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Alright. So since the Lakers and the Nuggets are facing off in this year's WCF, let's go back to the year of the 2009. It's May 25, 2009 and Monday Night RAW is going head-to-head against Game 4 of the WCF between the Los Angeles Lakers & The Denver Nuggets. Follow the Thread...
RAW was originally to have taken place at the Pepsi Center, but the building got double booked with Game 4 of the NBA's Western Conference Finals, and after a contentious battle with Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke, WWE moved their show to Los Angeles.
So, with losing the building to the NBA and the playoffs, what's Vince McMahon decides to do? He dresses some actor as the owner of the Denver Nuggets Stan Kroenke.
Not happy with that, he also gets some other 3 dudes dressed as NBA Commissioner David Stern, longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson and Lakers president at the time Jerry Buss.
It was the first thing to kickoff the show btw, it was the good ol' WWE promo that we all know with WWE terms and all.
Yes, Vince McMahon was an angel and Kroenke was the devil.
Vince had to do an XFL joke with the XBA.
Vince McMahon decides to make fun of Kroenke's name. Yes, Monday Night RAW was not in a good shape in 2009, while they had the stars in Triple H, Batista, Randy Orton & John Cena and the guest hosts, SmackDown was by far the better show with Edge, Jeff Hardy, Rey & Jericho.
The opening segment ends with Vince McMahon pushing Kroenke of course. But we are far from over tonight.
A little break as The Miz comes out and puts over Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James. At the time, everyone was hoping for a Kobe vs. LeBron match-up in the Finals. Nike was doing commercials about it as well.
On Monday Night RAW they decided to do a special main event like it was indeed a NBA Game. The Lakers side had John Cena, Jerry Lawler, Batista, Mr. Kennedy & MVP while the Nuggets side had Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, Big Show, The Miz & Ted DiBiase. Meanwhile, ABC was airing G4
