But amidst the light-hearted hilarity last night, as always, there was a big “whoops” moment, which came just a few seconds earlier when Nate Robinson, responding to the same Rachel Nichols’ question about Big Baby’s big-baby-drooling moment, said the following:

If you’re going to cry after a game, we recommend that you do it in the following fashion:

If Paul Pierce were a girl I were interested in (you know, if I had a thing for girls with 15-year-old boy facial hair), I would accuse him of sending mixed signals.

The mayors of Boston and Los Angeles have just raised the bar for “sports wagers made by senior city officials” by parlaying their A-list celebrities into a bet on the NBA Finals. Jack Nicholson, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon: you are now pawns in a cruel, cruel game.

President Barack Obama caused a minor stir when he made clear that he thought free-agent-to-be LeBron James would fit in “pretty well” with his hometown Chicago Bulls, and now he has a new basketball-related reason to be scrutinized – he picked the now-struggling Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA title.