that's no excuse dog, i'm no laker hater, i think it'd be coo to see phil finally break the 3peat and get a 4peat for once, believe what you want yea the lakers would have won the series if it was best of 5 but that's not the point...the point is the lake show didn't really have a shot at gettin home court advantage when stern anounced that round 1 would be best of 7, and say what you want but when the series was 2-1, or whatever it might have been the lake show had less of a chance of coming back as they would out of a 7 game series...and as a lot of people who know hoops knows about the bandwagon hoppers jus like when jordan and the bulls were runnin shit, so that's that many more people who watch hoop who don't really know what the fuck is goin on like a lot of you fucks on this board (if you take offense to that you are one of them)...now if all those bandwagoners and die hard lake show fans alike all stopped watching because their squad is out (including all the hollywood stars and everything else in that LA area), thats billions of dollars in revenue that none of us will ever see...so think what you want but the 7 games had a big part in helping the returning champs...