How Pro Wrestling Bookers Would've Booked the NBA Finals

[PeepShow]

Mike Quackenbush: Whatever play beat the Mavs in the 2006 finals, uh… that’s what the Mavs use to beat the Heat. I don’t know, there’s something elaborate that’ll bring up a bunch of stuff you probably forgot along the way. Oh, and armdrags. Lots of armdrags.

Bill Watts: Black guys win.

Michael Hayes: White guys win.

John Zandig: After the Dallas Mavericks win in an unnecessarily physical battle with two ejections, multiple technical fouls, and creative use of the Gatorade water coolers, John Zandig comes out with the trophy. He puts down the trophy at center court, then proceeds to talk for fifteen minutes about how great the Miami Heat are, despite losing. After handing the Miami Heat the NBA trophy, Zandig challenges them to 1-on-5 right there. He wins. Your 2011 NBA Champions: John Zandig.

Les Thatcher: After deciding that the two teams do too many different types of shots, the three-point line and shot clock is removed, as that was the greatest basketball era, and kids today don’t know how to work… I mean play. Miami Heat play the four corners offense to perfection and win 15-13.

Paul Heyman: Heat are up by 22 with one quarter of basketball to be played in Game 7. Mavs inbound the ball to start the quarter. Lights go out. When they come back up, Steve Nash is holding the ball over his head at center court in a Dallas Mavericks jersey, right in front of LeBron, staring with his arms folded. Mavericks go on to win after a 10-point, 4-assist fourth quarter out of Nash. During the celebration, Nash and Dirk lock eyes, say nothing, and Nash exits through the crowd. No one gets paid.

Ian Rotten: Game 1. Miami Heat miss their flight back from Chicago. The Dallas Mavericks refuse to show up, still waiting to receive their Western Conference trophy after beating the Thunder. The Miami crowd is treated to a scrimmage session of 4th grade basketball and a pick-up game between guys who were hanging out at the local Y. Game 2 will start out with an open tryout, with top prospects getting to play in the pick-up game later. In Game 4, they play Slamball, and another guy gets a 90-degree ankle fracture, with no insurance. Despite the series being 4-2, Game 7 is still played, to a crowd of 27. No one gets paid.

Jerry Lawler: After sort of making fun of Dirk Nowitzki’s illness in pregame shoot-around, the taunting continues, as LeBron James and Dwyane Wade show up after the half in hospital gowns, wearing SARS masks. During Game 4, Wade chases Dirk around the court spraying Lysol in his general direction and . Before Game 5, LeBron has sex with Dirk’s wife at center court, doing the powder throw thing as he climaxes. During Game 6, Chris Bosh brings out Dirk’s family and dresses them up in Heat gear, seating them right behind the Mavericks’ bench. The Mavs win on a last second dunk, where Dirk gives LeBron the ultimate poster, and the crowd goes nuts. Dirk hugs his family as the Heat’s Big 3 slink to the back. Throughout the off-season, LeBron continues to taunt Dirk, wearing a neck brace, even though this all should have been over months ago.

Vince Russo: Game 7. During introductions, LeBron James removes his Heat warm-ups to reveal a Mavs jersey. He scores 22 first-half points. While in-bounding the ball for the last play of the half to take the lead, he takes the 5-second violation, then rips off his jersey, revealing the Miami Heat jersey underneath. Throughout the second half, LeBron joins the Mavs once more, the Heat again, the Thunder, and is even a Cavalier again for about 10 seconds, long enough for Dan Gilbert to book a flight to the arena and be disappointed once more. By the end, he’s a member of the Heat and they lose. Kind of. No one’s really sure who won. It ended in a tie, but the game was declared over. Also, no one seems to notice that LeBron has a ridiculous amount of layers on at the start of the game.

The PWG Guys: Dallas and Miami put together an epic series, going six games, and touted as one of the best of recent memory (certainly not Bird/Magic, nothing Jordan-esque, but definitely tops most of the Pistons, Spurs and Blazers appearances). With excellent analysis and wonderful production value, they are unfortunately only broadcast on TNT for Thursday and weekend games, with Monday through Wednesday games aired on NBA-TV, only available as part of the sports package by most cable providers. Instead of calling it the 2011 NBA Finals, each game is given a silly title, like “Taking Our Talents to the South Beach Dietâ€, “The Basketball Diaries of Anne Frank Gorshinâ€, and “Taking a Giant Hoop…Dreamâ€.

Eric Bischoff: Right before tip-off of Game 1, Eric Bischoff comes out and tells the Miami crowd that he is making a decision in their best interest. He continues, saying he’s studied what the NBA fans want, and is willing to deliver. Out come members of the original Dream Team (yep, even Laettner), and proceed to have a shoot-around for 15 minutes. No winner is decided, but Clyde Drexler is handed the trophy at the end. The halftime entertainment is Bischoff playing classical guitar, for some reason.

Gabe Sapolsky: Games 5, 6 and 7 all go to triple overtime. During the intermission between 2OT and 3OT in Game 6, the announcer plays “Rock & Roll Part 2″ instead of “YMCA†by the Village People. This error that goes unnoticed by the crowd or anyone in attendance causes Gabe to hurl random game equipment, the trophy, a box of ashtrays and random Vordell Walker T-shirts all over the place. The game is halted for 15 minutes of cleanup.

 

[Chuck Taylor's Grenade]

I wonder how WWE would book the NBA finals.

 

[Hometown Kid]

I wonder how WWE would book the NBA finals.

Brian "Gerwitz": *After Dallas sweeps the first 3 series of the playoffs and Miami somehow gets into the finals after losing against the Bulls* Dallas sweeps in 4 games, all 4 of which are played in Dallas. Dallas easily wins by 50 each game, and the team mascot comes in in game 4 and scores 24 after posterizing Lebron and Lebron says he's still better than Dallas post-game. Ratings plummet and the sport of basketball becomes a laughingstock in America, with Joel Whatshisface on E constantly making gay jokes at the NBA.

Something like that i'd guess.

All very funny, great find, Lucas.

 

[Chuck Taylor's Grenade]

One thing to add to Gabe Sapolsky's: During the games the players would be busting out NBA Jam-esque dunks in the first quarter and playing at such a ridiculous pace that by the time the fourth quarter rolls around the crowd is completely exhausted. Oh yeah then the game would end with a basic layup.

 

[KenFan4life]

Paul Heyman: Heat are up by 22 with one quarter of basketball to be played in Game 7. Mavs inbound the ball to start the quarter. Lights go out. When they come back up, Steve Nash is holding the ball over his head at center court in a Dallas Mavericks jersey, right in front of LeBron, staring with his arms folded. Mavericks go on to win after a 10-point, 4-assist fourth quarter out of Nash. During the celebration, Nash and Dirk lock eyes, say nothing, and Nash exits through the crowd. No one gets paid.


lmao.