NBA FINALS: CELTICS VS LAKERS
The Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers…dream series for basketball purists like myself. Sure the NBA wants this to happen to bring some needed excitement and nationwide attention to the league. In all honesty though these are the two best teams from each conference and it is very fitting.
Funny story though first that I think of every time I hear the team Boston Celtics. We are playing a nice family game of ‘Catch Phrase’ where you pass around something with a word on it that you have to describe without saying the word. For example, the word might be ‘black cat’ and you’d say ‘this is something that you never want to cross in front of you because they are bad luck’. Make sense? Good. Anyway we are playing a game of Catch Phrase and my wife has the controller. She says “This is a team that plays basketball in New York”. I’m thinking that it has to be the KNICKS but really a whole slew of teams ran through my head in about a 3 second span. I was thinking college teams and everything. She wasn’t on my team so I kept my mouth shut but her sister pipes in almost immediately and says “Boston Celtics”. My wife says “great job” and goes on to the next one. I have to stop the game because I don’t believe what happened. “This is a basketball team that plays in New York”= “Boston Celtics” without hesitation. It was amazing. I check the game piece and make sure they are right and they were. It was hilarious. Two people of the same mind I guess.
It would have been more fitting if she would’ve tied these two teams together because they are tied together in all of our minds. While I was growing up it seemed to always be the Lakers and Celtics and Bird and Magic. Now we have Kobe vs the BIG 3 of Boston. I’m very interested to see which team flinches here. Boston has home court advantage and needs it desperately. Ray Allen will have an opportunity to really step up and score for his team. Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom will go up against KG with Odom trying to pull the Big Ticket away from the hoop as much as possible so Gasol can go to work on Perkins. I love it. That first game will be crazy. Derrick Fisher will give Rondo fits and vice versa. Fisher is a great defender while Rondo is a great athlete who has an incredible knack for getting steals and deflections. Fisher is going to play off of him and let him shoot whenever possible and the Celtics hope they go in.
I wish Thursday was today cause i’m dying to get this series started.
