Jeff Green Gets His Ring as Denver Wins First Ever ‘Ship’

What a nice NBA Playoffs for me. I enjoyed every bit of it even though the Warriors got beat in the second round. It seemed as if the basketball gods provided something special for me as a fan in every round.

After the Play-In…. I made notes as to where I think the Thunder are as a team after their two games against New Orleans and Minnesota. Where I think the Thunder are for me depends on what I see this summer from Sam Presti.

What I mean by that is I think Sam Presti needs to settle in on who are his core eight best young players, then perhaps use one of his many assets to bring another nice veteran role player on board to go along with Kenrich Williams in that regard. Otherwise, the Thunder are loaded with some very nice young talent.

In the first round of these playoffs we had a delightful seven game series between the Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. For pure comepetitive drama it was about as good as you get in a first round matchup. I loved all seven games. I don’t think it’ s time to write the Warriors’ obit, but I do think it marked the changing of an era per se. Denver has let it be known they currently have the best team at this moment.

When we got to the conference semis….I focused on the Warriors-Lakers and the Suns-Nuggets. These two series just basically reinforced three things….. the Splash Brothers, LeBron, and Chris Paul are getting old and the toll on their bodies with all these extra playoff games over the years genuinely showed. For me though, the Austin Reaves thing was fun. I’m happy for Austin in that he’s shown he’s going to have a nice NBA career.

Then we went to the Conference Finals where we as passionate NBA fans we got to view an iconic seven game series between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat. What a great series! It gave us everything we love about playoff basketball. The one thing it didn’t give us was a first ever all the way comeback from an 0-3 deficit.

In reality…we probably would have had a better NBA Finals if Milwaukee or Boston hadn’t fallen to the miracle Miami Heat, but give the Heat credit….even though they didn’t win the championship they did two incredible things by winning both of those series on the road. I mean…even Vince Lombardi I think in this instance would be okay with the runnerup trophy.

So…we’re heading off to Denver to see the kids. Who knows…maybe right there in the heart of Championship City….maybe Chris and I bump into Jeff Green and his daughter at the iconic Bonnie Brae Ice Cream Parlor.

What a nice way for Jeff Green to celebrate his basketball journey. The years fly by don’t they?

Jeff, Kevin, and Serge have rings. Russ and James…not so much. Maybe this should tell us something about extreme over-usage. Championship teams move the ball. The ball doesn’t stick.