The NBA finals are here!!! During recent years this would be no reason to get excited, but now that we've narrowly escaped the dreaded ratings killing, sleep educing, NBA popularity executing, defensive pitchers duel that would have been Detroit Vs San Antonio part 2, we already owe Lebron James one thank you.
I'm going to venture out of my normal play it safe NBA prediction realm, and make a real ballsy prediction. The Cavs will win the NBA championship!
Why am I so confident? Truth be told, I'm not. Not at all. The Spurs are an unbeatable, unenjoyable monster. My girlfriend has recently developed a rather hostile dislike for the Spurs, partially due to me suckering her into watching Suns playoff basketball this year. She is no basketball expert, or even fan really, but has still managed to develop a bitter distaste for San Antonio. They're simply not a likable team. It starts with Tim Duncan, who despite being incredible on the basketball court, is just not exciting or pleasing to the eye. They call him "the big fundamental" for a reason, and fundamentals don't put asses in the seats or ratings in the Neilson boxes (or ratings in the seats and asses on the Neilson boxes, which the Neilson people do not advocate).
Then it goes on to Bruce "The Things I Pull in the NBA Would Get Me Massive Beat Downs if I Ever Tried To Pull Them In A Pickup Game" Bowen. If slyly attempting to injure exciting star athletes and then acting like you have no idea what they're talking about when they get pissed was exciting basketball, we'd all be rocking Air-Bowen's and trying to step on our co-workers ankles, which most of us aren't (Starbury's are way cooler than whatever Bowen's rocking, sheeit). Then there's the flop-a-thon between Oberto and Ginobli (who by the way are also a huge turn off to the female population of casual finals watchers aka forced to watch by their boyfriends, you can almost hear a collective groan of frustration from the female viewing population when one of them step in front of Tony Parker for 3 seconds, he's cute so I hear, plus he's french which means he smokes cigarettes, so thats always good).
In all reality I give the Cavs a 0-3% chance of having a shot at winning this series. But here's the kicker. I also gave them about the same odds to beat Detroit. I also thought Golden State had 0 chance at getting past Dallas, nor did I think there was a chance of Chicago sweeping Miami. All basketball logic is out the window at this point (OK , maybe not "all", but at least half). So my balls out in the open prediction is that Lebron James will have no fewer than 2 incredible games and will lead his team to victory over the Spurs, marking his rise to the top of the NBA and thus ressurecting its fanbase (on a side note, Harry, the friendly Indian sandwhich maker at my local Quick Stop who also loves to discuss NBA basketball everytime I stop in for a Redbull, has this thing where due his not so experienced grip on the English language, he calls the Spurs the "Supers". The guy is a huge Nets fan to the point of unrealistic expectations. I get the impression he came to America and was just so blown away by American sports that he became a super duper fan the moment he found out the NBA existed. Our basketball discussions have ranged from me trying to convince him the Nets probably weren't going to win it all this year, to him earlier in the year proclaiming that Jason Kidd could "go to hell" when the Nets were in the midst of a losing streak. Great guy that Harry.)
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