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If you ask me the NBA should just cut the shenanigans and get right to a Lakeshow Celtics ‘chip. I will not watch a single minute of an Orlando Phoenix Finals. No disrespect to Orlando’s own, nerditry. The Lakeshow Celtics Finals is David Stern’s legacy. Actually, the Lakers vs. Boston title series predates Stern’s rulership. That is some Wilt x Cousy x Russell x West shit from the micro-tightpants era. The Association has been using this blueprint for their Finals ever since.

The backstory of the Lakers x Celtics matchup hasn’t really changed. Sure the only white the Celtics have on their team is the piping in their jerseys but they are still the scrappy, aging, hardest working, overachievers and the Lakeshow is the prima donna ballerinas (except for Artest). That script never gets old, you just replace McHale for his protege Garnett, altho’ since that incident a few years back in Colorado you might could say that Kobe’s johnson is more tragic than magic [ll].

I can’t be bothered with these Suns or this Magic squad who are both supremely talented teams but they lack the players who can show and prove on the biggest stages. On paper these Conference Finals should be 7-game overtime-required series. Instead they are looking like four and done affairs. There, I said it. I won’t watch another second of these Conference ‘chips until Orlando or Phoenix can prove to me they want in.