The Brain Leak
The Brain Leak
(Week of 6/16/08 - 6/22/08)
Another week, another seven days worth of sports-related drivel. With not much more than the yearly push towards the Mid-Summer Classic to bide my time, you'll notice I have instituted some fresh (some might say seedy) perspectives to the already multi-faceted Leak. In addition to serving up heaping servings of the usual BS, TBL [read more...]
Paul Pierce
Lakers v Celtics
Lakers Game 4 Collapse More a Beginning Than an End
When you think about it, it is amazing that the Los Angeles Lakers even made it to Game 5 of the 2007-08 NBA Championship series. This young team with only two players over 30 and only three born before 1980 has made it farther than even they expected and should be commended for their achievements.
However, after four games of this [read more...]
Celtics v Lakers
The Leak 3.0: A Belmont shocker, Jones goes abstinent, Becker (hearts) Nadal, Ozzie’s F-bombs and a one-legged Tiger on the prowl
The Brain Leak (Week of 6/2/08 - 6/8/08) The Leak has seemingly grabbed a solid foothold in the fickle landscape of sports commentary and thus pushes on with an unforeseen third edition. No longer worthy of some wordy, nagging and self-depricating rant of an introduction, TBL slowly matures to the point where it can afford to allow its content to [read more...]
Soriano using recycled plastic bags to catch fly balls
OK, Lima Bean posse, this is where I openly rant about anything and everything affecting our general mental health diet. We'll call it Organic Sports Therapy... Grocery bagger guy: I don't need a bag for a banana dude! And I won't feed your bagging addiction. Stop being such bagwhores. Baggers everywhere, grocery and retail: Please stop bagging my [read more...]
Celtics Fan, You Should Have Married Your Childhood Sweetheart
I know you want it to be like the first time you locked sweaty hands in 7th grade with Suzie B. Kute, but I'm going to put it to you as bluntly as I can: 2008 Lakers vs. Celtics ain't 1987; not 1985; not even close.
Celtics fan, I know you're still jazzed-up from the "Beat LA" victory in game one, [read more...]
The NBA Finals: And the Winner Is…
By June 19 either the Los Angeles Lakers or the Boston Celtics will be handed the Larry O'Brien trophy. When this occurs the two teams will have combined to win exactly half of the NBA championships - 31 of 62 - since the league's inception.
But the question is:
Which team will win number 31?
The "Big Three" equals one Kobe. Think about [read more...]
Phil’s Quest for 10
When Game 1 of the historic 2008 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics tips off on Thursday night, the answers to many questions will finally come to light. Does Kevin Garnett have the inner-drive to dominate a defender who has one-third of his skills? Can Lamar Odom fill the Finals X-Factor shoes that Robert Horry [read more...]
Seriously? Doug Collins
The Boston Celtics are dealing with the pesky Detroit Pistons in a tough series. The Los Angeles Lakers are on the path to yet another championship. Now Doug Collins could become the Chicago Bulls head coach within the next couple days. We're apparently turning back the clock to the 1980s now. All we need is CBS to start doing games [read more...]
Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett
How the Lakers Will Fare in the Western Conference Finals
For the Detroit Pistons 1989-1990 capped off consecutive runs that ended in Chuck Daly's team holding the Larry O'Brien Trophy. For the Chicago Bulls 1989-1990 marked consecutive seasons losing to Detroit in the Eastern Conference Finals. After that season, after losing 4-3 in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Pistons Bulls head coach Phil Jackson' team understood the leader's message and [read more...]
Why Chicks Should Be Banned From All-Star Voting
Perhaps I've been drinking too much of the Colin Cowherd Kool-aid, but I've realized female sports fans are messing with the natural order of things -- and that is turning me into a chauvinistic, repressive fool. As I recall, Colin has spoken about the upsides -- a requirement even -- of having a relationship with a girl who doesn't love sports. [read more...]
Spurs Win and A Brief Conference Finals Preview
So I get out of the Rush only to find out that the San Antonio Spurs won game 7 in New Orleans. Excuse me while I puke in the corner. This next part will be posted on www.411mania.com later this week, but here is a brief preview of the NBA Conference Finals. (1) Boston Celtics vs. (2) Detroit PistonsCeltics in 7: Until [read more...]
Celtics Step Up
LeBron James and Paul Pierce has the kind of classic playoff duel that harkens back to the days of Bird against Wilkins. Because of Pierce's superior supporting cast stepping up and James missing key shots, the Celtics survived another seven game series. Despite the Celtics inability to play on the road, they've managed to win two series and will now [read more...]
Game 7’s to Decide Who’s for Real (Celtics vs. Cavaliers)
There is no greater phrase than "We go to game 7." All the predictions go out the window at this point because no matter what, anything can happen. For the Boston Celtics, they might be the team under the most pressure of the four teams. The acquistion of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce should have at least made the first [read more...]
Lakers and Celtics, Make it So
Even without the Chicago Bulls in the playoffs, this is one of the better postseasons I've ever seen. It seems like every team still remaining has a chance to hoist the Larry O'Brien trophy in about... say six months. I know, the postseason is that long. I know that it would probably go down as one of the most over-hyped series [read more...]
Boston-Atlanta: Where Head-Butting and Not Getting Tossed Happens
I'm wondering if anyone noticed that fact that, just before Game 4 (about 6 p.m.) of the Boston Celtics-Atlanta Hawks matchup the league informed Paul Pierce that he would be fined $25,000 for making a "menacing gesture" during Game 3. The "gesture" Pierce made was said by Commissioner David Stern and his patrolman Stu Jackson to be a "Blood gang [read more...]
When will NBA Players understand the meaning of shutting up?
Mike Bibby of the Atlanta Hawks is the latest NBA player to open up his fat trap in these playoffs. We've already been mildly entertained the Washington Wizards talking and then subsequently being schooled by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now we have another yapper to hear stories about on ESPN for the next several days. Bibby had the gall to call Boston [read more...]
Impact Players
It's unlikely there has ever been an NBA regular season with more intriguing storylines than the 2007-08 one. It started last summer, when both Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were traded from last place teams in the Western Conference to the new Beast of the East, the Boston Celtics. That was followed by Lakers star Kobe Bryant demanding a trade, [read more...]
This Season’s NBA in Many Ways Resembles Another in the Distant Past
Every NBA pundit tells us that this season's Western Conference teams are like no other in NBA history. Should Denver win tonight at home against Memphis, every playoff team in the West will have won 50 games. Golden State, the 9th-place team in the West, ends its season tonight at home against the Seattle SuperSonics. Should the Warriors win they [read more...]
The MVP Debate
I've heard the NBA has an image problem . I've heard the Seattle SuperSonics, a team that won the 1979 NBA Championship and only three years ago won the Northwest Division with a 52-30 record, are on the verge of moving to Oklahoma City and their fans aren't all that happy. I know one of the league's premiere franchises, [read more...]
Hart Surgery: Sports Haiku
Jason Giambi Might be shipped to the minors? Boo-hoo-hoo - roider. World Cup of Baseball Mmmm, I am salivating. It's about freakin' time! Steroids and Congress There's nothing more important? Osama's juicing? Jenny from the block Is really only that way, Inside her movies. Yankees are crappy. Sorry, I like that in print. They kinda suck though. Steve Nash, MVP. Deservedly over Shaq. The Diesel's got Wade. Speaking of Dwyane Wade, He's quicker than Giambi's Post-hearings weight loss Early returns in. New [read more...]
Hart Surgery: Basketball Like It Oughtta Be
All year long there are good sports on television. Some games, or series, rise above the others and reach must-watch status. There aren't many, so you have to pay close attention when they come around. We were deprived of one of these recently, when both the Red Wings and Avalanche lost in the first round of the NHL playoffs. They [read more...]
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