I look back on 2007 as the most successful year of my life. Not only did I make many strides on and off the court, but I also had the most fun ever. I can say with 100 percent honesty that 2007 was the most fun I've ever had. I guess I never thought that playing well and writing in my spare time would be what I would find to be the most fun, but turns out it was. 

For me, 2007 was kind of a bounce-back year. 2006 was so terrible that I guess I had nowhere to go but up. With so many ups, and so few downs this past year, it should be easy to review what has been the best year ever. 

It would be possible to look back on this year and dwell on the fact that I was released from the Austin Toros of the D-League on Jan. 2, cut by the New Jersey Nets in October (two days after my birthday, and reassigned to Bismarck, N.D., for a second season. It would be possible to think back to the $12,000 I earned this year and remind myself of the times when Richard Midgley (another former Cal player) and I pooled together our money to eat a solid dinner. I could even remember the time when I didn't have enough money to catch a cab to get to the airport to leave Philadelphia. 

The point is I'd rather remember the time I signed with a new team on Jan. 6 and scored 17 points in my first game, the first of many good games that led to the championship. I'd rather remember the Vegas summer league where I was playing well during the day and pretending to be a big-time star at night. I'd rather remember the experience of my first NBA training camp: the anxiety, the excitement, the feeling that I was finally making my way towards a goal I've had for so long. I'd rather look at how successful my second D-League stint has been thus far. Even in the last month I've only gotten better, averaging nearly 18 points and 15 rebounds a game while shooting 62 percent from the field.   

Instead of thinking about how I spent Thanksgiving eating a terrible meal or playing a game on Christmas and New Year's Eve, I can take solace in the face that I learned how to bake my own sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving and how I was a part of this great video that shows just how much Christmas cheer the Dakota Wizards really have (it takes about 30 seconds before it begins so don't worry when the screen is black): 

Let's not forget how far this whole "writing random nonsense that comes into my head" thing has grown. I think you call it "blogging." Every time someone reads something else I've written I find it crazy. I'm no different than anybody else. I have friends, enemies, hopes and fears. I enjoy a game of Madden daily. Yet, for some odd reason, people want to know the craziness that makes up my mind. Someone even called me an "E" list celebrity, which could be insulting, but it's actually awesome. I'm on the list. There is a list and I am allegedly on it. 

At the end of the day, I can say I wrote more, played batter and partied harder than any year of my life, and I loved every minute of it. Since I am never truly satisfied, I can only hope 2008 outdoes 2007. There is an easy way for that to happen. All I have to do is get called up.

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