This weekend marks the return to professional playoff sports in Brooklyn for the first time since...1956 when the Dodgers played the Yankees. This time its the Brooklyn (formerly New Jersey, formerly New York) Nets taking on the Chicago Bulls in the NBA quarterfinal series of the Eastern Conference.
Congratulations Brooklyn, and I hope they sell out the Barclays Center and while I am at it, I also hope that Derrick Rose does not come off the injured list to play for the Terri Bulls. This figures to be exciting series tho the Nets had difficulty with the Bulls during the regular season. It is time for some Nets, Derek Williams and Joe Johnson to earn their free agent aquired money and I am rooting for the Nets.
The New York Knickerbockers open their post season play against the hated Boston Celtics just a couple of miles away in Manhattan. Likewise, this figures to be an exciting and long playoff series as well but in this case these teams are bitter and nasty rivals.
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Fresh off a 54-win regular season it is hard to beleive but this series might come down to the late season aquisition of aged Kenyon Martin formerly of the New Jersey Nets. Kenyon brings unquestioned physical presence on defense which was sorely needed and he will serve to protect NBA leading scorer Carmelo Anthony. If the Knicks dont win this series the regular season acolades mean nothing. I like the Knicks to win in 6 and the Nets to win in 7.
By the way...People need to give Tiger Woods a break. Granted, he is not the best public relations get right now with some morality issues but he wasn't and should not have been DQ'd at the Masters last week.
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With course marshalls on every hole along with the scruitny of TV cameras everywhere the stuffed suits that run Augusta had ample opportunity to warn Tiger of any irregularities with scoring well before he reached the scorers table Tiger was playing the 15th hole at the moment and played 16, 17, and 18 before reaching the scoring trailer.
Even then none of the officials alerted Tiger to anything even as he left for Washington Avenue. They didn't think he had done anything wrong either, it was only after some viewer called in that the green jackets decided to do anything and to me that is one pathetic thing about the great game of golf---some of the rules make no sense. Anyway, give Tiger a break...not that he asked!
