The WWE Is Making Nugget Friends

The big story on the Internets on the NBA's off day is that the WWE and the Denver Nuggets have an event conflict for Game Four of the Conference Finals. With over 10,000 tickets already sold for the existing event, this is a relatively simple matter of negotiating between two parties... but that means a cheap PR moment would pass Vince McMahon by, and it's not like he's going to miss that, is he?

"Even though the Denver Nuggets had a strong team this year and were projected to make the playoffs, obviously Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold the May 25th date for a potential playoff game," said WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

Considering that this would mean that Kroenke was projecting a team finish that was better than they've finished in decades, and that he would also have to know exactly how the television schedule would fall out... well, um, I'd have given Vince the date, too. After all, the building doesn't pay for itself.

As for what happens next? Well, as much as Blogfrica would love to see some kind of hybrid event, I suspect that the NBA's superior dollars (and the fact that Kroenke owns the building) is going to win the day here. But if Kobe wants to pursue any kind of angle with that girl from Eagle? That's the kind of heat you can't buy, folks...