Sorry, I know. It's been like a month. There's been a lot going on so let's just jump right into it:
MIAMI LOSES THE NBA FINALS
Yes, Miami lost. Some team from Texas won. Doesn't matter who, but it was the Dallas Mavericks, since you asked. A team led by a gigantic German sharpshooter and a 33 year old 6 foot shooting guard from Seattle. A team that faced Miami back in 2006 when the Heat were actually a team people liked. A team that will be remembered more as "The Team That Was Also On The Court When The Miami Heat Lost The 2011 NBA Finals" than "2011 NBA Champions", which is hilarious. The fact that the unholy trinity of "Bron-Bron", "DWade" and "Chris Bosh" was denied what seemed to be their birthright is such a bigger story that it's almost kind of sad.
After the game, Lebron addressed the haters who wanted to see him fail (ie, "everyone not from Miami") by saying the following:
"All the people that was rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that."
He's got a point, too. All those people are indeed going to have to wake up this morning and have their same old lives. They will also wake up this morning with the same amount of championship rings as Lebron James.
Nice work, Dallas. Never thought I'd root for Jason Kidd. Nice to see the NBA go out on a high note before the labor situation takes center stage.
COME ON, BRUINS. JUST, COME ON.
You cannot let them win. The only team that deserves a championship trophy less than the Miami Heat are these Vancouver Canucks. They represent everything that is wrong with the NHL, and pro sports in general. They bite, they flop, they complain, they interfere with the goaltender. They're not tough, they're not honorable. They are literally the scum at the bottom of every used hockey sock ever worn. They are the reason that a majority of the country still does not take hockey seriously to the point where the postseason has been televised on a network that a lot of people still don't have. Who wants to watch a team like Vancouver play hockey? Who wants to watch a team like Vancouver do anything?
It's hard to really grasp how scummy and pathetic the Canucks are because they stand poised to win the Cup in Boston tonight. Which they won't, obviously. The Bruins humiliated Vancouver in Boston for games 3 and 4, blowing them out by a combined score of 12-1. Roberto Luongo who claims that goals Tim Thomas let in would be "easy saves" for him gave up a goal every 10 minutes in those two games. That's what is slowly but surely raising the Bruin fan psychosis threat level up to orange this morning.
The games in Vancouver have been nail-biters, which could have gone either way. The Bruins just happened to have lost all three of them. The two games in Boston were no-doubt-about-it beatdowns. The team with the B on their sweater has been so schizophrenic that their style of play in Vancouver has been barely recognizable when compared to their dominance at home. Going into this series the Bruins had been very strong on the road, going 5-3 against Tampa, Philly, and Montreal. After losing all 3 games in Vancouver their record now stands at 5-6. There is absolutely no sense to be made of it, either. Some key Bruins players are FROM Vancouver, so it's not like they're playing in China here, or some other ridiculous place that's never heard of hockey like say, Nashville.
So what is it? I'm stumped. All I know is that they CANNOT, they MUST not, and they WILL not let Alex Burrows hoist the Cup on the Garden ice tonight. They've come too far to allow such a grotesque spectacle of inhumanity to occur. Take a page from the Mavs book, and beat the team that everybody hates, please. It is waaaaaaaaaay too early for my summer to be ruined.
Go Bruins.
-Judge
