I haven't been watching or attending NBA games since the Sonics tanked, but I've really enjoyed the Celtics - Lakers championship series. It's great seeing Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and the other Celtics win against the favored Lakers.
Nine of ten experts at ESPN predicted the Lakers would win the championship. Before the series started - Jeff Van Gundy one of ABC's announcers, told the New York Post he picked the Lakers to win, called the Lakers the most talented team in the NBA and predicted a Laker Dynasty
I'm not a die-hard fan of any team but it really seems to me that the ABC coverage of this championship series has really biased towards the Lakers. Jeff Van Gundy and the other ABC announcers have been saying goofy fan-boy things during the game like calling Kobe Bryant - who's made 38 of 88 (43%) shots from the field in these 4 championship games and had 1 assist in game 3 - the "best player on the planet". Comments like that from the announcers make me want the Celtics to win even more....just so they'll be quiet.
If you haven't been following the championship, the Celts went up 3-1 in the series tonight by winning the game 97-91 after trailing by a finals record of 24 points at the end of the first quarter.
There's one more game in LA on Sunday and games 6 and 7 (if required) will be in Boston next Tuesday and Thursday. Games start at 8:30 p.m. ET.
