Celtics
I enjoy basketball. I enjoyed basketball as a child. I enjoyed playing basketball as a child. I really enjoyed watching basketball as a child. I remember sitting in the bedroom, watching on my 11″ television, watching the Bulls play, watching the Knicks play, I think we got a heavy dose of Eastern Conference Teams for the fact that we were in Germany and the East Coast was obviously closer than the West Coast. So I got to watch Michael Jordan grow from being a really good player to Angelic stature. I got to watch the Isiah Thomas led Pistons go at it with Chicago on multiple occasions. I watched Detroit beat the Lakers one year in the finals, I got to watch the Lakers in the championship one year. One team I did not enjoy watching was Boston. I liked the logo, I liked the Irish concept, I just did not like the players at all.
Now, the Lakers and the Celtics are in the finals and in all honesty it is nice to see, but I have no interest in living in the past with things like this. The constant Magic v Larry crap that is on television is weak to say the least. I kind of put this into the realm of Indiana Jones movie. Some times, the past is really good and trying to invoke memories of that in the present will fail. The Lakers of today are nothing like the Lakers of old, the Celtics of today are nothing like the Celtics of old. They keep bringing up the Big 3, which is great and all, but the big 3 of the Celtics today could not hold the jockstrap of one of the Big 3 of the Celtics of old.
Magic Johnson has more heart and ability than most of the players on the current Laker team. Kobe Bryant is nothing but a punk that broke apart one of the best teams in the history of Laker basketball.
Now, I want the Lakers to win, call it Los Angeles bias, but I still ma pissed off that the Lakers did not have Shaq for the last three seasons. Granted the Big Diesel is broken down, but they could have had at least 1 or possibly 3 more rings.
The NBA wanted the Boston - Laker series, they wanted to invoke memories of the past and they have done a good job of “making” it happen. I would not be shocked if this goes 7 games. But quit showing me shots of Magic and Larry Bird, they are old and all it does is show me how old I am, which is the last thing I really want.