Brian's Epilogue: Heaven or Las Vegas

This shot from Selection Sunday was -- unwittingly -- the last quiet court I would see in 2025-26. (Photo:  Brian Wilmer/Daly Dose of Hoops)

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You’d think after all these years I’d have learned how to start one of these things.

It was just yesterday – well, okay, over 10 years ago – that I sat there most of the way through my game story while a young writer was struggling to write a lede. I told the writer at the time to set a timer, and if it didn’t come to them by the time that timer went off, to move on.

Now I’m on the other end of it, all these years later and none the wiser.

Brian's Epilogue: Stories I Tell

 

The final of my 40-plus quiet courts this season, at nearly 1:00am following the NCAA regionals in Charlotte.  (Photo:  Brian Wilmer/Daly Dose of Hoops)

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I don’t even remember when I heard this. I don’t remember where it was. The longer I do this stuff, the more days, seasons, and years just blow past me. The one thing I do remember, though, was what I heard.