games due to the high debacles of the Knicks games, but it looks from the outside like they're doing fine without me.