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Nuclear NBA Winter Survivor’s Log: A Brave New World

Day #5, 11/18/2011

This is Shane Baker.

I used to be a basketball blogger until The Event ripped through our lives.

It’s been 5 days since the device went off. None of us knew exactly what happened in the room or how powerful the $4 billion dollar machine was, but now we know. It’s completely wiped basketball off the map. 

Now I’m standing in the wake of it’s destruction, wondering where do we go from here. 

Is basketball still salvageable? How many of us survived the initial blast? How many more will die from the radiation if this nuclear winter continues? What about our children? Will they learn from this mistake? 

The sky is still as orange as a basketball, yet the air isn’t breathable. The radioactive dust is still thick, still raining down on us as like a broken backboard. 

I’ve found a group of survivors; they are all convening on twitter. Yes, thankfully twitter survived the blast. We still gather at nights and talk about how the world was before The Event. We reminisce about the NBA and we pretend the players still exist. Some are still optimistic although some of our best have begun to search for other sources of basketball.

We are all hungry and cold and lonely. We have food and shelter and even each other, but strangely, this isn’t enough. We need the warmth of those arena lights and the friendliness of 18,000 screaming fans. I’m afraid if we don’t find it soon our resolve will wither away to nothing. 

I’ve also heard rumors that The Event didn’t effect Europe or Asia. Some even claim that they still have basketball out there. I’m still skeptical. I’m not sure they really ever had real basketball to begin with, but if these reports are true, we have to find a way to communicate with them. Let them know survivors exist in the states and that we’d like to join their coalition and rebuild basketball for the world. 

But that’s just a pipe dream. For now, I think I’ll just try to find what’s left of the owners and players and see if we can still salvage the NBA.

I’ll report soon as I have more.

@Suga_Shane