Mark Cuban is too excited

We hate to say this, and hopefully it’s not bad karma, but we have an awful, awful feeling about tonight’s Mavs-Spurs Game 7.

If this continues to play out parallel to Cavs-Pistons, it means Dallas is going to fall on the road, and the Spurs are one round closer to the Finals matchup that ruins arguably the best playoffs ever.

In an effort to hype up the rivalry, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is doing his team no favors by verbally trashing the city of San Antonio and then bragging about how fun it is on his blog. We added the “verbally” in order to make it clear Mark isn’t literally driving around littering.

Then there are cities with zero sense of humor.

The worst? San Antonio. There isnt even a close 2nd. The bleacher bums have filtered down to the lower bowl and they are living up to their past.

Last week when we were there, there was a front page article about how much better San Antonio was than Dallas.

When I got the chance to return volley the other night during an ESPN radio interview, I certainly and happily did. The Riverwalk river is nasty. I know it. Everyone who lives in San Antonio knows it. I said it. I just know that on crowded nights, everyone who walks that thing is afraid to death that some drunk is going to stumble by and knock them into the water. Its that nasty.

That’s not the complete thrust of his statement – that’s just the San Antonio trashing part. He goes on to say that it’s all good-natured ribbing, and that what he’s doing is trying to make San Antonio-Dallas a rivalry that inspires national interest, like the NBA’s verison of Yankees-Red Sox.

It’s a great plan…with many flaws. For one, the Spurs are boring. Two, your rivalries alpha dogs are a German, a Frenchman, and Tim Duncan. Three, uninteresting is another word for “Spurs”. Four, you shouldn’t do this the day before your team plays a Game 7 on the road against the defending champs.

We love everything you’ve done for the NBA, but in this particular case, you’ve screwed things up for your team. You’ve turned yourself into the instigator/villian, which makes the Spurs the underdog, especially since they’re coming back from 3-1.

One thing you never want to do is make Tim Duncan the underdog, because we don’t know why. It seems like a really intelligent thing to say, doesn’t it? “Never make Tim Duncan the underdog.” Doesn’t that just sound like something meaningless a sportsradio host or guest would say? In fact, we’re so sure it’s a great definitive statement, we’re going to say it no less than eight times in five minutes tonight on AOL’s Sportsbloggers Live, regardless of whether it makes any sense or not.