"It's Strictly Entertainment"

"Superstars like Kobe & LeBron feed the monster bruh !"

Just recently I a wrote a seriously hot joint entitled "Welcome to Sports 101"  that explained to boyz that they would enjoy sports better if they would simply take their hearts out of it. I say it all of the time but cats won't listen and they continue to suffer from high blood pressure and keep having heart attacks as a result of it. There are two things in this world that guys become irrationally and emotionally handicapped by. They are women and sports. Now you've got to holler at a woman expert on the first one bruh but I got you on the second one.

You'll enjoy the NBA Playoffs better when you understand one simple concept, "It's Strictly Entertainment!" It's called money and where I'm from it goes by several alias'. If you're calling it by name it'll answer to scratch, bread or scrilla but you gotta call it something in order to find it. The NBA makes money when people watch it. They make even more money the more interesting the product on the floor is to watch.

Let's put it like this bruh, don't think for one minute that the Pacers are going to finish off the Heat in 5 games. Now human emotion and logic says that they SHOULD at this point with Bosh being out and boyz looking like zombies out there. I know you were ready to count LA out when they went down 0-2 to OKC too. Naw bruh, the NBA is in the business of entertainment and it's wouldn't make good business sense for that to happen. That's why the Black Mamba went to work last night making 18 free throws and scoring 14 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter to cut the series 2-1 with a 99-96 Game 3 win over OKC. The Lakers shot 42 free throws bruh! 42? I just sayin'!

Folks go to Vegas all of the time in search of entertainment and the chance to become rich. Now once they leave Sin City they've more often than not been satisfied with the first goal and rarely even sniff the second. Why? Because Vegas can't make money gambling on a 50/50 shot you'll come out on top. Are you really playing to win? Sure you are! Are you giving it everything you've got? Sure you are! So why is it that the house always wins bruh? It's because the house was always set up to win! Are the players really playing? Sure they are! But the house is always set up to win!

The league makes more money if the Pacers/Heat series goes 7 games as opposed to 5! So now the "House" will turn the game on it's ear. If you thought that the Lakers were going to go down 0-3 last night you're probably young, don't watch too much NBA or most importantly don't understand the game of money. When the major market team is still playing with a high caliber superstar like Kobe or LeBron more TV's are on bruh! The Laker/Thunder series will go 6 or 7 games too. Remember back in 2000 when the World Series was actually the "Subway Series" and the Yankees and Mets squared off? The ratings were horrible because the only people in America that were interested in watching it lived in the New York metro area. Well, the NBA is way too smart for that bruh!

Lebron stock is worth more than Pacer stock any way you want to slice it. Last year the NBA set all kinds of playoff viewership records because the world hated LeBron and it's a trending stock now. As bad as they played in Game 3 don't count "The King" out just yet. A Boston/Heat series makes way more money than a Pacers/Celtics series. I'm just sayin' bruh!

If LeBron is eliminated too early all of the hate for him goes away and all of the casual hating fans that really don't watch the NBA that ARE watching it now would go away too. So as much as Pacer fan wants to see the Heat die a quick death it ain't gonna happen. Not as long as companies want to advertise during timeouts.

So sit back and enjoy it for what it is bruh! You don't just go hard at the slots when you're in Vegas. You do a little gambling, hit a show or two, get in some sightseeing and lay around the pool. If you enjoy the trip then you don't realize that they hit you for several grand until you get home. By then it's too late to be upset about it because you had such a good time and can't wait to go back!

How many cats frequent the gentleman's club with a pocket full of money only to leave broke! You can always get what their charging you for at no charge in the real world but some cats have rationalized in their minds that it's worth paying good money for. I've never understood the logic but I don't have a dog in that fight. Who am I to knock another man's hustle? I'm just trying to get you to understand that the GAME is always bigger than the players in the GAME bruh!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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The thoughts & views expressed in this article are strictly my opinion!