Victory!!!!

    As your champion, I'd like to thank some people.



 1. Thank you, Commissioner Hayden, for running the league and inviting me back every year to this league and especially this year, giving me the chance to win.
 2. Thank you, J-Smoove and Dirk for being the studs that you were all season. Expected big numbers, got big numbers.
 3. Thank you, Manu Ginobili, for your awesome performance in Week 1 of the Playoffs and rewarding my faith in you, especially going 14/15 Free Throw's to come from behind and beat Lee (tough loss for Lee, that 1st-round playoff matchup could have gone either way).
 4. Thank you, Austin Daye and Evan Turner, for nothing.
 5. Thank you, Isiah Thomas for being this year's Ty Lawson/Dorell Wright (coming out of nowhere to have monster season) and NOT poisoning everything you touch like your namesake. 6
. Thank you, Serge Ibaka, for winning me blocks in every matchup.
 7. Thank you, Liz Jiang, who traded me Joakim Noah.
 8. Thank you, Phil Gutirerrez, for giving me a great challenge at the end after a great playoff wrong. And for starting Marreese Speights..... I couldn't wait for that guy to play.
 9. Thank you, league, for a great season, twas fun (and for paying your league dues retroactively.... hopefully? Please?)
 10. Thank you, fantasy basketball gods, this game, especially due to its weekly-transaction nature, takes a lot of luck, like avoiding injuries.
11. Thank you, NBA, for allowing us to have a fantasy basketball season.
 12. Thank God it's time for some NBA Playoff basketball. Can't wait.



              I realize that winning a fantasy basketball league isn't the biggest accomplishment, nor is it an exclusive accomplishment, nor is it a very esteemed accomplishment nor very productive accomplishment, but sometimes, you just need a little victory in your life. This is gonna sound like a car/alcohol/razor commercial, but sometimes a man needs to feel like he's on top, he's invincible, that he's floating in air and nothing can bring him down. It's how Johnny Drama must feel on Entourage when shouting his famous catchphrase from Viking Quest; it's how athletes must feel when the confetti comes down from the rafters/roof after winning a championship, it's how President-elects must feel on election night, it's how Amazing Race winners and marathon runners must feel upon passing the finish line. Granted, my fantasy basketball victory is a lot less satisfying as knowing you're the best in the world at something, but it's still justification for hard work, for dedicating yourself to a cause, to setting a goal and actually accomplishing it, a sense of achievement and personal pride. You feel like a winner, see yourself as a winner in the mirror, walk with a little stride in your step. Well, at least tomorrow I will. Then it's onto trying to get out of the hole I've put myself in in my fantasy baseball league.



 Fantasize on,
 Robert Yan