Now that the dust, champagne, confetti and rioting has settled, let’s look back at some thoughts from a weekend in Vegas, my 32nd birthday (I’m feeling really old after this one) and, oh yeah, the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA Finals in five games over the Orlando Magic:

I might not love Derrick Fisher as [...]

According to Jeff VanGundy and ABC and ESPN and Fox Sports Net and Co. … Kobe Bryant is the “best closer in the game.”
Well, Tuesday night he wasn’t. Two huge turnovers and missing 12 of your final 16 shots (not to mention 5 of 10 free throws) would suggest otherwise.
But does this make Kobe any [...]

OK, so all anyone is going to talk about Monday morning at work is Bruno, aka Sacha Baron Cohen or “Borat,” tea-bagging Eminem at the MTV Movie Awards tonight.
Yeah, I saw it … watched the MTV Movie Awards with the wifey in between doing laundry, while the rest of the hommies played a poker tournament [...]

While we’re on the topic of potential Hall of Famers: How about Chauncey Billups?
I brought this up last night to a couple WCBias representatives after Chauncey Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Billups put the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals.
Billups isn’t exactly a name that says “First-Ballot Hall of Famer.” (Wait, is there such a thing as first ballot [...]

What the hell?
Ryantific and I just got done watching tonight’s Lakers-Rockets game and are trying to figure out how Los Angeles lost to Houston – a team the Lakers spanked during the regular season. Here are some of the reasons we came up with:

How many beers did we drink?
Was it the Swine Flu?
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It’s easy to answer when you look at the way the Laker’s are rolling so far in the 2009 playoffs. There’s about 4 minutes left in the 2nd quarter of game 2 against Utah. Kobe’s got 3 points and 5 assists and the Lakers are ahead by 12. 
But if Kobe had numbers like that his [...]