The Lake Show

Tonight in NYC on the Late Show with David Letterman, everyone's all-time favorite comedian, Jerry Seinfeld will appear alongside Colin Firth, whoever the hell that is. On the other side of the contingent United States in Los Angeles, the Chicago Bulls stroll into the Staples Center to be a part of the acclaimed "Lake Show". Along with countless starlets and "the Joker" himself, two childhood friends of mine, Jack "the Body" Groot and Jordan "JYD" Brodbeck will be paying customers of the Los Angeles Lakers tonight in the City of Angels ,rooting of course for your Chicago Bulls.

Going into Tuesday's contest as 8 point road underdogs on the 4th stop of their annual "Circus Trip", it would be a dicey proclamation to guarantee a Bulls win in front of Zac Efron and his gf. They are in LA, but it's not like they are facing the equivalent of an NBA bye-week, the Los Angeles Clippers. Winning tonight won't be as easy as pushing an easy button at some Staples department store(Staples Center, get it?)--the whole team needs to come to play. That means no turnover induced 3-minute stretches that ignite the purple and gold, no ill-advised CJ Watson 17-footers that barely draw iron, and lastly, you have to make Kobe give up the rock and have guys like Sasha Vujacic and Shannon Brown hit deep jumpers to beat you.

The Zen Master has the Lakers off to a 12-2 start and come into the game against the Bulls riding a 4-game winning streak as confidently as Red Pollard rode Seabiscuit in the late 1930's. Along with this, Phil has somehow managed to keep Matt Barnes and Ron Artest's volatile personalities harmonious in the same locker room, all while maintaining one of the most recognizable mustaches of all time on his way to 11 NBA titles. The Lakers have rarely lost at home in the regular season in Jackson's tenure and they have all kinds of good karma in LA. They have managed to keep Vujacic's engagement to Sharapova, Adrew Bynum's affairs with Rihanna, Kobe's rape case, and Luke Walton's relationship with every mid-20's girl in the Los Angeles metro area all away from becoming a distraction over the years. Maybe Phil has hired a team psychiatrist and Ron Artest's 'thank you' profession at the culmination of the NBA Finals last year was warranted.

But for tonight, with JYD and "the Body" looking on from the upper bowl, there simply is no way the Bulls don't cover the 8 point cushion that Vegas has allotted them. Perhaps this is all false hope. But "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Special thanks to Andy Dufrane from Shawshank. Now let's go take it to the Lakers like it's the 1991 NBA Finals and Jack Kevorkian can still help us out with assisted suicide if the Bulls go down hard.

As for Pick of the Day, after that rousing preview for tonight's game, the Pulse Man couldn't help but put his coins on the Bulls covering the 8 they are getting tonight. Staple it shut.

Pick of the Day: Bulls (+8) @ Lakers- BULLS

Record:(33-24-0)

Now I'm done. Rack me

Frost