Tag: Playoffs

Is Tweeting legal in Arizona? How about playing defense?

I wasn’t in the tweeting mood during Monday’s Western Conference Finals opener, which the Los Angeles Lakers won 128-107 over the Phoenix Suns, but if I were, here’s what this bird woulda chirped:

If Lamar “The Candy Man” Odom plays like this the rest of the way, give the Lakers the trophy now. Someone get this [...]

Lakers’ First-Round Foe: Can OKC Bring the Thunder?

Oklahoma City’s loss in Portland on Monday night officially sealed their first-round fate, ensuring a playoff matchup with the Lakers starting this weekend at the Staples Center.
Bad news for Thunder fans, so sayeth the common wisdom.  Basketball blogs have been saying for weeks that every other West team simply wanted to avoid that first-round date [...]

Bring on the Cards (?)

Come on, did you really think I wasn’t going to watch?  A little five-game losing streak isn’t going to stop me, that post was nothing short of the greatest reverse-jinx of all time.  So now that we’re in we turn our sights to the dreaded Cardinals, a team that scares the living beejesus out of [...]