Larry or Stanley?

[Jake from State Farm]

As I grow older I’ve gotten to the point I’ll watch the NBA Finals, but give me the Stanley Cup playoffs
I enjoy the intensity of both, and I’m not going to look it up to see if my perception has changed, but the NBA is more likely to go chalk while the NHL is more unpredictable
The last two nights are great examples
Both the Islanders and Panthers avoided elimination by winning game 5s on the road, Florida in overtime
In the NBA the favorites seem to advance, with few exceptions, every time

 

[Songbird]

8 Heat, Play-in 4, 1 Poor Bucks 1

 

[Cosmo]

Pretty simple for me. I have stakes this year in the NBA playoffs. I do not in the NHL. Thus I'm paying more attention to the NBA.

 

[User 149557]

Two TVs solves this.

 

[DanOregon]

Give me ANY Stanley Cup playoff game. Too many of the NBA playoff games seem like both teams (and the refs) acknowledge that the series needs to go at least six to make sure the TV people are happy.

 

[Songbird]

Helen would have taken them both.

 

[DanOregon]

THAT is a phenomenal pull - and EXACTLY why this board is great. Sports question, threadjacked to a Three's Company reference with sexual innuendo. Might be the most perfect SJ.com rejoinder.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Stanley, unless there's a compelling rooting interest for me.

 

[da man]

Stan, and it's not close.

 

[wicked]

Two TVs solves this.

Picture-in-picture is not a thing anymore. It should be.

 

[playthrough]

Give me ANY Stanley Cup playoff game. Too many of the NBA playoff games seem like both teams (and the refs) acknowledge that the series needs to go at least six to make sure the TV people are happy.

Someone forgot to give Jimmy Butler the script.

 

[justgladtobehere]

NCAA Lacrosse and hockey final fours are the best.

 

[Slacker]

Helen would have taken them both.

You probably meant this for the "I Had a Chubbie for Mrs. Roper at 13" board. But thanks for sharing anyway!

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Depends on which year. Never been a year where the Mavericks and Stars both combined to go sufficiently deep. Closest to it was 2001 when Calvin Booth and zygotic Dirk willed the Mavs past the Jazz in Round 1 and the two-time West Division Stars faced the Blues.

 

[User 149557]

Picture-in-picture is not a thing anymore. It should be.

DirectTV still has it. Most of the streaming apps allow for multiple screens, too.

 

[DanOregon]

I always feel really old when I realize I'm now older than TV characters or the actors who portrayed "really old people" (at least in my mind) when I was a kid. Thankfully, I'm still under the Roper line.

 

[Cosmo]

Depends on which year. Never been a year where the Mavericks and Stars both combined to go sufficiently deep. Closest to it was 2001 when Calvin Booth and zygotic Dirk willed the Mavs past the Jazz in Round 1 and the two-time West Division Stars faced the Blues.

This is interesting and made me go look up how often both of my teams (Caps and Suns) made deep-ish runs in the same year. I started following Phoenix in the 1987-88 season and really became a Caps fan about the same time, so when I was 11 or 12. The only season I can find where both even advanced to the conference finals was 1989-90 when the Caps got swept by the Bruins in the Wales finals and the Suns lost 4-2 to Portland in the Western Conference finals. So it's really been an either-or scenario for my rooting interests for much of my life.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This is interesting and made me go look up how often both of my teams (Caps and Suns) made deep-ish runs in the same year. I started following Phoenix in the 1987-88 season and really became a Caps fan about the same time, so when I was 11 or 12. The only season I can find where both even advanced to the conference finals was 1989-90 when the Caps got swept by the Bruins in the Wales finals and the Suns lost 4-2 to Portland in the Western Conference finals. So it's really been an either-or scenario for my rooting interests for much of my life.

Yeah, but the Suns were kind enough to dump the Lakers in five in the semifinals.

I remember game six of the Western Conference finals being on a Thursday night in Phoenix. The next day was the last day of school for us. I was already beaming walking into eighth grade and then Ryan Malady comes up to my desk and gives me $10 in quarters.

"The hell is this?" I asked.

"Don't you remember?" he said. "You were shooting your mouth off (totally believable) about how good Portland was going to be and I bet you ten bucks they wouldn't make the NBA Finals. Well, there's 10 bucks."

 

[Liut]

Stan.

But enjoy reading about the break-in of Larry's office.

 

[qtlaw]

Stanley was fun when Sharks were competitive but then the Ws exploded.