Ron McGill

There is no written rule in sports about who is worthy of breaking a record.

Every player for the past 20 years has stepped on a court with a chance to score more than 81 points.

One did.

In a win, someone who's better at defense, if you can't celebrate that, stop watching.

There is some hatred of basketball that is polluting some of the coverage in a way.

That bothers me as someone who really loves basketball and doesn't mind it evolving into a different sport than it has been.

But my rage is reserved for the man who presently joins us right now.

Ron McGill has been making a farewell retirement tour on every media outlet known to man except the one that cares about him most.

This one right here.

The people who support Ron McGill's endowment, and I don't mean to turn a syrupy, wonderful, nice thing into something that is filled with hot acid, but I am rabid with rage that Ron McGill has taken weeks and now is going to come on here and give us the same sound bites he's given everyone else about his emotional leaving in retirement of the zoo.

Ron, instead of celebrating, you explain yourself.

I just can't believe what I just heard.

No, I'm serious.

I can't believe what I just heard.

I was out of town.

I announced my retirement two weeks ago, three weeks ago.

I immediately went out of town with my wife.

I was unavailable.

I had an emergency procedure come up at the zoo where I couldn't go on the last week.

And we rescheduled for this week.