Just wanted to comment on all the post-game, um, weirdness after Game 6 Tuesday night. Well, really just Garnett's interview with Michelle Tafoya. Tafoya has no problem drinking sweat in order to get the interview and she got right up in Garnett's grill for this one. Anyway, screaming  up to the rafters, "anything is possible!" along with all the other nearly indiscernable stuff that came out of his mouth must have made David Stern literally cringe as he looked on. I am an NBA fanatic and will probably always watch, but if anyone thinks that white America got any goose bumps while watching these Celtics celebrate this championship, you're nuts.

How about Scot Pollard trying to look like he was celebrating with his teammates in that Saran-wrapped locker room! Funny stuff. Let's just say it... This was a very 'black' team. The '08 Celts were a team built around a core group of guys who all shared a similar cultural background (and one Alien who fits in well with this particular demographic). A very good group of guys actually. I'll say that again... A VERY GOOD GROUP OF GUYS. All I'm saying is this isn't going to do anything to help bring back the typical 80's, 90's NBA fan who David Stern covets so badly. Garnett assured that, for now, and probably helped further the "white flight" that has plagued the NBA in recent years.

People just can't relate to that stuff... the whole seemingly anger-driven me-against-the-world chip on the shoulder of many of today's NBA players. The display on genuine emotion while you celebrate reaching the pinnacle of your profession is great... and makes for riveting reality television, but let's keep it in perspective. "Anything is possible" ??? Does Garnett realize that some blind guy made it to the top of Mt. Everest recently? THAT guy gets to yell "anything is possible" up to the heavens. You, Sir, do not. Yes Kevin, anything IS possible! But that wasn't the right moment to yell it up to the sky. That was just weird, and you are kind of a weird dude! I know a lot of journalists have written that maybe you aren't a player who rises to the challenge in the big spots but, c'mon man, don't take everything so seriously.

If only Paul Pierce was as white on the outside as he is on the inside... maybe the NBA could get the credit it probably deserves from America (at least this season). A team made up of a solid group of "made in the USA" basketball players just man-handled a team with a large international flair to it and I'm sad to say this weekend's NASCAR race will probably light up more TV sets than this Game 6 did (possibly TV's on cinder blocks in the front yard but TV sets nonetheless). Oh, someone just corrected me... apparently most of those TV sets are sitting up on top of older, broken TV sets. My bad.

I will say this... Garnett's actions do make a lot more sense when thought about as simply the pure emotions of a very child-like NBA player. It was definitely a little goofy. Maybe I'm wrong but Bird, McHale, and Parrish (he was a Chief after all) didn't seem this way to me. These were manly men, and they appealed to other fully grown, sports-loving, men. Garnett is in his 30's, isn't he? So, what I'm really saying is maybe I'm being a little hard on the guy and his antics probably would, maybe, appeal to the little guys out there... all the younger NBA fans. Maybe some of them will catch it on SportsCenter because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been watching it live, at 1 AM on a school night. 

Any way you cut it... David Stern's job just got a little harder.

So many former NBA fans simply cannot relate to so many of today's NBA stars, be it because of race, culture, and/or age. There's a generation gap and a large cultural divide and disconnect that, UNFORTUNATELY, only grew wider with the 2008 NBA Finals. Sad reality, but reality nonetheless.