We get it already. The San Antonio Spurs are the most fundamental hoops team in the world, the best team in the league this year, the most consistent NBA team of the last 10 years and the absolute epitome of what winning basketball should look like.

And even to the most dedicated of hoops fans, the Spurs’ accolades aren’t quite enough to help maintain general interest in the NBA finals. Even NBA commissioner David Stern conceded to “inelegant games” this series.

Why should anyone in their right mind watch tonight’s Game 4 in Cleveland?

The first two games included excellent play from San Antonio and awful play from Cleveland. Now A may have been a product of B, or vice versa, but all in all, the games were dull.

The third game concluded with a three-point difference, making those who didn’t watch assume Cleveland, at some point, had a fighting chance. They didn’t. At halftime, the Spurs led by 25 and, essentially, got bored. They got as lazy as a team about to cakewalk through an inferior team would, and allowed the Cavs to crawl within 5 points in the fourth quarter. Even still, a few jumpers from Ginobli and a fundamental bucket from The Big Fundamental and the game was easily controlled yet again by the Spurs.

This may just be the year fans built up hopes for a Phoenix fast-paced style of scoring-filled series, but the Spurs dynasty flexed their muscle and showed that flair is overrated when it comes to bringing home the coveted NBA championship.

Maybe the reason critics point to LeBron James’s “supporting cast” (term used loosely) is because the 3 games played so far felt more like they dragged on for 9 weeks rather than 9 hours.

The pleas will be for LeBron to high-tail it out of Cleveland as soon as he possibly can and he would be hard-pressed to find enough reasons for him not to listen. He found out that he can, single-handedly, walk through a good team (Detroit… despite “training in a pool”). But what he also found out was that although he has the allusions of grandeur, wanting to be the biggest icon in sports since Muhammad Ali, the level can only be reached by taking over those who sit atop his sport’s mountaintop.

So to LeBron I suggest floating like a butterfly — high-tailing it out of Cleveland ASAP — because despite his talent and star power, I’d rather be stung by a bee than to watching Game 4, the final game of the series.

In trying to convince myself, the following are the pros and cons I considered for deciding whether I should watch tonight’s Game 4:

PROS

• ABC may show us pictures of Bryce Maximus James, LeBron’s second child, born this morning in Cleveland. This will lead to critics speculating which NBA superstar, young B-Max will compare to, raising his expectations exponentially higher than his father’s.
• Any highlight, whatsoever, hopefully including a round 2 of a LeBron James facial on Tim Duncan.
• There’s always those lovely Eva Longoria shots, right?
• Drew Gooden’s haircut can make even the corniest announcers reach down and come up with a few quality jokes.

CONS

• With a 3-0 lead, even if the Cavs manage to find a way to win there will be very little excitement from any front as to their true chances of winning the series.
• They may not show LeBron’s latest seed, thus delaying coverage of B-Max until the NBA draft, when the Boston Celtics will consider taking the “future” with the 5th pick in complete desperation.
• What if they don’t show us Eva Longoria????
• The series is O-V-A and would do us a big favor by emulating a certain other notable season finale and simply fading to black at any point in the game.