Nicki Minaj might say Brandon Bass is a helluva guy because on Monday he was pelican fly. He tied a career-high, amassing his age in points, 27, shot a sizzling 69 percent from the field, and singlehandedly outscored the 76ers in the third quarter, 18-16, in Boston's beatdown of Philadelphia that recalled game 3, except with an unexpected source of offense (Kevin Garnett had 27 in that one, Bass 10). His playoff best prior to the game was 19 points, so we can only explain his prodigious and peculiar performance with plagiarized onomatopoeia: boom badoom boom boom badoom boom Bass.
Home, bittersweet home: Over the weekend, Staples Center was overbooked and overcrowded. The last remaining tenants are truly the Kings of Los Angeles. The Clippers, building on the fly, were satisfied to be in the building come May, but in this postseason the Lakers, like a 7-footer standing up, hit their ceiling far too fast. A defiant Kobe Bryant insisted that the Lakers championship run isn't over. "Put your house on it," he urged. Kobe could be correct, provided the team cleans house. In their series against the Thunder, the Lakers play could be classified as a British apartment: flat.
*Yes, we know his name is pronounced like the fish, but like sushi, we were on roll, so kiss our halibut.
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