Heat-Celtics, Game 7: Mirror Mirror On The Wall...

The swings of long playoff series are enough to make even me, a longstanding basher of this day and age’s overly reactive 24 hour news cycle, make some snap judgments from time to time. One minute, the Celtics looked like a dead team walking, and the Spurs appeared unstoppable. Only days later, the Heat looked as if they were ready to fold while Boston made 1 more playoff push, and the Thunder were sparking some dynasty talk regardless of who came out of the East. Now, “good” Miami has resurfaced again, and it looks like we have the makings of a pretty evenly matched Finals series.

The Heat took us on an emotional rollercoaster on the way to the NBA Finals.

Unfortunately, Krissy and I had promised weeks ago that we would go see Snow White and the Huntsman with Krissy’s Mom and Grandmom. Softies that we are, we couldn’t find it in our hearts to bail on them, and we actually wanted to see Snow White anyway. Through the magic of DVR we were able to pull off a night-night doubleheader though. The movie played at 7pm. By the time we drove our 2 kiddies home and made the 45 minute trek back to our apartment it was 11:15pm. Even fast-forwarding through the commercials, Krissy and I were starting to get heavy-eyed midway through the 4th quarter, but we made it to the end. On top of that, the movie wasn’t half bad. Yes, the acting left something to be desired…just as when she traipses around with vampires and werewolves, Kristen Stewart displayed the emotional range of a dust mop, and Charlize Theron spent the majority of her scenes screeching at people, but I still found this dark adaptation of an old story pretty entertaining. That’s saying a lot considering the above not-so-glowing reviews, and the fact that any 7 year old could tell you how the story of Snow White goes.

Wrap this thing up, guys...we've got a game to watch!

In a nutshell, the Celtics started off chasing Snow White into the Dark Forest, where she kept on getting drugged by weird plants and throwing terrible passes right to Ray Allen. The evil queen, Ravenna, looked like she had this 1 wrapped up early, but LeBron kept the game close while his teammates finally figured out that the kingdom could be lost to the evil queen forever if they didn’t at least show up. Eventually, the Huntsman got it together in the 2nd half and started hitting tough 18 footers, and Chris Bosh proved to be a huge factor too, as he killed more of the evil queen’s henchmen in the final battle than he had in his entire career. In the end, Ravenna was just too old and worn out, and LeBron vanquished her to take his rightful place as queen of the land…I mean king…whatever. The point is that Snow White advanced to the Finals beating the Boston Ravennas in 7 games, where Kevin Durant and the OKC Twilights await. It was getting late though, so sue me if the details are slightly off.