Show these kids what the playoffs are about. I’m hoping for, but not terribly hopeful about the result, a round 2 matchup with OKC. 2/7 winner (95% chance it’ll be OKC) – at OKC (or home if #7 pulls the upset)Īny way you slice this, it’s high drama. Think Stern and his brain trust may have chosen the number of games to heighten anticipation for his return? Whichever game is his first back, drama will be high, and so will ratings: This would be the first game in LA, regardless of opponent. Denver/Dallas, at home, and at latest (assuming they get to the second round) Game 3 of the winner of the 2-7 matchup, which figures to be OKC. Well, I called it 6 and hoped for 4, but 7 seems reasonably fair, considering the talking heads were nearly calling for his summary execution.įrom a cynical, media perspective, 7 takes him partially or completely out of the first round and his first game back at earliest would be a Game 7 vs. Repost from the previous thread, I spent so long typing a new post showed up. (tie) Thaddeus Young and Lou Williams, Philadelphia
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Point guard: Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma Cityģ.
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It could be one of the greatest series that we have seen in a long long time!ĮSPN’s All League Teams… MVPs etc. If the Lakers end up playing OKC in the playoffs. Harden picked MWP, but he got Ron Artest. If you are going to bump other players or stand over them or shove them, then you might pick the wrong one some day. He learned that you can’t pull that bs that he likes to do so often to other players to “assert his dominance”, or whatever Kendrick Perkins calls it. Now he is paying the price and hopefully learning a lesson. I wish that he would have just turned and got in Harden’s face instead of throwing that ill-fated elbow. I wish that he would have just shoved him. It connected high to Harden’s head and now MWP is paying the price. I think that he was just throwing one of those ‘get off me’ elbows that so many other players throw every single game. I think that MWP did not intentionally elbow Harden in the head. Every fan puts on their rose colored glasses when it comes to “their” team and “their” players. That article pounding the rock was an excellent piece. The Peace conversation will continue until thoroughly exhausted and then some – the magnifying glasses have come out, and sometimes in the unlikeliest of ways. The Lakers head up to Sacramento for the last game of the regular season. Howard Beck of the NY Times, writes about the internal power struggle consuming the players association.Įdg5 at Pounding the Rock, on parallels between MWP and Stephen Jackson, and the irrationality of fandom.Īnd finally, Eric Freeman at Ball Don’t Lie, uses Taiwanese animation to explain Peace’s suspension, and wins my favorite post of the day. Gary Lee at Lakers Nation takes a welcome break from the MWP discourse to look at Kobe and the scoring title.
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Steve McPherson at Hardwood Paroxysm writes about MWP and the dark half, in a thoughtful and considered piece. Times chronicles a litany of misdeeds, over the length of Metta’s career. Kevin Ding at the OC Register considers the aggression that comes from inside Peace, and how it has defined his life.īarry Starvo at the L.A. Clark at Silver Screen and Roll writes about the hammer being dropped on Metta, feeling that the punishment is just.Ĭhris Mannix at Sports Illustrated thinks the league blew its chance to send a more serious message. These and other stories in our Wednesday links:īrian Kamenetzky at the Land O’Lakers reports that the Lakers have clinched the Pacific, with the Clippers loss to the Hawks.Ĭ.A.
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Another of the game’s constants is debate and moral outrage, which is the current storyline – the league handed a seven game suspension to MWP, which will carry well into the playoffs and naturally, opinions cover the spectrum – too little, too much, and just right. The storyline of Hill has faded for now, he could become an integral part of the team’s future or just one of those momentary spikes that happens so often in sports. Things turned around in the most unlikely of ways with an improbable fourth quarter comeback, two overtime periods and a stirring win led by Jordan Hill, a guy largely regarded as an afterthought. The pall cast by Metta’s elbow threatened to obscure Sunday’s game against the Thunder.