It's been a long time since I last posted here. Almost a year in fact. And it's that time of the year again, when LeBron tries to chase that ring that he has long been after. This time, he's up against a group of young stalwarts who have the collective talent to rival the Teen Titans or The Legion in comic book parlance.
The road to the NBA Finals has been interesting for Miami this year. They beat down on a New York team that didn't have its latest revelation at PG, lost its veteran PG, and whose PF lost to a fire hose glass encasement. They then squared off against an Indiana team that wanted to position itself as a gritty blue-collar team, and succeeded in 6 games. After that, they faced the proud battle-scarred warriors of the Celtic Kingdom, who looked to subdue them at times but just really looked outmatched overall.
On the other hand, we have the Oklahoma City Thunder, a team led by twenty-something year-old players who dress up funny for post-game interviews. Their road has been interesting as well - meeting in a first round match-up with Dallas, last year's champions, and beating them handily, then moving on to face the Lakers and one of the most dominant players this side of the post-Michael Jordan era and giving them the boot, before going up against the Spurs, supposedly the "aging" cowboys of Alamo. That series ended with the Thunder on top as well, but not before being tested really hard.
So these are the two roads to the Finals - one paved with tests offered by two untested teams and a proud but outmatched roster, and the other filled with skirmishes against three of the last five teams to win championships in the league.
Who do you think had a tougher time? Who deserves the Larry O'Brien trophy?
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