“Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than
one man. How's that again? I missed something.” – Robert A. Heinlein
I’ve said this at least 58 times
before, but I need to say it again. I’m an NBA fanatic. I love basketball. More
specifically I love good, world-class athlete basketball with pristine ball
movement, 80s era Celtics floor spacing and sound team defense.
So
imagine my dismay when the NBAtv fan night ballot box is closed and the winner
of the polls ends up being a Heat – Cavs game. Don’t get me wrong, the team the
Cavs are right now are slightly better than the team we all expected them to
be, plus they have the early season rookie of the year in Kyrie Irving. But to
be voted as the team the NBA universe wants to watch on Fan Night? Come on,
man! Maybe Lebron is THAT big of a draw that no matter who the Heatles play the
world will want to watch (which is why organizations prize superstars so much,
disregarding building solid basketball teams in favor of going after big names.
Hey Knickerbockers, how’s that working out for you?). But every week on fan
night the marquee game the fans choose is easily the second or third best game
of the night. This week the fans chose Heat – Cavs over games featuring better
basketball matchups like Pacers – Magic and Blazers – Grizzles. The Heat are on
TV twice a week, do we really need to see them a third time?
