on the road

In the land of beautiful beaches, perfect weather and two of my favorite sports teams, the lakers and the dodgers, and taking advantage of the blackberry to post while on the road. Wouldn't want to deprieve my loyal readership of 4 of a new post.

In basketball news, adding injury to injury, leon powe is done for the rest of the celtics postseason, however long that might be. Boston is reduced to relying on Mikki Moore for long stretches of play. Ouch. Expect KG to make a miraculous comeback if Boston makes it back home for game 6. He won't stomach sitting out for long and he's already said he's delaying surgery until the offseason.

Minus Powe and KG, Boston's chances of upending Cleveland have slipped to none. The Cavs should sweep Detroit, who, surprise surprise, can't turn it on in the playoffs and are not at all dangerous like some writers suggested. Sub-500 teams don't turn it on and off. Detroit's in fo a long offseason. Sheed has nothing left, AI was a mistake, and Tayshaun's peaked as a third or fourth banana at best. What happened to his defense? Curry can't reach these guys. Maybe firing Flip was a little premature. All he ever did was lead the team to the eastern conference finals twice.

In the west, utah is just outmanned by the lakers. They may take game 3 because of the boost from the home crowd, but even those fans shouldn't expect much out of this team at this point. They need shooters badly.

Welcome to the playoffs, Portland. After getting absolutely crushed by the Rockets at home, Roy and Co. responded nicely in game 2. Yes, Roy is that good. 42 and wow.

Don't look now, but the two hottest teams in baseball are the Marlins and the Dodgers. Makes me wish Joe Angel was still calling Marlins games so we could hear a lot of his signature call, "the Marlins are in the WIN column."

thumbs are getting tired. More thoughts when I'm back home.