Here Comes Showtime!

Originally Published: Apr 13, 2010 9:53 AM CDT

This is going to be fun!

It's officially Thunder-Lakers in Round One of the NBA Playoffs. You wanted the big stage...here comes the big stage...and the Big Spotlight.

The networks are drooling over a Kobe-KD matchup. It'll be the premier 1st Round showdown.

Everybody make room in your barns and outhouses for the Los Angeles media. Let the left-coast jokes about our pig farms and covered wagons begin.

You can have your Jack Nicholson and Dyan Cannon. We've got Mick Cornett and the Mathis Brothers.

Kobe will be cryin.' Artest will be thuggin.' Phil will be big chair sittin.' Here we go!

OKC has never seen anything like this before.

Iron my Wranglers Ma! The fancy folks with all them banners is a comin'. Yee-Haw!!!!