Suns vs Spurs - One of the Best Ever

Keep in mind what I'm about to say is coming from the same guy who bet the NBA finals would be Suns vs Pistons with Phoenix coming out on top. I made this bet in DECEMBER, so I'm a little biased in this argument.

By now you surely have seen many replays of the end of Game 4 where Robert Horry body checked Steve Nash into the score table and a small skirmish ensued. Suns' stars Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw both leapt up from their bench to come to their captain's aid. The rule states as plain as can be that if you leave the bench during a fight, it's an automatic one game suspension. Obviously Horry should be suspended for the flagrant foul. All the Spurs lose is his 7 points per game average. The Suns would lose their 1st team NBA all star and an important role player for game 5 in Phoenix. That would easily take away the Suns' home court advantage and the Spurs would have a great chance at going up 3-2 heading back to San Antonio for Game 6. As a resurgent fan of NBA basketball, this series must go 7 games. And Phoenix must win. If the Spurs come out of this series, we're potentially looking at a Final 4 of Utah/San Antonio and Detroit/Cleveland. Next stop Snoozeville! So now what?

If you're going to get technical about the rules on leaving the bench, then you have to look to earlier in the game when the Spurs were up. The Spurs' Elson and the Suns' Jones got tied up and almost came to blows. During that fracass, both Tim Duncan AND Bruce Bowen left their bench. While they were rather calm about it, they still left the bench. So if you're gonna suspend Amare and Diaw, then you have to also suspend Duncan and Bowen for a game. If I'm David Stern, I'm going to follow the NFL off-setting penalty policy. Both teams are guilty of the same violation so the penalties off-set each other and those four players will not be suspended. How is that not win/win for everyone?

Unfortunately for Cheap Shot Rob, nobody on the Suns' team laid out a Spur so purposely so, he should be benched and fined. Besides if you look at the replay, even after his flagrant foul, he threw an elbow at Raja Bell after Bell stuck up for his teammate. Classless act by a normally classy dude.

I used to have respect for you, Rob.

San Francisco & Getting Clocked

I was in San Francisco last week for an advertising conference. I had a clear mission when I went up there: meet as many people as possible. Gotta say I think I pulled it off. I went to a ton of happy hours and parties. I visited practically every booth and looked for mutually beneficial relationships. It's hard goddamn work but it really was more rewarding than sitting in front of my computer all day. Although I did bring my laptop and had it slung over one shoulder so I could look like all those Silicon Valley wise guys.

I'm also about to go off on my latest side project: www.igotclocked.com

Rather than explaining what it is, just check this pic out:




I'm hoping this becomes more than a great gift and is something that can spread virally. I wouldn't have signed on if I didn't think there was potential for it.