Lakers V Cavs

The second Lakers-Cavs match-up happened today and the King won again. It's impressive that LeBron and the Cavs have swept both the games against this year's Lakers. LeBron was awesome tonight and the torch I believe is slowly shifting from Kobe's hands to LeBron's. It was also fun and scary to watch Shaq and LeBron lined up inside and out with the ball moving back-and-forth as the guy defending LeBron had to leave him to double Shaq. It was an interesting sight. Kobe was good, but Gasol missed a couple of key free-throws and had a tough stretch at the end which finished the Lakers off. The Cavs are now just a game behind the Lakers and thats surprising considering how good the Lakers started the season and how bad the Cavs began this season. Now it feels just like last year and no wonder the Nike puppets are in full flow again. The only question is, can the Cavs take care of the East, beat the Magic and/or the Celtics and get to the finals? We know the Lakers will be there and it should be interesting to see if the Cavs get there.

The All-star starters were announced today and the Suns have 2 guys starting - Amare and Nash. I have to say they don't have the record to justify 2 all-stars these days though these 2 guys definitely deserve to be there. They have good numbers, but lately the Suns are losing a lot of games. One of my friends says they may drop all the way and miss the playoffs altogether. It's entirely possible given how tight the Western race is and how good teams like Memphis and Oklahoma City are playing. On the positive side, the Suns are still only 3.5 games behind the second placed team in the West and lets hope they move in that direction. Nash somehow jumped over T-Mac in the voting and thats good for the NBA. In the East, it's kind of stupid that Iverson is starting, but what can you do if fans vote that way. AI is truly popular, but T-Mac apparently is benefitting from the Chinese vote since he is Yao Ming's teammate.