Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat square off in the start of their best of seven series in Miami for the NBA crown.
Dallas in 6 or 7!
Unfortunately, my Boston Celtics did not make it in the finals. Although they lost to the Heat, it’s not bad. At least they won a game compared to the swept Lakers in care of the Mavericks.
Miami Heat is a younger team but the Mavericks are more experienced. Sometimes, age or experience does not matter. It all depends on how the game is played in the court. So, anything can happen in favor of Dallas; why not?
I don’t know the current pulse of the country on which they root for to bag the trophy but I believe that a lot pick the Miami Heat because of Erik Spoelstra, an American with Filipino ancestry who looks very Filipino.
At the start of the elimination round, it is remembered that the Heat was struggling. At that time, Filipinos at home and in the States did not care. Now that they are in the NBA Finals, many Filipinos come out yelling how proud they are to be a Filipino. Remember when Tim Lincecum, (American with Filipino ancestry) helped the San Francisco Giants win the World Series? “I am proud to be Filipino” slogan was deafening. I do not really understand why some of us are proud to be citizens of this country when non-Filipinos excel like Spoelstra or Lincecum.
We surely hear that mantra again now that Spoelstra’s Heat is in the finals. In a country where basketball is a passion, a lot follow up the series.
As I said before, it stinks and it’s not a cool Filipino attitude to be a fan of a team when it is only doing well or in the championship. That is opportunistic. A fan should be faithful to his team in good times and in bad.
Since Larry Bird, my team is always the Celtics but that does not prevent me in appreciating the skills of some of the Lakers’ players.
I don’t have my team in the finals, I don’t care who wins but I want the Mavericks to win without disrespecting the Heat.
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See related post at:
http://sapientiaaedificat.blogspot.com/2010/12/filipino-pride-and-erik-spoelstra.html
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See related post at:
http://sapientiaaedificat.blogspot.com/2010/12/filipino-pride-and-erik-spoelstra.html
I say again that my team is not in the Finals but I want the Mavericks to win. What matters is the score at the end of the final buzzer and not the acrobatic dunks.
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