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You can sum up the night in the NBA in an old song, this way back song from the 1970s, staying alive by the Bee Gees, because that's the story there.

The Trailblazers and the Sixers have forced a game seven, almost like it's scripted.

Like Vince McMahon and the W.W.E stepped in and said, hey, let's make sure we get a couple of game sevens.

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Not exactly splitting the atom when you talk about random games in the NBA playoffs,

but a reasonable outlook at this.

Going in and you figure, well, most likely the home team's going to win, that's usually how it works.

Teams of the NBA are often tremendous at home out of this world, and then when they go on the road,

P-U!

So it's not that complex a situation, but in the lake game, I haven't spend too much time on the Blazers and the Nuggets because we're being covered up in some places because of this game.

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