the goon
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Originally posted by DevilSoprano
No, they'll lose in the finals to the Cavs. Because as good as the Warriors are, they're going 7 in back to back series before they even
get to the finals, while the Cavs may play 1 or 2 extra games in the first 3 rounds. And the fact that the Warriors went deep last year, had to play
with intensity for all 82 games this year, and will have at least 2 very tough series in the west (Clippers - they HATE each other so it will be
physical and nasty and tougher than most expect and either the Spurs or Thunder). They will be exhausted by game 4 of the finals and will be running
on fumes and will squeak out an extra win or 2 as they push the Cavs to a 6th game, but fall short.
Yep, the Warriors sure were exhausted and running on fumes in Game 4 tonight...the Cavs have them right where they want them!
And outside of tonight's game being close for about 80% of the way, holy shit has this been a lackluster NBA Finals. I'm looking forward
to the Warriors winning by 20 on Monday and putting us all out of our misery.
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bigfatgoalie
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Steph Curry gets hurt...Warriors keep rolling. Green gets suspended for 1 game and...Cavs win easily.
And I get that Curry is not 100%...but...how exactly did nobody think that another player was worthy of a 1st place MVP vote? Steph is a ridiculously
good shooter. And deceptively good at at defense in the Warriors system. But trade Steph and Barnes for LeBron and Dellavedova and the Cavs record
likely drops (regardless of what they do with Kyrie) and the Warriors may win an extra game.
Regardless...here's hoping the series goes 7 and we have at least one classic where we see full Steph vs MEGA LeBron.
Oh...and where does Love play next year? My best suggestion...Boston can use the shooting and is guard heavy. The #3 pick should get it done. Imagine
Jamal Murray getting JR Smith's minutes... 
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Count Zero
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Originally posted by bigfatgoalie
And I get that Curry is not 100%...but...how exactly did nobody think that another player was worthy of a 1st place MVP vote?
I was one of the
people pro-Curry, so keep that in mind when I say this: It might be because we're caught in the media-echo chamber of Everything Now Is
Amazinger Than ANYthing Ever.
Aka, shit has gone full-Schiavone on us. 
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bigfatgoalie
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LeBron.
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the goon
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I will gladly eat every word I've said in this thread and humbly bow down to Dev for being right if the Cavs win Game 7. With that said, the
Cavs have exactly a 0.00% chance of winning Game 7 on Sunday, so I shall not be doing any of that.
Also: Game 7, Money In The Bank, and a big episode of Game Of Thrones all on Sunday night? Fuck.
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punkerhardcore
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Not to mention it's a holiday as well.
Yeah it's too bad the Cavs blew it big time in Game 4, because I (unfortunately) don't see Golden State losing Game 7 at home. Kudos to
Cleveland for making this a series, at least.
Is everyone mad here?
Of course they are, and you are too... otherwise, you wouldn't have come here.
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bigfatgoalie
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LeBron may have had the most important block in the history of basketball.
Long live The King.
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bopol
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Being from Cleveland, FUCKKKKK YAAAAA!!!
Great game.
I only signed up so I can read the forum.
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williamssl
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quote:
Originally posted by the goon
I will gladly eat every word I've said in this thread and humbly bow down to Dev for being right
Don't Mess With Texas
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the goon
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Haha, I am a man of my word and will humbly eat every single one of them. Cleveland coming back from being down 3-1 against this particular Warriors
team is absolutely stunning and if Lebron's legacy was ever in question, it's not anymore. Also, I bow down to Dev for calling the
Cleveland victory before the playoffs began.
And despite all of my "Warriors will 100% win" talk, I was pulling for the Cavs, so good for the team and the city of Cleveland on winning a
championship against such crazy odds. What a hell of a story.
Nash is only a few inches bigger than JBL and depending on how stiff he gets Punk should be able to take it. -JB King, meant in a totally non-sexual
way
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CVD39
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That was fucking crazy. Lebron led both teams in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.
That was fucking amazing.
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merc
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Having not been a big Lebron guy...who am I kidding...I thought he was a mega pussy. Hated him going to Miami cuz he couldn't get it done in
CLE.
Last night he won my respect with one play. Tight game, not when he shines his best, he mans up comes from behind with the best block I have ever
seen in a basketball game. No quit on the play and an iwanntitmore effort.
congrats Mr. James for winning it for home.
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williamssl
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Love all the wwe stuff the Cavs incorporated and LeBron's trolling.
The Smoking Skull championship belt (and shirt and Steve-weisers)
Lebron's Ultimare Warrior t-shirt today.
Don't Mess With Texas
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the goon
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quote:
Originally posted by merc
Having not been a big Lebron guy...who am I kidding...I thought he was a mega pussy. Hated him going to Miami cuz he couldn't get it done in
CLE.
Last night he won my respect with one play. Tight game, not when he shines his best, he mans up comes from behind with the best block I have ever
seen in a basketball game. No quit on the play and an iwanntitmore effort.
congrats Mr. James for winning it for home.
I liked Lebron well enough during his first run with the Cavs but then hated him when he went to Miami. The Heat beating the Spurs in the 2013 Finals
was probably one of the most crushing defeats for me as an NBA fan, but on the flipside, the Spurs destroying the Heat the following year was amazing.
Once he went back to Cleveland, I liked the guy again and think it's a great story that he not only went back, but now has won them a
championship.
Also, that block in Game 7 has to be one of the most clutch NBA plays in history. I've probably watched it about 20 times now and it's
insane every time.
quote:
Originally posted by williamssl
Love all the wwe stuff the Cavs incorporated and LeBron's trolling.
The Smoking Skull championship belt (and shirt and Steve-weisers)
Lebron's Ultimare Warrior t-shirt today.
Lebron was also photographed in an Undertaker shirt before Game 5. And I agree, that Ultimate Warrior shirt was a particularly nice bit of trolling.
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Chris Is Good517
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Something I've noticed in the aftermath of the Finals is that people who still dislike LeBron (and I am not the guy who's going to try to
talk you down from that ledge if that's you. I like him, but not everyone does and not everyone needs to) are starting to get VERY defensive of
Jordan when people talk about LeBron as an all-time great, whether Jordan is mentioned or not.
"Man, LeBron was really clutch in Game 7. No question he's a top 10 all-timer, right?"
"HE'S NOT AS GOOD AS JORDAN!"
"Calm the entire fuck down, nobody said he was."
"IF HE'S SO GREAT WHY DID HE NEED SEVEN GAMES TO BEAT GOLDEN STATE? JORDAN WOULD HAVE BEAT THEM IN FIVE."
"Why are you being so-"
"HAVE FUN SUCKING LEBRON'S DICK BUT HE'LL NEVER BE HALF OF WHAT JORDAN WAS."
I seriously don't get the freakouts, and they're happening everywhere.
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[Edited on 6-22-2016 by Chris Is Good517]
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denverpunk
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Green Bay fans did the same thing when they replaced Favre with Rodgers. Even when Aaron won a Super Bowl, the respect was often more grudging than
not. I guess fans are always going to root for their guy, even if they haven't played in over a decade.
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chretienbabacool
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Originally posted by Chris Is Good517
Something I've noticed in the aftermath of the Finals is that people who still dislike LeBron (and I am not the guy who's going to try to
talk you down from that ledge if that's you. I like him, but not everyone does and not everyone needs to) are starting to get VERY defensive of
Jordan when people talk about LeBron as an all-time great, whether Jordan is mentioned or not.
Bulls fans have very little else to be happy about so they a) got very happy the Warriors didn't win so they couldn't be compared to the
Bulls team and b) got defensive of Jordan once the Cavs won cause what the hell else are they going to do? Bulls are basically stuck in irrelevance
until Lebron retires. To be fair though the argument of whether the Warriors team was better than the Bulls team and whether Lebron is better than
Jordan has been pushed hardcore by sports media as something to argue about and drive up emotions so some of the defensiveness is just in response to
that.
The hypocritical thing though is all the people who dislike Lebron (and I am one of them) for his personality seem to ignore the fact that Jordan is
one of the grade A jackasses the league has ever seen both as a player and owner. He threw teammates under the bus left and right and never met a
low road he didn't want to take. Argue the talent level between them fine but don't knee jerk hate on Lebron because of a personal
dislike and then be great with Jordan.
Go Cubs!
And just imagine if, instead of the Palins, the Obama family had a pregnant, underage daughter on display at
their convention, flanked by her black boyfriend who "intends" to marry her. Who among conservatives would have resisted the temptation to speak of
"the dysfunction in the black community"?
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Chris Is Good517
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quote:
Originally posted by chretienbabacool
The hypocritical thing though is all the people who dislike Lebron (and I am one of them) for his personality seem to ignore the fact that Jordan is
one of the grade A jackasses the league has ever seen both as a player and owner. He threw teammates under the bus left and right and never met a
low road he didn't want to take. Argue the talent level between them fine but don't knee jerk hate on Lebron because of a personal
dislike and then be great with Jordan.
EXACTLY.
Also, with regards to personal feelings about LeBron, wherever you stand on him, Chuck Klosterman wrote a great essay in his book "I Wear The Black
Hat" about LeBron and how he (with help from The Decision) became sort of the most hated, reviled athlete of the modern era, even though he's
never had any kind of domestic abuse scandal, sex scandal, substance problems, etc. By all accounts he's a really nice guy, has invested a ton
back into his community, and is a present father and positive role model, but he's still somehow one of sports' great villains. It's
a great essay and I don't know if you can find it online without having to pay for it (but if you can't, I'd recommend the whole
book anyway. It's fantastic).
Monday Night Flaw, a podcast about professional wrestling starring OO's own
Figure Foreskin as Andy the Smarmy Host and Chris Is Good517 as Cousin Balki.
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the goon
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quote:
Originally posted by Chris Is Good517
quote:
Originally posted by chretienbabacool
The hypocritical thing though is all the people who dislike Lebron (and I am one of them) for his personality seem to ignore the fact that Jordan is
one of the grade A jackasses the league has ever seen both as a player and owner. He threw teammates under the bus left and right and never met a
low road he didn't want to take. Argue the talent level between them fine but don't knee jerk hate on Lebron because of a personal
dislike and then be great with Jordan.
EXACTLY.
Also, with regards to personal feelings about LeBron, wherever you stand on him, Chuck Klosterman wrote a great essay in his book "I Wear The Black
Hat" about LeBron and how he (with help from The Decision) became sort of the most hated, reviled athlete of the modern era, even though he's
never had any kind of domestic abuse scandal, sex scandal, substance problems, etc. By all accounts he's a really nice guy, has invested a ton
back into his community, and is a present father and positive role model, but he's still somehow one of sports' great villains. It's
a great essay and I don't know if you can find it online without having to pay for it (but if you can't, I'd recommend the whole
book anyway. It's fantastic).
Outside of the "I'm taking my game to South Beach" ESPN debacle, I was actually going to ask if there are any specific examples of Lebron
being a dickhead, which people can point to and say "see, this is why I hate that asshole!" And hey, maybe there are, but I have just never gotten
the sense that Lebron is a raging douchebag or anything. He kind of reminds me of the John Cena of the NBA, in that a large portion of the audience
hates him but otherwise he seems like a good guy.
On a sidenote, it's kind of hard to believe in retrospect that a team featuring Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh only went 2-2 in the
NBA Finals.
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DevilSoprano
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Originally posted by the goon
Haha, I am a man of my word and will humbly eat every single one of them. Cleveland coming back from being down 3-1 against this particular Warriors
team is absolutely stunning and if Lebron's legacy was ever in question, it's not anymore. Also, I bow down to Dev for calling the
Cleveland victory before the playoffs began.
And despite all of my "Warriors will 100% win" talk, I was pulling for the Cavs, so good for the team and the city of Cleveland on winning a
championship against such crazy odds. What a hell of a story.
You can do better than this 
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the goon
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quote:
Originally posted by DevilSoprano
quote:
Originally posted by the goon
Haha, I am a man of my word and will humbly eat every single one of them. Cleveland coming back from being down 3-1 against this particular Warriors
team is absolutely stunning and if Lebron's legacy was ever in question, it's not anymore. Also, I bow down to Dev for calling the
Cleveland victory before the playoffs began.
And despite all of my "Warriors will 100% win" talk, I was pulling for the Cavs, so good for the team and the city of Cleveland on winning a
championship against such crazy odds. What a hell of a story.
You can do better than this
Since the Cavs had to literally make NBA history in order to prove me wrong, and I was this close to being right about my "Warriors are 100%
going all the way" prediction, I'm afraid that's all of the word-eating and groveling you're going to get out of me on this one.
Not that I'm bitter or anything. 
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loki
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So THAT�S what it felt like to win it all.
Bopol can back me up on this. Rooting for Cleveland teams is traditionally an exercise in self-punishment. When things seem like they just might be
starting to go your way, the Universe looks in, asks �Hey, what�s all this, then? We can�t have you winning!�, and whichever team is playing
finds some new and spectacular way to lose. Except if it�s the Browns since �99, in which case the Universe feels no need to jump in, as they can take
failure to unheard-of depths all on their own.
The utter shock of the Cavaliers winning, followed immediately by the nova-bright realization that Cleveland had ACTUALLY WON was amazing. The
non-stop party for four days was a great by-product. I think what blew me away about the whole thing was how genuinely HAPPY the entire city and
surrounding areas were. Not just Sunday night, but continuing Monday, flowing into Tuesday, and still going strong at the parade on Wednesday. It was�
pretty neat, actually. There was a scene from Major League where a bar erupted in cheers after the Indians won, and a goth chick bumped into an
almost-but-not-quite hillbilly. The two looked at each other, then hugged and started cheering. The parade was kind of like that. People that hadn�t
seen the upside of sobriety in 72 hours bumped into each other and then started hugging it out with �I love you, man!�s straight out of a 90s Bud
commercial.
And we didn�t go full Detroit and riot! Of course, everyone was too hammered to operate lighters, much less pick up bricks in less than five attempts.
I have to give a shout out to merc�s fellow New Englanders. I�ve bagged them before for being obnoxious stains on the underwear of life. But as I
walked around out here sporting a Cavaliers shirt I had no less than ten random guys see the shirt, ask me if I was from there, and congratulate me
and the city for finally winning. It wasn�t until four days later that a Bostonian I work with reverted to type and started out a casual conversation
with the usual �Man, LeBron sucks, I hate him so much�.� Four whole days! Man, merc, that had to be some kind of record!
Ah, good times. Good times. The bright lights have faded and life has returned to normal, but any mention of the Ultimate Warrior T shirt still makes
me laugh.
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merc
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Loki,
I was in Cleveland the week after the win. Seeing the shirts and hats walk around was very cool! I enjoyed pointing to shirts and fist bumping
folks.
I was bummed out that there were no banners hanging in the airport or downtown. Seemed like the city should celebrate right through the convention,
not clean up for it.
Congrats and screw the dude who said Lebron sucks, probably from Rhode Island. 
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