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I can’t tell you how excited this matchup makes me, I feel like a kid five days before Christmas. This is going to be a fun series — the two best teams of today, two teams with a long history, two teams with great fan bases. Between now and Thursday we will of course talk [...]

That is the word Reed used in the comments to describe this season and it’s the one I think best describes it. Pure. This was not the Shaq/Kobe era with its expectations — nine months ago we thought this was a seven seed team if things broke right. Maybe the first title of the Magic [...]

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. —Dylan Thomas They are not the best team in the Western Conference Finals, but you have to say this about the Spurs: They carry themselves like champions. They fight [...]

I told you we’d have an exciting game. This is a great day to be a Lakers fan. I think Gatinho captured a key part of what is fun about this post season for Lakers fans: I’d like to reiterate how much more fun it is to root for this team as an “underdog” and [...]

I’ll be doing an actual live blog tonight. I’ll refresh the post as often as possible so that we can continue to have a good back and forth. We’ll consider this our little joint experiment. I’ll try and pay attention to comments as we go too. Pregame – Sasha is interviewed by Sager and says [...]