The Playoffs Are Crazy When Lakers, Clippers Almost Score Upsets

Having just emerged from being sequestered during secret, two-week talks aimed at saving civilization as we know it, I headed for a newsstand to catch up with the rest of the world and encountered a wild-eyed man.

Clearly deranged, he was blabbering something about the Lakers and Clippers having taken the two best Western Conference teams to dramatic fifth playoff games, almost winning on the opponents’ home courts. Nearly incoherent, he added that each local team actually held a lead into the final minute.

I would have let him go until he showed just how far gone he was when he snorted that the critical play in each game was a follow-up dunk by the opposition’s superstar, which, replays decisively showed, should have been disallowed.

Why are these people allowed to roam the streets?

JERRY ROBERTS

North Hollywood