Today is a big basketball day.  As I sit here typing, I’m watching the early game with the Bulls and the Knicks.  This is a pretty good matchup of teams that probably could be a lot better but aren’t.  Not to mention, the coaches should be reversed.  Mike D’Antoni was a handshake away from being this year’s Bull’s head coach but GM, John Paxson couldn’t pull the trigger.  At the time, we all thought that Pax must have been going after someone bigger and better.  To pass on D’Antoni, who was the most obvious fit for the young Bulls team, just didn’t make any sense to any Chicago fan.  And as the season has progressed, the Bulls best threat is their transition game.  Something Mike D’Antoni perfected with Steve Nash in Pheonix.  Chris Duhon, point guard traded from the Bulls to the Knicks prior to this season, has had a career year.  Hindsight is always 20/20 but it sure would be nice to have that kind of coaching for a certain young point guard who just arrived in Chicago.  But I digress.  The Bulls didn’t get D’Antoni or any other upper echelon coach who was available.  They got never-coached-before, Vinnie Del Negro.  Thanks Pax.

The Bulls should win this one but they most likely will blow it in the 4th quarter.  The matchups Vinnie plays to down the stretch have decided most of the Bulls games this year.

But let’s talk about Lebron.

After this game is over, I’ll make the switch over to TNT and watch their triple header, being closed out by the Cavs at the Lakers.  The big headline already being “No Last Names Needed” and the hype is huge. The two supposed best players going at it and the two best teams going at it. We can expect to see Lebron James on Kobe Bryant for quite a bit of time. Now, this doesn’t make any sense to me since he is not a good defender, like Kobe is.  I think Coach Mike Brown wants to play into the 1 vs 2 hype and put them on each other.  I don’t know of another Cav who could matchup with Kobe so maybe Lebron isn’t such a bad choice afterall. Regardless, no questions are going to be answered after this game. In my opinion, Kobe will still be the best, the Lakers are still the team to beat not only in the West but in all of basketball and Lebron James will still be a poor defender and jump shooter.

I’ll be posting again after tonight’s game.

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