I will be cheering for the Rockets to do the impossible this Sunday. Not only am I arguably the biggest Laker hater alive and breathing air, but I admire Rick Adelman to the bone. This guy is a superb coach. I'm more than proud to say he has coached our Warriors back in the day. It's just unfortunate we didn't supply him with a good team. When that day comes that a lot of you are waiting for, which is Nelly leaving town, I'd love for the Dubs to go after Rick. Although it more than likely wouldn't happen, this time he'd inherit a talented Warrior group.

No one deserves this series win more than Coach Adelman. This man has never reigned supreme over Phil Jackson in the postseason, although he should have back in 2002. We all know that Western Conference Finals series with this same Faker franchise was rigged. It just took six years for the league and/or the media to finally admit it last year. His old TrailBlazers lost two Finals series to the Bad Boys of Detroit and then the Phil Jackson coached Bulls.

Heading into this season, the Rockets were my pick to win the whole thing. They were already deep from top to bottom, plus they added Ron Artest in the offseason. However, T-Mac's season ended prematurely. They had other guys to work together to fill his void. Then late in the season, they signed a 40+ year old but still productive center in Dikembe Mutombo to bolster their front line to work with the likes of Scola, Yao, and Landry. In the first round, Mutombo's great career ended prematurely with his injury in Portland. Then with T-Mac and Mt. Mutombo already out, add insult to even more injury, and there goes Yao for the rest of the playoffs. Now without Yao and Dikembe both out, you have a small team... You basically have a team like us.

Almost the whole world, including myself, thought the Rockets would get smashed by the Lakers. They destroyed the Lakers in game 4. Then they got humiliated and were destroyed by an even 40 points in game 5. So then I thought now that the Lakers know to take the Rockets seriously, they're going to end it in game 6. Well, the rest is history as game 7 is just days upon us.

So us Laker haters, let's cheer our butts off on Sunday for this Rocket squad. With a full and healthy roster, this team is nowhere near underdog status. However, given the hand they've got now against the team that they're playing, this is as low of an underdog as you can get. Yes, I'd say even lower than our 8th seeded team of two years ago, because the Mavericks just weren't that intimidating at all. Plus to add to this underdog story, now-starting center Chuck Hayes is an undrafted NBA player who was born right here in the Bay Area (Thanks to my boy Romes for pointing that out). Another Bay Area/Warriors tie is of course Brent Barry, who is the son of one of our finest ever, Rick Barry.

Houston, L.A., we have a problem. GO ROCKETS!!!