I’m at best a fair-weather friend when it comes to basketball. Something about the sport doesn’t fully appeal to me. Too much scoring? Too many fouls? Maybe it’s just that I never played it myself.

The weather is exceedingly fair right now, with the Celtics tied up with the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals. I tried to watch Game 4, but I kept losing focus. It doesn’t help that I don’t know who the players are. The last time I watched the Celtics, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were leading the team. Kyrie Irving and Jaylen Brown? They could be in a boy band, for all I know.

So I can’t share any basketball expertise with you today. But that’s okay because A) this is a tennis blog, and B) I have something better than basketball expertise to share. I have this epic Michael Jordan quote: Continue reading “Embracing Failure” →