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You know you love hearing my voice

The podcast from this morning's Bobcat Radio show is up today. Right click here and save it to the desktop or wherever. Congratulations to the 2007 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs.

Who is Sam Presti?

I linked last week to news about the Sonics hiring Sam Presti to be their new GM. Well HoopsWorld.com has a great piece on how Presti go to be where he's at. If you don't think this guy is going to be successful, I don't know what to tell you.

Podcast

The podcast's are up. Well one of them at least. Here is the podcast from Friday morning's show (NOTE: right-click on the link and save it to the desktop, don't try to play it directly from the link). This morning's podcast should be posted sometime tomorrow.

Sonics on the right track

A big blow for all Spurs fans out there: Sam Presti is set to be named as the Seattle SuperSonics new GM today. Presti is one of the brightest minds in basketball right now and is sure to be one of the top GMs in the NBA soon. It's a great hire for the Sonics. He is the guy credited with first discovering Tony Parker.

Coming soon to an ABC station near you

As a response to my post yesterday where I linked to TrueHoop's breakdown of the Cavs-Spurs series, or more specifically, the LeBron James-Spurs matchup, here is a link to Bill Simmons' column yesterday where he takes more pro-Spurs stance.

I hope radio isn't really dead

Just to let everybody out there know, I'll be on my campus' radio station from 11 a.m. to noon CT Mondays and Fridays talking sports. The official show name is Bobcat Radio (Texas State's mascot is the Bobcats) and if you're in the Austin/San Antonio area it's 89.9 FM. If you're outside that area, you can stream it at KTSW.net. And trust me when I tell you it won't be just about Texas State sports. In fact, right now it's mostly going to be national sports. Especially basketball with the Finals starting.

We're also trying to get it set up so you can download the podcasts at anytime, so if we do that, I'll definitely link to it here.

Not so fast my friend

With everybody predicted the Spurs to easily defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, I thought I would link to this TrueHoop article, the blog run by Henry Abbot which was picked up by ESPN.com a few months ago. Abbot breaks down his breaking down of the game film of both games the Spurs and Cavaliers (in which the Cavs won both, by the way) and explains that it might not be the quick series we all expect it to be.

Witness protection program

I was at the AT&T Center for game 5 of the Spurs-Jazz series on Wednesday night, but unfortunately, there's nothing more to say except the Spurs took that game. They jumped out early and never looked back, something they don't do enough. The real story during the conference finals has been the Cavs-Pistons series though.

These are slowly becoming the King James version of the playoffs. I wrote before game 2 of this series that I thought LeBron James was finally going to show us something special. Well, I was one game off. He did in game 3. And in game 4. And even more so last night in game 5. As you can read at any sports site, that was truly a performance to be cherished.

You can credit Detroit's lack of defense at the rim for part of that (who would've thought they'd miss Ben Wallace this much?), but mostly it was LeBron. All LeBron. You don't need to know the statistics; as incredible as they are, they don't begin to tell the story.

The work isn't done for the LeBron and the Cavs, they still have to win one more game against a better team. But if there's one player who can take down a team, it's him. And even if he doesn't, we'll remember these three games for what they are: special.

There were no games last night, so what the hell am I going to write about?

That is the one drawback to the games getting deep into the playoffs, the lack of games played. Very rarely since October have there been nights where there have been no basketball games played. So what do I do? Well, I write about tonight's game.

But there's a problem to that to. Everybody is writing about tonight's game. And it seems everybody has the same idea. Right after I decided what I was going to write about, I read Scoop Jackson saying the same thing, although, much more eloquently. And Sam Rubenstein at SLAMonline had pretty much the same idea too, although his relates to LOST.

It comes down to this. LeBron James had his team in a position to win on Monday night against the Pistons with not his best game. But at the same time, Chauncey Billups and Tayshaun Prince for the Pistons had bad games too. You can't expect that two games in a row.

LeBron has also had a fairly quiet postseason. And I don't mean quiet like Tim Duncan quiet, where nobody notices. I mean quiet like people are expecting more from him.

And yes, I do realize he's averaging almost 25 points per game along with 8 rebounds and 8 assists per game during the playoffs. But these are the Eastern Conference Finals now. He's four wins away from the NBA Finals. He's playing one of the toughest teams in the entire NBA. People are expecting something special from him on his conference's biggest stage.

People are expecting one of those performances from him where years down the road, they remember where they were and what they were doing that night. LeBron James is the type of player who inspires those expectations in people.

I believe LeBron James knows this.

And I think (I hope) tonight is the night he delivers.