A Long Time Coming

The Orlando Magic have finally won an NBA Finals game, raising their overall record in Finals to 1-6 (they were swept by Houston in their only other Finals appearance, way back in 1995 when Shaq was still just a basketball player and not a rapper/actor/Twitter-maven).  Of course, Orlando could’ve easily been 2-5 in Finals, and up 2-1 on the Lakers in this series, if only, 1) Courtney Lee had finished that lob play the other night or; 2) Pau Gasol had gotten called for goaltending on that play; or, 3) Kobe Bryant had tripped off a curb while chasing after a pesky neighbor kid who called him Kobe Shmobe and broken his ankle.  You think Kobe scowls in games, you should see him when some pre-pubescent brat starts riding him through the screendoor.