Due to three months of sporadic turnouts, Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports that KBA officials are in the planning stages of possible bankruptcy in June 2012. The long-standing stellar Southern California Basketball league has been suffering from mixed turnouts in the recent past, including last night's 6-person show.
"They can't get enough people to commit and so they're gonna start planning for the worst," said Mortensen's un-named source.
BSR, the league's soon-to-be 10-year veteran, briefly met with reporters after last night's game.
"There is no truth to this bankruptcy issue. It is true that we have not had great turnout for some time and have had to recruit from the lesser Wednesday night friends of Ricky F, but we are doubling our recruiting efforts and hope to have plenty of players come March," said BSR.
Mortensen's source claims that BSR is sugar-coating the fact that extra funding had to be used to re-new the current 4-month contract.
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Despite rumors of bankruptcy swirling in the air, the KBA was back in action Tuesday night. A six-person turnout saw the return of BSR, who played with buddy tape on his shooting index and ring fingers.
Andytollah took his natural lead role as GM and split the teams very very evenly:
Team White: Taliban, Vujicic, Jekyll & Crap
Team Black: Andytollah, Ricky F, and BSR
What the GM's team split failed to account for was that BSR had freaking buddy tape on his shooting hand and couldn't be a scorer, hence leaving Ricky F as the only scoring option (for readers at home who fail to realize the gravity of that error, please scroll back to the first KBA blogs and re-acquaint yourselves with Ricky F).
Before tip-off, elder statesman BSR suggested a best-of-seven series. Everyone agreed. And, with that, the games began:
(Scoring note: games were played up to 21; twos and threes; win by two).
Game 1: A complete blowout by Team White. Vujicic and Taliban (guarded by Andytollah and Ricky F, respectively) scored 19 of the 21 points.
Game 2: Repeat of Game 1. Same scoring line. However, multiple instances of Andytollah being yelled at by Ricky F for not guarding Vujicic--who scored a team high 12 points.
Up to this point, BSR is limited to (trying to set) picks, (trying to create) assists, (trying to collect) rebounds.
As the series shifted to Team Black's home court, coach Ricky F stepped in with his highly sophisticated defensive adjustments: "Guys. Guys. We need to switch on D. Guys. I'll take Vujicic, guys. BSR, you take Taliban, guys. Andytollah, guys, you stick Jeckyll & Hyde."
You know what comes next:
Game 3: Vujicic rips off 17 points--seventeen points!!!--as Team White leads 19-9. (To put this in NBA terms; Ricky F allowed his man to score an NBA equivalent of EIGHTY points).
You don't know what comes next:
None other than Ricky F went on a 12-0 absolute tear, running Vujacic ragged in a monstrous comeback effort to lead Team Black to a win! Series 2-1 in favor of Team White.
Game 4: After a simple defensive switch by Team White, sending Taliban to guard Ricky F, the Ricky F scoring plummeted. So, feeling compelled to shoot, BSR hit shot after shot after shot after shot, causing even one of his buddy tapes to fall off. The rout was on and Game 4 went to Team Black: 21-7. Series tied at 2.
Games 5 and 6: Except for a brief push in the middle of game 6, Team Black was unstoppable. Andytollah had multi-rebound and multi-point games. Both BSR and Ricky F hit multiple NBA range threes. A 4-game tear left Team Black with a 4-2 series win.
Game.
Set.
Match.
And that is how we witnessed the return of the broken fingered shooter.
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