This morning’s news radio brought discussions of vaccines for Liberia and the defeat of the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals. The two are not as unrelated as may first appear. Miami was suppose to be the team to beat. The trifecta of superstars. An amazing line up of basketball talent- and yet they lost. Many like to root for the underdog and this year’s finals had no shortage of Miami haters. How could the Heat not win? But Dallas played like the better team. This isn’t a sports blog though, so go to espn.com to read about Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry.
Back to talk of being an expected winner. Are the wealthy countries of the world viewed like the Miami Heat? A stacked deck of expected victory? If so then what are we doing with our economic dominance? This is where basketball and Liberia connect. Unfortunately the adversaries aren’t nearly as awesome as the Dallas Mavericks, but they are as tenacious. They are things like diarrhea, pneumonia, AIDS, clean water, sanitation, TB and malaria.
We’re letting those win?! Really?!?
Time to step up our game.
Dallas’ guard, Jason Terry got a tattoo of the Final’s trophy at the beginning of the season which proved to be either prophetic or motivating. He said after they won, “When you do something crazy like that, you have to back it up.”
Time to do something crazy that we have to back up.
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