The Miami Heat are champions. While I like the Dallas Mavericks and admire owner Mark Cuban, I backed the Heat during this playoff run as the representative in the East. I will never back a Detroit team so the icing was the Heat dispatching that team in the Conference Finals. No one will ever know the full details that led to Shaquille O'Neal being driven out of LA. All we know is that Kobe "loser/cry-baby" Bryant was mixed up in it. Well, great player talent he may be, great team player person he be not.
I do not if Shaq said it himself, but the general consensus that while Kobe was on the Laker team, they would not win another Championship Ring. Further, it was said quite openly that Shaq would get to the playoffs with the Heat before Kobe and the Lakers did without him (he did as the Lakers failed to make the playoffs the first year Shaw was gone). Shaq said that he came to Miami to bring them a ring and he made good on that promise. Naturally he had help, a LOT of it from series saviour Dwyane Wade.
Just like the NHL Playoffs, the end of the NBA year was full of excitement and it was a good year to be a fan. My beloved Raptors are as yet rebuilding again but hopefully with new blood int he front office and a major coup on scoring the number one overall pick in the draft lottery, we can actually get some bodies that help the team take some steps forward, get some help for Chris Bosh in the middle, and make fans want to plunk down coin again to show up and not just watch it on TV (like we do now). Time will tell.
In the meantime, congratulations to Riles, GP, Superman, Flash, 'Toine, Zo and the rest of the Miami Heat crew. It was a thrill to watch you make history and we hope the tradition continues (until the Raptors rise up, of course). CAN YOU DIG IT?
NBA.com: A Total Turnaround
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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This was a great series and while the Mav's disposed of Canada's Great White Hope - Mr Nash. You had to beleive that in this series that Mr Slick - aka Cool, Coach Riley would get this troops to re-group and focus on how to attack the Mav's. Took them 2 games but then again that is why it's a series I guess.
It was great to have 2 standup teams, both with former bad boys like Payton and Stackhouse swallowing their ego's and playing specific roles for their teams to accomplish winning.
The new Dino's take note --- ROLES Mr Mike James you can take your new found scoring avg and stuff it, play like a unit and we'll see you one day in the NBA finals, failure to achieve will find you in the ROM.
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