The 2007 NBA Finals Series to be played between the San Antonio Spurs and LeBron James (from out east somewhere) begins today with expectations high about the chances of James claiming the NBA’s first individual title.James, a scoring wizard at the age of just 22, has already defeated the miserly Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and now looks forward to bringing some much needed pizzazz to the NBA Finals.
The Spurs, who have opted to go with a more team based approach, have aligned themselves with a mid-western city and given superstar Tim Duncan some decent players to pass the ball to before he scores.
Spurs guard Manu Ginobli admitted this week that his team was “the vanilla of the NBA”. James responded that his style of basketball made him the “rainbow with raspberry swirls, dipped in Belgian chocolate and sprinkled with nuts and hundreds and thousands … of the NBA”.
NBA Commissioner David Stern requested an end to the ice-cream metaphors and instead begged the players for a close and entertaining series before launching his 1,354th plea for Michael Jordan to come out of retirement at the age of 44 and save the league from its slow march into insignificance.
