Pace on Earth

I Wish

|Driving home from a (great) night of summer golf on Friday night we stumbled across I Wish, the semi-old rap song by Skee-Lo. It's actually a great song and while it's impossible to forget those catchy lyrics I somehow forgot that catchy beat. Hard not to get you moving. The next day I heard the unfortunate news that Manute Bol had passed away and this morning Normy sent me the attached picture.

Manute Bol was a freak and travelled the NBA as a journeyman freak like a modern day circus show. Except that he figured out how to make money off his freakishness. He could block shots with the best of them. He is 2nd all-time in the blocks per game average (Mark Eaton is 1st - no shit) and is the only player ever to compile more blocks than points in a career. Much more importantly, and much less well known, is that Manute was a incredibly generous and selfless man. He died nearly broke after having donated most of his personal earnings to humanitarian aid to his homeland of Sudan. Read this nice piece from Deadspin here.

Watching his story as a youngster and learing where he came from broadened my horizons and his story, and his incredible height filled me with wonder. RIP.

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 10:50 p.m.