Some folks will walk into a courtroom or a gymnasium and already have their minds made up. That’s what Judge Taylor was getting at with Harper Lee’s quiet warning that most people aren’t searching for truth; they’re just hunting for confirmation.
Same could be said up in the rafters of old Market Square Arena.
Slick Leonard didn’t waste time trying to convert people. He just called it how he saw it… Boom Baby!
And in doing so, he made believers out of all of us. He didn’t care about what people thought. He knew the soul of the game, and he spoke it fluently.
Judge Taylor gave us wisdom wrapped in patience. Slick gave us grit wrapped in a leisure suit and a raspy growl.
They both taught us that the real fight, whether it was on the hardwood or in the hearts of men…
…is about seeing what matters and listening past the noise.
So today, I give a nod to both the bench and the bench coach. To the ones who knew that integrity doesn’t need a spotlight…
…just a platform.
Boom Baby…. Bring it home tonight Pacers.
