I've really tried not to let myself get too wrapped up into bumming about the media's abundance of love for LeBron -- in fairness, the dude is really, really super-duper good, so there are plenty of people that are going to laud the man, and rightfully so.
But Doris Burke took it to a new level tonight.
If you watched the Celtics' telecast of this game (was there one? I'm writing from the road tonight, so I was on the national end), you might have been deluded into believing that the other 90 percent of personnel on the court had something to do with anything that occurred in this basketball game. Simply not the case.
Doris made it quite clear all night long. LeBron was wholly responsible for everything that happened on both ends of the floor this evening. Divine force, I tell you. Well, she does. I'm just the messenger.
If we're willing to call out Dick Stockton for his performances on the play-by-play throughout the playoffs (truly impossible to listen to), it seems only fair to award Doris a similar distinction on the color side. She killed me all night, and it went way beyond Bron.
Am I alone on this?
-sw