After two rounds of pretty lackluster basketball, the final two rounds of the NBA Playoffs finally delivered the goods—most notably this year's Finals, the same matchup I had predicted at the beginning of the year (for the second straight year). And if this post doesn't end up looking as catastrophic as the NHL Final Thoughts did, my logic was still the same in hoping that like my 2009 picks, the predicted runner-up would actually triumph once again. Instead, things ended up exactly as I pretty much feared they would, with the Lakers pretty much waltzing through the West before getting probably the stiffest challenge they've had for any of of the five titles Phil Jackson has brought to the team.
My own prognosticating this post-season was an improvement over last year's mark (and at least this year, I was no worse than Jalen Rose), but there were certainly those who did better:
Dance fad of the 1970s / TUE 3-18-25 / A wish might be made on a loose one
/ 1976 #1 novelty song by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots / Bourbon brand
whose name originated from a hunting expedition / Tusked Ice Age mammal /
Cardamom-spiced brew / Like someone with an "O.O.O." auto-reply set up,
perhaps / Darth Vader's boyhood nickname / Like a person who might prefer
platonic relationship, informally
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