Hey, Kings fans. We go into the playoffs as healthy as we have been all year!!!
Oh, sh*t!! :cry:
Bobby Jackson made a triumphant return to a rousing chorus of cheers at Arco Arena, personally leading SK to a 132-107 domination of the BEST DAMNED BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE LEAGUE, PERIOD!. Bibby didn't even play, being recommended by the team trainer that Adelman rest his sore ankle for the final game. So the Suns kept Nash out too, just to even things out. Ha!!! Even, smeven.
We got Bobby Jackson back!!
But then Brian Skinner twisted his ankle right before BOBBY JACKSON made a triumphant entrance into the first quarter to a rousing chorus of cheers!!!!
Did I already mention that?
Skinner was in the awkward position of getting posterized by the minute by man-child Amare Stoudemire. Watching him aim for someone's foot to land on was a little pathetic, but once he finally accomplished this tricky "feet", he limped off just as Jackson was entering the game to a rousing chorus of cheers!!!!
But Skinner just tweaked it. Just enough to ensure ESPN would ignore his getting highlighted any further last night. So he can play come Saturday in Seattle.
The wondrous effect of Jackson's return could still be felt this morning, as our perky Rise Guys on 1140 AM kept fielding calls about how the Kings can now go ALL THE WAY this year, because, well, the fans can just "feel" it, now. I think ALL THE WAY is an adolescent approach for us getting screwed in the first round, but let's not dwell on that. Not after the rousing chorus of cheers Bobby Jackson got at Arco when he entered the game with 5:13 left in the first quarter.
Peja has been telling ESPN that he is going to play in Saturday's first playoff game in Seattle. Brad Miller will be held out by Adelman until late in the first round. Maurice Evans instead told reporters that Miller will be in Saturday's game as well. Rick Adelman, meanwhile, is looking for anyone who gives a damn what he thinks.
And the only reason any of this matters is simple. If Peja, Jackson, and Miller get placed on the final playoff roster, the Kings will have 14 [relatively] healthy NBA quality bodies ready for the post season.
How did THAT happen?? :huh:
Erik Daniels, who has loyally held down the far end of the bench to protect against it flying up and doing serious damage if one of the regulars sat at the other end, looks to be coming down with tendonitis of the <insert interesting body part here>. That leaves one other SK player who needs to take a knee to the joypack, for the good of the team. This seems so unfair. All season long, all Adelman had to do was say, "We are at least healthy for a change" to guarantee that a piano would slip off a gurney somewhere and collide with some Kings player walking his Shar-Pei near his Granite Bay home.
Now, as Rick looks down that stretch of bench all the way to where Daniels is providing his best Alfred E. Newman expression back at him, completely unaware he is already limping off somewhere, players like Kevin Martin, Greg Ostertag, Eddie House, and Maurice Evans are scrambling to be active, to show the coach they are indispensable to his playoff hopes.
Greg has started to do wind sprints to the coffee cart, to bring Rick back his favorite Latte. "Just the way you like it, couch", "Tag" suggestively whispers in his coach's ear. Eddie House has been grabbing basketballs every chance he gets when he is standing in front of Adelman and demonstrating his best Harlem Globetrotter dribbling skills as he shows off his MC Hammer "CAN'T TOUCH THIS" impersonation played over the speaker system. (He cued the sound man to do that every time Adelman gets within twenty feet of him). Maurice Evans has been doing his own Slam Dunk All Star Weekend show, usually over the dribbling Eddie House, which p*sses off House to all heck. They usually end up wrestling all over the hard-court as Rick continues walking past them, shaking his head.
What to do, what to do, he murmurs.
Then his eyes glance over to Kevin Martin. The rookie gives his coach back his lopsided grin, unaware he also has been 'chosen'. "Oh boy", he secretly exclaims in his thoughts. "The coach is noticing me!!!"
Rookies are so naive.
