Basketball Season?!

According to my facebook and twitter feeds, there are basketball games on tv. One could only assume that means basketball season is upon us.

Some of my friends are watching The Lakers and other ones are watching The Celtics. Seems logical to assume this is the same game. If they are, in fact, playing against each other, I should think this is maybe kind of a big deal because it used to be kind of a big deal (didn't it?). I remember when I was a wee lad, the Celtics and Lakers were arch rivals. This rivalry was also immortalized in the hipster bible Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman:

As I have grown older, it's become clear that the Lakers-Celtics rivalry represents absolutely everything: race, religion, politics, mathematics, the reason I'm still not married, the Challenger explosion, Man vs. Beast, and everything else. There is no relationship that isn't a Lakers-Celtics relationship.

That concludes everything I know about these teams save for their star players were at the height of this rivalry Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. White people loved Bird because he excelled in one of the few fields white people fail to dominate providing them with the rare opportunity to feel like an underdog. Unfortunately, no matter how many more points Larry Bird scored, Magic was still banging more white women, and in the end, that is all that really matters. Larry Bird is dead for all I know, but Magic Johnson - last I checked (and I don't check often) is still playing basketball and banging white women. As far as I'm concerned, the Lakers won the war. I will not, however, know who won this particular battle until someone posts the results on their twitter.