Entering game 6 of the NBA Finals, I recap, in honor of Seinfeld and Sgt. Friday, some bizarro facts, ma’am:

• Defending NBA champions
• Considered by opponents, ‘Hollywood as hell’
• Head coach turning 43 years old during year
• Team featured 3 certain Hall of Fame players
• One player on team with 18 years experience
• Ranked 5th in the league in points per game
• Ranked 2nd in league in offensive rating
• Ranked 9th in league in defensive rating
• Swept 1st round opponent
• Pushed to 7 games in the Conference Finals
• Joe Crawford would officiate 2 games in Finals
• Assistant coach Ron Rothstein sat courtside in Finals
• Undisputed best player in Finals on team
• Opponent’s best player a point guard
• Lost Finals opener at home
• Routed in 1st Finals road loss
• Lost Finals game 5 on road by 10
• Each road team had won once in the Finals

How things ended for the 1988 Los Angeles Lakers.

• Won game 6 at home by 1 point
• Won game 7 at home by 3 points
• Best player was not Finals MVP

Below, see a re-post from July 2010. How Pat and Dwyane plotted the current Heat dynasty, aka The Meeting That Made The Decision Possible

DISSOLVE TO: A garden, somewhere outside Schenectady:

PAT O’RILEY:
So … Reinsdorf will move against you first. He’ll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust … guaranteeing your ability to speak freely. And at that meeting, you’ll be setup over this whole tampering business [Pat drinks from a glass of wine as Dwyane watches him]. I like to drink wine more than I used to, anyways not as much as that Barkley fellow, but I’m drinking more….

DWYANE
It’s good for you, Pat.

PAT O’RILEY (after a long pause)
I hope you don’t mind the way I … I keep going over this Reinsdorf business…

DWYANE
No, not at all….

PAT O’RILEY
Oh well, eh … I want you to arrange to have someone check all the tweets that go in and out of your account ’cause the NSA ain’t got squat on Stern….

DWYANE
I did it already, Pat.

PAT O’RILEY
Oh, that’s right … I forgot.

DWYANE
What’s the matter? What’s bothering you? [Then, after the Pat doesn’t answer.] I’ll handle it. I told you I can handle it, I’ll handle it.

PAT O’RILEY (as he stands)
I knew that James was going to have to go through all this. And Bosh, well, [he sits besides Dwyane], Bosh is Bosh…. But I never, … I never wanted this … sharing the spotlight for you. I work my whole post-LA & NY life, I don’t apologize, to take care of the Arison’s. And I’ve refused … to be a fool [Beasley pick aside] … dancing on the string, held by all those — capologists. I don’t apologize … that’s my life … but I thought that … that when it was your time … that … that you would be the one to hold the strings. Mutiple-MVP’s Wade, first owner-player Wade, or … something …

DWYANE
A Lebron succeeding in Cleveland …

PAT O’RILEY
… or a Tiger without the missing windshield … there just weren’t enough bad GM’s, Dwyane. Just weren’t enough bad GM’s …

DWYANE
We’ll get there, Pat, … we’ll get there….

PAT O’RILEY
Uh… Now listen, whoever comes to you with this Reinsdorf meeting … he’s the traitor. Don’t forget that.