Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

As I had predicted, this year’s champ are the oldest team in the NBA for this season, being eight older guys playing from Spurs. Spurs truly showed the meaning of basketball and how it is played this season. Yeah! It’s all about teamwork. One man can never win anything, not a game not a war or anything else for that matter, on his own. Same thing has happened in the past with lots of teams in the NBA. One-man team may win a game but cannot win a championship final. Kobe Bryant is a great player and he has the biggest numbers when it comes to the field goals but he too was unable to bring his team to the finals. Well LeBron James did. He brought his team to the finals but that was his stop. The pressure was against the Cleveland Cavaliers and mostly the pressure was against LeBron James. He has been there leading his team throughout the season and in the finals no one seems to be backing up for him. They were so helpless against the Spurs in all the games. Their poor defense and mostly offense had them lose the finals with 4-0 loss with the San Antonio Spurs.

The final score at Game 4 was 83-82. Manu Ginobili scored game-high 27 points, while Tony Parker had 24 points, and Tim Duncan had 12 points and 15 rebounds for the Spurs which led them to the championship of the best-of-seven championship series.

The French guard Parker, who will be marrying actress Eva Longoria next month, became the first ever European player to become The Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NBA Finals. He had an average of nearly 25 points a game. Parker’s said, “It’s like a dream.” He didn’t knew about him being the MVP. He just moved on and led his team to victory. That is the true heart of the champion and play of a professional basketball player with teamwork in mind, and Tony Parker had it all. He just led his team to victory this season.

LeBron James, the Starr of the Cavaliers had 24 points despite shooting only 10 out of 30. He did as much as he can though. He brought his team to this level in the NBA Finals. He could do nothing against the tight defense of the Spurs for the final games. Yet it is Cleveland Cavaliers' first time NBA Finals appearance. I am sure in next season they will have some answers to their problems. Lets hope that Cleveland gets help to James next season and may their teams have much to show in the next season.

Other highlights of the finals included San Antonio’s Michael Finley who won his first title after 12 NBA seasons. Robert Horry now has his seventh career crown. The MVP Tony Parker became the youngest player in NBA history to make 100 playoff appearances, reaching the century mark after 25 years and 28 days, 216 days quicker than Kobe Bryant’s old mark.

So now it’s a wrap-up of NBA for this season. Though it is quite depressing to know that the finals are over and so is the NBA for this season, there is still this question and excitement of knowing what’s next for the next season. I will surely miss the NBA seasons but I am sure lots of trades and news will still be on for the NBA in off seasons as well. I really love this game.