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I'll bet you didn't have Mike Woodson on the tip of your tongue! W.W.M.W.D. ??
“My mom, cousins, grandparents, friends … they’re all back there,” said Pachulia, the Atlanta Hawks’ rugged center. “It’s especially tough when you live in a country like Georgia. It’s a small country. Everybody knows you.” When someone asked how his loved ones were doing, he shot back: “The whole country is my family.”
Imagine his anguish as he watched the Russians rout the outgunned, outmanned Georgians, causing widespread destruction in the tiny nation of 3 1/2 million people before an uneasy peace prevailed. Pachulia, like the rest of the world, saw disturbing television images of a country going up in flames.
His country.
“I was here this summer when that was going on and Zaza came into my office,” Hawks coach Mike Woodson recalled. “He was almost in tears. You could tell he was hurting. There was nothing he could do. He was pleading for help.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AjlF.1DbU9dRTXm5ULJHp.G8vLYF?slug=ap-pachuliasanguish&prov=ap&type=lgns
As a Hawks fan, I hope he can retain his playoff-level intensity on the court for the regular season. As a fellow human being, though, I can only imagine how challenging it is to focus on the court when the things that truly matter most are happening off of it. Hopefully, the planned Russian withdrawal in mid-October is legit, although I'm skeptical about the whole thing.
~iyf