Two of L.A.'s top rival cops are going to have to work together... Even if it kills them.

1) The mythology of the NBA playoffs is self-regulating, as seen via analogies to the career of Sylvester Stallone. Shaq is the Viagra Rocky and LeBron is Cliffhanger Guy, the Suns are like that scene in Over the Top when Sly’s character pushes the body guard through the plate glass window and takes his son with him to the championship, and the Chicago Bulls (check your pulse, bitches) are essentially but not inevitably Ray Tango. I am not sure now, nor have I ever been sure, who Kurt Russell’s Cash should then be.

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