Expect Magic-Carpet Ride to NBA Title

by David WhitleyFiled under: Cavaliers, Celtics, Lakers, Magic, Suns, NBA PlayoffsORLANDO -- Let's get the formalities out of the way. Orlando is a Mickey Mouse town. Its only famous fan can't even show up. Dwight Howard is Dikembe Mutombo with balloon biceps. Insult them while you can. Orlando and its nose-picking fans will laugh all the way to the NBA championship. In case you missed it, the Magic just set the Atlanta Hawks franchise back five years. They are 31-5 since the All-Star break. Now they'll sit around, dine at the finest Waffle Houses and Perkins restaurants in the Orlando/Mickey Mouse metropolitan area, and wait for the winner of the Boston-Cleveland series. All this is news outside the Disney World area code, which has been enraptured in LeBron-Celtics-Kobe-Steve-Nash's-Black-Eye playoff storylines. The thought of Orlando again crashing the NBA Finals is enough to make David Stern bash his face into Tim Duncan's elbow. Orlando is the league'...