Celtics/Lakers: Game 2

I'm not usually a fan of basketball. Professional basketball anyway. To me they just seem like really old men knocking into each other. It's a different game than college hoops. College hoops has strategy, X's and O's have meaning. However, I'd be remiss if I didn't watch the NBA Championship between the Celtics and Lakers. Let's just say I've heard great things about this rivalry.

So, here I am watching an NBA game and I gotta say: It's a fun game! It's a lot different than watching it on Sportscenter. On Sportscenter they cue up all the outragous stuff. The dunks, transitional scoring, the technical fouls, the game changing 3's. But when I turned on ABC at 9:05pm (Sidenote: this shit is on late! I know LA is 3 hours behind, but 9pm? How are kids supposed to watch this game?Do kids nowadays stay up to midnight? Maybe I'm really old. When I was 15 I was in bed at 10pm tops. Also, girls didn't look anything like the ladies on Gossip Girl. If they did... well I still wouldn't have made a move, but it would have been a lot more exciting.) So, 9pm and Boston's Garden is pumped and Kobe Bryant is there and so is Garnett. This shit is fun.

12 mins a quarter? Fucking A! This is great. Sure, the clock stops after every foul and wow there were a lot of fouls, but the game flew by in the first half. The Celtics (the good guys right? I mean the Lakers are by definition the bad guys. They're from Los Angeles for one thing. Kobe's like Darth Vader, a guy who used to be good then fucked everything up and is now the right hand man of the Sith lord, Phil Jackson. The Celtics with their white unis and ability to hit a shot no bigger than a wombrat is dead on for the rebel alliance. SIDENOTE: You can relate anything to Star Wars if you look hard enough.) were just toying with the Lakers starters. Even their bench got into the act of knocking down jumpers. If I didn't know better I would have thought I was watching an NCAA game.

So, the 4th quarter rolls around and I'm still watching. Well, it's on the TV and I'm playing Scrabulous with my girlfriend, but it's still on. And looky what we have here the Lakers are making a run. A serious run. They pull within 4 points of the Celtics before time expires. Now, I may not be a basketball fan, but I know sports and that run at the end of the 4th is gonna light a fire under LA's ass. I believe they'll come out and slaughter the Celtics in Game 3. Why? Because they were down by a large margin and didn't give up. You gotta give it to them. Even the bad guys in Star Wars didn't give up when those kids blew up their large moon. They just went right back to work on another Death Star.

Watch your back Celtics. This shit is gonna kick up a notch.