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Do you know what is awkwardness? Sitting on the bench with my mates, but as an injured player, wearing the clothes of the street. (Just seeing a basketball in the hands of someone dressed for other pursuits disturbs me!)
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Also awkward for some are the years between early childhood and the teenage wasteland. In Spanish education, we call this time
Educación Primaria; it is the six years of schooling from ages 6 to 12. I do not speak from experience. I was an exalted athlete in Europe before I was allowed to drive! (But perhaps Greg Oden [
above] knows of this.)
Finally, it must be difficult to be saddled with a moniker one finds unbecoming. In this way, I was pleased at the current poll results for my nicknaming. The outcome will be superior to the
awkward nicknames earned by Ron “
Crazy Pills” Artest, Eric “
Hobbit” Gordon, Nenad “
Krispy Nads” Krstic, and Fabricio “
O’Beardo” Oberto.
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As to the NBA’s least awkward nickname, it goes to a Spaniard,
naturalamente! Marc Gasol is
El Guerrero— “The Warrior.” (The most perplexing nickname is Mike D’Antoni’s “Pringles.” I am told he looks like the “man on the can.” Very well; the can of
what?)
The can of Pringles: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Pringles.svg
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