heaven can wait

"Heaven Can Wait"

As the headline on ESPN.com reads, The Boston Tea Party all smiles hoisting the organization's 17th NBA title trophy. A well-deserved victory.

Before the series began I already understood deep inside my romantic cognition that this year, 2008, was not meant to be. But, believing and willing is all you can do. Even though there lied an innate sense of inevitable loss, you must always maintain hope and support. What would we be without? See, 2008, the number eight, is the year that the genesis of change, turnover, and upheaval take motion. I knew this. This journey to the finals, if we would have won, would have been nothing short of a unlikely fairy tale. And this, the age of humanity, is no such fairy tale. It's more beautiful than that. We rode into the finals with athleticism and potential. We didn't have Bynum. Ariza was still rusty from his early-season injury. These two the defensive forces that were lacking in the finals against the more aggressive, hungrier team, the Celtics.

We often talk about how the Lakers, as the official channel of Los Angeles sports, has the potential to drastically influence the collective esteem of a city detached and superficial. And, during the finals, the crowd was called out, for what else, lack of passion. In that Game 5 win, they responded. In the end, it came down to desire and experience. Jordan, Sasha, Ronny, and the young tyke bench fell short this year, but assuredly, they're quick learners and next year will come sage. We are a fragile cause, a movement barely out of infancy and already thrust into young adulthood, and indicatively, sometimes when we fail, we do so catastrophically, as in last night. We don't hold grudges, but do the ultimate motivator, a chip on our stubborn shoulder.

So, this headline "Heaven Can Wait", means something so much more profound and symbolic than the cliche reference suggests. New Sincerity is the journey toward sincerity, heaven on earth. Scroll down and peep my other blogs for further elaboration. But, surely, it can wait. Not much longer, but it can wait. I'm patient, and in a year, in 2009, we will be ready to consummate change. The number 9 is brilliant, it is conception.