Why is this off-topic?  It has everything to do with the Blazers and the NBA.  It is off-topic because it isn't about trading Travis or Martell or Channing or Jarrett, and it isn't about who we will draft at #13 (which probably won't happen), or about supposed trades with other people that almost certainly won't happen in the form being reported, or any of that stuff.

Maybe someone already basically said what I'm about to say, but if so, I missed it, because I was doing something unmentionable called w@rk (sorry for swearing, Dave).  This is my own special weird Blazer fan perspective on the result of the Finals.

I'm GLAD, GLAD, GLAD that Boston won.  Why, you will ask?  Especially all of you who, like me, hate the Celtics.

Very important reason #1.  K*be lost.  This is always good.

Very important reason #2.  The L@kers, after obviously having blackmailed whoever pretends to be a GM in Memphis, are the greatest medium-term threat to our dynasty.  They actually have enough talent that, on a given night, they might even BEAT us.  But there is one indisputable fact -- that team is unstable, and liable to implosion.  What (WHO?) will make it implode?  We all know.  What is liable to trigger implosion?  How about getting close enough to victory to be able to taste it, and then being blown out so badly that you know your team just isn't good enough?  How about having such a huge ego that, if you know your team isn't good enough, it must be someone else's fault, not yours?  The results of the Finals were a huge push towards the edge of the cliff for one particular individual.  Not just the results, but the way it happened.  This is GOOD, VERY GOOD. 

Very important reason #3.  I have been concerned about the future.  Specifically, after we win the next 15 championships in a row, where is the motivation to go on?  Might it all become old hat?  Kind of like hoping someone would actually threaten Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France.  But now, the Celtics have stepped up and helped in this.  By winning their 17th championship, all that changed.  Because, of course, we have one now, and 15 more will give us 16.  So this result has virtually guaranteed motivation to continue winning for at least two more years after the next 15.  By the time we hit 17 championships in a row, and 18 total, surpassing Boston, I'll be old and decrepit, and probably won't care so much.  Thank you, Celtics, for giving me something to look forward to as I'm slipping into old age.