LOLeBron

Last night, as you may know, there was a basketball game, and one of my duties at the Journal was to edit a live logging of the Web of this basketball game. And last night, at least, that involved the immense, hilarious pleasure of receiving about a joke a minute from the Journal’s daily sports columnist, Jason Gay—who, if you don’t know, now you know.

This is a small sampling of excerpts from my inbox: 

I bet if you are a kid in Cleveland, your dad is playing with you a LOT tonight. Kids are like, “What’s with all the affection and positive reinforcement, Dad? Don’t you want to watch TV?”

Ahh, they break out out all the contemporary hits here in Boston. Exhibit A: “Jump Around,” slaying confirmation parties and bar mitzvahs since 1989.

Nate! You have won 97 slam-dunk competitions! Open court, no one there: Show us something. Or do you need Eddy Curry lying on the floor with a lit torch dangling out of his mouth?

You know, one thing I never have really considered in this whole scenario is whether or not the Heat could be bad. It just never occurred to me. I thought it was possible they could lose to Boston tonight, for sure, and the Celtics might beat them in the playoffs, but I never have really thought they could be a full-on stinker, a skipper on the schedule. It strains the mind — it doesn’t appear possible. They were not bad last year; they added LeBron, and Bosh. How could they go downhill? But what if the Heat just totally imploded and crashed and became this ghost ship all season, carrying all the bad will brought on by LeBron? It would be way worse than the Vikings or the Cowboys.

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Glen Davis has a wispy little mohawk to start the season. And that’s about it for my October “Wispy things about Glen Davis” list.

Jonah, have you seen the shirtless Big Baby in the Halloween mask video? It’s amazing he has any “form” whatsoever. He’s an extraordinary man.

Big cheer for Ray Allen’s mom on the JumboTron. Moms rule!!!

There’s also the possibility this game is an aberration. Here’s the thing about the Celtics: They are not scared of anything. Literally. I’m quite sure Paul Pierce and KG and Nate Robinson could live in the Paranormal Activity house and just laugh all night. They stomped all over Next Generation NBA — on the road — to get to last year’s Finals, and had it not been for Kendrick Perkins getting hurt, they may have slipped past the Lakers.

So the Heat come to down, and so do Charles Barkley and TNT, but the Celtics just think it’s funny to see all this hype around a bunch of guys who haven’t won a thing. They haven’t been rattled for one second tonight. But the Heat have been effective in parts in the second half tonight, and you could see how a younger team might get a little awestruck/worried and let the Heat run all over them. But it’s not happening in Boston. Not now. And maybe not in May.

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This just in: After the game, LeBron will explain everything to Jim Gray at the Arlington, Ma. Boys & Girls Club.

Then, about an hour after the game and the live logging ended, he emailed to inform us that “LeBron compared the Heat to ancient Rome and Team USA.” There is a joke waiting to be written here—something about Romulus and Remus or Caesar and Brutus—but I don’t feel qualified to tell it.