NBA Armageddon

The Cavaliers provide more slapstick than a Drew Carey episode. They flop, cry, piss and moan more than Republicans on tax day and are richly rewarded for the tantrums.

Orlando need simply look upset and are slapped with technicals and phantom fouls. The commentators sit at the sideline wringing their hands about "how tough it is" to watch the keystone cops of basketball barrel over, tackle, smack around, and tumble into Orlando's players.

We're being conditioned in these playoffs to accept another decade of dual standards in the NBA. LeBron James and Company will be treated with entitlement and the opposing teams will have to prove they can beat his team despite preferential treatment.

I predict the Orlando Cleveland series will go seven games and here's how it will play out. In the next game, at a crucial part of the game, Dwight Howard will be slapped with his seventh technical. He will miss game six. In game seven he will once again be slapped with a technical and Orlando will lose the series. A liberal sprinkling of "how amazing" LeBron is will accompany each ever-more manufactured 'victory'.

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Can anyone explain to me how LeBron got to the line by tripping over his own two feet tonite?

I thought so.