Pyle of List

Some of you may know that the NBA schedule for the 2007-2008 came out earlier this week. If you read ESPN you are aware that they made a big effing hoopla about it, which seems stupid to me. Whey does the NBA think Christmas day is such a marquee matchup date? Who made Christmas the NBA holiday? I know the NFL has Thanksgiving and college football has New Year’s. Anyway, I think the excitement over the release of pro sports schedules is somewhere between overrated and quite overrated.

Anyway, I was reading sacbee.com today and saw a story talking about the Kings schedule. If the story had been “Kings New Schedule” or something like that, I probably would have ignored it because…well, you know why. But it was titled “Kings Get Tuned Out”. Why did they give it that title you ask? Because the Kings are only televised nationally three times during the course of the entire NBA season. THREE TIMES!?! Two of which are on the blasted NBA TV network. Only a single Kings game is being broadcast by ESPN and none are being broadcast by TNT. Unless I have the chance to visit someone with NBA League Pass, which thank GOD I do, I’d only get to watch one Kings game all year on TV. This is some sort of tragedy.

I guess my team has officially fallen by the wayside now. The 2002 Western Conference Finals seems like a lifetime ago. With Reggie Hangtime as our new coach and our entire roster being shopped around the league, there’s not much to be hopeful for. I guess the highlight of my season will have to be, in what has become somewhat of a tradition for me and my buddy D-Bo, going to the two Kings-Lakers games at the Staples Center and drunkenly heckling the Lakers fans. Yeah, that’s fun and all. But it doesn’t replace the yearning I have for Kings basketball. Jeez.

One game all season? Ugh.