Say goodbye to the Conference Finals First, a little business: I will be out of town on vacation the rest of this week, so I won't be writing BAD posts for Games 2 or 3. Thankfully technology will allow me to post comments or
tweet so I can share my smart-ass musings if I feel like tapping something out on my phone.
In today's absurdly ridiculous NBA legal news update,
JR Smith got busted for illegal scootering. I can't shake my head discouragingly enough.
And finally, I hope you appreciate these last few games. It's probably the last NBA action you'll see for over a year.
Worst of the Eastern Conference Finals Press Conference in Pictures:"I'm going to the NBA Finals? Golly gee willickers!" "I am the most boring man on the face of the Earth" "I wonder how much I can get my for my MVP trophy on eBay..." Game 1 of the 2011 NBA Finals:Mavericks at Heat, ABC, 9pm (Series tied 0-0): Here's a cool but probably meaningless stat from the Elias Sports Bureau: "Dallas has won its last 14 regular-season games against Miami, the 2nd-longest winning streak teams to meet in the NBA Finals. The other 4 teams to enter the Finals with at least a 5-game winning streak against their opponent have gone on to win the title."
Why do I say this stat may be useless? How often do you see a team in the Finals that looks as completely transformed as this year's Heat? Right now they're hotter than
Tabasco Family Reserve. But during the regular season, they were at times more dysfunctional than a sitcom family. And of course this stat is also useless because it goes deep back into previous seasons, with different players and coaches. Remember Miami's 2007-2008 team? Dwyane Wade played in only 51 games. Shaq gave them a mere 33 games. Ricky Davis was the
only player to play in all 82 games for that team. (For the love of God, Smush Parker was on their roster!) Amazing how much the times change, eh? How did they turn it around so much? I need to think about this one for a few minutes -- if you need me, I'll be in the Chamber of Understanding
Okay, I figured it out:
Dwyane Wade is really good at basketball. So while we talk about LeBron this and LeBron that, don't forget the other guy he's going to have going to the foul line approximately 1,847 times during this series.
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I understand that there are no "endless riches" in blogging, but your standard just isn't what it used to be. I used to rely on you for info & a bit of humour, but you've strangely come down with some pretty serious cases of the cant-be-f#cked's this year, and it's made me a bit sad.
Now this? No posts on games two and three? I've been waiting all year for the finals, the most important stretch of the year, and you're not going to be blogging for more than one-quarter of it? Once again, I know it cant be easy, but you've got thousands of people who depend on you. I've been reading you for four years.
This blog just seems to be missing the heart it once had.
Buy me a laptop so I can type with more than my cell phone while I'm out of town and then I can write up my posts on the road. :)
(FYI, Bawful will still have WOTN posts while I'm gone, don't worry.)
I hope Deshawn does some neck cutting and can't feel my face gestures.
And I don't get the "chamber of understanding" video! I watched it for 10 minutes and nothing happened!
j/k
(Damn it, I forgot. Nobody actually owns a thesaurus anymore. Fine, go Google it.)
And awesome picture! I like the fact that Kurt Thomas is giving it from behind to Lebron, while having the courtesy to go for the reacharound.
On the plus side, there's been a lot of Wade and LeBron man love.
I'm glad the ipecac is working, no go away, hater...
Sad to see Nowitzki get that injury though, and I'm sure someone will twist Lebron's words on it to make him look like an ass again.
And Jason Terry is a massively overrated tool.
Captcha: Entonio. The Joke writes itself.
And that was a clean strip on the boshmellow that Dirk got hurt on.
I think most people outside of Miami want to see the Heat lose, rightly so. I just hope that Dirk and Kidd can finally win a ring because they really deserve it.
Yes, i'm a HUGE homer and I feel like it's time for the Mavs. No more heart breaks.
Mavs in 6. Dirk for Finals MVP.