Sad about, but Happy for

So, I was sad to see the Canucks go out of this year's NHL playoffs. But such is the state of my sports interest these days that I'm more happy about NBA's Golden State Warriors beating the Dallas Mavericks.

Not that I feel any particular way about either the Warriors or the Mavs, but the Mavs were the top seed in the playoffs, having the best record in the NBA this season. They were perhaps the biggest obstacle between the Phoenix Suns and an NBA championship.

Now, I want to go on record as not being a mere Suns bandwagon jumper-oner in the couple of years since they signed Steve Nash, and his career went MVP. I first liked the Suns back in the days of Paul Westphal, which is like 30-ish years ago.

Then I liked them during the Barkley years. Who doesn't like Charles? OK, OK, he's said some silly things about Golden State, but all that's a bunch of puffery - you know, tongue in cheek I'm-a-TV-commentator-so-I-must-be-outrageous kind of talk.

And I wasn't a Jordan fan, so I dearly wanted the Suns to beat the Bulls in their playoff battles.

Now, without the Mavs on the scene and eastern teams relatively weaker than those out west, it may be the Suns year. But gotta get by those Spurs first, who are no slouches. Then it'll be either the Warriors or the winner of the Rockets-Jazz game 7.

Looking forward to it.