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2012 NBA Finals: Q&A With Thunder Writer Jessica Lantz

Jun 12, 2012   //   by admin   //   Basketball, Q&A's  //  Comments Off on 2012 NBA Finals: Q&A With Thunder Writer Jessica Lantz

Screen Shot 2012-12-26 at 2.53.44 AMThe 2012 NBA finals featuring the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder tip off Tuesday night and the excitement is palpable. If you enjoyed our Neon Tommy NBA finals preview, we have more for you.

Jessica Lantz writes for and maintains Free Lantz Sports, and she really knows the Thunder, inside and out. That’s why we’re so excited to present our latest Q&A with her.

Fischman: Kevin Durant had an amazing conference finals, as did LeBron James. What can we expect to see in the first NBA finals to feature a matchup between the NBA scoring leader and the league MVP since 1997 (Karl Malone’s Jazz vs. Michael Jordan’s Bulls)?

Jessica Lantz: If we can take anything from the historical significance, impact and amazingness the 1997 finals brought to the table, as a basketball fan you should be salivating right now. In 1997, some of the best to ever play and coach the game were on the sidelines. Not only Jordan and Malone, but there were also Hall of Famers Scottie Pippen, John Stockton, Dennis Rodman, Robert Parish, Phil Jackson, Jerry Sloan and Tex Winter. But who doesn’t know about the opening contest’s Jordan buzzer-beater or the “Flu Game”? Great, great basketball.

Who knows? In a few short decades we might very well be rattling off a cattle call of Thunder and Heat players that made it to Springfield, Mass. I expect the best of the best to show why they’re in the finals and give us a matchup for the ages. Read more >>

BIO

Aaron Fischman is a sports writer, author, editor and multimedia journalist, who currently hosts the On the NBA Beat podcast, a weekly interview show he co-founded with fellow USC alums Loren Lee Chen and brother Joshua Fischman in advance of the 2015-16 NBA season. On the podcast, he and the crew interview some of the league’s best reporters on their particular beat. Fischman’s first book, A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back, an uplifting nonfiction Japanese baseball story, has been nominated for the prestigious CASEY Award for best baseball book of 2024. Read more.