The great black hole that is the NBA Playoffs, post - David Stern's unbelievably bad decision to toss two Phoenix Suns for something that the Spurs (specifically, Robert Horry) did wrong, took a step back towards light tonight with the upset victory of the Cleveland Cavaliers over the Detroit Pistons, the team that everyone loved to hate in the late 1980s and seemed bound and determined in this series to win that reputation back, nearly 20 years later.
Though as a Sacramento Kings fan I feel bad for Chris Webber, who has lost what was probably his last and best shot at an NBA title, I can't feel bad for someone like Rasheed Wallace, a player who can be called professional only in the sense that he gets paid for what he does.
And even though I would be hard pressed to name any Cavaliers beyond the great LeBron James, I suspect that with nothing to lose they will give the Spurs a good series. Having said that, I can't imagine that they will win. Thus, Spurs in six. And then the countdown will begin to the inevitable day when David Stern changes the rule that resulted in the injustice that - at least in part - allowed the Spurs to reach the Finals in the first place.
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