Celts Lakers Q3

There is no way the Lakers should lose this game. PJ Brown is out to play defense to start the 2nd half. After an incendiary 2nd quarter, Paul Pierce's first touch of the 2nd half is at the 3 point line, and he's standing on the baseline and gets called out-of-bounds.

The starting lineup of the Celtics is asleep, but the Lakers are undead. This is what happens when you sell your soul to play with Kobe.

And I'm still picking the Lakers in this game. Here we go...

10:43 p.m. - Kevin Garnett drives to the lane and Kobe draws an offensive foul. Am I dreaming? This can't be happening.

10:45. Okay, back to reality. Gasol, a Spaniard, the Lakers' floppy Muppet scores to tie it and refuses to play defense. That's understandable -- él no tenía ninguna siesta.

10:52. Kobe gets called for ANOTHER offensive foul. Obama doesn't have a chance, does he?

10:53. Mark Jackson just name-checked Bill Wennington as a guy who knocked down big jump shots. Bill Wennington is the Grimace of basketball. Yet a second later, the Lakers are back up by 7. Be careful how and when you invoke Wennington -- he is a riddle wrapped inside a sausage patty wrapped inside an enigma.

10:58. They just showed David Spade in the Lakers' crowd celebrity montage pretending to be a celebrity. Funniest David Spade moment since his bodyguard kicked his ass a few years ago.

11:04. Boston's Sam Cassell misses a wide-open 3. Sam Cassell is the ugliest player in the NBA. If NBA players were Smurfs, Cassell wouldn't be Ugly Smurf - he'd be a smurf made out of reject Smurfs processed through that Play-Doh factory toy, which, on second thought, was like a rendering plant for kids.

11:09. Even though this is the NBA finals, and these are supposed to be the 2 best teams in the league, there are only two guys on the floor I wish were on the Knicks next year -- Lamar Odom and James Posey.

And that's the end of the third quarter. Lakers up by 9, and Paul Pierce looks like me after climbing the stairs to my 4th floor walkup. Happy Father's Day everyone. 4th quarter probably isn't worth watching...