Boston's Big Blowout Bash

Congratulations, Boston Celtics, you are the 2008 NBA Champions! Last night, they scored an impressive 42 points in the 4th quarter to win Game 6 (and the series) over the Los Angeles Lakers by a score of 131-92. Major props to the Celtics, as this is their 17th NBA title in Franchise history and their first NBA Title in 22 years.

Alright, now that I have wrote the introductory information, I have to apologize for a couple of my errors...oh boy...

1. Boston Celtics -- I agreed that their 66-16 record was inflated because of how weak the Eastern Conference is. But with this impressive NBA Title win, I guess they really were that great. I also doubted them after they were struggling to knock off the 8th seed Atlanta Hawks. They did force a Game 7 against the number one-seed Celtics, and I thought my previous analysis of Boston was coming to fruition. My bad on that.
2. Eastern Conference -- I ragged on the Eastern Conference this whole NBA season of how they were so mismatched against the Western Conference and I pretty much used that as an excuse to believe that the NBA title would surely be given to the West, no matter what team made it to the NBA Finals. Wrong on that one.

Thank God that's over. I hate admitting when I'm wrong, but all great men must. But now that's over, here's a couple of other points I want to mention about the Celtics winning the 2008 NBA Championship:

• Boston-Mania? -- Seriously. What is in the water up there in Boston, super-human talent drinking water loaded with untraceable performance enhancers? This 2000s decade was Boston-Mania! The last year alone proves that: First the Boston Red Sox win the 2007 World Series, then the New England Patriots go 16-0 (though they played horrible in the Super Bowl and lost), and now the Boston Celtics win the NBA Championship! If the Boston Bruins had done anything worthwhile in the NHL, the U.S. Government would have to be forced into testing the New England area for something abnormal.
• How did the Celtics score 130 points?! -- How did the Lakers allow 130 points to be scored on them? Where was Kobe Bryant, the League MVP? Well, Kobe was there, but he was one guy who had to compete against Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett. That's why in this last game, the Celtics were able to light up the scoreboard: Garnett and Allen EACH had 26 points, and Pierce followed up with 17 points of his own. All Kobe could do was do his best, a mere 22 points, while everyone else on his team just gave up and jumped ship (the next highest LA scorer was Lamar Odom, with only 14 points).
• Being MVP Does Not Give You A Championship -- Speaking of Kobe Bryant, he earned the 2008 MVP of the League yet is walking away without a NBA Title. Welcome to the club, Kobe! I looked this up on the "internetz" so it's accurate: the last League MVP to also win the NBA Championship that year was Tim Duncan in 2003 with the San Antonio Spurs. Before that, was Shaquille O'Neal in 2000 with the Lakers. (Ironically, this was the first NBA Finals since 1998 to not feature either Shaq or Duncan) The bottom line here is that having a League MVP might help you win some games, but it definitely does not automatically get you an NBA Title.

Ponder over all that information, take another swig of coffee (or whatever beverage you might have when you reading this), and give a shout-out to Boston-iacs out there; the Boston Celtics are the 2008 NBA Champions!