Of course, as one of the NBA’s more prominent bloggers—I’ll be covering tonight’s Emirates Cup Final with absolutely no dog in the fight. Consequently, regardless of who wins tonight, MJ won’t be claiming to be on either team’s bandwagon once we witness who wins the Cup after OKC’s massive choke in the semi-final round where Wemby could only play twenty minutes.
MJ will still have OKC at No. 1 in his Power Poll and Denver No. 2 clearly after the Nuggets win last night over the Houston Rockets.
I watched no sports whatsoever last night as my wife and I were in Seminole visiting her family and watching the amazing classic White Christmas staring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney.
It is by far our favorite XMas movie of all-time and quite possibly a Top Ten chick flick as well. I would go Home Alone as my No. 2, while she would probably go Miracle on 34th Street as her second favorite XMas movie.
A night away from sports was needed after suffering the immense emotional conflict on Sunday of ‘my’ Green Bay Packers losing at ‘my’ Denver Broncos on Sunday at Mile High…thus putting ‘my Packers a half-game behing the cocky Chicago Bears who have won nothing since Jim McMahon was their QB in ’85. But MJ does realize these Bears might actiually be for real with former OU quarterback Caleb Williams as their signal caller.
So ‘my Packers’ now have to complete another tortuous twist of what has to be the toughest SOS ( strength of schedule) in the enitire NFL by traveling to Chicago for the rematch of two weeks ago in which the Packers won at the end.
As far as the song below, here’s what MJ is thinking. For the briefest interval of time last night, I thought of putting the Donald Trump video of his thoughts on the tragic double homicide of Rob Reiner and his wife on my blog.
But instead I thought to myself, ” Don’t do that, Mike. You’ve already many times made the point of how completely and morally, ethically, and spiritally bankrupt the Trump people are in their continued support of this ‘person’.”
So I’m playing my favorite song from White Christmas and pretending Donald Trump doesn’t exist.
Enjoy the Emirates Cup Final tonight and may the best team win.
Mike J