Lakers Win, LA Loses

Shaq tweets. The Magic crumble. Kobe proved all the skeptics wrong.

These were a few of the highlights of the series known as the NBA Finals. I am not an NBA fan (though if I were to choose a team to root for it would either be the Suns or the Celtics) and could really care less who actually won the series. To be honest, I'm just happy the NBA and NHL seasons are over! Now ESPN and other sports entities can focus on the two best sports on the planet: baseball and the quickly coming football season!

Regardless of my feelings on NBA Basketball I think the fans' reaction/celebration was deplorable! See the pics: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193086/Fans-riot-streets-LA-Lakers-win-NBA-title.html?ITO=1490

A riot?!?! I know it is not the first time (and unfortunately won't be the last), but I truly do not understand how any conscious-minded human could find it celebratory or joyous to wreck an innocent city, an innocent party's property, waste tax payer money or participate in any activity to "celebrate" that ends up injuring police officers. Even sadder, yet, is the fact that California is crumbling financially and they now have to clean up the carnage of a supposed celebration. Over a game? An eternally meaningless game? Sure it's great that your favorite team won, but in the grand scheme of things it is just a game. So who really won? No one... not the Lakers, not the fans, not California and certainly not LA.

This sort of reaction only demonstrates further the absolute joke that is "Sports." People in Europe and around the world are trampled to death during soccer games? An American sports team wins a championship and the city erupts into a riot? How do we as humans (or Believers, for that matter) make sense of that, stand for it or, worse yet, participate in it?

This is not a Lakers problem, NBA problem, MLB or any other sports league problem. It is a human being problem. A common sense (or lack there of) problem.

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Image credit: Associated Press
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