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Oklahoma City Thunder: 2024-25 NBA Champions
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander walked off the court for the final time this season, collapsed into the arms of coach Mark Daigneault and finally smiled.
It was over.
The climb is complete. The rebuild is done. The Oklahoma City Thunder are champions.
The best team all season was the best team at the end, bringing the NBA title to Oklahoma City for the first time. Gilgeous-Alexander finished off his MVP season with 29 points and 12 assists, and the Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers - who lost Tyrese Haliburton to a serious leg injury in the opening minutes - 103-91 in Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night.
“It doesn’t feel real,” said Gilgeous-Alexander, the Finals MVP. “So many hours. So many moments. So many emotions. So many nights of disbelief. So many nights of belief. It’s crazy to know that we’re all here, but this group worked for it. This group put in the hours and we deserve this.”
Jalen Williams scored 20 points and Chet Holmgren had 18 for the Thunder, who finished off a season for the ages. Oklahoma City won 84 games between the regular season and the playoffs, tying the 1996-97 Chicago Bulls for third most in any season.
Only Golden State (88 in 2016-17) and the Bulls (87 in 2015-16) won more.
It’s the second championship for the franchise. The Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA title in 1979; the team was moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. There’s nothing in the rafters in Oklahoma City to commemorate that title.
In October, a championship banner is finally coming. A Thunder banner.
“They behave like champions. They compete like champions,” Daigneault said. “They root for each other’s success, which is rare in professional sports. I’ve said it many times and now I’m going to say it one more time. They are an uncommon team and now they’re champions.”
The Pacers led 48-47 at the half even after losing Haliburton to what his father said was an Achilles tendon injury about seven minutes into the game. But they were outscored 34-20 in the third quarter as the Thunder built a 13-point lead and began to run away.
“Deflated, but proud of everything we’ve accomplished,” Pacers guard TJ McConnell said.
Bennedict Mathurin had 24 points and 13 rebounds for Indiana, which still is waiting for its first NBA title. The Pacers - who were 10-15 after 25 games and were bidding to be the first team in NBA history to turn that bad of a start into a championship - had leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in the series, but they simply didn’t have enough in the end.
Home teams improved to 16-4 in NBA Finals Game 7s. And the Thunder became the seventh champion in the last seven seasons, a run of parity like none other in NBA history.
Pacers forward Pascal Siakam was part of the Toronto team that won in 2019, Thunder guard Alex Caruso was part of the Los Angeles Lakers team that won in the pandemic “bubble” in 2020, Milwaukee won in 2021, Golden State in 2022, Pacers forward Thomas Bryant and Denver prevailed in 2023, and Boston won last year’s title.
And now, the Thunder get their turn. The youngest team to win a title in nearly a half-century has reached the NBA mountaintop.
The Thunder are the ninth franchise to win a title in NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's 12 seasons. His predecessor, David Stern, saw eight franchises win titles in his 30 seasons as commissioner.
“It really hurts on the one hand,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. “On the other hand, this team has given all of Pacer Nation something to be very proud of.”
Boston Celtics: 2023-24 NBA Champions
At long last, Banner 18 will be raised to the rafters.
The Boston Celtics captured their first NBA championship since 2008 on Monday night, defeating the Dallas Mavericks, 106-88, in Game 5 of the NBA Finals — capping off a dominant run for a roster poised to reign atop the NBA for years to come.
Sixteen years to the day since the 2007-08 Celtics secured the franchise’s 17th championship on the parquet floor, the 2023-24 Celtics penned a similar ending on Causeway Street.
The 2023-24 Celtics were cut from a similar cloth as that 2008 club — both featuring rosters anchored by homegrown talent, and further elevated through several savvy offseason maneuvers by a Boston front-office hellbent on putting this franchise back on top.
But unlike that 2008 team — which seized basketball immortality in its first year together — this Celtics core trudged through several heartbreaking missteps and stumbles on basketball’s highest stage before finally reaching the summit.
From an unexpected run cut short by LeBron James in 2018, to a 2022 Finals campaign snapped by Steph Curry, to an unprecedented 0-3 rally against the Heat extinguished in 2023, the path to a title hasn’t always been easy for Boston.
But as the confetti rained down on the parquet floor on Monday night amid a cacophony of cheers and other delirium, it was only fitting that Boston’s record-setting 18th title was sealed via a pair of dominant performances from Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
The two pillars of Boston’s latest era of dominance further cemented themselves as franchise legends in Game 5. Tatum led the way for Boston with 31 points, eight rebounds and 11 assists, while Jaylen Brown added 21 points.
Jrue Holiday secured his second ring with 15 points and 11 rebounds, while Derrick White added 14 points
Kristaps Porzingis, returning to the court on Monday after missing the last two games with an ankle injury, added five points over 16 minutes. Al Horford finally secured his first title, with the 38-year-old big man contributing nine points.
Boston’s march to a title hit a setback on Friday night, with the Celtics’ hopes of a dominant sweep of the Mavericks snapped off of a 38-point blowout loss in Game 4.
Despite that lopsided result, the Celtics remedied several of the woes that plagued them down at American Airlines Center. Boston sank 45.2% of its shots and routinely extended possessions by way of diving plays and scrappy second-chance baskets in the paint.
Boston separated itself from Dallas in the first half, with a Sam Hauser 3-pointer fueling a 9-0 run that capped the opening quarter — giving Boston a 28-18 lead after 12 minutes of play.
While Tatum did a majority of the heavy lifting in the second quarter, it was yet another buzzer-beating, halfcourt heave from Payton Pritchard that ended the first half, opening a 21-point cushion for Boston.
Even with Boston’s offense stalling at several points in the second half, Dallas was unable to claw back from such a sizable deficit — with Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic combining for 43 points on Monday.
As the final seconds ticked off the clock, cheers of “Let’s Go Celtics” and “We Want Boston” echoed across the Celtics’ arena — a rallying cry of victory that will undoubtedly echo down Boylston Street in just a couple of days.
Milwaukee Bucks: 2021 NBA Champions
MILWAUKEE (AP) Giannis Antetokounmpo ended one of the greatest NBA Finals ever with 50 points and a championship Milwaukee waited 50 years to win again.
Antetokounmpo added 14 rebounds and five blocked shots as the Bucks beat the Phoenix Suns 105-98 on Tuesday night to win the series 4-2. It was the third game this series with at least 40 points and 10 rebounds for Antetokounmpo, a dominant debut finals performance that takes its place among some of the game's greatest.
He shot 16 for 25 from the field and made an unbelievable 17-of-19 free throws - a spectacular showing for any shooter, let alone one who was hitting just 55.6% in the postseason and was ridiculed for it at times.
He hopped around the court waving his arms with 20 seconds remaining to encourage fans to cheer, but there was no need. Their voices had been booming inside and outside for hours by then, having waited 50 years to celebrate a winner after Lew Alcindor - before becoming Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - and Oscar Robertson led the Bucks to the championship in 1971.
In a season played played largely without fans, the Bucks had 65,000 of them packed into the Deer District outside, a wild party that figured to last deep into the Midwestern night. The party wasn't bad inside, either: Confetti rained down inside as fans chanted ''Bucks in 6! Bucks in 6!'' - a hopeful boast by former player that turned out to be a prophetic rallying cry.
The Bucks became the fifth team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 2-0 and the first to do it by winning the next four games since Miami against Dallas in 2006.
Chris Paul scored 26 points to end his first NBA Finals appearance in his 16th season. Devin Booker added 19 points but shot just 8 for 22 and missed all seven 3-pointers after scoring 40 points in each of the last two games.
The teams that came into the NBA together as expansion clubs in 1968 delivered a fine finals, with the last three games all in the balance deep into the fourth quarter.
The Bucks won them largely because of Antetokounmpo, a two-time MVP in the regular season who raised his game even higher in the finals and was voted the NBA Finals MVP.
He was the star of these finals in every way, from his powerful play on the court to his humble thoughts in interviews to even taking time after Tuesday night's win to find children to high-five amid the celebrations. And he did it all after missing the final two games of the Eastern Conference finals with a hyperextended left knee, an injury that at first he feared could be serious to end his season.
Just think what people would have missed.
Khris Middleton scored 17 points for the Bucks and Bobby Portis came off the bench with 16. Jrue Holiday had 12 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds to go along with his usual sturdy defense that helped finally cool off Booker.
The Bucks thought they might be here the last two seasons. They had the NBA's best record in 2018-19 but blew a 2-0 lead against Toronto in the Eastern Conference finals.
They came back with the best record again last season but never regained their momentum after the season was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic in March. They were eliminated in the second round by Miami in the bubble.
The Bucks traded for Holiday before this season and even though they weren't quite as strong in the regular season, they were finally NBA Finals ready.
And Milwaukee was ready for the moment.
Fans began filling the streets and restaurants in the afternoon on what felt like a holiday in Milwaukee. The Brewers moved up the start time of their home game against Kansas City to be played in the afternoon to accommodate Milwaukee fans - and Brewers star Christian Yelich, who was part of the crowd inside Fiserv Forum.
The game was tied at 77 after three quarters but Antetokoumpo had 13 points in the fourth to make sure Milwaukee wouldn't have to go back to Phoenix for Game 7 on Thursday.
The Suns returned to the postseason for the first time since 2010 but remain without a title and have never won more than two games in their three appearances in the NBA Finals.
TIP-INS
Suns: The Suns scored their fewest points in a first quarter in this postseason when they had 16. ... Deandre Ayton, who was shooting 67.6% in the postseason, was 4 of 12 for 12 points.
Bucks: Brook Lopez had 10 points and eight rebounds. ... Milwaukee's only other NBA Finals appearance was a loss in 1974.
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Los Angeles Lakers: 2019-20 NBA Champions
They set themselves up with plenty of time to digest the magnitude of their accomplishment in those last game moments by building the second-largest halftime lead in the NBA Finals history. The ending was a long time coming in that sense—and in many other ways, too. After the final buzzer and just before the confetti flew, LeBron James reveled in the embraces of teammates on the court, and Anthony Davis sat alone nearby with his eyes buried in a towel.
Led by James and Davis in their first season together, the Lakers won the 2020 NBA championship Sunday with a 106-93 rout of the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. It was a unique accomplishment for this tightly knit group isolated for 95 consecutive days in Florida, playing a season that covered more than a calendar year because of the pandemic.
James spoke afterward about the incomparable elation of seeing teammates become champions—and explained how his personal sentiment is shaped by how long his journey goes.
“Live about the process,” James said, “and see the results. … We all live for that moment.”
It was a long time coming also for the legions of Lakers fans, who are frankly unaccustomed to going a decade without an NBA championship and rejoicing at the return to glory now.
The Lakers’ only other such drought in the past 50 years started after their 1987-88 NBA championship won in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s age-40 season, the penultimate season of his career. It’s fair to start wondering whether James, who turns 36 in December, can produce that kind of excellence in longevity. It would likely see him overtake Abdul-Jabbar as the league’s all-time leading scorer despite losing much of 2019 to injury and 2020 to the pandemic.
James was this team’s true captain, offering “must-win” text messages to teammates to spur their Game 4 and Game 6 victories. He delivered 28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists against just one turnover Sunday after urging his teammates to “treat it like it was Game 7.”
James made the most of this entire bubble opportunity the NBA created to finish his second Lakers season. He became the only players besides Abdul-Jabbar and legendary Boston Celtics Bill Russell and Sam Jones to appear in 10 NBA Finals series. Once there, he earned his fourth Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP award, but his first with the Lakers—a distinction that matters to him.
James came via free agency to join the list of great Lakers champions rather than shiver in fear of their shadow. It’s why in a long embrace with Lakers governor Jeanie Buss on the court Sunday that James said he offered this sentiment: “I’m proud to be a Laker.”
It’s why Buss said on the Spectrum SportsNet postgame show about James: “A Laker through and through.”
Unlike many of his peers who went anti-bandwagon when it came to successful franchises, James has long been a fan of the New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Lakers.
“I’m a supporter of winners,” he once said.
James had said last week that it’s particularly meaningful for him to help Buss to her first championship as Lakers governor. He referred to her as “an incredible owner” and “a powerful woman.”
“I’m just honored to be a part of it,” James said. “I love the history of the game, and I've read so much about Dr. Buss and his teams and his success. To be playing while his daughter is the owner of the team, I think is pretty cool.”
James averaged 29.8 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.5 assists in the NBA Finals in his 17th professional season.
“He’s the greatest player the basketball universe has ever seen,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said Sunday night.
The clinching victory showcased several facets of the jewel that Vogel polished this season: players starring in their roles, bouncing back after any defeat, suffocating defense played till exhaustion.
Rajon Rondo had told everyone in the team meeting Saturday: “If we’re going to win a championship, it has to be with defense.”
That’s how the Lakers’ lead swelled to 28 points by halftime, with surprise starter Alex Caruso adding to the team’s perimeter agility.
The last time the Lakers won a title, Rondo was on the other other team. He is the only player on either the Lakers or Boston Celtics from the 2010 NBA Finals who is still an active player in the league—and on Sunday he again looked an awful lot like the same player as back then. Sharp with decisions and his finishes at the rim after puppeteer mastery in manipulating the Heat defense to create the openings he sought, Rondo finished with 19 points and four assists off the bench.
Davis added 18 points, but his all-out defense and 15 rebounds were crucial. As usual, it all revolved around Davis and James.
Recalling that previous lull in championships for the Lakers, after Magic Johnson led them to the 1988 title, it wasn’t until 2000 when the Lakers won again. It was because of what Shaquille O’Neal came to call in himself and Kobe Bryant the “greatest Laker one-two punch ever,” which is saying something.
Johnson, whose work in the front office with Rob Pelinka turned the direction of the franchise, helped bring James to town—and Pelinka did the deal to trade for Davis. The traditions of tremendous Lakers tandems and dominant big men certainly continued with this title. But Davis was someone who ranked first in the league in loose balls recovered while towering at the rim, too.
The harmony between the two set the tone for this team. James even said after winning the title: “I want A.D. to be better than me.”
“Respect. True friendship,“ said Davis, who won his first championship at age 27—same as legendary winners James and Michael Jordan. “We’re just two guys who want to win. We were able to do it tonight.”
What they did was something Jerry Buss mentioned often wanting to accomplish: a 17th all-time title, matching the Celtics for the most in league history. The Lakers returned to the top, creating yet another formula for building a team around two stars, and committing to find an ultimate positive at a time in the world when there had been plenty of negative.
“It’s remarkable,” Kyle Kuzma said. “We are such a mentally tough team. Everybody sacrificed something for the betterment of the team.”
Toronto Raptors: 2018-19 NBA Champions
Raptors capture first NBA title, beat Warriors in Game 6
By JANIE McCAULEY | AP Sports Writer
Jun. 14, 2019 1:11 AM ET
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Kawhi Leonard raised his arms high in triumph and celebrated Canada's first NBA championship.
''We the North!'' is now ''We the Champs!''
Leonard and the Toronto Raptors captured the country's first major title in 26 years with their most remarkable road win yet in the franchise's NBA Finals debut, outlasting the battered and depleted two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors 114-110 on Thursday night in a Game 6 for the ages.
''I wanted to make history here. That's what I did,'' a soaking wet Leonard said, ski goggles perched on his forehead and sporting a fresh black champions hat.
Stephen Curry missed a contested 3-pointer in the waning moments before Golden State called a timeout it didn't have, giving Leonard a technical free throw with 0.9 seconds left to seal it. Leonard, the NBA Finals MVP for a second time, then got behind Andre Iguodala for a layup as the buzzer sounded, but it went to review and the basket was called off before Leonard's two free throws. That only delayed the celebration for a moment.
When it actually ended, the typically stoic Leonard could let it all out. A Canadian team - and we're not talking hockey here - stood on top of one of the traditional major sports leagues for the first time since the Toronto Blue Jays won the 1993 World Series.
Serge Ibaka pulled his head up through the hoop by the Golden State bench as the crowd chanted ''Warriors! Warriors!'' after a sensational send-off at Oracle Arena.
Curry walked away slowly, hands on his head on a night Splash Brother Klay Thompson suffered a left knee injury and departed with 30 points.
Fred VanVleet rescued the Raptors down the stretch with his dazzling shooting from deep to score 22 points with five 3s off the bench, while Leonard wound up with 22 points. Kyle Lowry scored the game's first eight points and finished with 26 in all to go with 10 assists and seven rebounds.
Fans poured into the streets in Toronto, screaming and honking horns after the Raptors pulled off a third straight win on Golden State's home floor that said goodbye to NBA basketball after 47 seasons. And the Raptors did it with the very kind of depth that helped define Golden State's transformation into a dynasty the past five seasons.
This time, the Warriors were wounded.
Golden State already was down two-time reigning NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant, who had surgery Wednesday for a ruptured right Achilles tendon. Then, the Warriors lost Thompson - and they couldn't overcome just one more heartbreaking injury.
''A lot of bad breaks in the finals, to be honest,'' Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. ''Like us, they kept on playing. We just had to keep on playing no matter who was out there. And I think they were super intense high-level games and both teams desperately trying to win.''
This thrilling back-and-forth game featured 18 lead changes, nine ties and neither team going ahead by more than nine points.
Curry scored 21 points but shot just 6 for 17 and went 3 of 11 on 3s. Iguodala added 22 for his biggest game this postseason as the Warriors did everything until the very last moment to leave a lasting legacy at Oracle.
Thompson provided his own dramatic memory. He injured his knee when fouled by Danny Green on a drive at the 2:22 mark of the third, was helped off the court and walked partially down a tunnel toward the locker room, then - shockingly - re-emerged to shoot his free throws before going out again at 2:19. He didn't return and left the arena on crutches.
''More than the what-ifs is just feeling bad for the players involved. Injuries are always part of the NBA season - any professional sport, injuries play a huge role,'' Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. ''It's just the nature of these injuries, the severity of these injuries. And we'll know more about Klay. But we can sit here and say, well, if this hadn't happened or that hadn't happened, that doesn't matter. What matters is Kevin Durant is going to miss next season with an Achilles tear and Klay suffered a knee injury.''
In their best Bay Area version of Jurassic Park - Toronto's jam-packed gathering spot to cheer the Raptors - hundreds of red-clad fans stayed long after the game ended to watch the Larry O'Brien trophy ceremony. They waved the Maple Leaf and sang ''O Canada'' just as they did here after winning previously this series.
Lowry's hot start was almost fitting. It was the Toronto guard who got shoved on the sideline in Game 3 by Warriors minority owner Mark Stevens, now banned by the league and team for a year.
The Raptors, in their 24th season of existence, rallied from two games down to beat the Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals then took down the mighty Warriors on their home floor to deny Golden State a three-peat.
The Raptors went 8 for 32 on 3s in a 106-105 Game 5 defeat as the Warriors staved off elimination Monday in Toronto. They started 5 of 6 from long range in this one and finished 13 of 33 and converted 23 of 29 free throws.
Curry and these Warriors never, ever count themselves out. Yet down 3-1 in their fifth straight NBA Finals, they didn't have the health it took to win the past two titles and three of the past four against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
''This five-year run's been awesome but I definitely don't think it's over,'' Curry said.
TIP-INS
Raptors: Leonard scored 732 points this postseason and on Thursday passed Allen Iverson (723) for fourth place and Hakeem Olajuwon (725) for third on the NBA's single-postseason scoring list. James is second with 748 accomplished last year behind Michael Jordan's 759 points in 1992. ... Toronto 9-16 all-time at Oracle Arena but 4-0 overall this season.
Warriors: Thompson's 374 career postseason 3s passed James (370) for third place on the career playoff list, trailing only Curry (470) and Ray Allen (385). ... Thompson notched his second 30-point performance this postseason, 13th of his career and fourth in a finals game despite not playing the entire fourth quarter.
FOR OAKLAND
A gold rally towel read FOR OAK on one line and LAND on the next with the K and D lined up in white - a clever way to also pay tribute to Durant with his initials ''KD.''
Kerr narrated a pregame tribute to Oracle's legacy on the big screen.
In the 2,070th game at Oracle, the Warriors sold out their 343rd consecutive game and said farewell at last to the place they called home nearly five decades. Now, Golden State will move its games, practices and day-to-day operations to new Chase Center in San Francisco beginning next season.
Golden State Warriors: 2017-18 NBA Champions
Golden Still: Warriors sweep Cavs for second straight title
By TOM WITHERS | AP Sports Writer
Jun. 8, 2018 10:56 PM ET
CLEVELAND (AP) There were still a few seconds left on the clock when the Golden State Warriors stormed off their bench to begin a celebration that wasn't guaranteed.
They couldn't wait any longer.
They had reached their destination: dynasty.
Stephen Curry scored 37 points, Kevin Durant added a triple-double and another NBA Finals MVP trophy and the Warriors won their second straight title and third in four years Friday night, 108-85 over the Cleveland Cavaliers to complete a sweep and perhaps drive LeBron James from his home again to chase championships.
Love `em or hate `em, there is no denying them.
''That's how you know we're a great team, is when everybody's coming after us,'' Durant said. ''Whether it's opponents, whether it's different coaches panning for us, whether it's the fans, the media that hate us, it feels good when you're the team that everybody's gunning for. It makes us better.''
No team is better.
Golden State. Golden standard.
Overcoming obstacles all season long, the Warriors won their fourth straight finals matchup against James and Cleveland with ease.
''Looking at this playoff journey, we knew it wasn't going to be as easy as last year,'' Curry said. ''Then the challenges that faced us. In October we wanted to be back in this moment, and a lot went into it. It's a great feeling to be back here.''
It was the first sweep in the NBA Finals since 2007, when James was dismissed by a powerful San Antonio team in his first one. His eighth straight appearance didn't go well either, and now there's uncertainty where the superstar will play next.
James, who said he ''pretty much played the last three games with a broken hand'' after injuring himself in frustration following Game 1, finished with 23 points and spent the final minutes on the bench, contemplating what went wrong and maybe his next move.
Following the game, he sat quietly in his corner locker with a towel draped over his head. He arrived at his postgame news conference with a large black brace on his right hand and explained the injury was ''self-inflicted'' following an overtime loss in Game 1, which included a reversed official's call and teammate J.R. Smith dribbling out the clock to end regulation.
''I had emotions of you just don't get an opportunity like this on the road versus Golden State to be able to get a Game 1, and I let the emotions get the best of me,'' James said. ''Pretty much played the last three games with a broken hand, so that's what it is.''
Act IV between the Warriors and Cavs featured a drama-filled Game 1. But from there on, Durant, Curry, Thompson, Draymond Green and the rest of this California crew showed why they're the game's gold standard.
And they may stay that way.
Not wanting to give the Cavs or their fans any hope despite the fact that no team has ever overcome a 3-0 deficit in the NBA playoffs, the Warriors built a nine-point halftime lead when Curry ignored a closeout by James and dropped a 3-pointer.
Then the league's best team tightened the screws on Cleveland in the third quarter, outscoring the Cavs 25-13 and prompting Golden State fans to begin those drawn-out ''War-eee-orrss'' chants that provide a perfect musical accompaniment to their 3-point barrages.
By the start of the fourth, the only question was whether Curry would win his first NBA Finals MVP or if it would go to Durant for the second year in a row.
And again, it was Durant, who added 12 rebounds and 10 assists - more satisfaction and validation for a player who couldn't beat the Warriors so he joined them.
After surviving a rougher-than-usual regular season and beating top-seeded Houston in Game 7 on the road in the West finals, the Warriors pushed aside James and joined an elite group of teams to win multiple championships in a four-year span.
Only Bill Russell's Boston Celtics, the ''Showtime'' Lakers and the Los Angeles squad led by Kobe and Shaq, and Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls have been as dominant in such a short period of time.
The Dub Dynasty.
The path to this title was more precarious than the first two for coach Steve Kerr and the Warriors, who overcame injuries, expectations, a built-to-dethrone-them Rockets team and the brilliance of James, who may have played his final game in Cleveland.
The 33-year-old, who came back to the Cavs and ended the city's 52-year championship drought in 2016, is expected to opt out of his $35.6 million contract and become a free agent.
''I have no idea at this point,'' he said when asked if he played his final game for the Cavs. ''The one thing that I've always done is considered, obviously, my family. So sitting down and considering everything, my family is a huge part of whatever I'll decide to do in my career, and it will continue to be that.''
James averaged 34 points, 8.5 rebounds and 10 assists in the series, but as has been the case in the past, he didn't have enough help.
Another Summer of LeBron is officially underway and there are already teams stretching from Philadelphia to Los Angeles hoping to land the three-time champion, who may have to go elsewhere to put together a cast strong enough - and as James made clear this week, smart enough - to bring down the Warriors.
Right now, Golden State is on another tier and with Durant expected to re-sign with them in weeks and Curry, Thompson, Green and the rest still young and hungry, their reign could last much longer.
''We've got a lot of three-time, two-time champs in there, and we'll have plenty of time in our lives to discuss that later,'' Curry said. ''So want to keep this thing going as long as we can.''
TIP-INS
Warriors: Curry made a 3-pointer in his record 90th consecutive postseason game and extended his mark for 3s in road playoff games to 44. . Became the ninth team to sweep the finals. ... Won a road game in 19 straight playoff series, tying the Heat's NBA record.
Cavaliers: James scored 748 points in the playoffs, the second most in a postseason behind Jordan, who scored 759 in 1992. Appeared in their 26th NBA Finals game, moving past Atlanta/St. Louis into 10th place all-time. ... James averaged 34 points in his 13th postseason, his second-highest total.
LUE BACK
James' future isn't the only one in question. Cavs coach Tyronn Lue, who took a medical leave this season while battling anxiety, said he intends to return.
''I had some tough problems going on throughout the course of the season, and I probably could have folded myself, but I wasn't going to do that,'' he said. ''I knew that even if I wasn't feeling a hundred percent, I had to get back for the playoffs. That's my time. That's my moment. I had to fight through it. That's what champions do. I gave everything I had.''
Golden State Warriors: 2017 NBA Champions
OAKLAND, Calif. -- If the Golden State Warriors couldn't achieve perfection, they'll just have to settle for redemption and justification. After missing their shot at a 16-0 playoff record, they returned to Oracle Arena and finally secured the clinching victory they couldn't pull off after winning three games against the Cleveland Cavaliers in last year's NBA Finals.
This fall, Kevin Durant will have the answer to all the criticism he endured since last summer, when he announced his decision to join the Warriors as a free agent. He'll get a championship ring after he scored 39 points -- 11 of them in the fourth quarter, in the Warriors' 129-120 victory over the Cavaliers.
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Stephen Curry had the answer to his disappointing 2016 Finals with 34 points himself.
As if to answer all of the legends who don't like watching them shoot all those 3-pointers and hate the idea of superstars teaming up, Durant and Curry began the game by going to the hoop, old school.
Durant had two driving layups in the first quarter and Curry had a couple himself. In the fourth quarter, with the Cavaliers still lingering after all of the swings the Warriors took at them, Curry and Durant resumed going to the hoop to get a 12-point lead that they protected until the end this time.
And Draymond Green, who missed the pivotal Game 5 last year after being suspended for an accumulation of flagrant fouls, had 10 points, 12 rebounds and five assists.
The Warriors returned to their most Warrior-like ways in the second quarter, outscoring Cleveland 38-23, with 21 of the points coming from Curry and Durant.
Green was back to making a variety of contributions, from helping out on defense to making smart passes (he had six assists in his first 23 minutes). He also kept his cool even as tempers flared in the second quarter. When David West and Tristan Thompson squared off, with J.R. Smith entering the mix, Green peeled off Smith -- and nothing came of that potentially volatile pairing. LeBron James and other Cavaliers kept talking to Green throughout the quarter and he responded by smiling each time. Green even saved Klay Thompson from a potentially calamitous fall by alertly grabbing him after Thompson had been upended in midair.
It took a while, but the Warriors finally got the usual home benefit for the bench players, in addition to the unique boost from the Oracle Arena crowd when things are going the Warriors' way. Andre Iguodala and David West posted a combined 12 points in the second quarter, giving the Warriors some traction between 3-pointers by Durant.
Coach Steve Kerr finally got to play an extended stretch with the "Hamptons Five" lineup of Curry, Durant, Green, Iguodala and Klay Thompson. Foul trouble for Green and fear of allowing Tristan Thompson to control all the rebounds had limited the group to only 17 minutes together in the first four games. The group that gathered together in New York last summer to formulate the superteam played the last three minutes of the first half together, and a 36-11 run took the Warriors lead as high as 17 points and the noise in the packed building reached eardrum-rattling levels.
But a couple of long 3-pointers by Smith in the final minute pulled the Cavaliers within 11 points at halftime. The Cavaliers would not go away.
Cleveland Cavaliers: 2016 NBA Champions
It's a championship 52 years in the making.
One that was won by the Cleveland Cavaliers 93-89 over the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena on Sunday night. But one that was made all the more meaningful by decades of losing seasons from Cleveland's Browns and Indians, as well.
It took a native son -- the most important draft pick in franchise history 13 oh-so-lucky years ago, born and bred just about 30 miles down the road, in Akron, Ohio -- to break the cycle of disappointment.
If back-to-back titles in Miami were James' breakthrough as one of the game's all-time greats, the championship in Cleveland represents his ascension to living-legend status.
His NBA Finals record still stands at a lopsided 3-4 -- not nearly as stellar a bullet point on his résumé than the four MVP awards and top-five ranking in all-time playoff points, assists and steals -- but that third ring carries so much weight.
Hundreds of players have won the NBA title before, but nobody has ever done it quite like James and the Cavs did this year.
James dominated the series, pushing it to an improbable brink with back-to-back 41-point games in to bring Cleveland back from a 3-1 deficit. The first 32 teams to fall down 3-1 in the Finals ended up losers. The Cavs, led by a certain No. 23, made sure that streak ended when it came to 33.
A win by the Warriors would have solidified their place in the discussion of the greatest team ever. James' performance in the series changed the conversation and steered it toward consideration for him as the greatest player ever.
He did it, of course, on the same court as the league's back-to-back MVP in Stephen Curry. Only anyone watching could see by James' play that when everything matters the most, he remains the best the sport has to offer, with Curry still a level below.
And he did it by elevating a group of teammates like Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson -- with a combined zero playoff games between them before James came back to Cleveland -- to the game's zenith.
As he famously posted in his homecoming letter in the Players' Tribune, "In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have."
James and the Cavs outworked and outlasted the greatest regular-season team.
And now the city of Cleveland can rejoice a well-earned championship -- one that will be remembered for the ages -- at last.
Golden State Warriors: 2014-15 NBA Champions
CLEVELAND (AP) Revived by a fresh-faced shooting superstar and a first-year coach who made them believe, the Golden State Warriors again reign supreme.
Their 40-year NBA championship drought is finally over.
A half century of misery in Cleveland drags on. LeBron James just didn't have enough help.
Stephen Curry and finals MVP Andre Iguodala scored 25 points apiece, Draymond Green recorded a triple-double and the Warriors - using a barrage of 3-pointers in the fourth quarter - won their first title since 1975 by finishing off James and the Cavaliers 105-97 on Tuesday night in Game 6.
For the first time since Gerald Ford was in the White House, disco was in vogue and Rick Barry was flicking in free throws under-handed, the best pro basketball team resides in the Bay Area.
And these Warriors are a lot like Barry and his old crew: fluid, balanced, together. Just like coach Steve Kerr hoped.
After falling behind by two points early in the third quarter, the Warriors took control with Curry, the league's MVP, and Iguodala, who made his first start of the season in Game 4, leading the way.
"World champs," Curry said, letting the title sink in. "This is truly special. This group is a special group. From the time we started the season this is what we envisioned and a lot of hard work goes into it, all the way down to the last minute of this game. This is what it's all about. ... We're going to remember this for a long time."
Golden State allowed the Cavaliers to creep within eight points in the fourth before unleashing a flurry of 3s to ensure they would be taking the Larry O'Brien Trophy back to California. Curry's step-back made it 78-68, and after the Cavs closed within seven on J.R. Smith's trey, Iguodala, Curry and Klay Thompson each drained one in a span of 81 seconds to make it 89-75.
Iguodala added another long shot for good measure before he strutted back on defense holding out three fingers on each hand.
He could have shot an index finger into the air at that point - Golden State is No. 1.
James returned from Miami to deliver a title to his home region, but the 30-year-old, left to do most of the work by himself after All-Stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured in the postseason, came two wins shy of giving Cleveland its first pro sports championship since 1964.
They city's three pro teams - the Cavs, Browns and Indians - have gone a combined 144 seasons without one of them winning it all.
James had 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists in Game 6 and was dominant during the series, showing why he's the world's best player.
The Warriors were simply the better team.
James was replaced in the final seconds, but before he left the court, the four-time MVP shook hands with Curry and offered congratulations to Kerr and the rest of the Warriors.
"The sacrifice every guy made from Andre and David (Lee) stepping away from the starting lineup, we just played," Kerr said. "And they were all in it just to win. That's all that mattered. This is an amazing group of guys."
This series, which opened with two overtime games in Oakland, flipped when Kerr employed a small lineup in the fourth quarter of Game 3 and the Warriors nearly overcame a 20-point deficit before losing.
Kerr stuck with revamped lineup in Game 4, giving Iguodala a start, switching Green to center and benching the ineffective Andrew Bogut. The move was as golden as the Warriors, who finished with 83 wins, the third-highest single-season total in history.
Only the 1995-96 and 1996-97 Bulls won more, and Kerr was on both of those teams.
Cleveland fans did all they could to force a Game 7.
They entered the building chanting "Let's Go Cavs!" and joined Marlana VanHoose for the final stanza of the national anthem, a touching moment that showed Cleveland was "All In" to take on Golden State.
The Warriors, though, were ready.
Down early after missing open shots, they began finding their range. Golden State capitalized on nine turnovers in the first quarter, made four 3s and built a 13-point lead when Harrison Barnes knocked down a long 3 - a shot that sent several dozen gold-and-blue Warriors fans sitting near their bench into a frenzy.
This was their night, the one they've waited for 40 years.
While Golden State had some solid teams in the past - the "Run TMC" version coached by Don Nelson and featuring Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond among them - the franchise has been undermined by dysfunction. Along with long playoff gaps, there were bad trades, poor drafts and numerous coaching changes.
The Warriors often made headlines for the wrong reasons. Remember when Latrell Sprewell choked coach P.J. Carlesimo?
Well, those days are gone, washed away by Curry and Thompson - the "Splash Brothers" - and a roster of selfless players who bonded under Kerr and have returned basketball glory to Oakland.
These new Warriors have been a model team: sharing the ball, defending together and sacrificing individual goals.
"Strength in Numbers" was their motto as the Warriors used depth and balance to jump from 51 wins to a franchise-record 67 during the regular season.
Kerr molded them. Hired last summer after spurning an offer from the Knicks, the 49-year-old former NBA guard who won three of his five titles as Michael Jordan's teammate in Chicago and two playing for Gregg Popovich in San Antonio, Kerr brought out the best in his team.
From the first day of training camp, he emphasized unity. A California-born kid who still surfs and would prefer to wear jeans and a pair of Vans on the sideline, he kept things loose by taking the Warriors bowling and letting them blare music during practices.
With Curry, the team's first MVP since Wilt Chamberlain, leading them, the Warriors outgunned everyone in the rugged Western Conference and entered the postseason as a No. 1 seed. They swept New Orleans, rallied from a 2-1 deficit to beat Memphis and then blew through Houston in five games to make the finals for the first time since `75.
They then held off James and the undermanned Cavs, who just didn't have enough.
Not against a team as golden as the trophy its taking home.
San Antonio Spurs: 2013-14 NBA Champions
Summing it up
The Spurs started Game 5 of the Finals poorly at the AT&T Center, giving coach Gregg Popovich an unsettling flashback to one of the worst moments in franchise history. Much like their collapse in the 2012 Western Conference Finals, they were sluggish and stagnant, a far cry from consecutive beatdowns at Miami in which they elevated the game to artistic levels.
“I told my team we looked exactly like we did two years ago when we won the first two against OKC and then they won four in a row because we stopped moving the ball,” he said. “The ball didn’t move, it didn’t change sides. And that’s what the game looked like in the first six or seven minutes of the game.”
The Spurs trailed the Heat by 16 at that point, and visions of a return flight to Miami and squandered control were looming. But unlike last year, when fate conspired to steal the championship from their grasp, they simply would not be denied, crushing the Heat by 37 over the next two quarters and cruising to a 104-87 victory that capped their fifth championship and the most lopsided Finals triumph in NBA history.
The Spurs did lose a game in the series, winning 4-1. But their 14-point average margin of victory over those five games was a championship series record, as was their 52.8 team shooting percentage. That it came at the expense of the Heat, whose 4-3 victory in last year’s series continued to torment the Spurs well into this season, made it all the better. It said something about the depth of that heartbreak, and the achievement of getting back and earning redemption, that Tim Duncan said it was the most satisfying of his five championships dating back to 1999.
“It is sweeter than any other,” said Duncan, who became the first player to start for three different championship teams in three decades. “Whether it be because of the time frame, because I’m coming towards the end of my career, because I can have these two (his children) here and really remember it and enjoy the experience, all of those things make it that much more special.”
Having been beaten like no other team in the Finals, the Heat could only lavish praise on the team they devastated last year to win their second straight championship.
“We got smashed,” Chris Bosh said. “They exposed us. They picked us apart. They played the best basketball I’ve ever seen.”
Said LeBron James, “That’s how team basketball should be played. It’s selfless. Guys move, cut, pass. You get a shot, you take it, but it’s all for the team and it’s never about the individual. That’s (their) brand of basketball, and that’s how team basketball should be played.”
Even Manu Ginobili, so single-minded in his pursuit of another title that he said he couldn’t sit still to even read during the Finals, admitted getting caught up in the artistry of the Spurs’ play.
“There were some possessions on the court and seeing what was going on, some others on the bench, I was so proud,” he said. “Sometimes I felt like saying, ‘Wow, this is sweet.’ It was really fun to play like this.”
And, of course, to win and atone for last year’s defeat.
“To be so close last year, it was very cruel,” Tony Parker said. “But that’s the beauty of sport. Sometimes it’s tough. And sometimes it can be beautiful like today, because it shows a lot of character of the team to take a loss and to come back the following year and win the whole thing.
“It just makes the journey even more worth it. It was worth all the pain. It’s so sweet to win a championship the way we did. I would change nothing. It makes it even better, the fact that we had to go through that, to go through a tough loss, and to be able to come back.
“It just makes the journey even more worth it.”
Player of the game
Popovich wasted little time inserting bench captain Ginobili — less than three minutes, in fact. Yet the Spurs’ poor start got even worse, spiraling to a 22-6 deficit with five minutes left in the first quarter. That’s when Ginobili went to work, scoring six of his 19 points during a 12-0 surge that started the Spurs’ turnaround. Ginobili got into it with Miami counterpart Shane Battier to draw an offensive foul, then exchanged elbows with Chris Andersen on the ensuing timeout.
Rather than shrink, Ginobili lives for such confrontations. He later lifted off for a poster dunk in Bosh’s face as the Spurs padded their lead late in the first half, well on their way to victory. Ginobili averaged 14.4 points and shot 50 percent in the series, a huge performance after committing a total of 12 turnovers over the last two games of last year’s Finals.
“I’m not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel,” he said. “It was a tough summer. We all felt guilty. We all felt that we let teammates down. But we work hard. We got (back) to this spot, and we didn’t let go.”
The turning point
The game was barely seven minutes old, with anticipation of a championship celebration still thick in the air, when the Spurs found themselves on the wrong side of a 22-6 broadside. They responded in kind, destroying Miami’s lead and whatever was left of its collective psyche with an extended 59-22 surge spanning nearly two full quarters. The Spurs led by 21 at that point, and never fewer than 14 the rest of the way as they earned their fourth victory of at least 15 points in the series, and 12th in the entire postseason to extend their NBA record.
Friday Morning Quarterback
Reading some posts from disgruntles Celtics supporters...page is here.
NOISE wrote:
F U Lakers - YOu Didn't Deserve this one....ONce again, you need the ASsistance of the FREEBIES to win.
They Gave you this - Celts got Screwed!!!!!!!!
6/17/2010 11:56 PM EDT
My thoughts: Really? Really?
dreweagle09 wrote:
Boycott the NBA next season!
6/17/2010 11:44 PM EDT
My thoughts: Nonsense. Not gonna happen.
NOISE wrote:
FU Magic Johnson - go EAT another Donut you FAT F&&K
6/17/2010 11:57 PM EDT
My thoughts: Guy's a mouthful, innit he?
FrancoBeck wrote:
I'll close by saying that the officiating & the ABC/ESPN crews and D. Stern have just ended the run of a great sport....you found a way to fix it and ruin it....what a Disgrace!!!!!
NBA is now DEAD!!!!!!
6/17/2010 11:58 PM EDT
My thoughts: Correction: TRANSFIGURED. Moron.
oem67 wrote:
Sorry but that headline is laughable....David Stern and his hand-picked lackeys deny Celts the title they earned. What other league would the disgraced Joey Crawford have a job in? He owes Stern plenty and he paid off tonight.
6/17/2010 11:59 PM EDT
My thoughts: Uh, if my Lakers lost that, we would be saying the same thing, so...suck it.
FanB4Orr wrote:
As I thought throughout the day, David Stern you should be very proud. You got what you wanted:
Free throws: 37-17 Lakers
Two evenly matched teams and this is what your referees come up with? You should be ashamed. I thought the Fakers were going to spend the whole 4th quarter at the free throw line.
Joke. Your league is a joke. Why did the Celts bother to play????
6/17/2010 11:59 PM EDT
My thoughts: Because they can?
yorgi wrote:
nba wanted hollywood. stern wanted hllywood. this has been the most disgusting 4th quarter ever!! kudos to our players playing 5 vs 8 all series long. they couldnt do it 5 vs 5 for 3 quarters and so back up came in the 4th. Stern congratulations you always get what you want. Shame on you. Hope someone from our team has a word about this. dont let this pass. espn shame on you. drooling over the lakers.. espn you work for america not los angeles. disgusting. to hell with all of you!
6/18/2010 12:01 AM EDT
My thoughts: Is there a bridge for you to jump already down in BEantown?
dreweagle09 wrote:
This is nothing new. This has been happening for years.
Don't ever buy anything with the NBA logo on it. Don't watch the games ever again.
Embarrass David Stern any chance you get. Embarrass "writers" who insist there's no foul play.
Our eyes don't lie to us. We trust our instincts. The game was f'n fixed!
6/18/2010 12:01 AM EDT
My thoughts: It's a touching irony that this person will no doubt follow the Celtics next year, going against his own advice.
dreweagle09 wrote:
FanB4Orr,
We've been saying this since the playoffs started. I know basketball and how its played.
For people who are still not convinced that the NBA is fixed, what more evidence do you need?
The Refs bailed the Lakers out at every possession in the stretch. They took the game out of the C's hands. In what other sport is this allowed?
6/18/2010 12:04 AM EDT
My thoughts: Every sport for you, so long as you believe it to be a controversy. Paranoid schmuck.
Bruins877 wrote:
Is there a more despicable harlot than Kobe's wife? Your husband raped a chick but hey he bought you a diamond ring at least.
6/18/2010 12:05 AM EDT
My thoughts: You single?
yorgi wrote:
all you laker trolls, u will always be our customers as long as we re 5 on 5. nthing will change that. ever. learn your history you texting fashionistas
6/18/2010 12:06 AM EDT
My thoughts: lmfao np kthxbye
potomus wrote:
WaikikiJim? The "Good Guys", really? An accused rapist, confirmed adulterer, and a thug named Artist, who, if he wasn't a carjacker in shorts would be doing hard time for felonious assault. You're a truly warped human being.
6/18/2010 12:07 AM EDT
My thoughts: Speak for yourself, you hippo.
dreweagle09 wrote:
Any writer who fails to mention the egregious nature of this game as the sole reason for the outcome should endure our wrath. Ryan, CHB, Julian, Gasper, etc. Let them hear you tomorrow! Flood the comments with your anger.
And let's walk away from this criminal organization called the NBA forever.
Let them burn.
6/18/2010 12:08 AM EDT
My thoughts: Join the Mafia and get shot already.
terry180 wrote:
The game was fixed. I hope some day we are going to find out that those referees were paid. Corrupt losers.
6/18/2010 12:13 AM EDT
My thoughts: It's called a salary. Now they may be making more than what you will ever make in your lifetime, but a salary is still a salary, see.
KJACLA wrote:
This isn`t for all Celts fans,this is for the whiners"Shut the heck up"
6/18/2010 12:18 AM EDT
My thoughts: Someone with common sense speaks.
MagnificentBastard wrote:
Awww poor wittle socalpatsidiot...feel free to move back to New England.
We know those folks are perfect and have such caring love for everyone and share all things together for the greater good and we are sorry wretches who wallow in our own despicable sinfulness. We even hate ourselves and look up to you New England types because you are so much better than us.
But here's the thing OUR TEAM WHIPPED YOUR TEAMS BUTT!
CHEW ON THAT ALL OFF SEASON, you arrogant chump! I know it burns...please, let us all know how much.
6/18/2010 12:24 AM EDT
My thoughts: Seconded.
ksm1616 wrote:
Congrats LA, you are now right next to the Yankees in my book, and you too Kobe, you are now on the same level with Purple Lips, Arod. I absolutely hate you, deep to the core. You are no MJ, and never will be. You are lucky Derek the Flopper made his 3 and Artest finally showed up. It's sickening to lose after outplaying the lakers for 3.5 quarters. This one is going to hurt for a long, long time. I am proud to say I refuse to watch the postgame and celebration. KG played his tail of tonight too. But, again, we were out rebounded.
6/18/2010 12:25 AM EDT
My thoughts: Thanks for the motivation...prick.
studiocity2 wrote:
It's amazing what a bunch of losers a lot of you sound like. I wasn't rooting for either team, but just wanted a good game, which we got. To say that David Stern fixed the game so the Lakers would win is so stupid and juvenile. It doesn't even make sense. Even if the NBA were corrupt as many of you say, all David Stern would want is a seven game series. Once he got to that why would he care who wins. The NBA doesn't make any extra money because the Lakers win. As for the foul discrepancy, sometimes that happens. I watched the game and it seemed pretty even to me as far a bad calls go. The fact is that the Celtics did foul a lot more. It was obvious. I bet if the foul calls would have been in the Celtics favor, and the Celtics won no Celtic fan would say the win was tainted and the Lakers got screwed. Quit being such poor sports. The Celtics lost this one. Get over it.
6/18/2010 12:25 AM EDT
My thoughts: Another poster with common sense. A rare species, perhaps endangered, in Bostonia nowadays.
justbipit wrote:
The NBA is a shell of what it used to be.......say what you want, the product is awful. The first half looked like a pickup game at the local Y. The second half looked like a pickup game at the local jail. Lakers were the better team...more talent...home court....good breaks......but man those officials really went over the top in the fourth quarter.......typical NBA for the past 20 years....and I hate BOTH of these teams.
6/18/2010 12:30 AM EDT
My thoughts: Soooo...what team do you exactly cheer for then?
dudeasp wrote:
WE NEED TO GET LEBRON JAMES! I HATE THE LAKERS, AND KOBE BRYANT. THIS MAKES ME SICK. WE NEED A BIG TIME PLAYER TO REPLENISH OUR TEAM. WHY CAN'T WE GET LEBRON JAMES?
6/18/2010 12:30 AM EDT
My thoughts: *snicker*
Scooter69 wrote:
Hey MagicJohnson, dude, get a life, it's just a game. It's sad that this is your entire life. We feel bad for you and hope someday you'll leave Mom's basement.
6/18/2010 12:31 AM EDT
My thoughts: What's with your fascination with "Mom's basement?" Can't you think of anything more original, you hopeless dolt?
plattsburghsox wrote:
Kobe ***** random women....
6/18/2010 12:40 AM EDT
My thoughts: Lies! That's Tiger Woods. Get your facts straight!
SPO1 wrote:
I told you before Massachusetts, it’s a CURSE. As long as a Republican is in Ted Kennedy’s senate seat you people will NEVER have a championship team. Your sports heart will be taken to the edge of ecstasy and then broken over and over until you morons do right by Ted Kennedy. Remember, the MAN who worked SO HARD for his constituents and the nation? Now you Conservative wackos need to come to your senses and kick the Republican Party to the curb before they ruin EVERYTHING!
HEY, did anyone notice how much Texas Republican Representative Joe Barton resembles the banjo playing inbred kid in the movie “Deliverance”? lol
How can any Great American stick up for BP? As far as horrific damage to the USA goes Joe Barton might as well have taken sides with Osama bin Lunatic and Al Qaeda… When one really thinks about it, Republicans have done more damage to our beloved USA than any Middle Eastern terrorist. Freak’n traitors!
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6/18/2010 12:42 AM EDT
My thoughts: Controversy exists in many forms.
SoxFanInOR wrote:
@MagnificentBastard - "But here's the thing OUR TEAM WHIPPED YOUR TEAMS BUTT! " Yeah but you had nothing to do with it!
Celts fans...cheer up, only a couple a more months before football season and I am sure Danny will retool. Boston is still a huge market with great revenue and wealth, we will be able to take care of our needs in free agency. LA on the other hand, has the entertainment industry which, as we know is declining. It wont be too long before most of it is comoditized and no longer centralized in LA and these dopes will be left cheering for the Clippers as the Lakers move to Mexico City!
6/18/2010 12:42 AM EDT
My thoughts: Not happening.
NOISE wrote:
It's EASY when you are sent to the LINE 37 times to 17.
There is the DIFFERENCE! The 4th Qtr ESPECIALLY was a JOKE! IT Started with KOBE"s 3 freebies on that Pathetic call on Ray Allen - Kobe is the only guy I know that they send him to the line for 3 free throws - Twice in this series. After this - then the PARADE to the LINE started again! Just like Game 2 there (but b/c Ray Allen hit all those 3's we somehow won)....
F***K Kobe's Legacy - he couldn't hold Jordan's Jock! Kobe S*cks A** - Becareful Ladies in LA LA land-
6/18/2010 12:50 AM EDT
My thoughts: Green with envy, you rat?
jumpinjimmyt wrote:
M-Bastard,
Good night to you and go to bed, tweener. For such a huge victory, you should be out celebrating with your peeps, why on the m-board?? Apparently, the turn the lights out in your "mobile community" at 1 am.
6/18/2010 1:10 AM EDT
My thoughts: Why not? Tch...
socalpatsfan12 wrote:
Magic, enjoy your mudslides, earthquakes, and fires that burn down your mobile homes...
6/18/2010 1:15 AM EDT
My thoughts: Try harder with your smack, amateur.
MagicJohnson wrote:
Man, Doc Rivers won't let that "Our starting 5 still hasn't lost" thing go...hahahah. This is going to eat at him for a while.
6/18/2010 1:17 AM EDT
My thoughts: It probably is right now! Aaaaahhhh! <3
denrog wrote:
Hey Laker fans on the Celtic Blog.
Why don't you go out to a bar or club and party? You might meet a girl & get a life.
Sadly Kobe will never be thought of as highly as MJ or Magic.
LakerJohn, a Laker fan with class. Congrats!
6/18/2010 1:27 AM EDT
My thoughts: Some of them already have. Boring retort, as well as "Mother's basement." Played.
Scooter69 wrote:
Kobe desreve credit? A rapist deserves credit? A fan beater desreves credit?
6/18/2010 1:52 AM EDT
My thoughts: Yes. He does.
Scooter69 wrote:
Let's review David Stern. LA population almost 10 million, Boston population 600K. Kobe a marketing gem (even though a rapist). The math is easy FTA 37-17.
6/18/2010 1:57 AM EDT
My thoughts: Wank.
LABOY wrote:
denrog wrote:
I feel a little bit sorry for you.
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No need to feel sorry for us. Of course, the Boston fans bloggers were just as bad...but because you are a Celtics fan, you are blinded by this. Wake up and smell the coffee. The Beantown bloggers here are no Angels!!!!!
6/18/2010 2:20 AM EDT
My thoughts: I'm glad you weren't putting Anaheim's team in the mix here when talking about the disgruntled Bostonian chavs...
SingleMalt wrote:
Why can't any of the spoiled babies on this Blog simply acknowledge that the Celtics got beat by a physically better team instead of:
1. blaming the refs
2. accusing the NBA of a conspiracy
3. finding fault with (pick any of them) a Celtic player's perceived performance?
Face it guys: you are so used to your team playing thug basketball all season long that it becomes expected. When your coach won't (or can't) make the adjustments necessary to contain a physically superior (longer, quicker, and can finish layups), all you can do is rely on beating up the other team. This is Celtic basketball.
Too bad the refs didn't go for it.
37-17 couldn't be more accurate.
6/18/2010 2:47 AM EDT
MY thoughts: Another guy with common sense...maybe they are not so rare after all...
JakeFitzy wrote:
"LABOY wrote:
SoCalGirl2 wrote:
I'm sitting here trying to think of one good thing to ever come out of Boston..."
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I've lived in both places and can honestly say that LA is a F-in dump. Boston has more history and character than LA will ever have. You can have your fake city filled with dbags, gangbangers and posers.
6/18/2010 2:47 AM EDT
My thoughts: Shove it. We don't want you setting foot on our city again, hater.
LABOY wrote:
PV-Mike wrote:
Why do all the referees in every sport cheat Boston teams.
Baseball wants the Yankees,NFL cheats so Peyton Manning can beat the Pats and NBA cheats the Celtics so Lakers can win.
All major sports cheat against the Boston teams. Heck also look at the NHL giving Philly 4 straight games too.
I think there needs to be an investigation into tonight's cheating lead by Tommy Heinsohn and a six pack of beer!
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Because Boston fans are completely pathetic and dillusional! If they dont win, there has to be some external forces or some organization conspiring against their teams. Because there is no way in heck that any Boston teams could lose to any other teams in any sports.
There is a reason why...outside of New England, the Boston fans are the most hated in all professional sport cities!!
6/18/2010 2:48 AM EDT
My thoughts: Paranoid they are...confirmed!
MagnificentBastard wrote:
Kobe as rapist, LAkers have a fan beater, comments about AIDS and Kobe's kids, snarky crap about how LA is an awful place, Laker fans are jerks, how much better the Celtic organization is, Boston is, etc.
God I LOVE the rancid bitterness spewing from depressed, degraded, downtrodden, beaten, agonized, enraged Celtic fans. Come on, ladies, release your hatred, release your rage on us, the refs, the city of LA, the fans of the Lakers so that we can truly bask in your agony over losing tonight. With every enraged comment, it just shows us how devastated you really are...and we celebrate your pain.
He who laughs last, laughs best...and I am rollin' on the floor now!
6/18/2010 2:49 AM EDT
My thoughts: You're not the only one...I am gasping for air as I post this!
LABOY wrote:
Whinercop wrote:
I'm kind of put-off by the seemingly dumbshit, crude Laker fans with no humility here. I mean, c'mon A-H's, check it out: Boston has owned our azzez from the beginning of time and now we're gloating in a chicken-ship way? Stop taking your stupid pills until this thing blows over. For God's sake, are you honestly that freakin' stupid? How do you survive with such S for brains? It's embarrassing to the rest of us West, Wilt, Gail, Happy, Kareem, Magic, Worthy, Byron, Shaq, Kobe, Pau and RA fans. Stop it and conduct yourselves with a little class. That was an amazing game 7!
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Class? Why dont you read some of the posts AFTER the Celtics lost....taking personals shots at the LA, slinging insulting names, etc....I think its called...sore loser!! You can lose with class...and the Boston fans didnt show that here....
I dont usually post...I reply...so when a Boston fan post a rude reply...I reply back in the same way...
As for the game...yes it was an ugly game both sides and it was because both teams played suffocating D.....Lakers just wanted it more at the end...
6/18/2010 3:09 AM EDT
My thoughts: Tell it like it is, LABOY.
RiotNrrrd wrote:
Gtunnell wrote:
"In the future I would keep the microphone away from Paulina Pierce. That dude has some serious maturity issues. It's one thing to talk trash on the court, but its an entirely different ball game when you say it to reporters."
You mean like how Kobe threw Shaq under the bus after the game today? Stay classy, Kobe.
6/18/2010 4:27 AM EDT
My thoughts: Wrong team. Snack-O-Meal plays for the Chavs-er, Cavs. Ingrate.
NOISE wrote:
F U Lakers - YOu Didn't Deserve this one....ONce again, you need the ASsistance of the FREEBIES to win.
They Gave you this - Celts got Screwed!!!!!!!!
6/17/2010 11:56 PM EDT
My thoughts: Really? Really?
dreweagle09 wrote:
Boycott the NBA next season!
6/17/2010 11:44 PM EDT
My thoughts: Nonsense. Not gonna happen.
NOISE wrote:
FU Magic Johnson - go EAT another Donut you FAT F&&K
6/17/2010 11:57 PM EDT
My thoughts: Guy's a mouthful, innit he?
FrancoBeck wrote:
I'll close by saying that the officiating & the ABC/ESPN crews and D. Stern have just ended the run of a great sport....you found a way to fix it and ruin it....what a Disgrace!!!!!
NBA is now DEAD!!!!!!
6/17/2010 11:58 PM EDT
My thoughts: Correction: TRANSFIGURED. Moron.
oem67 wrote:
Sorry but that headline is laughable....David Stern and his hand-picked lackeys deny Celts the title they earned. What other league would the disgraced Joey Crawford have a job in? He owes Stern plenty and he paid off tonight.
6/17/2010 11:59 PM EDT
My thoughts: Uh, if my Lakers lost that, we would be saying the same thing, so...suck it.
FanB4Orr wrote:
As I thought throughout the day, David Stern you should be very proud. You got what you wanted:
Free throws: 37-17 Lakers
Two evenly matched teams and this is what your referees come up with? You should be ashamed. I thought the Fakers were going to spend the whole 4th quarter at the free throw line.
Joke. Your league is a joke. Why did the Celts bother to play????
6/17/2010 11:59 PM EDT
My thoughts: Because they can?
yorgi wrote:
nba wanted hollywood. stern wanted hllywood. this has been the most disgusting 4th quarter ever!! kudos to our players playing 5 vs 8 all series long. they couldnt do it 5 vs 5 for 3 quarters and so back up came in the 4th. Stern congratulations you always get what you want. Shame on you. Hope someone from our team has a word about this. dont let this pass. espn shame on you. drooling over the lakers.. espn you work for america not los angeles. disgusting. to hell with all of you!
6/18/2010 12:01 AM EDT
My thoughts: Is there a bridge for you to jump already down in BEantown?
dreweagle09 wrote:
This is nothing new. This has been happening for years.
Don't ever buy anything with the NBA logo on it. Don't watch the games ever again.
Embarrass David Stern any chance you get. Embarrass "writers" who insist there's no foul play.
Our eyes don't lie to us. We trust our instincts. The game was f'n fixed!
6/18/2010 12:01 AM EDT
My thoughts: It's a touching irony that this person will no doubt follow the Celtics next year, going against his own advice.
dreweagle09 wrote:
FanB4Orr,
We've been saying this since the playoffs started. I know basketball and how its played.
For people who are still not convinced that the NBA is fixed, what more evidence do you need?
The Refs bailed the Lakers out at every possession in the stretch. They took the game out of the C's hands. In what other sport is this allowed?
6/18/2010 12:04 AM EDT
My thoughts: Every sport for you, so long as you believe it to be a controversy. Paranoid schmuck.
Bruins877 wrote:
Is there a more despicable harlot than Kobe's wife? Your husband raped a chick but hey he bought you a diamond ring at least.
6/18/2010 12:05 AM EDT
My thoughts: You single?
yorgi wrote:
all you laker trolls, u will always be our customers as long as we re 5 on 5. nthing will change that. ever. learn your history you texting fashionistas
6/18/2010 12:06 AM EDT
My thoughts: lmfao np kthxbye
potomus wrote:
WaikikiJim? The "Good Guys", really? An accused rapist, confirmed adulterer, and a thug named Artist, who, if he wasn't a carjacker in shorts would be doing hard time for felonious assault. You're a truly warped human being.
6/18/2010 12:07 AM EDT
My thoughts: Speak for yourself, you hippo.
dreweagle09 wrote:
Any writer who fails to mention the egregious nature of this game as the sole reason for the outcome should endure our wrath. Ryan, CHB, Julian, Gasper, etc. Let them hear you tomorrow! Flood the comments with your anger.
And let's walk away from this criminal organization called the NBA forever.
Let them burn.
6/18/2010 12:08 AM EDT
My thoughts: Join the Mafia and get shot already.
terry180 wrote:
The game was fixed. I hope some day we are going to find out that those referees were paid. Corrupt losers.
6/18/2010 12:13 AM EDT
My thoughts: It's called a salary. Now they may be making more than what you will ever make in your lifetime, but a salary is still a salary, see.
KJACLA wrote:
This isn`t for all Celts fans,this is for the whiners"Shut the heck up"
6/18/2010 12:18 AM EDT
My thoughts: Someone with common sense speaks.
MagnificentBastard wrote:
Awww poor wittle socalpatsidiot...feel free to move back to New England.
We know those folks are perfect and have such caring love for everyone and share all things together for the greater good and we are sorry wretches who wallow in our own despicable sinfulness. We even hate ourselves and look up to you New England types because you are so much better than us.
But here's the thing OUR TEAM WHIPPED YOUR TEAMS BUTT!
CHEW ON THAT ALL OFF SEASON, you arrogant chump! I know it burns...please, let us all know how much.
6/18/2010 12:24 AM EDT
My thoughts: Seconded.
ksm1616 wrote:
Congrats LA, you are now right next to the Yankees in my book, and you too Kobe, you are now on the same level with Purple Lips, Arod. I absolutely hate you, deep to the core. You are no MJ, and never will be. You are lucky Derek the Flopper made his 3 and Artest finally showed up. It's sickening to lose after outplaying the lakers for 3.5 quarters. This one is going to hurt for a long, long time. I am proud to say I refuse to watch the postgame and celebration. KG played his tail of tonight too. But, again, we were out rebounded.
6/18/2010 12:25 AM EDT
My thoughts: Thanks for the motivation...prick.
studiocity2 wrote:
It's amazing what a bunch of losers a lot of you sound like. I wasn't rooting for either team, but just wanted a good game, which we got. To say that David Stern fixed the game so the Lakers would win is so stupid and juvenile. It doesn't even make sense. Even if the NBA were corrupt as many of you say, all David Stern would want is a seven game series. Once he got to that why would he care who wins. The NBA doesn't make any extra money because the Lakers win. As for the foul discrepancy, sometimes that happens. I watched the game and it seemed pretty even to me as far a bad calls go. The fact is that the Celtics did foul a lot more. It was obvious. I bet if the foul calls would have been in the Celtics favor, and the Celtics won no Celtic fan would say the win was tainted and the Lakers got screwed. Quit being such poor sports. The Celtics lost this one. Get over it.
6/18/2010 12:25 AM EDT
My thoughts: Another poster with common sense. A rare species, perhaps endangered, in Bostonia nowadays.
justbipit wrote:
The NBA is a shell of what it used to be.......say what you want, the product is awful. The first half looked like a pickup game at the local Y. The second half looked like a pickup game at the local jail. Lakers were the better team...more talent...home court....good breaks......but man those officials really went over the top in the fourth quarter.......typical NBA for the past 20 years....and I hate BOTH of these teams.
6/18/2010 12:30 AM EDT
My thoughts: Soooo...what team do you exactly cheer for then?
dudeasp wrote:
WE NEED TO GET LEBRON JAMES! I HATE THE LAKERS, AND KOBE BRYANT. THIS MAKES ME SICK. WE NEED A BIG TIME PLAYER TO REPLENISH OUR TEAM. WHY CAN'T WE GET LEBRON JAMES?
6/18/2010 12:30 AM EDT
My thoughts: *snicker*
Scooter69 wrote:
Hey MagicJohnson, dude, get a life, it's just a game. It's sad that this is your entire life. We feel bad for you and hope someday you'll leave Mom's basement.
6/18/2010 12:31 AM EDT
My thoughts: What's with your fascination with "Mom's basement?" Can't you think of anything more original, you hopeless dolt?
plattsburghsox wrote:
Kobe ***** random women....
6/18/2010 12:40 AM EDT
My thoughts: Lies! That's Tiger Woods. Get your facts straight!
SPO1 wrote:
I told you before Massachusetts, it’s a CURSE. As long as a Republican is in Ted Kennedy’s senate seat you people will NEVER have a championship team. Your sports heart will be taken to the edge of ecstasy and then broken over and over until you morons do right by Ted Kennedy. Remember, the MAN who worked SO HARD for his constituents and the nation? Now you Conservative wackos need to come to your senses and kick the Republican Party to the curb before they ruin EVERYTHING!
HEY, did anyone notice how much Texas Republican Representative Joe Barton resembles the banjo playing inbred kid in the movie “Deliverance”? lol
How can any Great American stick up for BP? As far as horrific damage to the USA goes Joe Barton might as well have taken sides with Osama bin Lunatic and Al Qaeda… When one really thinks about it, Republicans have done more damage to our beloved USA than any Middle Eastern terrorist. Freak’n traitors!
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6/18/2010 12:42 AM EDT
My thoughts: Controversy exists in many forms.
SoxFanInOR wrote:
@MagnificentBastard - "But here's the thing OUR TEAM WHIPPED YOUR TEAMS BUTT! " Yeah but you had nothing to do with it!
Celts fans...cheer up, only a couple a more months before football season and I am sure Danny will retool. Boston is still a huge market with great revenue and wealth, we will be able to take care of our needs in free agency. LA on the other hand, has the entertainment industry which, as we know is declining. It wont be too long before most of it is comoditized and no longer centralized in LA and these dopes will be left cheering for the Clippers as the Lakers move to Mexico City!
6/18/2010 12:42 AM EDT
My thoughts: Not happening.
NOISE wrote:
It's EASY when you are sent to the LINE 37 times to 17.
There is the DIFFERENCE! The 4th Qtr ESPECIALLY was a JOKE! IT Started with KOBE"s 3 freebies on that Pathetic call on Ray Allen - Kobe is the only guy I know that they send him to the line for 3 free throws - Twice in this series. After this - then the PARADE to the LINE started again! Just like Game 2 there (but b/c Ray Allen hit all those 3's we somehow won)....
F***K Kobe's Legacy - he couldn't hold Jordan's Jock! Kobe S*cks A** - Becareful Ladies in LA LA land-
6/18/2010 12:50 AM EDT
My thoughts: Green with envy, you rat?
jumpinjimmyt wrote:
M-Bastard,
Good night to you and go to bed, tweener. For such a huge victory, you should be out celebrating with your peeps, why on the m-board?? Apparently, the turn the lights out in your "mobile community" at 1 am.
6/18/2010 1:10 AM EDT
My thoughts: Why not? Tch...
socalpatsfan12 wrote:
Magic, enjoy your mudslides, earthquakes, and fires that burn down your mobile homes...
6/18/2010 1:15 AM EDT
My thoughts: Try harder with your smack, amateur.
MagicJohnson wrote:
Man, Doc Rivers won't let that "Our starting 5 still hasn't lost" thing go...hahahah. This is going to eat at him for a while.
6/18/2010 1:17 AM EDT
My thoughts: It probably is right now! Aaaaahhhh! <3
denrog wrote:
Hey Laker fans on the Celtic Blog.
Why don't you go out to a bar or club and party? You might meet a girl & get a life.
Sadly Kobe will never be thought of as highly as MJ or Magic.
LakerJohn, a Laker fan with class. Congrats!
6/18/2010 1:27 AM EDT
My thoughts: Some of them already have. Boring retort, as well as "Mother's basement." Played.
Scooter69 wrote:
Kobe desreve credit? A rapist deserves credit? A fan beater desreves credit?
6/18/2010 1:52 AM EDT
My thoughts: Yes. He does.
Scooter69 wrote:
Let's review David Stern. LA population almost 10 million, Boston population 600K. Kobe a marketing gem (even though a rapist). The math is easy FTA 37-17.
6/18/2010 1:57 AM EDT
My thoughts: Wank.
LABOY wrote:
denrog wrote:
I feel a little bit sorry for you.
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No need to feel sorry for us. Of course, the Boston fans bloggers were just as bad...but because you are a Celtics fan, you are blinded by this. Wake up and smell the coffee. The Beantown bloggers here are no Angels!!!!!
6/18/2010 2:20 AM EDT
My thoughts: I'm glad you weren't putting Anaheim's team in the mix here when talking about the disgruntled Bostonian chavs...
SingleMalt wrote:
Why can't any of the spoiled babies on this Blog simply acknowledge that the Celtics got beat by a physically better team instead of:
1. blaming the refs
2. accusing the NBA of a conspiracy
3. finding fault with (pick any of them) a Celtic player's perceived performance?
Face it guys: you are so used to your team playing thug basketball all season long that it becomes expected. When your coach won't (or can't) make the adjustments necessary to contain a physically superior (longer, quicker, and can finish layups), all you can do is rely on beating up the other team. This is Celtic basketball.
Too bad the refs didn't go for it.
37-17 couldn't be more accurate.
6/18/2010 2:47 AM EDT
MY thoughts: Another guy with common sense...maybe they are not so rare after all...
JakeFitzy wrote:
"LABOY wrote:
SoCalGirl2 wrote:
I'm sitting here trying to think of one good thing to ever come out of Boston..."
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I've lived in both places and can honestly say that LA is a F-in dump. Boston has more history and character than LA will ever have. You can have your fake city filled with dbags, gangbangers and posers.
6/18/2010 2:47 AM EDT
My thoughts: Shove it. We don't want you setting foot on our city again, hater.
LABOY wrote:
PV-Mike wrote:
Why do all the referees in every sport cheat Boston teams.
Baseball wants the Yankees,NFL cheats so Peyton Manning can beat the Pats and NBA cheats the Celtics so Lakers can win.
All major sports cheat against the Boston teams. Heck also look at the NHL giving Philly 4 straight games too.
I think there needs to be an investigation into tonight's cheating lead by Tommy Heinsohn and a six pack of beer!
+++++
Because Boston fans are completely pathetic and dillusional! If they dont win, there has to be some external forces or some organization conspiring against their teams. Because there is no way in heck that any Boston teams could lose to any other teams in any sports.
There is a reason why...outside of New England, the Boston fans are the most hated in all professional sport cities!!
6/18/2010 2:48 AM EDT
My thoughts: Paranoid they are...confirmed!
MagnificentBastard wrote:
Kobe as rapist, LAkers have a fan beater, comments about AIDS and Kobe's kids, snarky crap about how LA is an awful place, Laker fans are jerks, how much better the Celtic organization is, Boston is, etc.
God I LOVE the rancid bitterness spewing from depressed, degraded, downtrodden, beaten, agonized, enraged Celtic fans. Come on, ladies, release your hatred, release your rage on us, the refs, the city of LA, the fans of the Lakers so that we can truly bask in your agony over losing tonight. With every enraged comment, it just shows us how devastated you really are...and we celebrate your pain.
He who laughs last, laughs best...and I am rollin' on the floor now!
6/18/2010 2:49 AM EDT
My thoughts: You're not the only one...I am gasping for air as I post this!
LABOY wrote:
Whinercop wrote:
I'm kind of put-off by the seemingly dumbshit, crude Laker fans with no humility here. I mean, c'mon A-H's, check it out: Boston has owned our azzez from the beginning of time and now we're gloating in a chicken-ship way? Stop taking your stupid pills until this thing blows over. For God's sake, are you honestly that freakin' stupid? How do you survive with such S for brains? It's embarrassing to the rest of us West, Wilt, Gail, Happy, Kareem, Magic, Worthy, Byron, Shaq, Kobe, Pau and RA fans. Stop it and conduct yourselves with a little class. That was an amazing game 7!
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Class? Why dont you read some of the posts AFTER the Celtics lost....taking personals shots at the LA, slinging insulting names, etc....I think its called...sore loser!! You can lose with class...and the Boston fans didnt show that here....
I dont usually post...I reply...so when a Boston fan post a rude reply...I reply back in the same way...
As for the game...yes it was an ugly game both sides and it was because both teams played suffocating D.....Lakers just wanted it more at the end...
6/18/2010 3:09 AM EDT
My thoughts: Tell it like it is, LABOY.
RiotNrrrd wrote:
Gtunnell wrote:
"In the future I would keep the microphone away from Paulina Pierce. That dude has some serious maturity issues. It's one thing to talk trash on the court, but its an entirely different ball game when you say it to reporters."
You mean like how Kobe threw Shaq under the bus after the game today? Stay classy, Kobe.
6/18/2010 4:27 AM EDT
My thoughts: Wrong team. Snack-O-Meal plays for the Chavs-er, Cavs. Ingrate.
Man. Were those Cavaliers even trying?
Cleveland failed basketball tonight. The San Antonio Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight, winning 83-82, and winning another NBA Championship. LeBron James is probably where Shaquille O'Neal was when he and the Orlando Magic faced the Houston Rockets. He has a long way to go.
Well, it's going to be super Saturday for the USA and Canada teams at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The Canucks take on Guatemala, while the USA has the rematch of the 2005 final, against Panama. I can't see the USA getting upset on Saturday, but the game before is no sure bet. I am picking Canada and the USA advancing in a key battle for bragging rights at Soldier Field on June 21.
Meanwhile, I am taking Honduras over Guadeloupe, and Mexico over Costa Rica in a nailbiter.
I am confident that I will take care of business at the CBEST this Saturday. But I am not going to be overconfident. I am hopeful that the reading and math portions are going to be rapid fire, but a lapse in concentration could make all the difference.
A few more weeks, and Anime Expo is going to be taking place. I can't look ahead to that just yet...
I am so glad that I got the free tuition from the Beach Pride Center. All that hard work supporting the home teams paid off, literally. I hope Sophie Lee is teaching 380 this fall. I want another stab at this. And my fate as Super Fan is sealed. Stay tuned June 21 for the official news.
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