News leaks that KG, in all likelihood, will miss the playoffs (all of it?!) with his as-yet-unvetted knee injury...
...and within 24 hours, GM Danny Ainge is rushed to the hospital with a heart attack.
The Big Collapse. The NBA: Where Soap Opera Happens.
Shit, this is going to make the playoffs boring. Best-case scenario, San Antonio or Portland give L.A. a real run out West; 'cause the East is locked up now.
Still. LeBron v. Kobe in June? I'll be there.
-G
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Yeah, LeBron and Kobe in June is enough reason to stick around. If the Finals are the main course (and that's what we're getting), you've got the Porterhouse, medium. It's gonna be good. Don't even worry about it. In fact. it could very well be the best steak you've had in a decade. The ultimate old school-new school, will the torch be wrestled away confrontation. Cus after all, Kobe is still at the peak of his powers. He may not have the endurance he did a couple seasons ago (and that's a maybe, not a definitely), but he's still the total package. And young LeBron has been a house on fire all year. I can't wait for it. It needs to happen. And if Bron can somehow carry that Cavs team past the oh-so-deep and so-well-coached Lakers (who currently have the best player in the league), then there really is nothing that's going to stop him. There is no way, the Cavs should beat the Lakers in the Finals. The Cavs best front court player is Sideshow Bob. The Lakers have Gasol (career year), Bynum (a young beast in the middle) and Odom (one of the best all around players in the League). On paper, it shouldn't even be close.
It would have been fun to watch the Celtics try to defend. But we also know, with KG at less than 100%, they had no shot at beating the Cavs. So, it was not the real story of these playoffs. The real story of the playoffs is not a story yet, but more a question.
Was this past weekend a fluke, or is the level of parity in the League increasing so much that playoff seeding matters little this year? In the West we know that anybody can beat anybody, except the Lakers. A healthy Spurs team was the only group that had a shot. What about the East? Wade could take a series from somebody even though his team stinks. The Celtics are now a three-legged dog getting chased by a gang of huntsmen with rifles. Orlando won 60 games this season with an unstoppable interior force, 3 point shooting and nothing else. Great for them, but that's not a playoff basketball formula. There's not even the appearance that any teams matter besides the Cavs and Lakers. Of course, that could be deceiving. The games haven't all been played yet. But isn't the appearance that this is a foregone conclusion, before they even start playing, a problem? It's not like there's a front runner and a couple of contenders vying for the throne. It's two mortal locks. For one of them not to get to the dance would require something terrible to happen (like KG's knee turning into dust).
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