San Antonio Spurs DeMar DeRozan (Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images)
Having been a fan of the San Antonio Spurs for over 20 years, I eventually learned not to take any given loss as a personal attack. Does the occasional tough loss still get to me? Of course. That Dort three made me want to kick the ball into the stands as well.
On those days, I tend to take the night to gather my thoughts before writing something up for a couple of reasons. One, to get rid of some of the raw emotion that still creeps in every so often before it clouds my writing.