Lakers to win tonight or say goodbye

 

The NBA finals are much different than the rest of the post season games, that is because teams arrive with a sense of superiority and will surely give their best in order to come up with the championship ring, and it’s also different in the sense that even the bench will produce as the All-Stars, becoming true baskeball entities.

But the finals are also the time for key players of the team to shine, and in this case it would be Kobe Bryant the one who can reach a similar glory as Michael Jordan, since he’s the one who resembles the most to the most notorious player in the NBA ever.

And so what is going on with Kobe? Well he hasn’t played bad, but he hasn’t being outstanding either, and this is the moment when his team needs him the most, along with Pau Gasol, who also hasn’t shined and has being just one more laker.

This time, there is something even more remarkable concerning the 2008 NBA Finals, and that is the clash between the teams with the most well-known rivalry in all of NBA history: Celtics and Lakers.

The series is 2-0 with both victories for Boston and attained at the TD Banknorth Garden, and tonight is the time for the Lakers to prove themselves and win at the Staples Center on game 3, otherwise, we might as well proclaim the Celtics champions, since no team ever has overcome a 3-0 deficit at the NBA finals, and that is why I say that the last 7 games of the season are truly different and unique.

As an all-time NBA fan, I truly expect to watch a tremendous match tonight, which might end up being the most important one of the whole season...

More on the finals in a couple of days.