I just watched one of the best performances in a half in NBA playoff history as Lebron James scored 30 points on 12-14 shooting from the field while playing every second of that half. He was making shot after shot, and everything he threw up was going in (except a few free throws, ironically). After every shot he was just stone-faced, no emotion. You could see in his expression that there's no way he's gonna let his team lose tonight and be eliminated. He looks extremely confident, and you can tell that absolutely nothing else matters to him right now besides winning this game. I have a hard time believing that Miami won't.
Meanwhile, I heard a crazy statistic about what Kevin Garnett is doing in these playoffs. Right now he is averaging 19.9 points and over 10 rebounds per game. If he finishes the playoffs with those numbers, he would be the first player ever to average 20 and 10 (letting him have that missing 0.1 ppg) throughout the playoffs. Surprising, right? I heard that from one of the commentators today but I don't remember which one, so I hope I'm not leading you astray. If it is true, that's pretty amazing coming from 36 year-old Garnett in his 17th season in the NBA.
I have a hard time believing that either the Celtics or the Heat can beat the Thunder in the NBA Finals. After the first two games of the Western Conference Finals, I was thinking (as I'm sure many others were) that the Spurs were simply untouchable. Then something changed. I don't really know what it was exactly, and maybe it was a combination of things, but the Thunder just transformed. I remember thinking that the series was all but over after game 2. How could OKC beat the untouchable Spurs four out of five games to win the series? They not only did that, but they won four straight, including a game five win in San Antonio. Wow. That's amazing. We could be witnessing the start of a dynasty as long as this team stays together. No matter who comes out of the East, I'm picking the Thunder.
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