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I see what you mean, Andrew, but I'm OK with it. The uncertainty surrounding the Lakers really is an important and compelling story, and nobody's ignoring the Pistons. In fact, I can't remember the last time that a championship team got coverage that was as glowing as the Pistons are...

I see what you mean, Andrew, but I'm OK with it. The uncertainty surrounding the Lakers really is an important and compelling story, and nobody's ignoring the Pistons. In fact, I can't remember the last time that a championship team got coverage that was as glowing as the Pistons are...

Here's an interesting thing I realized last night. I've heard it pointed out in a couple of places that the last NBA team to win a title without any clear-cut superstar, Hall Of Fame-level players was Seattle in 1979. But there's more where that came from. If you take a look at the 50...

Here's an interesting thing I realized last night. I've heard it pointed out in a couple of places that the last NBA team to win a title without any clear-cut superstar, Hall Of Fame-level players was Seattle in 1979. But there's more where that came from. If you take a look at the 50...

Hey Dome, Tayshaun Prince, UK Wildcats REPRESENT! *high five* Ditto on the Mailman-related laughter.

Hey Dome, Tayshaun Prince, UK Wildcats REPRESENT! *high five* Ditto on the Mailman-related laughter.

Damn, 23 point lead after 3. The fourth is gonna be one helluva victory lap. :emoji_thumbsup:

Damn, 23 point lead after 3. The fourth is gonna be one helluva victory lap. :emoji_thumbsup:

I think almost any NBA team would make the playoffs if you added Shaq to the mix. The Lakers with him, and without Kobe, wouldn't get very far in the playoffs, but they'd make it. They would blow very badly without Shaq--IIRC, their record without him when he missed a fairly large number of...

I think almost any NBA team would make the playoffs if you added Shaq to the mix. The Lakers with him, and without Kobe, wouldn't get very far in the playoffs, but they'd make it. They would blow very badly without Shaq--IIRC, their record without him when he missed a fairly large number of...

I didn't think the refereeing was that bad tonight, with the notable exception of a catastrophic stretch midway through the fourth--stupid touch foul offense call on Payton dribbling up the floor against Rip, lousy call on Kobe as Chauncey goes down while barely being touched, and then a tech on...

I don't remember any gambling related things with Jordan that were really grounds for suspension. When he would go to Atlantic City and blow huge amounts of money on off-days during a Bulls/Knicks series, the league certainly wasn't thrilled about it, but I don't recall that being against any...

George, I don't think Seth and others were saying that effort is irrelevant, or that teams sometimes don't play as hard as they could. I think most of us will agree that the Lakers didn't look that interested in the second half of Game 3, or of Game 1. But that's not necessarily the same thing...

Just to clear things up, since Seth excerpted my original post before I noticed a mistake and corrected it, I meant to say that Rip Hamilton's dad looks just like him, but with a gray beard, a la the Space Ghost episode with Macho Man Savage playing a Space Ghost look-alike, but with a gray...

Random tangent: in one of the post-game interviews, Rip Hamilton talked a little bit about having his dad in the audience tonight. They never showed him on TV, but I remember seeing him in the '99 Final Four when Rip led UConn to the national title. "Big Rip" and "Little Rip" looked exactly...

Damn, I thought the Pistons would win tonight, but I didn't expect an ass-kicking. That was a really dominant performance. You know what I thought was the most unremarked on statistic from the first two games? The disparity in free-throw attempts. Detroit shot 12 more free throws than the...

The Lakers had no time outs left. Prentice, I actually remembered that as I was going to sleep, and it definitely trumps anything I said earlier about maybe not fouling with more than 5 seconds left. It certainly means that the foul should have been given. And like I said earlier, Larry seems...

As much as everyone is, and will be, dissecting the last play of regulation, it's worth remembering that the Pistons did get a couple of breaks earlier in the 4th from the refs. Shaq's 5th foul was a pretty dubious call, and then Kobe had a jumper fall short where he quite clearly got fouled...

You're probably right, Casey, and Brown appeared to confirm that with his strange response in the press conference to the question about why they didn't foul Shaq. But my earlier point is that it's not fear of Shaq hitting free throws, it's the fear of all sorts of other crazy shit that might...

Come on, Jan, that's going too far on Brown. He's coached brilliantly in the first two games to help them get where they are, and one controversial play doesn't change that.