Melvin Anderson Ely (/iːˈlaɪ/; born May 2, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player who was also an assistant coach for the Canton Charge of the NBA G League. (wikipedia)
I'm in the pawn shop giving the guy the description of my jewelry, he says he has it and he gave it to me free,
I'm a little fatigued, but I can play. It wouldn't be fair to the team to play if I wasn't up to it.
It takes its toll when you have to play out of position, but hopefully we will get it together. The injuries have forced a lot of players that weren't in the rotation to get in the action.
Basically, they're going to get caught. They aren't the smartest criminals.
They say any time you catch the flu it's the sickest you've ever been in your life. I can speak to that. It's the truth.
I'd been in a little bit of a slump. The last couple of games I kind of got back into the swing of things.
We worked hard for this. The people here, we saw in the preseason we could be a great team. Honestly, we should be 3-0.
Any time you have a grand opening, have to walk the red carpet and have the commissioner talk to us -- any time that happens you are going to be excited,
We fought and fought and fought. The only thing we can do is play the same way and hope that things go our way in the end.
We went out there and played our hardest and put ourselves in good position to win the game. Then once again we got bit by that bug of somebody going down in the game. Our leader left us, we tried to maintain it and it just slipped away.
