a chat about the NBA FInals

Let me just say that I'm writing this a few hours before the 5th game, and I've enjoyed the series immensly thus far...

I've been a fairly avid NBA fan, from the time I was 10 years old, and I'm nearly 25 now. Through out that time, I've never seen an NBA Finals in which I've liked both teams. This series also marks, the only 2 NBA teams that I've wanted to win Finals since I started watching Basketball in 1990. Since '90 when the Pistons won their second of 2 championships, until 1999 in which the Spurs won their first title, the team that I wanted to win in the finals lost. So now, it's a mamoth final between the 2 top defensive teams in the NBA and the 2 favorite champions of my little Romanian heart. (Although really, if the bad boys of old were in the Finals versus this Spurs team there wouldn't be a contest. I'd want the Old Pistons to win, unless David Robinson still played on the Spurs then again it'd be a struggle for me as to who to favor...)

Well after the first 2 games in which the Spurs crushed the Pistons severly I openly routed for the Pistons because, I didn't want to see them demoralized... however, the Spurs are such a nice team, and Tim Duncan is a very classy guy, how can you route against him? Plus, now that the Spurs have been beaten handily shouldn't I start routing for the Spurs again...?

Somewhere before game 3 I decided that my old school heartstrings couldn't die and I'd have to route for the team that got me hooked on to basketball in the first place and that's the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons. They may not be as classy as the Spurs but they sure play like the Spurs when they need to. Both teams are so adaptable, and can beat you a ton of different ways, and they are both defesive minded... so who will win? Who knows?

Alls I know is I will be happy with whatever the outcome is! :)