Apologies for not keeping you more in the loop. Between some travels (post coming soon on how I never again want to ask the universe if I’m in Waco at 5:07 in the morning), a head cold (the ear is making progress, I think), and the approach of NIT season (the first episode of NITea Time will be released soon), I briefly lost track of Tacko Fall.
Which is hard to do.
Because, you know, he’s pretty tall.
Anyway, no excuses (those earlier ones were just an explanation, and a devious little plug for future content). You come to this website intermittently to make sure you know where Tacko Fall’s at in his career. And where is that, right now?
Maine.
I think.
Our favorite NBA player hasn’t appeared in an NBA game since shaking The Universe with his debut against the Knicks the Saturday before last. My impression is that he’s been up, and down, and up again, and now down again, but it’s possible I’m off on the exact number of calls up and down. Whatever the case, he hasn’t entered another NBA game, so the world’s still waiting for that.
But while Fall has yet to notch his second NBA victory, he may soon be recording his first in the G-League, because the Red Claws open play on Saturday down in Wilmington against the Delaware Blue Coats. There is no broadcaster listed on the G-League’s Red Claws site (looks like a few of their games will be on NBA TV, which means I might be at a Buffalo Wild Wings a week from Sunday to watch Tacko Fall and see if a three-year-old gift card I forgot about still works), so good luck finding it, but at the very least, if you feel a surge of adrenaline at 7:00 PM EST Saturday, you now know why.
Of course, it’s possible he’ll be called back up for the Celtics’ game tomorrow night. There is no way to know for sure, because Brad Stevens, if he’s the one making the decisions, is very good at hiding a very large man. Remember that about the guy should Yao Ming go missing soon.
