Merry Christmas

Another year, another Christmas, another bunch of shit games.

I'm always excited to wake up to Christmas morning. I get a nice breakfast of pumpkin waffles, eggs, and hopefully some good basketball games. Then Stern reminds everyone that its Hanukkah time and instead of ONE GREATTT GAME, we get 8 lousy teams teams trying to pretend that the regular season means something.

5 games on Christmas day and 1 1/2 of them were good.

Nets showed again that theyre overrated. Knicks are coming back to Earth. Heat and Thunder show they play at a different level than everyone else. And the Clips have the best record in the NBA?..

But really. The Celtics/Nets game was bad. A "deep" Celtics team against an overrated Nets squad turned out to be a total bust. But it was the first game of the morning, and since we should be in the merry mood of forgiveness and cheer I will forget this game ever happened.

Knicks and Lakers wasn't a basketball game. It was somewhere in between a three point contest/And1/All-Star game. The Knicks only shot threes, didn't run one play, and seemed to sputter out half way through the third. Congrats to the Lakers for breaking their 3 year long drought on Christmas day, and reminding us that you're not good enough to get out of the second round.

Thunder and Heat. These two teams play at a different pace. This made the LAL NYK game seem it was in slow motion. I guess KD and Bron are aiightt. More importantly it showed everyone that the regular season is a different game. But every now and then two teams will get together and play at a playoff level, and when these two teams want to turn it on and play at a different level they can (Unlike the Celtics, Nets, Knicks, Lakers, Kings, Mavs, Rockets, Suns, Pistons, Cavs, Warriors, Blazers, and Magic).

Bulls Rockets - zzzzzZZzzzZZzzzzzz

Clips and Nuggets - Not exactly the most entertaining game, but because I got to attend the game I won't knock it too much. Watching the Clippers live is about as exciting as it gets in the NBA. Jamal Crawford making people look silly, CP3 WWOOooooo, and of course BG crushing people. I actually thought this game was going to be a lot closer than it was.

Anyway the point is this. Christmas day came, with all the ugly shoes and dumb television "The NBA wishes you a very merry Christmas, please don't make us contract the league," commercials. And only showed teams in major markets of course.

New York x 2, Los Angeles x 2, Chicago, Miami, Houston (there's a lot of people there right??)

On a day when its about giving and not receiving, way to give all the 'small' people a chance Stern.