BSTFWNHO: Last Night in NBA Playoffs

↵↵Big: Mere hours after making the world love him again, Kobe accepted the MVP again. This time, he was Blade Runner-esque, taking the court against Utah and thoroughly dismantling Sloan's tough gang. Numbers don't do him justice, the same way that LeBron's numbers pile up too easy.↵

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↵↵Small: To paraphrase a friend of mine, what Boozer does is so simple, and so consistently effective, there's really no excuse for him ever slumping. Unless someone cut out part of his brain, or lied to him and said that the gravitational force had shifted in its tracks.↵

↵↵True: Rodney Stuckey is the truth. That's from the Latin "true," I think. If Billups misses the next game, and the Pistons win anyway, then Joe Dumars has to stand up, beat his chest on national television, and as modestly as possible state that his genius is eternal.↵

↵↵False: I wouldn't place a bet on anything involving Rashard Lewis if my life depended on having to place a bet on something involving Rashard Lewis. Easily the NBA's least predictable player.↵

↵↵Wide: The best thing about Deron Williams is how well he plays when he's angry or frustrated. At the risk of trivializing everything this daily wrap-up stands for, that's at least part of the definition of Jordan-esque, and why Williams can be downright scary. This may be Chris Paul's year, but I wouldn't be shocked if Deron closes the gap some in 2008-09.↵

↵↵Narrow: Here's a moral quandry: Do the Jazz fans have some right to boo Fisher on Friday, since he's obviously sharing state secrets?↵

↵↵Obama/Hillary: Lakers/Jazz is how it should've gone; the rapidly devolving Pistons/Magic is what it's turned out to be. Either way, it's Obama.↵

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