The NBA Finals: I Thought They Would Be Better

I was so geared up for the finals once I saw the two best teams in the NBA would be playing each other. Added to that is the fact that it's Celtics-Lakers. I really thought this would be going to a game 7 with every game going down to the wire with contested shots, controversial calls and frightingly sick shots, with the game on the line, by Kobe/Paul Pierce. Needless to say with the Celtics up 3-1 in the series, I've been a bit disappointed. I was also disappointed in the Western Conference playoffs this year, but that's another story.

I'm not a Lakers fan by any stretch of the imagination but I've been rooting for them in this series mainly because I'm sick of the Boston sports scene ruling the roost this year. The Red Sox won the World Series, the Patriots were the best team in the NFL (even though they lost the SB (woohoo!)), Boston College had a shot at national championship game and a Heisman finalist and the Celtics finished their season with the best overall record in the NBA winning 66 games. I imagine a lot of my dislike of the Boston sports fan is sour grapes. I mean, if Dallas were in the same position, I would be on cloud nine. But it's Bah-stahn, where they pahk their cahr in the yahd.

The other night while watching Kobe and his Lakers cough up a 20+ point second half lead and lose the game, I almost felt the way I did when the Mavs lost a tough game...I couldn't beleive it. Plus the Lakers are from the Western conference, not the Leastern, so I would like to see them win. But I don't think it's gonna happen. No team that has been down 3-1 in the NBA Finals has ever come back to win the championship so I think it's church for the Lakers. And then the soap opera that is Kobe Bryant will start back up. Hopefully we will be spared from his incesant moaning about being traded, etc. but anything can happen at this point. Hey, I thought the Lakers would win the series so nothing at this point will surprise me.