Another senior moment

 So now we have our NBA Finals, and, please, no carping that the Lakers or the Clippers of the Nets or one of the other Superfriends teams aren't in it. It's a team (the Bucks) that hasn't seen a Finals in 47 years against a team (the Suns) that hasn't seen one in 28, and if you don't think that's wonderful you just don't have a soul.

Also, CP3.

Who is Chris Paul, of course, grizzled warrior and future Hall of Famer, having a springtime moment in the autumn of his career. He's 36 years old now, and he's been one of the best point guards in the NBA for 16 years, and in all that time he's never played in an NBA Finals. Not in New Orleans or L.A. or Houston or Oklahoma City.

Finally, in his fifth stop, he's found the magic with a young team whose players know their roles and who needed only a veteran's steady hand to finally climb off the deck and do something.

You don't have to dislike the Giannis/Khris Middleton Bucks to root for that.

In fact, the Blob will crawl right out on this limb here and say if you do root for that, you'll be rooting for a champion. And that is because the Suns winning it all fits the prevailing storyline of 2021, which has been the Year of the Senior Moment here in Sportsball World.

First Tom Brady, 59, won another Super Bowl with a new team. 

(OK. So he's only 43)

Then Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship at 50.

Then Helio Castroneves, after a dozen fruitless attempts, finally won his fourth Indianapolis 500 at 46.

And just in the last week, a 36-year-old British sprint specialist named Mark Cavendish won not one but two Tour de France stages -- his first stage wins in 13 years, and an astonishing comeback for a rider who hadn't competed in the Tour since 2018 and was all but out of the sport.  

Now?

Now 36-year-old Chris Paul makes the NBA Finals for the first time.

Tell me the karma ain't with him.