Big events are in the wind

Starting tonight and running through the weekend there will be very unusual and important events taking place.

It's unusual when someone gets married to someone they've been with for many many years.

It's unusual when a women gets ordained a catholic priest.

It's unusual when a seventh game gets played in any sport.

I will cover the first two events after they take place but the third event mentioned is the focus of today's article.

Being a Los Angeles Laker fan has proven to be a worthwhile endeavor. They have not only entertained their fans with great individual talent since coming here in 1960 but they have won

10 World Championships. Combine those with the 6 won in Minneapolis and it becomes the second greatest franchise in NBA history.

That's the main story........being second in NBA history with the chance tonight to pick up one more on the greatest team in NBA history.......the Boston Celtics.

IF THE LAKERS WIN TONIGHT THEY ARE OFFICIALLY TIED WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS FOR THE MOST CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL HISTORY

I COUNT ALL TITLES....AND IN 1948 THE LAKERS WON THE NBL TITLE.

THIS IS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY AND ONE THAT I CANNOT BELIEVE IS POSSIBLE AFTER ALL THE YEARS HAVING TO WATCH THE BOSTON CELTICS DESTROY OUR HOOPS AND DREAMS.

In 1960, when the Lakers moved here, I was 14 years old and playing basketball every single day. I actually didn't stop that routine until I was about 23. Between the ages of 14 and 24 the Lakers lost seven times in the Championships.....and six of those were to the Boston Celtics.

From 1959 to 1970 the Boston Celtics won every time except 1967 and 1970. Their streak of winning 8 championships in a row is a professional sports record that most likely will never be broken.

THE BOSTON CELTICS broke every young basketball players heart for an entire decade and that decade happens to be one of the most "interesting" decades in American History.

1960 to 1970 just about covers the gamut of emotions when it comes to experiencing highs and lows.

And during that incredible time period the Boston Celtics were kicking the butt of every basketball fan in Los Angeles......over and over and over and over and over and over.

Thank God there was a team in Westwood that was dominating college basketball from 1964-1975.......I forget their name but it goes by some initials....CLUA...LUCA....something like that.

BUT COLLEGE AIN'T THE PROS and every year during the 60's it was BOSTON, BOSTON, BOSTON, BOSTON.......

I said it before but I'll say it one more time.......

TONIGHT THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS HAVE THE CHANCE TO TIE THE BOSTON CELTICS FOR THE THE MOST CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL HISTORY.

but they will still be down 9-3 in personal match ups...........that's another story to be told, hopefully, by some younger fan....in about 20 years.

TONIGHT IS OUR STORY......

THOSE OF US (manly men) THAT GREW UP IN THE SIXTIES AND EXPERIENCED EVERYTHING LIFE HAD TO OFFER AND THEN SOME.....and kept getting our asses handed to us by the Boston Celtics. The addition of female fans to the Laker experience didn't really start happening until they started winning championships.

Wilt and then Magic brought the babes and it turns out that they really actually did bring the babes.

And boy is that another story that just seems to have slipped away.

Tiger Woods is like a little baby caddy when it comes to Wilt and Magic and the ladies.

BUT I'M OBVIOUSLY GETTING WAY OFF POINT AND HAVE SOMEHOW TURNED THIS INTO AN X RATED ARTICLE......sorry.

TONIGHT THE LAKERS CAN CATCH UP WITH HISTORY and that just doesn't happen very often.

THE OPPORTUNITY IS THERE.....THE MOTIVATION IS THERE.....THE DESIRE IS THERE.....AND BECAUSE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS WHO HAS EVER PLAYED THE GAME.......IT PROBABLY WILL HAPPEN.

Of course Ron Artest will need some help from his teammates but I think he will find it from the EXPENSIVE BEEF guy.

Of course there's always a chance they could lose......because they are playing a team that has dominated them since 1960.

But it is important to keep in mind that since 1980 the Lakers have won 9 and the Celtics have won 4....so basically in the cuurent era.........the Lakers are at the top of the NBA food chain.

IT JUST WILL BE SO SWEET TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT THE LAKERS AND BOSTON HAVE BOTH WON THE SAME AMOUNT OF TITLES....and then next year the Lakers can become the greatest winning franchise in NBA history....

It might not be next year but with Kobe and Phil there's a real good chance it could happen again and again and again and again.....but first let's start with tonight.

It would be so cool to get together with some of Sean's friends and watch the game.....

OH YEAH..........DONE!

GO LAKERS.....GO SEAMUS!

Michael Timothy McAlevey