The Fourth of July might be gone, but the fireworks remain in the NBA.
Yeah, that’s such a lame AP-style lead. I would’ve gone with something like, “You can’t spell Fourth of July Weekend without W-T-F,” but that would upset the wifey when this blog post gets RSS’d into her Facebook page. Oops. Hopefully that didn’t [...]

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 [...]

Thoughts from Tuesday’s NBA Finals Game 3, which the red-hot Orlando Magic won 108-104 over the Los Angeles Lakers:

Where’s RK? Ryantific opts to hang out with the wifey rather than the boys and the Lakers lose their first game of the series. Coincidence? I think not. At least nobody threw garlic bread at the TV [...]

Tonight’s game was not a classic, be happy you didn’t pay $4,000 to see it in person – 15-15 after a quarter, 20 turnovers by the Magic, who got homered to death by the officiating crew in Los Angeles, and they still managed to force overtime … that’s how bad the Lakers played — just [...]

You know what “the experts” think, now here’s our take on who will win the NBA Finals between the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers. The series officially tips off Thursday at Staples Center … and yes everyone, Ryantific’s wifey has agreed to let him out of his basement bunker to watch the series. Wooohooo.
Ryantific [...]

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 [...]

How big of an upset was the Orlando Magic’s 4-2 series win over the Cleveland Cavs?
About as huge as Dwight Howard’s arms.
We sure didn’t see it coming, although I’ve been saying for three years that LeBron is the only player on that team – and that became very evident in the Eastern Conference Finals.
In fact, [...]

Yep, WCBias hits an all-time low. Way low. Like down where the flames be.

And you thought Kobe vs. LeBron would be the showdown of the millennium. Think again.
Los Angeles Laker guard Kobe Bryant, who has scored 500 points in these playoffs, was so dominant in tonight’s Game 6 victory that Denver Thuggish Ruggish Nuggets coach [...]

Initial thoughts from this weekend’s NBA playoff series between the Lakers and the Thuggish Ruggish Nuggets, and the Cavs and Magic (and man, have these been a couple of damn good series):

Why isn’t Chauncey Billups imbounding the rock late in those games? Did you really have Method Man K-Mart throw that ball in? Really?
How sick [...]