This blog is about three things I care about: books, basketball and the search for a third thing.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Back 2 2son (Wow, I'm like Prince!)

Kat and I make another trip today to scope out housing. We hope we can get things settled, so we can start worrying about other things to worry about like getting married, packing, cleaning the house, cleaning the backyard, cleaning the front yard, moving, and going to Elliott's graduation. That is a long list for someone like me who has basically become a slacker.
But the real news is that a certain professional basketball league begins its postseason today. I don't have much time (2son is Y), but here is every first-round matchup, one thing (or many) I'm excited about and a prediction.

Detroit - Orlando
A man named Flip (really, nothing)
DEEE-TROOOIT BASKETBALL in 4

Cavs - Wiz
The King against some jesters
Cavs in four

Raps - Nets
The entire of Canada directing all of its venom toward one man who cares not one whit about anything but drinking Gatorade and getting paid
Raps in seven

Bulls - Heat
Tyrus Thomas maybe killing himself, Wade rising from the ashes, Kirk Hinrich's whiteness, Shaq and Ben Wallace shooting free throws, Scott Skiles eating a live animal and Ben Gordon doing it for the UK
Bulls in six

Now for the good stuff...

Mavs - Warriors
Dirk, the poor man's Jet, Stack, the two-headed Dallas center, J-Rich, Baron's teeth and beard, Mickael Pietrus (he's from France!), Biedrins's haircut, Nellie matching wits with the Little General, Stephen Jackson punching Austin Croshere in the face, Oaktown coming alive for the first time in a decade, the Warriors stealing games from a juggernaut simply because of playground tactics
Mavs in six

Suns - Evil Purple Empire
You've seen the shirt, so you know who is who plus Barbosa and the ghost of Paul Shirley, Kobe scoring at will, Kwame fumbling at will, Lamar bodying the Matrix, Smush Parker's mood swings, Andrew Bynum getting dunked on by Amare, the Zen Master watching idly, Mike D'Antoni stomping around like Hitler
Suns in five

Spurs - Nugs
Melo and Iverson reaching full potential, the Spurs realizing they're counting on Jacque Vaughn, Francisco Elson, Matt Bonner and other guys you've never heard of, the experts who predicted SAS winning it all coming to terms with the fact they got rolled in round one. Yeah, you heard
Nugs in seven (I know I'm crazy, I think this is just Suns passion coming through)

Rockets - Jazz
Yao Ming vs. Fat Elvis, Boozer vs. former Fab Fiver Juwan Howard, Deron Williams taking it to Skip to My Lou, T-Mac dunking so hard it gives Kevin Harlan a brain aneurysm, Jerry Sloan wearing a trucker hat, Gundy eating chalk, Dikembe saying he always plays better after he gets his fifth foul
Rockets in six

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