I have missed 3 Sixers game’s in the last 7 years.. 3! I have been through a 10 win season in which that summer i got a Sixers tattoo, , i have been through Joel Embiid sitting 2 years, i have been through Ben Simmons breaking his foot in summer league, i have been through Fultz forgetting how to shoot, i have been through Dario never coming over, i have been through Bob Covington becoming my favorite player, i have been through Kwame Brown, Joel Anthony, Jakaar Sampson,  Tony Wroten, Sergio, Luwawu, Jerami Grant, Vuc, J-Rich, Hollis Thompson, Nerlens, the Bynum saga,  Jah never learning how to play defense and getting his ass kicked outside Boston bars, Sauce Castillo, Richaun, Justin Anderson and Jerryd Bayless, the list can go on…. I have been through this fucking wild rollercoaster ride the last 7 years that all of that shit i have wintered fucking layed on the line with 4.3 seconds left in game 7 in Toronto.

Then, Kawhi Leonard happened. Kawhi Leonard is not a human being, Kawhi Leonard is a machine. He is the fucking terminator. Fuck that, he is worse than Terminator, he is some sort of unstoppable, no emotion showing, New Balance wearing,  plain Jane corn-row having, awkward ass laughing fucking force on the basketball court. When he plays basketball, his mind computes angles, velocity, shooting arch and exit force of a shot within miliseconds and somehow the product that comes out is the ultimate savage of a basketball player.

Enough about my worst nightmare, lets explain my setting watching this game.  I’m at the bar with a few buddies. I have been miserable all game as i usually am when i watch Sixers games with friends cuz i am constantly being chirped and told how much of an idiot i am. I applaud anyone who watches games with me because i am a fucking maniac during that time, i am kinda ashamed of it. This season has seen utensils thrown accross the room, broken XBOX controllers, glasses being smashed, hats being ruined, anything in sight i would just destroy. Not my proudest of moments.

Back to the game, Jimmy Butler, the possession prior to my death, orchestrates a phenomenal game saving drive to the rack and makes a layup that ties the game at 90. (Should it have been an and-one? I think so, but thats for the two worst refs in the game in Tony Brothers and Scott Foster to decide) The bar went bananas, but i sat there and calmly said, “there’s too much time left.” I fucking knew what was ahead of me, i knew what was about to happen, you know why? Because i can’t have any happiness in my life, just once i would like to have something nice, just once. As that timeout by Toronto happened, i did not move, i don’t even know if i blinked or took a breath. I sat calmly….

With 4.3 seconds left in Game 7 on the Eastern Conference Semi’s, Kawhi Leonard got an inbounds pass at the top of the key, turned on his jets, took 4 dribbles and shot a fucking dagger right into my heart, that dagger came out the other side of my body with my soul and dignity attached to it. That shot came after dribbling the ball around the Sixers best perimiter defender in Ben Simmons, who then forced Kawhi to then run into Joel Embiid who in my mind is the best defender in the league and not to mention he is 7′ 2″, and then Kawhi had to slam on the breaks after dribbling mach 10 into the corner and somehow SOMEHOW chuck up a fadeaway shot over JOEL EMBIID!

The shot then fucking QUADRUPLE DOINKS off the rim and goes in. In all of my years watching basketball, %0.0000000000001 chance that shot ever goes in at the angle it was shot, NEVER! But you know what, that wasn’t a human being shooting that shot, that was a goddamn machine not known to man. That shot doinked four times on that rim, it seemed like that shot flashed the entire process in front of my eyes and then…..it sank. My body gave out, my legs gave out, my head went directly into my arms. My soul was ripped from my body, everything went blank. I felt as if i was hovering above my body…. i was just saying to myself  “tell me that didn’t just happen, tell me he shot that after time expires, tell me this is a fucking dream, tell me i have a game to watch on Wednesday” ….NOPE. NOTHING! I suck, i have lived and died for the past 10 years of my life a die-hard fan and the last 20 on just being a fan of this team to be constantly let down, this year felt different, it wasn’t. Same old shit. Onto next year i guess. I will let everyone know if i ever resurrect from death, maybe May 14th when the Sixers get the #1 pick, maybe when the Sixers can roster a serviceable big man behind Embiid, i don’t know. This is my last Sixers blog for a while until i am resurrected.

P.S- Kawhi Leonard travled as he caught the inbounds pass that sent me to hell, just saying. Look at the tape

-Wood