Christmas Day Memories

It’s special to play on Christmas Day.Everyone’s watching, it’s obviously on national TV, and they don’t put you on if you suck. There have been some great games, even greater performances, and some classic NBA moments. Without further ado, NBA Christmas memories:- Wilt Chamberlain claims he had close to 25 blocks on Christmas Day ’68 at Phoenix. And it’s not like Wilt embellishes anything, right? If he says he had 25 blocks, he had 25 blocks. He probably had 40 boards too.- For no other reason than it was his second national TV game, but Pete Maravich and the Hawks traveled to Phoenix in ’70 during his rookie year for the Christmas Day game. Pistol hit for 28, including several very tough shots; it’s a game they always show on NBA TV and more importantly, one of a precious few complete games of this genius in sneakers in existence.- Perhaps my favorite. Bernard King hit for 60 points in ’84 on the Nets, including 40 by halftime and basically getting half the New Jersey roster in foul trouble in the process. Honestly, the Nets tried at least – at least – six guys on him the first half, but this of course was during the 13-month stretch (from Feb. 1 ’84 to late March ’85) when you simply couldn’t guard King, it couldn’t be done. In a related item, Michael Ray Richardson hit for 36 and the Nets completed a mighty comeback to steal this classic 120-114.- Just a year later on the very same MSG floor that King just cremated, the ’86 Celtics, arguably the greatest team ever, played the lowly Knicks and their rookie Patrick Ewing. It was really what the game represented that was memorable; Boston used this bad loss (they let a 25-point lead slip and lost) to wake up and destroy the rest of the league, winning 43 of their next 49 games en route to the title. Bird shot 9-for-27, actually decided to quit drinking booze for the rest of the year (true story), and ignored the early-season back pain to abuse all-comers from that point on as he won his third straight MVP.- In the summer of ’86, Philly gave away (this is not an exaggeration) Moses Malone to Washington, so the league, ever so sensitive to these type of things (read: Kobe vs. Shaq) decided to give Moses a nice X-Mas gift: A chance to abuse his former employers on National TV on Christmas Day. So that’s just what he did. 28 points and 21 boards later, Big Mo rode out of the old Spectrum a winner.- Although not a memorable game, it’s actually the first I remember watching. As a thirteen year-old, I was lucky enough to be allowed stay up to watch the 11:30pm rebroadcast of the Pistons-Bulls game from ’96. You see, this is Australia and we don’t care about the NBA, hence the crazy programmed time. All I remember is a big game from Pippen, MJ good as ever, a young Grant Hill running the point, a funky camera angle from NBC and an Otis Thorpe jam over Jason Caffey that was simply a beautiful thing.- I was actually there in person; the first matchup for the Kings and Lakers since their epic WCF in ’02. Actually, they had played once in the interim: a preseason game in LA where Rick Fox and Doug Christie exchanged punches, which actually re-ignited in the exit tunnel, only to be broken up by a street-clothed Shaq. Anyway, this X-Mas day game was a dandy, I distinctly remember being captivated by Peja Stojakovic – when he was good and healthy – and his jump-shooting, and by Chris Webber and a particularly nice behind-the-back dime. Plus, the Kings won and more appropriately, I witnessed a fist fight in the car park between – you guessed it – a Lakers fan and a Kings fan. Good times.- 2003: LeBron vs T-Mac. That’s right, a young LBJ (actually his rookie year) at a time when I was still excited-but-skeptical about his game. Anyway, he dropped 34, won me over forever, and dueled McGrady (41 points) in an exciting and high-scoring game. At the time, T-Mac was the league’s leading scorer and one of the best in the game, but honestly, to compare him to James now is almost an insult to the King. Oh, how times have changed.- In ’05, Shaq and Kobe played for the first time since their, for lack of a better word, divorce. Anyway, watching the game I had this sick feeling in my stomach that Kobe would catch Shaq off-guard and dunk on him. Funnily enough, anytime that was even a remote possibility, Shaq would foul him as he was to jump. As a result, Shaq fouled out, Kobe dropped 42, and it was up to D-Wade to save the day. He hit several big shots in overtime – including a sick left-handed banker – as the Heat escaped with a win.

Christmas Day

Christmas Day is a great day for increasing your luck for the year, truly important in the days when one unlucky turn - an injury, or a bad harvest - meant not just inconvenience, but possibly starvation and death. The first person to hear the rooster crow on Christmas Day is assured of good luck (and, in Ireland, is due a cup of whiskey or tea). Every mince pie you eat at Christmas means a happy month in the year to come - if each pie is made by a different person and eaten in a different house. If you carry in your pocket a scale from a fish eaten at Christmas, your purse will be full all year. Other things that bring good luck on Christmas Day include wishing someone a Merry Christmas before putting on your socks and shoes, sneezing, eating breakfast by candlelight, hearing a cricket chirp, kissing the oldest person in the house, giving coins to a beggar, and stirring the Christmas pudding. Bathing on Christmas Day will keep you safe from fevers and toothache in the year to come.
more stories like thisUnlucky things on Christmas Day include picking up nuts or fruit from the ground, leaving the dinner table before everyone has finished, sending carolers away without giving them any money, being the first one home from church, carrying a spinning wheel from one side of the house to another, stepping on cotton thread, receiving a present of new shoes or tanned leather, and letting the candles or the fire go out. If you eat nuts without honey on Christmas Day, you will lose your teeth. On Christmas Eve it is unlucky to spin or sew, to grind grain, or to leave the dishes unwashed.
Fittingly for a holiday in which souls gather against the dark and face the uncertain year to come, Christmas superstitions offer the hope of predicting the unpredictable and controlling the uncontrollable.
Whatever you dream on any of the 12 nights between Christmas and Epiphany (Jan. 6) will come to pass within the next year. The weather for the whole year is also determined during this time: as the weather is on each of these days, so will it be on the corresponding month of the following year. If you really want to know the rainfall for the next year, you can hollow out 12 onions, putting salt into each. Each onion is named after a month of the year, and there will be rain in every month where the salt in that onion is wet. And if Christmas Day falls on a Thursday, the following year will be windy.
To predict the next year's harvest, count the stars on Christmas Eve, and there will be as many sheaves as you have counted stars. If the sun shines through the limbs of the apple trees on Christmas Day, there will be a good crop of fruit next year. But if there's a full moon on Christmas, the following harvest will be scanty.
At Christmas women can also predict the course of their love life (not many spouse-finding superstitions work for men). Young women who go out and hit pigs with a stick at Christmas can tell the age of their husbands-to-be: if the first pig that squeals is old, that means an old husband; a squealing young pig equals a young husband. If there's a henhouse handy, a woman can knock on its door between 11 and 12 on Christmas night. If a rooster answers her knock, she will be married, but if her knocking is followed by silence, she will never marry. Looking into a well on Christmas Eve will show the destined husband - the same can be determined by throwing a ball of yarn in the air at midnight on Christmas Eve; the arrangement of the yarn on the ground will look like the future husband's face. If you're unmarried and no one kisses you under the mistletoe at Christmas, you won't marry during the following year.
The last day to indulge your Christmastime superstition is Candlemas (Feb. 2). To avoid bad luck, all of your Christmas decorations should be down by that day. But be careful what you burn: it's unlucky to burn Christmas greenery, except for mistletoe, which must be burnt or else those who kissed beneath it will become enemies. Every leaf left up after Candlemas will result in either a goblin seen or a death in the house during the year.
These superstitions are all hundreds of years old, at least, but there's room for new ones to calm our new anxieties. For instance, if you give a friend an electric nose-hair trimmer at Christmas, you will quarrel in the year to come, and not tipping your newspaper delivery person will result in bad luck all year long.

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