Under Protest

I've have made it no secret that my least favorite teams in the NBA are as follows:

1. The San Antonio Sucks

2. The Celtics

3. The Lakers

With all this in mind, the #1 and #3 seed in  my rankings played on Wednesday night. The Lakers were down by as much as 12 points in the forth quarter. With a minute left to play and on a Kobe corner pocket three, the lake show takes the lead.

Now, this is where in all reality, no other team can come back from what the Lakers are pouring on to this horrible cheating team. But not so for the dirtiest team in the league. With 12.0 remaining, the San Antonio Sucks inbound the ball to Roger Mason who goes up for the two, while Derek Fisher tries to go all the way around him, from the back, to defend the shot. On his way around, Mason's leg kicks WAY out and connects with Fisher drawing a foul!?!

Next, with 11.0 left and down one, the Lakers get the ball to Kobe who is double teamed right away. He passes to Trevor Ariza who drives to the lane between two defenders. After his first step he is sandwiched and tripped while being hacked by Manu "The Nose" Ginobili. When he takes his second step he shoots and the whistle blows. Traveling...

How blatant can you be David Stern?! You obviously love San Antonio and at the cost of losing millions of fans. There are so many of us out there that can't stomach this crap any more. As a fan I am watching in protest from now on. If my team is playing either San Antonio or Boston I'm going to voice my concerns before it starts and then sit back and watch as my team plays against an eight man team.

Not long after the dust settles from what Mr. Stern has created here, he will realize that he has destroyed the NBA. No one will be supporting them. Attendance will be nil. Ratings will fall off the face of the earth. No one will buy the apparel that he has driven the price of. It will be the next Arena Football League.

Imagine if the seven seconds or less Suns would have had a fair shot in 2005. I guarantee that they would have taken it that year. The repercussions of that championship would have made the league fun again what with all of the teams trying to implement the run and fun style of Mike D'antoni.

Alas, it was never meant to be. So thank you Mr. Stern for taking something so great and wonderful and making it a bidding war. The Celtics paid the most to win last year. Let's see if Greg and the Sucks can out bid them this year again and be * champs yet again.

While I will be supporting the Suns as much as possible, most of my t.v. time will be for college basketball. Or trying to find the 08 olympic basketball game for the U.S. I love watching that team play for our country and the gold. Some of the best basketball I've seen in a long time.