…if the Dallas Mavericks were any good.
Sure, they could argue that they won last night to trail the series 3-1 and had the refs not fucked the in game three, they’d be tied at 2. Except, that would be silly.
Here’s what has happened:
Game 3, the Nuggets trailed the Mavs late in the game. The Mavericks had a foul to give, meaning they could run down clock time and then foul a Nuggets player forcing the Nuggets to then run another play with a lot less time on the clock. Only, the Mavs fucked it up. Antoine Wright tried to foul Carmelo Anthony, but, he did it half-assed. He barely touched Melo, the foul wasn’t called, Melo hit the shot, Nuggets win. After this, the Mavericks start going nuts because they wanted the foul called against them.
Cuban stalked across the court, blew off steam at the scorer’s table, then headed down a hall leading away from the court. Lydia Moore, wearing a Nuggets jersey, was standing near the base of the section he walked past, clearly in his view.
According to Cuban, a fan called the Nuggets “thugs” and he looked at Moore and said, “That includes your son.” However, Martin’s agent told the Denver Post that Cuban said, “Your son is a punk.”
Cuban blogged an apology to Kenyon Martin’s mom and Kenyon Martin said he was going to take care of it. Then, the Mavericks actually won a game to extend the Series. Hopefully, they can win at least one more and some of this drama can turn to entertainment instead of just silliness. Lost in all of this is that Antoine Wright is terrible at intentionally fouling people.
But, seriously, get this series back to Dallas so K-Mart’s mom can wear a bullet proof vest into the Arena.
Cuban ‘blogs’. I hate bloggers. I am glad we are not them.
Not that I am a die hard fan of either team, but these kind of act is really a turn off for NBA fans.
I much rather watch the nail biting games between the Celtics/Bulls.
I agree with that plin, and that’s why I said it would only be entertaining if the series was good, but, I think that some sideshow meltdowns have really entertaining potential.
See: When the Warriors lost a few years ago.
See: That one Lakers series, conference finals maybe, where the Lakers were handed the series by the officials and the Blazers were clearly better and then the Blazers melted down of epic proportions.