Basketball Finals Predictions

Now I just have one question. How did the Bucks lose to the not-so-hot Heat? It’s nothing more than the Heat bearing down and charging through Giannis Antetokounmpo. And here come all the people saying that Giannis was out with an ankle injury, but that was a game in total, half here, half there.

But, Khris Middleton stepped up, who’s Scotty Pippen (who helped Jordan through and through, like he’s doing with Giannis, except they don’t really have that bond, but, who knows), and killed the mid-range game. Now, will Giannis pull a KD and do an “if you can’t fight them, join them”  or will Giannis pack his bags and go a little farther north or join up with virtually any team in the playoffs right now and bring “home” the new chip? 

First, if I was Giannis, I would demand a roster upgrade, though I don’t know how their stacked roster isn’t working now, and if they don’t get the sufficient pieces, bye-bye, doesn’t matter how much money you offer, Giannis should pack his bags. 

Sadly, I’m a Knicks fan, and I think we could look dangerous this year, we have a good draft pick, we could sign Giannis and then trade for someone. That’s the roof, the floor would be drafting someone unranked from Bulgaria, signing nobody in Free Agency, and then trading away Julius Randle for a player that averages fewer minutes per game than Ernie Johnson or Shaq after he retired and, of course, the usual Coke can and the half-eaten tuna sandwich (but that can hit threes though, watch out). But, there will be more teams that are more appealing than the Bucks, like, the Trail Blazers, the Warriors, the Rockets, and the Raptors, very Kawhi Leonardesque of them to do that. 

After being up 2-0 to the Raptors, the Celtics have engaged themselves in a series that they didn’t want to be in, at all. Kyle Lowry (all by himself, mind you) hauled the team on his back for 48 minutes plus another 10 because of two OTs and through the whole series because Pascal Siakam is just spinning his way into nothingness and disappointing Nick Nurse. Nurse, should get fined, because, the Celtics could’ve tied or won the game, but Jayson Tatum confused him for a player and threw the ball out of bounds. Not Tatum’s fault, because in the spur of the moment, he saw a teammate in the corner (actually, two of them, because a real teammate was in the corner as well) and lasered it out of bounds. My guess is that Tatum and Kemba Walker will stop them in their tracks and will win.

 

The Clippers look like they have the series in hand, looking like they will easily beat the Nuggets, who have Jamal Murray, who’s just been insane, and Nikola Jokic, the passing forward/center who hasn’t really been playing all that well. But they do have Michael Porter Jr. to look forward to. But, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Patrick Beverely, Lou Williams and Montrez Harrel? See the Lakers in the conference finals with them.

Coming to my next point, the Lakers have two tools, very controversial, but who are we kidding? AD and Lebron James are the only people they have. The Rockets also only have two, more like 1 and a half, Russell Westbrick and James Harden make two, but AD versus little PJ Tucker? That takes away half. The Rockets might force a game 6 at most, but then Lebron is going to go playoff mode and smoke Harden.

Now that my playoff predictions were wiped… Here are new ones!!

Celtics v Heat – Celtics (all though I don’t know, the Celtics might look like Girl Scouts to the Heat)

Clippers v Lakers – Lakers in 7

Finals:

Celtics v Lakers – Lakers in 6 and then Lebron will play till his son comes in the league and then retire (nice storyline, right?) 

A parting word about baseball, specifically the Mets: the Mets played badly, (and surprise there?) but they will bear down and possibly win some games, remember – only second place needed for the playoffs.