Band-Aids for All

The NBA Playoffs are heating up. Anchored by the Spurs-Suns last night, the 2006-2007 NBA is finally becoming Fantastic once again after a sub-par regular season.

In the nightcap, the top two teams in the West again faced each other in Phoenix. I had said earlier that if the scores were in the 80 the Spurs would win, if the scores were in the 100s the Suns would win. I didn’t mean in the same game, obviously, but that is how the scores fell. Suns won 101-81 behind 27 pts from Amare and 16 dimes from Nash.

An interesting thing happened in Phoenix though, and that was the presence of the nose band-aids in tribute to Nash’s gash in game one. It reminded me of two phenomena’s from the 80s. First was Lakers fan wearing the Kurt Rambis glasses to all the games. You would see the entire home crowd, including all the Hollywood elite, donning thick framed, black glasses during the Lakers Show Time era.

In 1985 you also had Jim McMahon and the headband craze. Spurred on by NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle’s fine of McMahon for wearing an adidas headband, McMahon came out the next week and sported “Rozelle” Sharpied onto this headband. Again the home faithful caught on and headband sales reached an all time high (I could only assume). There were also copycat headbands around, such as Ohio State donning them in support of fired head coach Earl Bruce during the 1988 Michigan game.

It’ll be interesting to see if the Suns faithful keep the band-aid thing going when the series returns to Phoenix for game 5 on May 16.

In the other game, LeBron’s 36 pts and 12 dimes paced the Cavs. The game was tied going into the 4th quarter, but there was too much Cavs for the Nets to keep up with. Jason Kidd narrowly missed yet another triple-double with 17/10/8.

What really gets me about this series, though, is that patch of hair below Drew Gooden’s headband. WHAT IS THAT DREW? Did the barber miss a spot? Seriously. Shave that off!

==Chasing The Record==
The guy in San Fran moved one step closer to the all-time record with his 745 blast of his career. The big news that came out on this day regarding his HR hitting was from Curt Schilling’s weekly radio show in Beantown. Schilling said “He admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes, and cheating on the game, so I think the reaction around the league, the game, being what it is, in the case of what people think. Hank Aaron not being there.” He then went on to say he wouldn’t give Bonds a pitch to hit if the record was on the line in June when the Giants played in Fenway.

In other record news, Matt Capps pitched 2 scoreless innings in a non-Holds appearance and is still stuck on 10.

Til tomorrow
- SEO, TEO