Kablammo!

The best part of the playoffs last year was watching Barbosa play. Thus far it looks like this year will be no different. He’s a great player and getting better all the time, but more importantly he clearly loves what he does and has a blast out there on the court. (And interestingly enough, we were born on the same day.)

In other news, I badly want the Heat to lose and I got a shameful amount of schadenfreude from Shaq fouling out in Game 1. I didn’t think it was possible to match the combination of Shaq and Kobe in terms of smugness and a sense of entitlement, but apparently Kobe’s share in that equation is roughly equaled by Dwyane, Zo, Payton, and Walker, when you add them all up.