Here's a basketball axiom that I believe in: "the team with the best player wins in the playoffs." (Note: this axiom does not apply to soccer, in league games, in England, to Liverpool, at The Hawthorns. Then you need to bring your own groundskeeper and referees. Note.) That axiom was proved true again today in the playoff basketball game between Philadelphia and Miami in America 2.0. The "Heat's" best starter is probably Goran Dragic. Goran Dragic would be at most the third-best player on the "7'6"ers." Dwyane Wade was the "Heat's" best player today and indeed the highest scorer on either team with 25 points but at 36 years of age Wade does not qualify as best player. He cannot start, he cannot go all game, he only went 26 minutes today (Phila had six players who played more minutes than did Wade), and so he cannot be impactful enough to disprove the axiom. As impactful as, say, LeBron James still is.
Which permits us segue into another lesson from today and another axiom: "Do not tug on Superman's cape." This is a lesson that the individual homo sapiens denominated "Lance" "Stephenson" has never learned.
For Lance asserted today that his Indiana "Pacers" have "full control right now" over the man whose face he is blowing into in that iconically Lance photo, and over his team. I wish Lance hadn't said that. Lance the LeBron Blower fancies himself uniquely able to tug on LeBron James' cape, to "get under his skin," to needle him, to distract him into doing...stupid things on the court. On what precedential authority Lance relies for his minority-of-one opinion court scholars are mystified. "We get another win in our building, and that's when I think they're going to start panicking." (Another win would put Indiana up three games to one.) As they panicked when they won their first NBA championship by coming back from 3-1 down to Golden State in the Finals? Eh, Justice Stephenson? I wish somebody had stuffed something in Lance's pie hole. I wish he hadn't said that for I was wishing for an Indiana win. But they didn't and he did and me thinks both of today's axioms will be proved anew tomorrow, for me thinks LeBron James, the best player on these or any other teams, will take his "Cavaliers," put them across his broad shoulders and carry them to victory, the while sticking one of his signature sneakers in Lance Stevenson's big, fat mouth. Too late for Indy's sake.
Which permits us segue into another lesson from today and another axiom: "Do not tug on Superman's cape." This is a lesson that the individual homo sapiens denominated "Lance" "Stephenson" has never learned.
For Lance asserted today that his Indiana "Pacers" have "full control right now" over the man whose face he is blowing into in that iconically Lance photo, and over his team. I wish Lance hadn't said that. Lance the LeBron Blower fancies himself uniquely able to tug on LeBron James' cape, to "get under his skin," to needle him, to distract him into doing...stupid things on the court. On what precedential authority Lance relies for his minority-of-one opinion court scholars are mystified. "We get another win in our building, and that's when I think they're going to start panicking." (Another win would put Indiana up three games to one.) As they panicked when they won their first NBA championship by coming back from 3-1 down to Golden State in the Finals? Eh, Justice Stephenson? I wish somebody had stuffed something in Lance's pie hole. I wish he hadn't said that for I was wishing for an Indiana win. But they didn't and he did and me thinks both of today's axioms will be proved anew tomorrow, for me thinks LeBron James, the best player on these or any other teams, will take his "Cavaliers," put them across his broad shoulders and carry them to victory, the while sticking one of his signature sneakers in Lance Stevenson's big, fat mouth. Too late for Indy's sake.
