The Pistons seem perfectly content to give away games at home, yet the Celtics haven’t won on the road in these playoffs. So what happens when two negative externalities meet? I guess they cancel each other out, but still, somebody has to win this series. So who will it be? I say, whoever sucks the least, which is no good way to advance to the NBA Finals.

Ergo, Phill-Italia, Spanish Pow, the king of Queens, and Pine Bluff walk away with the chip.

That’s too bad because it means more bitching and moaning every time the refs call a foul on any Spur and/or everytime the refs do not call a foul on any Spur opponent (dammit I get tired of watching all that begging, all those upward palms, and “who me?” looks)!

It’s too bad because it also means more flopping from the two Argentenians, more goon squad from Kurt Thomas and a decrepit Robert Horry, more google-eyed disbelief and “making-love-to-the-rock-before-I-shoot-freethrows” from Tim B Dunkin; it means more reaching pulling grabbing nudging grappling wrestling submission holding mixed martal arts hacking tripping and awkward-foot-placement-as-you-come-down-from-your-jumpshot from the man who has perfected the art of dirty play, Bruce Bowen (seriously, that cat would get his skinny ass whipped - whipped! - at any park, gym, or rec league for having the nerve to play ball like that); it means more driving the lane at 170 lbs, getting hit, falling down, and curling into the fetal position for five minutes while my teammates act concerned before jumping up and crying to the refs for five more minutes from Antione Longoria; finally it means more mucking up the sanctity of the game by playing hack-a-whoever has the the lowest FT% and trying to intimidate the weakest ref with my gruff demeanor and military background (except Joey Crawford who ain’t havin that mess) from “Coach Pop.”

Besides that, yeah, Go fucking Spurs… Can’t wait til Kobe does what Chris Paul probably can’t do this year and splits yo muhfuckin wig next round.

If they lose tonight it will be 3 times in the second round.

And CoCo I hear you. But I just believe that the Celts will win it all this year. You can ask Mizzo I been beating this drum since last year. Just a feeling same feeling I had about the Giants beating the Pats.

If Bynum was healthy I would say that the lakers would win. But the lakers really do miss Bynum on the defensive end.

Check this out if they lose tonight. They will have lost in the first round once and the 3rd round 3 times in the years they were trying to repeat.

Now one of those years Duncan was out because he hurt his knee. I think that was 2000 playoffs. They lost to the suns.

They’ve been a great team over the last ten years but they don’t qualify as a dynasty.

Has any team that has won 3 or more championships never made it to the conference finals in the years that they were trying to repeat????

Lakers over hornest in 7 games. Celtics over Pistons in 7 games.

Celtics over Lakers in 7 games.

In games 7 with 20 seconds left. The Celtics are up by 1 point. Kobe passes to a wide open Walton under the hoop……….but Walton gets blocked under the hoop repeatedly (like Charles smith versus the bulls). And the Celtics win…………Stern takes a deep breath because there is no way he could handle having to give Kobe the MVP, Finals MVP and Championship Trophy in the same year…….

This is Kobe’s year. He
will win the triple crown like Big Brown.
NBA title and both MVP awards.

Is that a cool name for a champion horse or what?

Boston-Detroit should be a phenomenal series (defensively).

I like the Hornets tonite because of Chris Paul and the crowd. They need someone to step up like PJ Brown did for Boston. Maybe it’ll be Gennaro Pargo or Bonzi Wells since they should still have fresh legs. If the Spurs get anything from players like Kurt Thomas or even Horry, it’s going to be a long night. Knowing Popovich, he’ll pull a rabbit out his hat in this series just for the last game or the pivotal moment in the 2nd half…it could be a trapping defense to get the ball out of CP3’s hands when he crosses half court - it could be anything…but it’s going to be something.

I love what the Hornets have done this season for NO and the league I just feel the Spurs have one last gasp in them to pull it out.