The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

With both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics one game away from sweeps and meeting up in the Eastern Conference Finals, so long as they each win one of their next four games, I think it's all but certain that LeBron James should be awarded the MVP and Brad Stevens should be awarded Coach of the Year honors. As a matter of fact, as of this very moment, I don't even think it's debatable anymore: LeBron James is the 2017-2018 NBA MVP and Brad Stevens is the 2017-2018 Coach of the Year. Many analysts have suggested that James Harden should receive the MVP award. Others have suggested Kevin Durant is deserving. For as much as I respect both Harden and Durant as players, they're each surrounded by quality talent. Chris Paul has been one of the best all-around point guards in the league for a number of years, and even with Stephen Curry in the lineup, Durant has the likes of Klay Thompson and Draymond Green to share the rock with. Remove Harden from Houston's lin...

While I think the NBA Finals will feature the two best teams bar none, in the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I'm hoping the series goes 7 games and is tightly contested throughout, I'm personally getting bored with these two teams' dominance and sincerely hope other teams start competing more in the coming years, because this is just becoming too predictable to my liking.  Sure, the New England Patriots have sat or near the top of the NFL for a number of years, but in that same time-frame, the following other teams have won Super Bowls: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver, NY Giants, Green Bay, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, and Seattle. In baseball, the Kansas City Royals and Chicago Cubs have won the World Series in recent years. The Nashville Predators just made it to their first Stanley Cup Finals. In the NBA, though, we're about to witness the third consecutive finals between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. While I actually like wat...