NBA Finals Game 2: Is Pau Gasol Out of His Mind?

If you want to beat the Celtics and win the NBA Championship, you don’t go giving them bulletin board material. It doesn’t matter what question a reporter asks. In the NBA and the NFL, you don’t let a reporter goad you into creating bulletin board quotes for your opponents.

This is not MMA. This is not the UFC. Gaining any kind of momentum and having an advantage, no matter how slight, over an opponent in the NBA and the NFL is of the utmost importance.

After gaining the upper hand in Game 1 of their NBA Finals matchup with the Celtics, the Lakers certainly didn’t expect to have the tables turned on them even before Game 2, and by one of their star players no less.