So, it's just one game, and it's a long season and all that stuff, but the Heat look very, very old, and the Bulls look very, very good. I mean, wow: 108-66. In Miami. That's the opposite of good.

In the late game — which I admittedly didn't watch — the Lakers, sans Kobe, took down the Suns 114-106. That's kind of amazing. I didn't realize the Lakers had actual players other than Kobe. I thought it was four carboard cutouts on wheels. But Lamar Odom went for 34-13-6, which he doesn't usually do with Mamba in the lineup.

I hate to be such a whore for other sites — really, I much prefer the focus to be me, me, ME! — but the FreeDarko roundtables for the Bulls-Heat and the Suns-Lakers are, as the kids used to say, off the chain. Positively sublime. It's the only place on the Internet where people opine on how the Lakers are the Cowboys, the LeBrons commercial with the diving board is the black Rushmore, Lamar Odom is an idiot savant, Steve Kerr looks like his own stunt double, and how having a successful blog is inherently lonely. It kind of made my morning.

Ugh, I can't believe I started the day liking something. I need to go kill a hobo. Nah, it's too early for that. Maybe I'll just kick a puppy.