David Stern, you got your wish.
The Spurs are gone, and now the Pistons have joined them.
What an exciting NBA Finals it will be! Surely, a feel-good story featuring a team that has risen from the ashes and a team that is just finding its niche- and with everyone's favorite MVP!
Just like old times, right? Celtics and Lakers at it once again, after all these years. Since the Pistons have already played the Lakers in the Finals and everyone is sick of seeing the Spurs, I guess it really was time for a change in scenery.
Undoubtedly, the ratings will soar. You'll be a very rich man, David! Maybe so many people will watch the Finals that that Tim Donaghy mumbo jumbo will just kind of slip from their memories.
This is what needed to happen to get the NBA back on its feet. I understand.
Besides, who wants to watch any more playoff games with those two boring teams that always seem to linger around? Who would want to watch that, other than the pure die-hards in Detroit in San Antonio?
No David, it's all about the story, right? I mean think of the reaction! Boston! In the Finals! They made it! After all the struggle in years past, they traded their whole team away and made it all the way solely on the efforts of three people. From worst to best! What sports fan in their right mind will be able to flip past that?
Who wouldn't want to watch a washed-up flopping "superstar" and two franchise players that collectively abandoned their teams and their fans for a fatter paycheck and a better shot at winning.
But we don't hear about that do we? Nope, we hear about how much effort these guys went through to start a "band of brothers" that gave up so much to be together, happily ever after.
I can't imagine how much emotional pain and anguish Kevin Garnett must have had to overcome to pick up that pen and John Hancock a contract to cash in $72,408 every quarter ($23,750,000 overall). How can you not give your utmost respect to such a team player? I mean, it must have killed him to leave Minnesota.
But hey, what happens happens. We can't turn back time now.
Anyways, why would we want to?
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The Spurs are gone, and now the Pistons have joined them.
What an exciting NBA Finals it will be! Surely, a feel-good story featuring a team that has risen from the ashes and a team that is just finding its niche- and with everyone's favorite MVP!
Just like old times, right? Celtics and Lakers at it once again, after all these years. Since the Pistons have already played the Lakers in the Finals and everyone is sick of seeing the Spurs, I guess it really was time for a change in scenery.
Undoubtedly, the ratings will soar. You'll be a very rich man, David! Maybe so many people will watch the Finals that that Tim Donaghy mumbo jumbo will just kind of slip from their memories.
This is what needed to happen to get the NBA back on its feet. I understand.
Besides, who wants to watch any more playoff games with those two boring teams that always seem to linger around? Who would want to watch that, other than the pure die-hards in Detroit in San Antonio?
No David, it's all about the story, right? I mean think of the reaction! Boston! In the Finals! They made it! After all the struggle in years past, they traded their whole team away and made it all the way solely on the efforts of three people. From worst to best! What sports fan in their right mind will be able to flip past that?
Who wouldn't want to watch a washed-up flopping "superstar" and two franchise players that collectively abandoned their teams and their fans for a fatter paycheck and a better shot at winning.
But we don't hear about that do we? Nope, we hear about how much effort these guys went through to start a "band of brothers" that gave up so much to be together, happily ever after.
I can't imagine how much emotional pain and anguish Kevin Garnett must have had to overcome to pick up that pen and John Hancock a contract to cash in $72,408 every quarter ($23,750,000 overall). How can you not give your utmost respect to such a team player? I mean, it must have killed him to leave Minnesota.
But hey, what happens happens. We can't turn back time now.
Anyways, why would we want to?
Original Story:
http://pistonpost.com/2008/05/31/game-se....
