For those of us who feared another NBA season of boredom with nothing to do look forward to in post season other than another round of Golden State vs. LeBron there is some lingering hope that could be avoided this season. That shit is horrible for the overall league in my view. No team building or nothing organic about how the teams were put together. Just LeBron and Durant playing their game of ego ball with one another to see which one could play on the most loaded roster in respect to the conferences they play in. Even though I puke at the thought of Laura Ingram opening her mouth and saying words, the whole LeBron-Durant thing with the Carri Champion ads nauseates me as well.
But here’s the thing, we may have some hope this post season for a different NBA Finals matchup. Both Houston and Toronto are the No. 1 seeds and LeBron’s latest slew of roster changes has the Cavs tied with Washington and Indiana for third place in the East. But of course, it is still LeBron and the Houston Rockets have yet to prove they can make it to the NBA Finals much like the Phoenix Suns with Mike D’Antoni never made it all the way to winning a ring…but there is some hope we don’t have to witness Durant and LeBron licking each other’s balls in another NBA Finals this summer.
Oklahoma City is playing in my favorite city albeit San Diego in North America today with their only visit to Toronto. I love Toronto. As I’ve written on here before–if I at some point I have to expatriate myself because of the Trump idiots in America…Toronto would be on my list of finalists, plus Serge is there. What a lovely city. You’ve never really lived until you’ve gone to an ice sculpting festival in a Toronto park or read the morning paper while drinking mimosas in street-side café or gone to a Maple Leaf game and booed the home team with the visiting Boston Bruins on the ice or spent an entire day inside the Hockey Hall of Fame. I could be Canadian if I had to be especially now that they have a very good basketball team with DeRozan, Lowery, and of course Serge.
What a refreshing change it would be in having a young/smart national leader as opposed to the piece of human junk leading America currently. Oh, wait…we had that in America then white people decided it was time to go all John Birch Society and pretty much ignore math, science, and world history. Anyway…I digress. The Keith Olberman in me does this to me at times.
The Thunder at the Toronto Raptors at noon.