The fact that it was a sweep doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. The fact that it featured two teams with no flair and a “boring” style of play doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. The fact that the TV ratings sucked doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. And the fact that [...]

Painful. For Cavs fans and NBA fans alike, this series is becoming extremely painful. As I said in an email to my friend earlier today, this could become the worst NBA Finals series in history. I qualified that statement by saying that if we got at least one close game the series might be saved. [...]

Don’t let the final score fool you… as far as NBA Finals blowouts go this one is right up there, along with the Bulls demolition of the Jazz in game 3 of the 98 Finals. As coach Van Gundy said several times in the broadcast, it was a “clinic”. Parker was again brutally efficient on the [...]

Game 1 of the NBA Finals was a fizzer. It was a fizzer because the three things I desperately wanted to see didn’t happen:
1) Lebron James throwing down a ridiculous dunk to go down in NBA Finals history (in fact, how about just one dunk LJ? That’d be nice.)
2) Duncan utterly dominating the Cavs frontline [...]

Here’s my thought for the day: the San Antonio Spurs are about to face their weakest opponent of the playoffs… in the NBA Finals. Read that again. After going through Denver, Phoenix, and the mighty Utah Jazz the Spurs are about to face a more inferior team than ANY of them for the ultimate NBA [...]

Day 42: Nine in a Row
From a Detroit fan’s perspective, thats the only way to look at it… nine in a row. Since playing arguably our best game in the playoffs in game 3 against the Bulls, Detroit have played nine very ordinary, average-at-best games. That is an incredible streak of poor form to have [...]