Ode To The Magic Fan

As a Celtics fan, I have despised your team when we have played them, rooted against them quite hard, but I am here to shed some positive light on your team. In a year where analysts all over the country not predicted, but guaranteed that the Lakers and the Cavs would be in the finals. Even when many of them jumped off the Laker train and claimed the Nuggets to be playing the best basketball in the playoffs, they were all still on the Cavs, claiming sweep against the Magic. But the Magic ended Cavs fans dreams, and not only that but they did it in six games. An inside out team with all that vital aspects. They shut them down, they shut down every team they played when they needed to. A star in this league in Dwight Howard has worked his way into Playoff History when most people spent the past couple years doubting his motivation and determination...including his coach. A perfectly constructed team for the Eastern Conference, they proved that they were a force to reckon with. Predictions that Igoudala and the Sixers was the upset pick of the playoffs were thrown out and now here they are down 3-1 facing possibly their last game. The Magic will look back at missed opportunities in this series to tie it and the mistakes that they made. It is less than likely that they will come back and win this series but Magic fans should be quite proud as they ran in to a determined monster with players that have been there before. Many players on the Magic have never been in this position, and they are doomed by inexperience. If this team sticks together, they will be hanging around for playoffs to come and while the majority of the country wanted to see Kobe Bryant and Lebron James go head to head, a not forgotten but undermined star has emerged and this is only of the beginning of a career that will be a dominant one. A player that teams will constantly search for an answer for. The Magic will come out tonight leaving everything on the table because that is how they have played all playoffs. We have seen such great passion from them and tonight will be no different, and in this writer's opinion will not be the end of this series. It is the Lakers turn, but there is a good chance that sometime in the future, the Magic will have theirs. Congratulations to all Orlando Magic supporters on a fantastic season and good luck tonight.

I'm with you 100% on this one, Bator. Think about it -- A few things break Orlando's way and they are up 3-1 in this series and looking to close it out during this game. You think they only get a -3.5 line if that's the case? No way. This line is a gift for Magic backers and is designed to bring in boatloads of LAL money. They could have set it at LAL +1 and tons of people would still have jumped on LAL