“Maybe I led you to believe Basketball was a God-given gift and not something I worked for every single day of my life!”

- MJ

Remember this. Take a picture. Write it down. This is it. These are my predictions. A small part of me still believes the Cavs are damn scrappy and could pull out an upset…like last year. But with KG’s D this year…and that mid-season mega trade bust…Cleveland doesn’t really stand a chance. David Stern must jizzing pooping in his pants from these match ups.

Kobe, AI, Melo. Nash, Parker, Duncan. Howard, Bosh. CP3, Diry Irk. TMac, AK47. That’s just the first round. I think I just pooped my pants thinking about the second round.

Holy shit jenkem did the NBA deliver this year!

(1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Denver Nuggets:

Game 1 - Sun April 20 Denver at L.A. Lakers 3:00PM ET ABC/R
Game 2 - Wed April 23 Denver at L.A. Lakers 10:30PM ET TNT
Game 3 - Sat April 26 L.A. Lakers at Denver 5:30PM ET TNT
Game 4 - Mon April 28 L.A. Lakers at Denver 10:30PM ET TNT
Game 5 * Wed April 30 Denver at L.A. Lakers TBD TBD
Game 6 * Fri May 2 L.A. Lakers at Denver TBD TBD
Game 7 * Sun May 4 Denver at L.A. Lakers TBD TBD

Here is the rest of the NBA First Round Playoff Schedule

Sac somehow managed to beat the Hornets, pushing us into a first place.

1. Lakers lose to the Bobcats for the 4th time in 5 games.
2. Kobe is ejected and now leads the league with 15 technical fouls. One more and he is suspended.
3. Who the phuk is Matt Carroll?! This guy only shows up against the Lakers.
4. The Lakers fall to 3rd in the West.
5. Luke Walton no longer resembles a basketball player. Every other year he is terrible. I am one bad play away from starting tradewalton.com.

Houston 69  New Orleans 90

This drops the Rockets to 3rd and keeps the Lakers at 2nd – since the Hornets won the series with the Lakes. 3 days ago they were on the verge of setting a league record by closing in on the 33 game win streak.

Now they are on a losing a streak. I knew that once the proverbial rocket they were riding ran out gas, they would plummet.

I don’t expect them to win another game this season. Seriously, I don’t.

Yeah, I know. That’s a damn bold statement. And it’s only true for right now. But here is the problem. It’s March. This isn’t a fluke win streak happening in December. We are 1 month away from the playoffs. They don’t have Yao Ming. In fact, while Van Gundy and Mark Jackson argued over which place TMac falls on the MVP list, he was nonexistent. Today was Rafer Alston day.

What’s up with Van Gundy calling Battier, “Shawn,” all game? Whatever his name was today, he did a good job getting in Kobe’s face.

Damn, the Lakers needed this game. We can’t lose 2 in a row. Not right now. Not to Houston. Not 22 straight. No Yao, barely McGrady. Damn!

BREAKING NEWS:

Gooldtooth Celebrity Spokesman, Smush Parker, was released from the Miami Heat and has signed with LA Clippers. source 

• Houston extends their win streak to 20.
• The Sixers beat the Pistons.
• The Hornets stomp on the Spurs
• The Nets beat the Cavs
• Kobe thinks they Lakers had good D against the Raptors.

During the post game interview, Kobe repeatedly praised his team on their defensive effort. They gave up 108 points to Toronto…without Chris Bosh…on their home floor.

They may have won this game, but they let tiny TJ Ford have his way in lane. Not one defender was able to stop TJ from hitting the tear drop. Watching D Fish get burned like that reminded me of the playoffs in 04. 

I really hope Kobe was joking. He had a terrific offensive game, and so did LO….but seriously! If he thought tonight was a great example of defensive lock-down…we are in for a long (short) post-season.

Yo, Mark Cuban! What da phuk happened to your boy?! In the past 2 games your star 7 footer hit Derek Fisher on the head…not once but twice. The next night, irk took down Kirilenko so badly, he was taken to the hospital.

I just heard on ESPN News that irk has been suspended for a game. At least the league is doing something…besides giving his first-round-exit ass the MVP award.

What are you going to do?

It looks like irk finally found his D. Playing DIRTY.

I pushed on the over/under. The handicappers really saw that one coming. Although, East +5.5? You have 3 Celetics, 3 Pistons, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard and King James.