Rufus on Fiction

by Dave on Jun 2, 2009 12:05 AM PDT

Our old friend David Arnott from RufusonFire is holding a fiction contest with basketball as the subject. Anyone can enter. The prize is a modest Amazon.com gift certificate and fame forevermore. You can click on the link to see the details if you're interested. I know we have some creative minds here. If somebody from Blazersedge manages to win the contest I'll throw in a hand-drawn caricature of a Blazer player on top of the prize David is offering.

Personally I was going to submit a story about a former NBA star who purchased a minor league that had been operating for 55 years, killed it dead, then got offered the chief managerial post at one of the NBA's most important franchise which he used to acquire Stephon Marbury, Eddy Curry, Jerome James, and Zach Randolph. This guy's strong suit was going to be drafting young talent, but nobody he drafted would stay with his team for more than two years because he kept trading them away in order to get old, fat, selfish, lazy, and very expensive players. And get this...he was going to keep his job season after season after season when even small tribes in the remote Amazon--indigenous peoples with no electricty, radio, or meaningful contact with the outside world--knew he should have been fired on Day 2 of his tenure. I had the narrative all laid out but when I looked at it, I figured it was way too unbelievable to receive any notice. Maybe you can do better?

--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)

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You, Ben, and idlotime should enter

"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)

by G_dubs on Jun 2, 2009 12:27 AM PDT reply actions

thanks for the shout out

I have an amazing idea for a story!

"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum

by idoltime on Jun 2, 2009 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Excellent.

I like your stuff.

"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)

by G_dubs on Jun 3, 2009 1:45 AM PDT up reply actions

Haha that is a little too unbelievable ;)

But seriously dave, you should enter that blazers fairytale that you wrote earlier this season. That story was amazing!

by RoyalAsn on Jun 2, 2009 12:45 AM PDT reply actions

If any Bedger sends one in

Post it here as well.

by Sabonis4Ever on Jun 2, 2009 12:50 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Ooh, yeah!

Post it or provide a link so we all can read it!

by Corvid on Jun 2, 2009 8:40 AM PDT up reply actions

That is what I just said bro...

by Sabonis4Ever on Jun 2, 2009 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions

uhhhh

are you sure Corvid is a bro?…I have a memory that says this might not be the case…jus saying

"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)

by G_dubs on Jun 3, 2009 1:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Can TiH submit a movie?

"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)

by G_dubs on Jun 2, 2009 1:24 AM PDT reply actions

What a far-fetched story Dave!

That sounds like crazy East-Coast thinking… hmmm…. But thanks for the tip to the contest.

by pdxer in dfw on Jun 2, 2009 6:11 AM PDT reply actions

I just vomited.

Posting and Toasting: "Say yo Oak, what's the dish tonight? A couple steaks on the grill and we season it right."

by Seth on Jun 2, 2009 6:30 AM PDT reply actions

Did you do it in your mouth?

You can’t just vomit anymore. You have to do everything in your mouth now. Please get with the program in your mouth.

by MiledAnimal on Jun 2, 2009 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions

It's missing something

Most successful works of fiction also have sex and legal drama.

Maybe the lead character should also sexually harass one of his employees and get sued for it.

by AverageJon on Jun 2, 2009 10:05 AM PDT reply actions

I'm going to write a story about a blogger in Minnesota stalking players and stealing jock straps

by tominhawaii on Jun 2, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Is he a zombie?

by MiledAnimal on Jun 2, 2009 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions

That's his team

by tominhawaii on Jun 3, 2009 4:06 AM PDT up reply actions

You might also suggest that the former player was also a first ballot hall of famer

That might make his tenure a little more believable.

by T$ 225 on Jun 2, 2009 10:40 AM PDT reply actions

Or less.

;-)

I know less than half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

by haildablazer on Jun 2, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions

I’ll write something, maybe, perhaps.

Still zero posts on that guys thread, it might be a pretty easy 20 dollars for whoever submits something

A beard on a blind man! Too much, I say.

by isaacjoe on Jun 2, 2009 2:07 PM PDT reply actions

Jerome James

ROFL – Elgin

VENTURA: It's drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good, because you -- I'll put it to you this way, you give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

by 22baylor on Jun 2, 2009 2:36 PM PDT reply actions

His injury history is longer than most of his boxscore years

by Norsktroll on Jun 2, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, Dave, that's ridiculous!

Seriously, why don’t you just have the guy cost his organization a $10M judgment in a sexual harassment suit while you’re at it? Maybe he could take over the coaching responsibilities as well, and really run the team into the ground?

Just ‘cause it’s fiction, doesn’t mean it can be totally unbelievable. A truly pathetic attempt there, Dave.

by xman47 on Jun 2, 2009 4:15 PM PDT reply actions