"OK, I'll say it: If the Heat lose this series, the country will go into a giant spasm of moral preening the likes of which we haven't seen since Cokie Roberts had to tell her kid about Bill Clinton's dick. It's going to be awful. We're going to turn LeBron into a national sermon on the wages of narcissism. We're going to edit these finals into a highlight reel of Humility dunking all over Ego. We're going to be a country of Joe Liebermans, all freaking summer long. If there is a reason to root against the Mavs, this is it. We really don't need any of this shit. I watch basketball to see people fly. If I wanted to hear people yammer about sports as a crucible of character, a test of moral sinew, a matter of heart and will and the blessings of virtue, I'd read a golf book."