Well, look here. Just as I despairingly predicted at the onset of the 2016-17 NBA season, we’ve arrived at a third straight Cavaliers-Warriors Finals match-up. Yay. I can’t say I’m excited or interested by the prospect, except for the sort of grimy schadenfreude I’d get out of watching Kevin Durant again fall short of a title if the Dubs lose . . . I assume if that actually happens, KD will just opt out and go join the Cavs . . . 
Sure hope the players have gotten enough rest. I think that for the players’ health, they should just play one game a week for seven weeks . . . I wonder if the Cavs will run a bunch of iso plays for LeBron and Kyrie? It’s a wrinkle that I think could really pay off for them . . . Paps’ Prediction: Cavs in 6. I think they’re playing better defense, LeBron’s in full On A Mission mode, and Kyrie’s better than he was last year. This prediction assumes that Draymond or Zaza don’t hurt anyone on the Cavs with their “unintentional” dirty play . . . For my money, the Finals haven’t been the same since they shut down Magic’s hot tub room at the Forum. It’s where I met my second wife after a big Game 3 win in ’85. She came in with John Stamos, but left with me–and Grace Jones . . . Speaking of Stamos, he may have been my romantic rival at one time, but he did star in one of the great action films of the 80s. Still waiting for that Never Too Young To Die sequel . . . 
In other sports news, that NHL is holding their Stanley Cup contest again, right? Good for them! . . . My all-time favorite NBA Finals memory? It has to be spending late nights talking hoops with Red Auerbach after an epic 80s Lakers-Celtics battle, doing line after line of meth off of Red’s gigantic oak desk. Red was a basketball man through and through. He could be drunk as all get out, smoking a giant stogie, nose bleeding from too much meth, getting oral sex from an overexcited fan in a Larry Bird jersey, and he would still talk your ear off about why Bill Russell was such a special defender. And wow, did that guy love meth . . . I know I’m in the minority, but my all-time favorite Queen song is “Fun It”. . . So it’s been 20 years since Tiger Woods’ father Earl said, “Tiger will do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity.” People scoffed at the time, but look around you, people. Before Tiger Woods, no one cheated on their wives or got stoned on prescription pills! Now you see it all the time. Kudos to you, Tiger–and apologies to Earl, who had to endure a lot of ridicule for his bold, visionary statement . . . 
If I don’t get that scabies medication pretty soon, I’m gonna lose it, I swear . . . Finally, congrats go out to my neighbor, Ben Thompson. Ben has been planning a complex heist of a local bank for years, and this week, with the help of loyal pals Cassie Sweetwater and Willie Fingers, he finally pulled it off! Way to go, Ben!
This could be hilarious if ya fix the borders on the pictures!