The NBA’s second season drags on longer than a Grey’s Anatomy episode. Due to the flurry of trade activity that went on in the preseason and during the season, this year seemed like it could be different. Unfortunately it’s not. It’s worse.
Over the last ten days, there have been 36 playoff games. Those games have largely ended in lopsided scores, complete with dejected prima donnas giving up on the court.
It’s a damn shame that the league with the most talented athletes in the world is flooded with apathetic punks.
My wallet goes out to Denver Nuggets fans who are subjected to Carmelo Under the Influence (CUI) and his band of overpaid cohorts. A team that loaded should never get manhandled the way they were in the Lakers series. Granted, the Lakers are a great team, one that looks poised to make it to the Finals. But on paper, Denver is nearly every bit as good.
And for all the great first round matchups in the Bestern Conference, it doesn’t look like any series will last more than six games. The Mavericks have become the basketball equivalent to the 2001-2003 Seattle Mariners (great regular season, flop in the post season), Shaq to the Suns could very well become the worst trade Isaiah Thomas never made and T-Mac appears destined to be slotted at number 3 on the NBA Bitch List, right behind CUI and Vince Carter.
At this point, the only series still worth watching is Detroit/Philly. The Sixers seemed to be throwing in the towel earlier in the season when they traded Kyle Korver. But alas, they find themselves in great position to upset the rapidly aging Pistons.
I’m sure some people will be all excited that Atlanta tied up their series with Boston. It’s great that the Hawks have already won 5 percent of their games for the entire season. But the Hawks have 2 games left. The same thing happened to the Sonics in the 1996 Finals. Clueless Sonics fans who jumped on the bandwagon at some point in early June were confident that the Supes could come back from a 3-0 deficit to beat MJ and the Bulls. Anyone who had watched more than 4 playoff games in their life knew the Sonics never stood a chance. Same goes for the Hawks. The Celtics are not losing to a team that should have been excluded from the playoffs in the first place (if I was running the league, I would have given the Celtics a bye instead of pitting them against a 37 win team).
Granted, we’re only about 1/10th through the NBA Playoffs 2-month long odyssey. Aside from the Lake Show and the Sixers, the next best thing from the Playoffs thus far is Dwight Howard’s ascension to greatness. First he thrilled us with arguably the greatest dunk show ever. Now he stands a great chance at advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Things will hopefully get better as the playoffs wear on and teams and players feel like they have more to lose. Truth is it can’t get much worse.
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