Not quite the Larry O’Brien
But if you put it on top of a pretty vase and turned the lights down low, the new NBA ball kind of looks like the championship trophy
that was just won by the Spurs tonight. And with the end of the Finals series that swept the Cavs but few others off their feet, we are nevertheless happy to announce the winner of Ballhype’s 2007 NBA Playoffs Pick’em Contest is chicocat21. The prize if you recall, is the official ball of the NBA that was unveiled with some fanfare and met with great resistance.
chicocat21 beat out 553 other Ballhype members to win the contest. Mr. or Ms. chicocat21, congratulations! You changed your bracket only once, to switch the Eastern Conference winners from the Cavs to the Pistons (your first instinct on this one was right, not that it mattered), and you picked the entire Western Conference correctly from the get-go. We’re impressed, and hope you come back to give some of the regulars in the weekly game picks a run for their t-shirt.