For those of you on the West Coast who felt stung on Friday by NBC’s horribly dated, humorous “tape delay” while the game was being broadcast live in the East and all over the web, your bitching ends here.

The US-Spain gold medal game will start at 11:30pm in the West and 2:30am here in the East.

It’s Saturday night, so I don’t expect to hear too much complaining about this one.

Predictions for the game? I’ll start it off with a few of my own:

  • The Gasol brothers and their disgusting neck beards join forces and kidnap Carlos Boozer’s chest hair.
  • Kobe goes to extra lengths to drive home the point that he and Gasol are not teammates in this game. He will do this by cursing at him incoherently. Ironically, not much of a change here.
  • NBC announcers confirm that Mark Gasol has indeed, wolfed up.

  • Michael Redd sniffs the court but doesn’t actually stand on it.
  • Chris Bosh completes expected transformation into The Predator.
  • Up by 20 points with ten minutes to go, the suave Mike D’Antoni smokes a cigar as a bevy of models gather behind his spot on the bench.

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Meanwhile, as it’s not going to get it’s own post, the U.S. Women have won their fourth straight gold after taking a giant dump on Australia, winning 92-65. Lisa Leslie and Teresa Edwards become the only basketball players ever to win four gold medals.

Somewhere, Rick Mahorn is furious with this news and savagely inhales a giant meatball hero.

That’s it for today guys, enjoy the game.

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