Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Today's NBA Thoughts...............

It is springtime, love is in the air, people are enjoying the beautiful weather, and I am locked in my room living all things NBA. Yes I know this is some life I lead, but hey at least I stay out of trouble. So today we are handing the Lakers the Western Conference Title, we now know the Magic officially have the first pic, and the Pacers/Pistons series is GREAT BASKETBALL!!!!

First thing, I do want to see are some rule changes in the league, nothing to fancy just some simple changes. When a player is shooting a free throw nobody is allowed to touch the ball except the referee, I am so sick of guys jumping in the lane and touching the ball. If you touch the ball you are thrown out of the league. And after a call, any call, you have only five seconds to voice any protest to the ref. We will have a midget with a stop watch keeping rocket up yotime, if you go over the alotted time the midget fires a rocket up your ass. I think that would end these two awful parts of the game.

Now to the Draft Lottery, what the hell is the point of this thing? So we have all these idiots in a room representing their respecetive teams. The best part of this is Chris Bosh sitting there staring at Diana Taurasi and thinking about how hard he is gonna drill her in a bathroom in the NBA headquarters only moments after this thing is over. After all was said and done the Bulls and Clippers traded pics, thats it. Every other team picks in the same order they finished. Thank god we have a made for TV event for this. Lottery, every team gets one ball except for the last place team they get 5 balls, that's it that's the list!! That would be a fucking lottery people. Pat Williams was pumping his fist and then realized he doesn't get Shaq, he gets Emeka Okafor, Dwight Howard, or Luol Deng. Why would anyone want this #1 pick, I would trade it for a naked picture of Mo Vaughn in the shower personally.

The Lake show won their first home game so now they appearently have already won the NBA Championship. I still believe the Wolves have a chance in this series. Remember for Game 4 we have the Kobe court room drama and plus the Wolves are a good team.

And finally we get to the Pacers and Pistons. Normally in a series like this I would want both teams to die in a fiery inferno before the game, but I do have money riding on the Pacers. This series has been tremendous so far, but most people probably haven't watched more than 5 seconds of any of the games. All they do is look at the score and say, "oh these must be terrrible games, look at the score." Had you taken the time to see the effort being put forth by all of the players you would be floored. They go at each other just like old time basketball; the push & shove, get into the faces of their opponents, challenge their teammates to rise to the occasion, and they make big time shots. This series is introducing fans to some budding superstars, Jermaine O'neal and Richard Hamilton especially, but of course old people cannot like them cause the have braids so they are automatically bad people. Both these guys play balls out every second they are out on the floor. They do whatever it takes for their teams to win and it is a pleasure to watch them. I hope that the league begins to market these young players and I hope that fans will take hold of their talents and efforts and grow to respect them, you can call these guys "throwback players" or whatever you want. They give it their best and that is why there teams are still alive in the playoffs and it is a joy to watch these playoffs.

For my dollar the NBA playoffs this season are matching the intensity and joy of last years baseball playoffs. I hope that people are watching and enjoying these games as much as I am.

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