Hateful God Robs Us of a Tony Wroten Basketball Season

Garfield High basketball star Tony Wroten will miss the 2009-10 high school hoops season after tearing his ACL playing stupid football.

God, what the shit? You take away the Sonics, leaving us with high school and college ball to fill the void. Then you give us Wroten, among the top basketball prospects in the world, you put him at our alma mater, and give us four years to watch him grow into an NBA prospect. What a nice gesture!

But now you smite Wroten's knee? Costing him a season of basketball, and robbing us of the joy of watching him? That is some crap.

Garfield, runners-up in last year's state hoops tournament, were considered near-locks to take the state title this year. Now they must do it without Wroten (not that they won't--the Bulldogs are stacked).

This is not the first time that the barbaric game of football has cost us the delight of one of our area's top hoopsters. McDonald's All-American Peyton Siva missed the early part of his sophomore season after he broke his collarbone playing football.

Another top hoops recruit, Kentwood's Josh Smith, is playing football this year as well. The Times' Steve Kelley urges Smith to keep playing and to enjoy his high school years. What about my mid-30s? How will I enjoy them if all these awesome high school basketball players keep getting injured?

Seriously, I wish people would stop thinking about themselves for once...and think about me.