My Personal Spiritual Journalistic NBA Review!

Pastor Tate and the Referee of the 4th game

My Personal Spiritual Journalistic NBA Review!

Well I have watched the final games of the NBA closely, yesterday and I was feeling happy and glad to have been given the opportunity to tell the “referees” that were officiating, and presiding over the games, that their lack of penalizing Oakland warriors for their “flagrant” fouling against Cleveland Cavaliers troubled me.  I was not all smiles; I did take a stand and told these men exactly how I felt.

Pastor Tate and the Referees 

I was also very impressed, last night, with Oakland warrior’s physical ability on the basketball court. However, I was not impressed with their moral and ethical actions and reactions during the game.  I personally felt that Oakland warrior’s flagrant fouls, cheating and rudeness took away the sweetness of their victory in yesterday's defeat of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Oakland proved, without any doubt to be an excellent basketball team. However, the cheating and reprehensible fouling obstructed and took attention away from their superior basketball skills. In addition, when we look back on this, in time, historians will say, “Oakland may have won the finales, but the flagrant manner in which Oakland violated the rules of basketball again took away the sweetness out of their victory.”

I also felt that Lebron's was egotistical, self-centered beliefs that he really is a king, a competitor who holds a “preeminent” position in the basketball world help contribute to the failure of the Cavaliers as a whole.  In addition, him exposing himself to the whole world knowing that cameras are going to be everywhere once you leave the locker room.  Lebron should let others pat him on the back and he should not pat his own back or blow his own horn.

Finally, yet importantly one thing I found strange was there were some people that tried to contribute Oakland’s victory as a blessing coming from God through Christ Jesus. However, I did not accept their victoryas a gift from God.  Especially when the actions of a certain group or individual are flagrantly violent as Oakland warrior’s behavior was on the court.

 As I said when the referees of the final games came into my hospice room, I warned them that I had been closely watching the games.  I felt that Oakland warriors had became extremely violent on the court and that I did not appreciate our boys being injured the way they were hurt they were just to play basketball. Oakland players were seen on video sticking out their legs deliberately trying to trip over our players.   In one instance, Lebron tried to go up to put the ball in the basket and an Oakland player was grabbing his jersey from around the back of his neck and was able to stopped Lebron from making the basket.   To make matters worse a foul was not called by any of the referees yet the video picked it up. 

Then another thing I did not like about the Oakland warriors after they won, yes, they talked about prayer and yes they talked about God but they lost me when they kiss the trophy. We are not supposed to bow before nothing especially any type of graven images as believers in Christ Jesus.

However, Cleveland was no better, after they started leading in the series, in the first 2 games, some people in the media, in Cleveland, were going to psychics over here asking for prediction on who was going to win the series.   I knew then that Cleveland was going to lose because God hates His people going to psychics worse then He hates you bowing down to a statue. Therefore, I would say that the only thing we did was watch two dens of demons play basketball, and the den in Oakland won.   However, spiritually I did not see anybody serving God, but I did see a whole lot of people serving self.