[Rodey]

I mean, anyone who can dislike Walton at the announce table after reading these is not a basketball (or life fan) in general:

"Come on, that was no foul! It may be a violation of all the basic rules of human decency, but it’s not a foul."

"Tonight’s start was electric. Just both teams riding quasars all the way to the top of the mountain to the promised land!"

"Beautiful basketball! The Ducks on fire after a poor start a start as you could have! They have somehow come back and have found their way back to the Oregon Trail! Lewis & Clark would be so proud."

"You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. It’s as if Michelangelo were reading and a lightning bolt flashed before him."

"Yesterday we celebrated Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of gravity. Today, Fabricio Oberto is defying it."

"And when you look at Boris Diaw and what he’s done to this franchise he’s changed everything. We celebrate his brilliance and when you talk to Boris Diaw you realize what a classical human being he is. It was 201 years ago today, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E Flat, which escorted in the age of Romanticism in music. And when I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven and the age of the Romantics. This guy has it all."

"A thing of beauty! Einstein, Da Vinci, Jobs! And now Tyreke Evans!"

"If Eric Piatkowski continues playing at this level, he’s going to replace Jerry West on the NBA logo."