Dallas-Miami

I was delighted that Dallas rallied to tie the NBA finals 2-2 against the evil Miami Heat.

I’ll stop calling them evil in a couple of years. LeBron is a wonderfully likable person no less than a fantastic player, but he absolutely deserves a few more years of frustration for the way he insulted and humiliated Cleveland on national television as he did. And you can’t really forgive it based on youth, since LeBron must have an entire team of selfish and immature handlers who egged him on that way. You may as well have told your spouse you wanted a divorce on national TV; it was that stupid and cruel and unfair.

Anyway, I’m one of the 97% or so of Americans who want to see Miami lose the championship. And so is the ever hilarious CHARLES BARKLEY.

Has there ever been a funnier professional athlete in the U.S. than Barkley? I can’t think of one.

Barkley on Magic Johnson returning to play despite his HIV infection: “It’s not like we’re going to be out there having unprotected sex with Magic.”

Barkley to his mother, angry that Charles joined the Republican Party even though Republicans ‘only care about the rich’: “But mom, I am rich!”

Barkley on his later conversion to the Democrats, a few years ago: “I was a Republican until they lost their minds.”

Barkley on this Miami team: “They just a whiny bunch and I can’t root for them.”