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Memphis Grizzlies’ Mario Chalmers On Fire: A Week in Review

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. …his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“He’s on fire!”

Though once supremely jubilant, the true power of the phrase petered out long ago. Our current basketball culture has completely squelched the excitement of the phrase that once ignited a generation of basketball fanatics who loved this game.