So call me a bandwagoner or a traitor or a poopoo face, I’m rooting for the Miami Heat. Even more than avocados that, like OKC, have a huge fan base that, as Rami says, grinds my gears. I don’t hate a team more than the spoiled, poorly coaches, overly glamified and flop-master-ing Oklahoma City Thunder in all of sports. I was way, way, way on the San Antonio bandwagon during the Western Conference Finals. Photo Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports
#2014 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS FREE#
Who in the NBA besides the Spurs exactly does that anymore with any success? They drafted Wade and he was the ultimate recruiter, bearing some really, really turrible basketball seasons so Pat Riley could save all the money and roster flexibility and assets they possible could to have a shot at a once in a lifetime Free Agent. Say what you want about “The Decision,” he took less money to play with All-Stars instead of a max contract to stay with Mo Williams, Antawn Jamison and a front office with an awful string of draft picks (Ex: Dajuan Wagner and Luke Jackson) and attempts to give LeBron James a “Robin” ( Larry Hughes, please!).Īlso, the Miami Heat are hated for being great and doing it without building from within. It’s an on-off switch in a sense, but when it’s on it’s frikkin’ on, when it’s off, those teams have my support. (2010 World Series, 20 ALDS) If the Mavericks happen to be playing the Heat, oh yes, every intolerable player on their team…specifically Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers and Shane Battier…become public enemies. If the Rangers are playing the Giants or Rays, I’ll hate them for the time being. Let me be clear, when the Jazz or Suns play the Mavericks, it’s not even in the globe of my brain to root anything but Mavs. Marlins, Dolphins and yes, those damn Heat. Those include the San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Rays and all Miami teams. The cause is not hard to decipher: Either a player I’ve always loved ends up in a place with a team I have no reason to hate ( Gordon Hayward-Utah Jazz, Goran Dragic-Phoenix Suns) or I’m influenced by relative’s upbringing that love their teams and spoil me with team gear and trips to stadiums. I root for several teams in sports on a secondary level. Whether the Miami Heat join the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics in super-ultra-mega rare company of 3-Peating, here’s why I’m rooting for the unpopular choice. However, that’s been my prediction since last season’s NBA Finals concluded, so for it to be right would be pretty cool for me and the millions of others who went out on this ledge.
OKC in WCF)īut my prediction is worthless to even me. Except the home court has flipped but I really don’t think Miami puts as much stock into homecourt advantage (See: Conceding #1 Seed to Indiana) as the Spurs do. This time I expect the Eastern Conference team to repeat again, with the Miami Heat winning over the San Antonio Spurs in seven games – just like last season. That time the result stayed the exact same, 4-2, Chicago Bulls over the Utah Jazz. For the first time since 1998 there is a rematch in the championship series.
The 2014 NBA Finals start tonight, sadly marking the beginning of the end to another basketball season.
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