As we mentioned earlier, it’s a good thing we’re not watching the NBA Finals live. Too stressful. Anyway, it starts at about 3 a.m. local time, and that’s late, even on vacation.
However, we have one observation about Game 2 that may be some encouragement for glum Lakers fans:
And it is: 11-for-16.
That is what the Celtics […]

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Thank goodness I won’t be able to see the Lakers and Celtics.
Not that I don’t care. Oh, on the contrary. I care scads. Tons. Oodles.
It’s just that I come from that generation of Lakers fans/followers who remember the 1960s … and far too well, when it comes to the Lakers and Celtics. Does 0-6 in […]

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So much for the invincible Orlando Magic. Eight-and-oh in the playoffs … but against whom?
Overmatched Charlotte, which is built around … Steven Jackson? Gerald Wallace? A sweep of those guys, but so what? (And one game was decided by four points and two by nine. Yeah, a butt-kicking.)
Then the Atlanta Hawks, nice team in the […]

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So, roll out of bed on the other side of the world, and there is the final score:
Boston 120, Cleveland 88?
Boston 120, Cleveland 88!
One of the bigger surprises in sports since I got here, in October. Absolutely did not see this coming. Even after the Celtics won Game 4 to even the series at 2-2, […]

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I’m on record with my sad decision that the Lakers won’t defend their NBA championship this year. They don’t beat Cleveland in the Finals.
But these Lakers are shaky enough that their fans ought to be worried … right now.
That is the Oklahoma City Thunder coming to town, and they have the league’s leading scorer (no, […]

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As I write this, many of the people I know back in the States are watching the Lakers play the Celtics. In Boston. If I were on that side of the Atlantic, I would be watching too. I grew up watching that rivalry, and suffering through it. Jerry West, Chick Hearn and I … well, […]

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I want to know. Really.
A lot of you have been watching Derek Fisher. Do the Lakers look like they’re playing 4-on-5 when D-Fish is in the game? Does he look like a bench coach who somebody let suit up, for the heck of it? Is there a point guard in the league he can still […]

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If you’re a Lakers fan and you’re not worried about Kobe Bryant … you ought to be.
Not because of the way he is performing. Of course not. He’s as good as ever.
Three buzzer-beating shots for victories already this season. Which is more than any other team has. A scoring average of 30.6 points per game, […]

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It was a more eventful decade than my initial thoughts indicated. “Wow. I have to come up with 10 good sports events from the 0-somethings? I’m not sure I can do that.”
Turns out, a few minutes of cross-referencing years and sports, and it’s no problem finding 10. The trick is limiting it to that many.
And […]

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Mostly, I just wanted to see how many “categories” I could have at the top of this item. Now let’s see if I actually mention something about all of them.
Some interesting topics playing out in U.S. sports right now and, really, I’m aware of them. Not everyone back home seems to remember we do, in […]

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