The Lakers are soft. Last year they lost to the Celtics and in Game 6 they were pushed around and humiliated. That was supposed to be their motivation to take every game seriously this year. Well, in Game 4 against the Rockets we saw the same performance. The Rockets punched the Lakers in the stomach to begin the game and the Lakers were never competitive. It really comes down to a personnel issue. As much as I dislike Kobe, he does not lack the killer instinct. However, he has aged and cannot completely take over a game as he once did. These days he is capable of taking over a quarter, but only at the expense of the previous one. In other words, if he is going to have a huge fourth quarter, he cannot be aggressive in the third. If he wants to have a huge second half, he has to take it easy in the first half. In this way he is greatly dependent upon his teammates. Unfortunately for him, his teammates lack the killer instinct. No matter how many times you preach toughness, if your players are not tough it will not carry over into a series. The Phoenix Suns preached defense all year, and yet they were one of the worst defensive teams in the league. The Suns personnel were not equipped to defend, just as the Lakers personnel are not equipped to be physical. Pau Gasol is a finesse player out of Spain. Vujachic is a European metro that is at best a pest, not a physical presence. Lamar Odom has had his heart questioned since he came into the league. Dereck Fisher is really the only other Laker that is tough, but age has taken a toll on his ability to impact the game. The interesting question that comes up is, if the Lakers are unable to win a championship this year, is it time to retool? They are arguably the most talented team in the NBA, but if they are not tough enough to win a physical series, then a championship will never be a possibility. With Kobe’s championship window closing, they may be forced to make some serious personnel changes this off-season.
Mark Cuban is the punk. He is reminiscent of a 5-year-old throwing a tantrum. Nothing would make me happier than witnessing Kenyon Martin “take care of him.”
And the Dallas fans made me look bad. I wrote that the Lakers had the most obnoxious fans and then the Dallas fans berate and pour a beer on Kenyon Martin’s mother. You stay classy, Dallas.
Lebron is great, but the East is awful. Detroit had no business making the playoffs. Atlanta had trouble putting away the Heat. The Heat has a hobbled Dwayne Wade surrounded by bush- league rookies. Let’s wait until the Cavs face a real opponent to crown them champions. Unfortunately, we will have to wait for the NBA finals for that to happen. The Magic and Celtics are not much better than the Hawks.
Five Hour Energy drinks are a scam. I’m pretty sure they are successful due to the placebo effect. The real Five Hour Energy drinks are Emergen-C’s. Those little packets rock.
If I had more free time I would create my own basketball statistics, watch every game, and put a number on each player. I realize that there are many subjective variables that can pollute the data, but if this were your fulltime job, I see no reason that you could not come up with a formula that took everything into consideration. Seriously, let’s think specifically about steals. Let’s say that it was asked of us to decide who the best player was in the NBA in terms of steals. If you sat down and tracked every variable, you could give an educated answer, couldn’t you? For example, some stats to take into consideration would be: home vs away (more points for good steals away since it’s more difficult), the height and size of the players on the court, the offensive ratings of the players on the court (if a player is able to steal the ball from a player that rarely turns the ball over, more points), the number of turnovers committed per game by that team (teams that give up more turnovers result in less of a steal,) the number of steals given up by that team, deflections (count as half a steal,) good defensive steals (steals that do not put the team at risk if missed, to be worth more), bad defensive steals (steals that would have placed your team in a quandary if missed, to be worth less), good missed steals (steal attempts that indirectly resulted in a turnover)….etc. If it was your fulltime job to define everything that happened on the basketball court and put a number to it, you could do it, right? These notes took me about five minutes to come up with. It just bothers me when I hear the Rocket’s GM claim that it is so difficult. I bet he’s just playing coy.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Party Planning Committee
So, I am throwing a little birthday party for one of my friends. I have an idea of how I want this thing to run. The thing is, one of my friends wants to throw a wrench into my party by demanding that he cook for everyone. Now, I admit that there is a lot that I am not good at. For example, I know little to nothing about hockey. Since I do not know anything about hockey, I’m not going to give hockey advice to someone that knows a great deal about the sport. In the same way, I know a lot about throwing parties and take offense when someone with a lesser party pedigree attempts to take control of the party. There is an art to throwing parties and subtle decisions can make the difference between a party you can do without, and one that everyone remembers and will be talking about for months.
Here is the thing about serving dinner at a party; nothing good can come of it. Serving dinner means that your party will have to start early, let’s say 6pm. Three things always happen when you start a party early with a meal. Half the guests gorge themselves and are worn out by the time the real party begins. These guests will leave early and this is one of the worst things that can happen to a party. All it takes is one guest to leave early and suddenly it becomes okay for anybody to leave. It’s contagious and can easily snowball into an empty party. The second thing that happens when you start a party early is everyone begins drinking early. The problem here is that some people are lightweights and some people are heavyweights. When lightweights begin drinking at 6, they are useless by 9. Here again, these guests will want to leave early and we have the same problem of the party emptying. There is a third issue that presents itself if you start early. Inevitably, there will be guests that are not free early. These guests will skip the dinner portion of the party and show up later. So when these latecomers arrive, they are met by the useless lightweights and the worn out overeaters.
There are three things that can bring a party to a screeching halt. One, everyone drinks too much too early and when the party should be picking up, it dies down. Two, people are tired and the party never reaches an apex, it simply plateaus and then trails off. Three, the guests' arrival times are varied so the party can never develop a rhythm. This is similar to Gregg Popovich’s horrendous substitution patterns. How many games did Tony make three shots in a row and then get pulled because there were three minutes left in the quarter? The following quarter Pop would finally put Tony back in at the 8 minute mark, but Tony lost his groove and it takes him 4 minutes to get his rhythm back. At this point the Spurs are down by 8 with 4 minutes remaining in the half, and you know how this story ends. Parties are like games. You need the right mix of people, and just as importantly, you need to set the team up to win. The timing of the party needs to be flawless, and this does not happen by accident. By serving a meal to begin a party you are inviting a disaster. I, for one, will not throw a party if food is to be served. It will kill my street cred. And if I lose my street cred, I may have to do something drastic to regain it. Maybe I’ll rob a convenience store and shoot the employee with a BB gun like this guy.
Here is the thing about serving dinner at a party; nothing good can come of it. Serving dinner means that your party will have to start early, let’s say 6pm. Three things always happen when you start a party early with a meal. Half the guests gorge themselves and are worn out by the time the real party begins. These guests will leave early and this is one of the worst things that can happen to a party. All it takes is one guest to leave early and suddenly it becomes okay for anybody to leave. It’s contagious and can easily snowball into an empty party. The second thing that happens when you start a party early is everyone begins drinking early. The problem here is that some people are lightweights and some people are heavyweights. When lightweights begin drinking at 6, they are useless by 9. Here again, these guests will want to leave early and we have the same problem of the party emptying. There is a third issue that presents itself if you start early. Inevitably, there will be guests that are not free early. These guests will skip the dinner portion of the party and show up later. So when these latecomers arrive, they are met by the useless lightweights and the worn out overeaters.
There are three things that can bring a party to a screeching halt. One, everyone drinks too much too early and when the party should be picking up, it dies down. Two, people are tired and the party never reaches an apex, it simply plateaus and then trails off. Three, the guests' arrival times are varied so the party can never develop a rhythm. This is similar to Gregg Popovich’s horrendous substitution patterns. How many games did Tony make three shots in a row and then get pulled because there were three minutes left in the quarter? The following quarter Pop would finally put Tony back in at the 8 minute mark, but Tony lost his groove and it takes him 4 minutes to get his rhythm back. At this point the Spurs are down by 8 with 4 minutes remaining in the half, and you know how this story ends. Parties are like games. You need the right mix of people, and just as importantly, you need to set the team up to win. The timing of the party needs to be flawless, and this does not happen by accident. By serving a meal to begin a party you are inviting a disaster. I, for one, will not throw a party if food is to be served. It will kill my street cred. And if I lose my street cred, I may have to do something drastic to regain it. Maybe I’ll rob a convenience store and shoot the employee with a BB gun like this guy.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
5 Rule Changes
1.) If you are taller than the offensive player, you cannot take a charge.
2. ) If you are going to take a charge, you must be set before the offensive player is airborne.
3.) Foreigners cannot take charges, ever. If they do a technical is immediately administered.
4.) The “Egregious Flop” is a new violation. The Egregious Flop is to be defined as an overtly obvious flop. If two Egregious Flops are committed by a player in a single game, he is ejected and suspended for the following game.
5.) Head coaches can administer “strikes” to referees after horribly officiated games. Each head coach can give 3 strikes during the regular season and 1 strike during the playoffs. These strikes are to be counted throughout the season. The referee that has accumulated the most strikes at the season's end is to be fired. If a referee gets a strike from both coaches for the same game, he is suspended for 30 days without pay and must wear a scarlet S for the rest of the season, which obviously stands for “SUCKS.”
2. ) If you are going to take a charge, you must be set before the offensive player is airborne.
3.) Foreigners cannot take charges, ever. If they do a technical is immediately administered.
4.) The “Egregious Flop” is a new violation. The Egregious Flop is to be defined as an overtly obvious flop. If two Egregious Flops are committed by a player in a single game, he is ejected and suspended for the following game.
5.) Head coaches can administer “strikes” to referees after horribly officiated games. Each head coach can give 3 strikes during the regular season and 1 strike during the playoffs. These strikes are to be counted throughout the season. The referee that has accumulated the most strikes at the season's end is to be fired. If a referee gets a strike from both coaches for the same game, he is suspended for 30 days without pay and must wear a scarlet S for the rest of the season, which obviously stands for “SUCKS.”
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Houston Rockets
I have to admit, I like this team. However, I do not like their d-bag fans. I realize every team has these fans. It’s the guy that goes to the game more to make your experience miserable than to watch the game. It’s the guy that sits one row in front of 10-year-old kids and still drops the f-bomb over and over. It’s the guy that stands up and claps after every point his team scores. It’s the guy dressed like a gay rainbow wearing shades inside the arena. These fans are almost always brand new NBA fans. If you quiz one of them to name their starting five, they will be stumped. I promise. Regardless, I hate the d-bag fans.
As far as d-bag fans go though, the Lakers definitely have the most, followed by Dallas and then the Rockets. So, from the perspective of a Spurs fan, the Rockets fans are by no means the worst. Once the Spurs are out of the playoffs, you need to root for an underdog to keep things interesting. This is especially true if they lose in the first round. If they lost in the conference finals, you are not allowed to root for another team, unless it is out of spite. For example, in 2006 I was rooting for the Heat because Dallas somehow beat us in the Conference Finals. When picking a substitute team, you cannot root for a favorite, cause then you are no better than a d-bag fan. So, I have decided the Rockets are my substitute team. The following explains why Houston makes a good substitute for me, as a diehard Spurs fan, and would make a good substitute for you.
First, let’s bring it back to the ‘93-’94 season for one of my earliest NBA basketball memories. This was one of the two years that Michael Jordan decided to take off so that he could pursue his baseball career, as least that was what we were led to believe. Michael Jordan’s exit suddenly made the championship a possibility for all playoff contenders. The Spurs lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Utah Jazz. This was before the David Robinson era when our starting lineup consisted of Terry Cummings, Antoine Carr, Willie Anderson, Lloyd Daniels, and Vinny Del Negro. We were decent, but no where close to thinking we had a chance to win it all. At that time, making the playoffs was a big deal, forget about winning a championship. It’s funny how today, making the playoffs is an afterthought for Spurs fans. But regardless, with the Spurs out early, I began rooting for my substitute team, the Houston Rockets. At this time, Spurs fans were jealous of the Rockets. Check out this lineup: Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon, Vernon “Mad Max” Maxwell, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Robert “Big Shot Rob” Horry, Mario “Junkyard Dog” Ellie and Sam “Sam I Am” / “The Alien” Cassell. When you have six players that all have well-known nicknames, things are going well. I remember this series specifically because I was on a family vacation in Aspen, Colorado when the finals took place. I remember being dragged to a dinner function and escaping with my dad to catch the Rockets, Knicks game. I was 12, but had a decent understanding of the game and loved the team chemistry that the Rockets possessed. They seemed to all be friends and loved playing with each other, and at the age of 12 that meant something to me. Today, I can see those same traits in this Rockets team. By trading away Rafer Alston and losing Tracy McGrady for the season, suddenly this Rockets team seems like a group of friends. It’s refreshing.
Second, I really hate the Lakers. No, really. Kobe Bryant is a horrible person. No one on his team likes him, they tolerate him. He was accused of raping a girl, which was admittedly dropped, but regardless he still committed adultery. And to make it up to his wife, he bought her a huge diamond ring the day after the story broke. How classy is that? Quick tangent, if Kobe was in Iran, he would have been stoned to death. Seriously, they still stone people. How backwards is that country? A man was recently convicted of adultery and sentenced to stoning. To stone a person, the victim is buried waste deep, and then pelted with rocks, not big enough to kill him immediately, until he is dead. Can someone drop a bomb on that country already? But back to the Lakers, I cannot stand Dereck Fisher, especially after the .4 second shot he made that destroyed one of the Spurs’ championship runs. That shot still bothers me. There is no way that he caught the ball fading away, squared up, jumped, hesitated, and released the ball in .4 seconds. It’s simply impossible. The referees were spineless and gave that game to the Lakers. During the subsequent offseason, the League created the rule that you can catch a shoot the ball in .4 seconds, but could only tap the ball in .3 seconds. What? So .1 seconds is the difference between a catch and shoot and a tap? The League created that rule in order to justify the absurd ruling of that game. Lamar Odom is just weak. He has the talent and the body to be a number one option for a good team, but lacks the heart and mental toughness. This is why he consistently disappears in big games. Pau Gasol was stolen from the Grizzlies. The League should have never approved that “trade.” The Lakers traded Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenon, and Aaron Mckie’s corpse for Pau Gasol. People wonder why the Lakers have more talent than every other team in the West. Here is your answer; they acquired a seven foot allstar and gave up nothing. If Luke Walton, Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic were not basketball players, they would definitely be the d-bag fans I described earlier. So, reason number two for rooting for the Rockets is that they are playing the Lakers.
Reason three, the Rockets have a chance at winning the championship. Yes, I said it. And do you know why they have a chance? It’s because they are freaking huge and built to get stops. Charles Barkley said something very insightful last night; he said, “The only thing consistent in basketball is defense.” What Charles meant was that a team can execute perfectly on the offensive end, but that is no guarantee that the ball is going in the basket. A team cannot control the way in which the ball decides to bounce. However, a team can consistently control their defensive intensity and make it extremely difficult for their opponents to score during the course of a game. While offense is variable, you can fix your defensive intensity. Defense was the key to the Spurs’ four championships and the Rockets are built to play defense. Check out the Rockets starters: they have a pesky, lightning-quick guard in Brooks, Shane Battier plays shooting guard and is 6’8”, 220, Ron Artest plays forward at 6’7”, 240, Luis Scola plays power forward at 6’9”, 245, and Yao Ming is the center at a listed 7’6”, 310, (more like 350.) The Rockets physically take up a ton of space and play rough. They do not back off of anyone. If a Laker has the ball, there will be a Rocket sweating on him. Driving into the Rockets defense turns the offensive player to a crash-test dummy. There is a reason that Kobe took so many jump shots in Game 1. He does not like getting hit, and who does?
The fourth reason to root for the Rockets, and quite possibly the best reason, is that they are playing their best basketball in ten years without Tracy McGrady. In case you missed it, here is a quick recap of McGrady and the Houston Rockets. Tracy McGrady basically represents everything wrong with the NBA. The guy has all the potential in the world, but at some point decided to quit on his team. He made $20 million this year and will make another $21 million next year. If a team wants to fire a player that has obviously quit on them, then they should have the power to do it. This is not France. We are not socialists, not yet anyway. This is capitalism. If an employee is not performing, then the employer should have every right to stop paying him. This season, McGrady showed up overweight and out of shape to the Rockets' preseason camp. Because he was overweight and out of shape, he quickly sustained an injury. When he was cleared by the team doctors, he refused to play claiming that he was still in pain. Most agree that he simply was disillusioned with the franchise and basically wanted to pout. Well, Houston had had enough of Tracy and decided to trade him. As soon as it got out that the Rockets were shopping McGrady, he announced that he was going to have micro-fracture knee surgery to eliminate any chance that the Rockets had of trading him. McGrady thought that the Rockets were going to trade him to a subpar team and obviously, did not want that to happen. Now, he did not discuss this knee surgery with his coach or anyone in the organization. He made the announcement without their knowledge on some radio station. Today, McGrady is watching the Rockets rally around him not being a part of the team. He still has not made it out of the first round, and if there is any justice in this world, he never will make it out of the first round.
[Correction: Roceketsfan pointed out that Tracy called ESPN’s Stephen A Smith to announce his knee surgery. I suppose Tracy thought IT WAS THE SENSIBLE THING TO DO. Stephen A. Smith is atrocious. So is Stuart Scott, but at least Stuart has calmed down his gimmicks in recent years. He used to throw a BOO-YAH out every other minute. And I feel bad for Stuart Scott because his eye is all messed up. If you are wondering how it happened, in his early years of sports reporting he was struck in the eye by a football. I am grateful that ESPN has not made Stephen A Smith an NBA commentator. That would be unbearable, like Bill Walton commentating to the infinity power.]
So, let’s root for the Rockets for the good old days, because they resemble the Spurs, because we hate the Lakers, because they are the underdog with a shot at winning it all, or because Tracy sucks at life. Any of these reasons will do, Go Rockets.
As far as d-bag fans go though, the Lakers definitely have the most, followed by Dallas and then the Rockets. So, from the perspective of a Spurs fan, the Rockets fans are by no means the worst. Once the Spurs are out of the playoffs, you need to root for an underdog to keep things interesting. This is especially true if they lose in the first round. If they lost in the conference finals, you are not allowed to root for another team, unless it is out of spite. For example, in 2006 I was rooting for the Heat because Dallas somehow beat us in the Conference Finals. When picking a substitute team, you cannot root for a favorite, cause then you are no better than a d-bag fan. So, I have decided the Rockets are my substitute team. The following explains why Houston makes a good substitute for me, as a diehard Spurs fan, and would make a good substitute for you.
First, let’s bring it back to the ‘93-’94 season for one of my earliest NBA basketball memories. This was one of the two years that Michael Jordan decided to take off so that he could pursue his baseball career, as least that was what we were led to believe. Michael Jordan’s exit suddenly made the championship a possibility for all playoff contenders. The Spurs lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Utah Jazz. This was before the David Robinson era when our starting lineup consisted of Terry Cummings, Antoine Carr, Willie Anderson, Lloyd Daniels, and Vinny Del Negro. We were decent, but no where close to thinking we had a chance to win it all. At that time, making the playoffs was a big deal, forget about winning a championship. It’s funny how today, making the playoffs is an afterthought for Spurs fans. But regardless, with the Spurs out early, I began rooting for my substitute team, the Houston Rockets. At this time, Spurs fans were jealous of the Rockets. Check out this lineup: Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon, Vernon “Mad Max” Maxwell, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Robert “Big Shot Rob” Horry, Mario “Junkyard Dog” Ellie and Sam “Sam I Am” / “The Alien” Cassell. When you have six players that all have well-known nicknames, things are going well. I remember this series specifically because I was on a family vacation in Aspen, Colorado when the finals took place. I remember being dragged to a dinner function and escaping with my dad to catch the Rockets, Knicks game. I was 12, but had a decent understanding of the game and loved the team chemistry that the Rockets possessed. They seemed to all be friends and loved playing with each other, and at the age of 12 that meant something to me. Today, I can see those same traits in this Rockets team. By trading away Rafer Alston and losing Tracy McGrady for the season, suddenly this Rockets team seems like a group of friends. It’s refreshing.
Second, I really hate the Lakers. No, really. Kobe Bryant is a horrible person. No one on his team likes him, they tolerate him. He was accused of raping a girl, which was admittedly dropped, but regardless he still committed adultery. And to make it up to his wife, he bought her a huge diamond ring the day after the story broke. How classy is that? Quick tangent, if Kobe was in Iran, he would have been stoned to death. Seriously, they still stone people. How backwards is that country? A man was recently convicted of adultery and sentenced to stoning. To stone a person, the victim is buried waste deep, and then pelted with rocks, not big enough to kill him immediately, until he is dead. Can someone drop a bomb on that country already? But back to the Lakers, I cannot stand Dereck Fisher, especially after the .4 second shot he made that destroyed one of the Spurs’ championship runs. That shot still bothers me. There is no way that he caught the ball fading away, squared up, jumped, hesitated, and released the ball in .4 seconds. It’s simply impossible. The referees were spineless and gave that game to the Lakers. During the subsequent offseason, the League created the rule that you can catch a shoot the ball in .4 seconds, but could only tap the ball in .3 seconds. What? So .1 seconds is the difference between a catch and shoot and a tap? The League created that rule in order to justify the absurd ruling of that game. Lamar Odom is just weak. He has the talent and the body to be a number one option for a good team, but lacks the heart and mental toughness. This is why he consistently disappears in big games. Pau Gasol was stolen from the Grizzlies. The League should have never approved that “trade.” The Lakers traded Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenon, and Aaron Mckie’s corpse for Pau Gasol. People wonder why the Lakers have more talent than every other team in the West. Here is your answer; they acquired a seven foot allstar and gave up nothing. If Luke Walton, Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic were not basketball players, they would definitely be the d-bag fans I described earlier. So, reason number two for rooting for the Rockets is that they are playing the Lakers.
Reason three, the Rockets have a chance at winning the championship. Yes, I said it. And do you know why they have a chance? It’s because they are freaking huge and built to get stops. Charles Barkley said something very insightful last night; he said, “The only thing consistent in basketball is defense.” What Charles meant was that a team can execute perfectly on the offensive end, but that is no guarantee that the ball is going in the basket. A team cannot control the way in which the ball decides to bounce. However, a team can consistently control their defensive intensity and make it extremely difficult for their opponents to score during the course of a game. While offense is variable, you can fix your defensive intensity. Defense was the key to the Spurs’ four championships and the Rockets are built to play defense. Check out the Rockets starters: they have a pesky, lightning-quick guard in Brooks, Shane Battier plays shooting guard and is 6’8”, 220, Ron Artest plays forward at 6’7”, 240, Luis Scola plays power forward at 6’9”, 245, and Yao Ming is the center at a listed 7’6”, 310, (more like 350.) The Rockets physically take up a ton of space and play rough. They do not back off of anyone. If a Laker has the ball, there will be a Rocket sweating on him. Driving into the Rockets defense turns the offensive player to a crash-test dummy. There is a reason that Kobe took so many jump shots in Game 1. He does not like getting hit, and who does?
The fourth reason to root for the Rockets, and quite possibly the best reason, is that they are playing their best basketball in ten years without Tracy McGrady. In case you missed it, here is a quick recap of McGrady and the Houston Rockets. Tracy McGrady basically represents everything wrong with the NBA. The guy has all the potential in the world, but at some point decided to quit on his team. He made $20 million this year and will make another $21 million next year. If a team wants to fire a player that has obviously quit on them, then they should have the power to do it. This is not France. We are not socialists, not yet anyway. This is capitalism. If an employee is not performing, then the employer should have every right to stop paying him. This season, McGrady showed up overweight and out of shape to the Rockets' preseason camp. Because he was overweight and out of shape, he quickly sustained an injury. When he was cleared by the team doctors, he refused to play claiming that he was still in pain. Most agree that he simply was disillusioned with the franchise and basically wanted to pout. Well, Houston had had enough of Tracy and decided to trade him. As soon as it got out that the Rockets were shopping McGrady, he announced that he was going to have micro-fracture knee surgery to eliminate any chance that the Rockets had of trading him. McGrady thought that the Rockets were going to trade him to a subpar team and obviously, did not want that to happen. Now, he did not discuss this knee surgery with his coach or anyone in the organization. He made the announcement without their knowledge on some radio station. Today, McGrady is watching the Rockets rally around him not being a part of the team. He still has not made it out of the first round, and if there is any justice in this world, he never will make it out of the first round.
[Correction: Roceketsfan pointed out that Tracy called ESPN’s Stephen A Smith to announce his knee surgery. I suppose Tracy thought IT WAS THE SENSIBLE THING TO DO. Stephen A. Smith is atrocious. So is Stuart Scott, but at least Stuart has calmed down his gimmicks in recent years. He used to throw a BOO-YAH out every other minute. And I feel bad for Stuart Scott because his eye is all messed up. If you are wondering how it happened, in his early years of sports reporting he was struck in the eye by a football. I am grateful that ESPN has not made Stephen A Smith an NBA commentator. That would be unbearable, like Bill Walton commentating to the infinity power.]
So, let’s root for the Rockets for the good old days, because they resemble the Spurs, because we hate the Lakers, because they are the underdog with a shot at winning it all, or because Tracy sucks at life. Any of these reasons will do, Go Rockets.
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