AHAHAHAAHAHAAA! Eat it whiny Suns fans.

Another non-Fat post here, but I just felt the need to comment on this year's NBA playoffs. I don't normally watch pro-basketball. It usually consists of egotistical superstars travelling their way to 70 points against pitiful soft, warm butter offered up as defense. But since baseball is an equally boring and non-riveting sport, and since golf is reserved for the Sunday afternoon nap, the month of May leaves no other option but to watch the NBA playoffs. Now as a disclaimer, I am a both a mild Suns fan and a mild Spurs fan. I lived in San Antonio for three years back when David Robinson and Avery Johnson were in their hey-day. I have lived in Phoenix for an equal amount of time, and I believe I can bring a rather objective opinion to the nonsense of the past couple weeks.

I understand that people want to root for their team, but I am simply amazed at the blatant bias that Suns fans have. They want every call to go their team's way. The refs are part of a massive anti-Suns conspiracy, i.e. pro-whatever team they are playing against. Every time the other team touches the ball it's an offensive foul, a 3-second count, a travel... but every time Nash jump stops/travels or palms the ball it is conveniently ignored.

So let's clear the air here:

1. Bowen and Duncan were rightly NOT suspended because there was no "altercation" after that dirty Suns player took Manu's feet out from under him. Words may have been exchanged, but there was no fight. Manu sucked it up, got back down the court and played defense. Good teams do that from time to time. Bell stormed at Horry after a rather hard foul, while Amare and Diaw went into the fray. Big difference. The Suns played their own part in escalating the game 4 altercation.

2. All this whining about suspensions is absolutely pointless. I knew the Suns would resort to complaining about how "we would have won if we had Amare and Boris." The fact is that the Suns couldn't close out game 5 after being up 16 points WITHOUT STOUDEMIRE OR DIAW. The Spurs got shafted because Horry was suspended when Baron Davis clocked a guy with an elbow and received nothing for it. I will give credit to Nash for doing exactly what he was supposed to: sell the call to the ref. Fly into the bench, put a constipated face on, and writhe around on the ground until they call the foul. Then you get up and run into the fight like nothing happened. Suns fans whine about Ginobili flopping all the time but of course when their guy does it, it's ok.

3. Tim Duncan is a true competitor, a high class guy who always speaks highly of his team/competition and rarely receives a technical foul. Robert Horry was understandably frustrated because the Suns came back to win a great game that the Spurs had flat out dominated for three quarters. I do not condone his brief lapse of judgement but he doesn't have a track record of doing this. Every game interview I've ever seen with him has left a positive impression on me. He's no dirtier than Raja Bell, a guy with a much worse track record conveniently ignored by Suns fans. In fact, if I saw Raja Bell running up to me I'd raise my arm up too. The Suns must be a dirty team too. It's ok to admit it. It's not ok to blatantly hate teams/players just because your team loses to them all the time. People go to therapy for that.

For years the Spurs have been an absolute class act, winning with style and humility dating back to when David Robinson and Avery Johnson were playing. Somehow a bunch of Suns fans are trying to tarnish that reputation just because their team can't make it past them to play for a championship. The Spurs play defense. The numbers don't lie, they are the best in the league. I guess I would be pissed off too if everyone I had played that year had just let me run by them for easy layups and all of a sudden Bruce Bowen shows up putting a hand in my face. The Spurs have become the New England Patriots of basketball. Everyone hates them because they win, win, win and love it when they lose in hopes that their inferior teams might now have a shot. Even I as a Broncos fan admit to hating the Patriots. Why? Because they beat my team every time they play! Doesn't make them dirty or unworthy of victory.

Every single "dirty" incident that Suns fans mention had absolutely no effect on the end result in each game. None. The Suns still won the Horry bump game. They were up 16 with half a quarter to go without their suspended players, and they folded. The Suns had every opportunity and plenty of time to win each other game, and despite being a very entertaining, fast paced team to watch, they failed to get the job done. They may have been the more athletic team on the court but the more experienced, more physical, and ultimately better team still won. The Suns have no one to blame but themselves, but God knows they'll still try.