It’s been a great week of sports. The MLB Playoffs have heated up with Pliladelphia Phillies-Atalanta Braves series showing some great promise. The cheating Houston Astros look to be headed to another ALCS and the St. Louis Cardinals went wimpering into the night by losing two games to the Phillies without scoring a run.
The NHL began regular season play with the defending Colorado Avalanches pegged as the team to beat from my perspective with the NY Rangers and the Tampa Bay Lightning in my view the two teams to watch in the East. The Toronto Maple Leafs I’m sure will win something like 56 regular season games then lose to somebody in the first round.
As far as the NBA… the Warriors play their last exhibition game tonight, then get started with regulasr season games.
The Thunder as the premier tanking team in the NBA will shamelessly tank for the third straight season and lose somewhere around their obligatory ‘sustainable’ goal of sixty games so they can draft another tall thin player who can shoot and break bones in his feet with equal frequency the first time someone like LeBron rocks him in the paint.
I’m too old to wait on Sam Presti.I’ll be dead by the time that nerdy little Sam Presti puts a team on the floor which is trying to win games.
So…the Warriors are it for me because they’re not only good, but fun to watch because of the way they move the ball and play team defense. Plus…of course Steph, Klay, Wig and of course Draymond.
I would hope Draymond can pull his act together on this most recent nonsense with Jordan Poole and realize how important he is to this team… and how fortunate he has been to play with this group of guys over the years.
I love players with an edge though. That same kind of edge Dennis Rodman brought to those championship teams in Detroit and Chicago. Hopefully…this latest ‘Draymond edge’ pulls the t eam even closer as they embark their journey to win a fifth NBA ttitle in the Steph Curry era on the Bay.