And the Celtics aren't good citizens, don't play team basketball, and aren't the best defensive team in the NBA?
Let's review why she wants to root for a genuinely boring finals:
- It proves that the NBA isn't somehow fixing it's games.
- Real fans like watching boring basketball.
- Tim Duncan is good.
- Kevin McHale traded KG to the Cs because he secretly wants the Cs to win the Championship.
- The Pistons did it "the right way," by drafting and making clever pickups.
Whoa there! Let's pause for a minute. Did we not get KG and Ray because of Danny's good drafting? Do we not still have Rajon "why didn't you take Randy Foye, Danny" Rondo running the show for a 66-win team? She says the Pistons drafted Maxiell... We have a couple of undersized, overlooked 2nd rounders of our own who are playing big roles. You say Prince, I say Posey. You say Rip, I say Ray. McDyess is a good story, but wasn't P.J. running laps around his local track a few months ago? That seems like a pretty good story to me, too. Jemele can try to say otherwise all she wants, but the Cs vs. Lakers is simply the matchup to root for if you're a fan of the NBA. That column was an absolute failure. She probably sat down at her desk saying to herself, "how can I make the case for a Pistons Spurs series? That'll get the attention on me." Well, she was able to write the column, but not much more than that. You know you're desperate to rationalize your home team being the most exciting when you stoop to the level of accusing the NBA of fixing games, as well as simply naming off the players of your team one-by-one. Isn't that what fans are supposed to do? "We have Chauncey, and Rip, and McDyess, and Sheed, and Rodney Stuckey, so we're better than you are!!!"
Okay, done with my rant now.