Smellin' Like Roses!

"Get down son, I got this!"

Chi-town stand up! More specifically South Side throw ya fingers in the air! Your boy D. Rose pulled a Kobe against Kobe at Kobe's crib in front of Kobe to beat Kobe. I know that’s repetitious saying Kobe that way but without Kobe it wouldn't feel this way. He put the boyz on his back and repped the mid-west in LA just like the Windy City expected for the reigning MVP to do. When you get back free Harold’s Chicken with extra sauce for everybody!

When the whole building knows who's going to take the last shot and you successfully take that joint! You've suddenly become what they call clutch and worth the $93 million they just pushed your way! Rose scored 22 points and hit a short go-ahead shot with 4.8 seconds to play as the Bulls rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final 3:44 for an 88-87 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.

Then he was his usual humble self in the post game interview. "If it weren't for my teammates, making the steal and getting the ball to me at the end, there's no way I could have gotten that shot off to help us win that game," Rose said. Hey young bruh, keep doin' ya thing!

With that supporting cast the Bulls should have enough to make a deep run in the East just like they did last year. I would think that it will come down to Chicago and Miami because the boyz from South Beach are looking like straight up gangsta's this year. They went through Dallas and car jacked, picked pocketed and took jewelry off of every baller in sight on Christmas Day. They showed up pissed because the Mavericks chose to celebrate last year’s accomplishment in front of them. They raised the NBA Championship banner and received their rings before the game.

That's like walking down the street in the middle of the night counting money in front of a group of crack heads! Everybody watching that joint knew that it was coming and if you didn’t see it coming. You were the idiot counting the money! Last year was last year and the Heat put boyz on notice by slapping all cowboy hats and stepping on every pair of boots in the building. This is not a game! The Mavs violated Section 10 Article 6 of the Ghetto Handbook of Survival! Don‘t ever count your money in front of cats that are thirsty!

The season kicked off in full effect on Christmas Day and to be honest with you I loved it. I would be cool with the season starting every year on Christmas Day with a 66 game regular season. That 82 game joint is way too long! Nobody is paying attention to the first month anyway. Remember how guys like Shaq would wait until October to have surgery to miss the first month or so because the season was too long?

 If it were a regular season with 82 games there is no way Kobe would have played yesterday because of his wrist injury. However, with the season being condensed he had to put his hard hat on and go to work. That's how it should be. Get rid of the fluff and give it to me straight with no chaser! If you can’t smell it then you’ve got the flu because the NBA is Back!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Twitter: @jaygravesreport
Information from the Associated Press was used in this article.