The Boston Celtics won their first NBA Championship since 1986 tuesday night. The moment was biggest for Foward Kevin Garnett, a player who has been long time mocked by puny anaylists in cheap suits for not winning the big one.
As the former MVP was achieving his dream, basketball fans everywhere were wearing an indeering smile. Former teammates were applauding. Former coaches and family members were wiping off tears. As we all were watching this future hall of famer celebrate with raw emotion, Michelle Tafoya enters the picture.
"Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, you just won the NBA Championship, how do you feel?"
I wonder if it took her all four quarters to come up with that question.
Is there any class left in journalism? When Micheal Jordan won the championship after his father was killed and was kissing the trophey, no one stuffed a microphone in his face to ask him how it felt, because we knew how he felt and we felt it along with him.
Why is it that we feel the need to send these women out to run up to athletes in their most euphoric or tragic moments to ask them how they feel? If they ask me how I felt, I'd say, "I feel bad for you because ESPN is making you think that somehow you're a journalist."
There are second graders who's interviewing skills trump that of Tafoya. I'm sure they could come up with more interesting questions. If she asked what Kevin Garnett's favorite crayon is, at least viewers would be hearing something new.
One has to wonder if interview legends like Bob Costas die a little inside everytime Michelle turns on a mic.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
One more for the Road
NBA PLAYOFFS
Okay, so maybe some might not get the Celtic Pride reference. But the fact remains the Boston Celtics are NBA Champions. Cars are being turned over, bars are filled with drunk Irish men and maybe some 20 year old female Sox fan might be killed.
Boston played for keeps in the playoffs and they deserved the win. Kobe maybe the best player in the league but Boston is the best team in the league.
I know some of you will be angry, yet another Boston championship and all that smugness from the New England area will rise, but how about that. A region that was held to no championships since the 1980's and that even included some failures from some Bruins teams and all four Boston teams made the playoffs this year and three of which appeared and almost all three won a crown (sorry Pats). Paul Pierce went from relatively known in the NBA to being well known as he was one of the few original Celtics on the roster this season. Rajon Rondo is getting stroked by Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy and Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett can get that dreaded "never won the big one" title off their heads.
The NBA really wanted this series from day one of the playoffs, hoping to increase the fortunes of the revived league. They really didn't want another Spurs Finals. No one wants another Spurs Finals, well except for Brent Barry and maybe Tim "call that a foul, because I fell over" Duncan. This was being promoted as the Magic/Bird Finals, even though these two teams are filled with players who were barely alive when those games happened. Rondo was born months before the 1986 Finals, so those connections are merely mute and blurry. Though it did allow for another poorly executed split screen commercial with the pensive or thoughtful music.
Sal Fasano Says: I remember when John Havilcek was in college, I was playing catcher for the St. Louis Browns farm club. Or was it the Kansas City A's farm team?
Okay, so maybe some might not get the Celtic Pride reference. But the fact remains the Boston Celtics are NBA Champions. Cars are being turned over, bars are filled with drunk Irish men and maybe some 20 year old female Sox fan might be killed.
Boston played for keeps in the playoffs and they deserved the win. Kobe maybe the best player in the league but Boston is the best team in the league.
I know some of you will be angry, yet another Boston championship and all that smugness from the New England area will rise, but how about that. A region that was held to no championships since the 1980's and that even included some failures from some Bruins teams and all four Boston teams made the playoffs this year and three of which appeared and almost all three won a crown (sorry Pats). Paul Pierce went from relatively known in the NBA to being well known as he was one of the few original Celtics on the roster this season. Rajon Rondo is getting stroked by Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy and Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett can get that dreaded "never won the big one" title off their heads.
The NBA really wanted this series from day one of the playoffs, hoping to increase the fortunes of the revived league. They really didn't want another Spurs Finals. No one wants another Spurs Finals, well except for Brent Barry and maybe Tim "call that a foul, because I fell over" Duncan. This was being promoted as the Magic/Bird Finals, even though these two teams are filled with players who were barely alive when those games happened. Rondo was born months before the 1986 Finals, so those connections are merely mute and blurry. Though it did allow for another poorly executed split screen commercial with the pensive or thoughtful music.
Sal Fasano Says: I remember when John Havilcek was in college, I was playing catcher for the St. Louis Browns farm club. Or was it the Kansas City A's farm team?
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