It's fun to stand back and rub our hands together with glee and anticipate the losers tonight, but the reality of it is that our guys will have to beat them all anyway.
The game on Sunday with the San Antonio Spurs will be HUGE. Every media twit in our sector of the known Universe believes that the Spurs are hands-down the best team in the League. Furthermore, these twits, all of them, believe that Chris Webber and the Kings are a bunch of chokes.
Well, I now believe that the Kings are indeed the BEST team in the League. I really, really, think that the Kings have been unfairly judged over the years, and that in fact, the Kings have not won the NBA Championship mostly due to key injuries, which have been both chronic and acute.
I think Duncan is over-due for a significant injury just prior to the NBA playoffs this year. Nobody can be that good, that long, and that consistently. You can't even hate him like Shack because he seems like a good fellow.
Well, Chris Webber, our "good fellow", has suffered long enough. In fact, if you add up all the injuries and disappointments over the past four years, it is self-evident that the Kings organization and fans have suffered long enough.
Sunday will be big. I think the Kings will win. I think the Bench Mob will make a difference.
Hope springs eternal.