YAYsports! NBA

It all began in the days of yore, when a young boy and his father partook in a game of “wait until the last second to hop on Flashseats and see if anyone is unloading tickets on the cheap”.

What a game it was, indeed! The lad and the elder traveled to the city of LandCleavers, and soon met up with an old friend, a boy - nay, now he was a man - who now writes his own tales of litigation and depositions.

Shortly thereafter, we got sick of the Mac we being forced to use and dropped the whole “tale of woe” thing. Becky asked to see the hat - there it is. We don’t really wear hats*, but we liked that one, so we got it.

As for the game itself, it was one of the more anti-climactic things we’ve ever experienced. We were hoping for a fond farewell type of experience if we had to endure a loss, but it didn’t really happen because of the way the game ended. It was close but not close, and everyone realized a win was just delaying the inevitable.

Plus this team is oh-so-flawed…yet on the verge of something greater. Hopefully. Maybe. Okay, yes. Perhaps.

Weird game, weird season, weird team - agreed? All in all, we feel like maybe now LeBron will know he has to bring it all season. Maybe now he’ll realize the value of the homecourt advantage. Maybe now Danny Ferry will force an offensive specialist on Coach Mike.

Scary thing? We remember saying all of this last summer, as well.

Regardless, ten years from now the books hologram documents will say the Cleveland Cavaliers played in the 2007 NBA Finals, and the personal memory implants will recall that we called our dad and said “Hey dad, I want to take you to the NBA Finals.” So all that is good - we’re satisfied in this moment.

THAT SAID, perhaps the greatest memory of all will be ESPN’s John Hollinger looking at us blankly when told, “This is Brian, the guy who writes YAYsports!.” In fact, blankly might be overstating it. If there’s something more “blank” than “blankly”, it was that. Of course, we surely didn’t endear ourself by saying, “So, you like numbers, huh? I like numbers. Not like you like ‘em, but I use them sometimes.”

*We have a real paranoia that they cause hair loss - if someone could tell us this isn’t true and make it so we believe it and stuff, that’d be great.

FINAL NOTE: Daniel Gibson will one day win the award for “Most t-shirts that are completely legal yet so obviously capitalizing off of someone specific, and he can’t do anything about it”. Because you can’t really trademark “Boobie”, can you?