NBA ‘07-’08 Season: The Primary Metaphor

Please allow me an absurd analogy. After all, that’s what I do. The NBA ’07-’08 Playoff season is just like the Presidential Primary season this year. The Western Conference is clearly the Democratic Party while the Eastern Conference represents the GOP. The West is loaded with talent (Clinton and Obama) while the East is old and boring (McCain). The West will undoubtedly beat each other up on the road to the finals weakening its prospects in the BIG game. The East’s strategy: get one solid team to represent them and let them cruise into the finals. Much akin to the Republican’s campaign machine built on personal attacks and fear mongering (remember the melee at the palace- that’s all East baby).

The winner out of the West will probably come down to some crazy ruling by David Stern like suspending Amare Stoudemire for stepping on the court last year in the Conference Finals during the Nash/Horry altercation. David Stern clearly represents the Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean in this analogy. All too ready to muck up the primaries with rulings in Florida and Michigan. In the end, if the East winner takes the ultimate prize then there will be mass revolutions and rioting in the world. And confirmation that the few with great power and money have more say and influence than the majority. Yaaaay democracy!