The Learning Curve

To most of you folks out there who have grown to love sports, I just thought I would try lay a little unknown fact on you about how a lot of this stuff works in determining what team will be the cream that rises to the top in their respective leagues to be crowned a champion; case in point, last weeks Dallas Maverick victory over the Miami Heat.  I really didn't have a horse in this race because I have been a consumate Laker fan since the late 60's and from all those experiences alone, watching all those losses against the Celtics, and finally seeing the fruits of all that in the 80's 90's and the 2000's, I have developed somewhat of a "special insight" into the NBA.  Now I have to admit, at this point in my life I grown to really "DESPISE" the brand of the NBA and what it stands for today, to me it is TOTALLY UNWATCHABLE!!!  It looks like AND-ONE basketball on the steriods.  But enough of my personal feelings, the insight I've gained by watching who is, or who would be determined champ is pure and simple, It is literally based on who has to take the most ASS WHIPPINS along the way to achieve the crown.  You simply just don't get it handed over to you because your team has "ALLEDGEDLY" the best players or the best coach or the owner with the deepest pockets, you have to play the game for 48 minutes and in the process you "MUST GET YOUR ASS KICKED OVER AND OVER AGAIN YEAR AFTER YEAR" (if you want it that bad) to reach that ultimate goal.  The Miami Heat's "3 headed stooges" were young and very foolish, and I remember their display of foolish behavior in that staged event in their arena, I haven't forgotten the look on Pat Riley's face at that event while he was in attendence, his expression was priceless to me, "Boy, they don't have have a clue, there's a'lot of ass beatings going to take place with this team before it said and done".  I could see it in his eyes, with detached, cool demeaner.  Well that's all I care to expouse on this useless piece of sports information, it was given for entertainment purposes only.  But rest assured the NBA's ratings will continue to plummett, probably lower than watching those guys play poker on ESPN.