Well, we watched the entire festival of opening night, and it was somewhat comforting to have the NBA back.
We still love the game, and remain open to allowing the league abuse us once again. Tonight’s Cavs-Mavs matchup will be quite the telling experience.
Anyway, the most interesting thing about last night’s games was obviously Kobe Bryant – the Laker crowd booed him during pregame introductions, and despite scoring 45 points in the loss to the Rockets, Phil Jackson got all critical after the game.
“He got tired out there,” Jackson said. “I had to talk to him a little bit about hitting the open guy and not crashing in there as often as he did. I thought there was a lot of times when his competitive zeal brought him in there hell or high water, and he didn’t get the call, and as a consequence there were some things that happened that turned into layups for them or easy run-outs for them.”
Anyone else get the feeling Phil is trying to run Kobe out of town?
He’s been lobbing some jabs at him for the past week, and said in no uncertain terms he wanted the franchise to make a decision on Kobe moving or staying asap.
Not coming out and explicitly asking to keep him is quite telling (Just like Mavs-Cavs!) if you ask us.
Add in the boos, and we think by 3:00 lasterday afternoon, Bryant is gone. Gone like a player who got traded to another team.
On another note entirely, the Spurs continue to be the most boring team in the world of sports. They handed out their championship rings before the game, and the order went something like, Random Guy, Random Guy, Jacque Vaughn, Tim Duncan, Francisco Elson, Random Guy.
Tim Duncan gets his just like in the middle of bench dudes? Can you imagine Cleveland doing this and not saving LeBron to the end? Setting aside the ridiculousness of Cleveland ever winning a title in any sport, that’s just basic dramatic style.
We understand that’s all part of their “we’re a team” stylings, but give your fans at least one moment, in one night to maximize their cheering build-up.
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CLE doesn’t even need to worry about championship rings, like you said.
Cleveland is going to win it all this year, look out! Hughes is looking great!
Detroit is over the hill and pushing up the daisies. RIP Rip.
It would be cool to hear the Governor of the great state that the Cav lives in say the second sentence of your proclamation!
“over da hill and pooshin gup da daisies”
“give your fans at least one moment, in one night to maximize their cheering build-up.”
You wouldn’t know about that, would you, Mr. Hype-My-Movie-That-Is-Never-Coming-Out?
If that was soldiered up I can’t even imagine the nightmare that is pacifism
Don’t worry, we’re getting Sasha back. Sasha!
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