Call me Walter Mitty, but we all have our secret lives. Forget the presidency, George Soros-like wealth or the Nobel Prize for Literature, mine has always been to be able to hit the game winner of the NBA finals. [Wow. Talk about Walter Mitty indeed. You have less chance of that that doing all three of the others at once squared.-ed. That's why it's a secret life.] Anyway, that is why I shook off my persistent jet lag to watch game five of the Lakers-Jazz and see Kobe go ‘unconscious,’ as the saying goes. [What are his Walter Mitty dreams?-ed. Being Kobe Bryant?] Did I feel for the Jazz? Not a bit. I’m a Laker fan, of course. But I also know – considering their salaries – that these poor fellows are headed for villas on the French Riviera or wherever after they fold their tent next week. Any Walter Mitty wants that kind of consolation prize. Meanwhile, in the real world, the rest of us struggle.
Well Roger, if you had spent more time on the cement basketball courts of your home town instead of all that time in English classes your Walter Mitty dream may have been a reality.
That and about nine-inches’ worth of growth hormone.
“That and about nine-inches’ worth of growth hormone.”
Tell that to the 5 foot, 3 inch Mugsey Bogues. He finished his career among the top 20 all time assist leaders.
Kevin Garnett is finished for the season. This means that the Los Angeles Lakers should win the championship. The Houston Rockets are a very good team—but they simply do not possess a player who can consistently score 25 points a game and take the pressure off Yao Ming. At best, the current group of players might win two games in a series against the Lakers. The Cleveland Caviliers might make things interesting, but the LA team has Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol to dominate the low post. End of story.
Hindsight is 20/20. The Houston Rockets management had no way of knowing at the beginning of the season that Tracy McGrady’s presence was going to be detrimental to the team. It wasn’t necessarily his fault. Life is often cruel and McGrady’s injury was more serious than previously thought. The Rockets would have been far better off if he had not played even one minute. They needed to get Aaron Brooks more experience. Alas, that did not occur.