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Le Bron isn't the problem for the Heat - it's Wade.

Somehow I have the feeling this was the perfect Finals for Stern.

Hence Miami's real big 3 - aka the referees - were at the top of their game in the ECF.

Welp, Heat take the series lead...for now.

Yeah...but the Heat won the close Game 3 last season too, for the 2-1 lead, and then lost games 4 to 6.

Except that was before. This is now.

Got a Crowning Moment Of Funny between Wade and Durant. After Durant pulled a spin move and scored a bucket, Durant removed his mouthpiece and said "You're too small." Wade just laughed it off.

edited 18th Jun '12 8:31:55 PM by Serocco

That's exactly what they said last season too! They also said "It's the NBA Playoffs now, not the regular season. So what if you swept us in the regular season?"

Wade still hasn't paid off his karmic debt for breaking Rondo's arm last year.

Hope it rears up in the next game and brings extras with it.

You know, ever since the Bulls and Spurs lost, I've just plain been apathetic to this season. I don't even care enough to hate on the Heat anymore as much.

This season remains a footnote and a mess that falls on the management and the NBPA. Here's hoping next year will be better. 2013: Bulls over ...um... who gives a sh- the Rockets in 5! Pistons lose to them in a rough but entertaining and honorable 7 game ECF!

edited 19th Jun '12 9:43:33 PM by wanderlustwarrior

Hey, maybe the Raptors get lucky next year and we get the 8 seed.

And then we get swept out of the first round!

...And yet, even hoping for THAT is delusional. Sometimes I have to remind myself why I a fan of this team...

edited 19th Jun '12 9:36:12 PM by NoChorus

Be a Pistons fan like Shad!

So many teams and people "deserve a ring". Don't say that.

edited 19th Jun '12 10:38:47 PM by wanderlustwarrior

How about the Thunder? Those guys deserve a ring next year if they don't get it this year.

The Blunder deserves a ring as much as the Cheat deserves a ring, i.e. they don't deserve it at all.

welp, one more win for the Heat will be all it takes for everybody to believe that loyalty is for losers :(

Lebron James good athlete, horrible human being.

I don't like his decision either, but at the end of the day it's just basketball. He still has a charity like most players, and he didn't say "It's fun to mess with people's emotions" like Bosh did.

Yeah I hope he never wins a championship, but I'm not gonna get that mad.

Just think of it this way: he needed not only Wade and Bosh but also the referees to win a ring.

Kinda pathetic, actually.

So did the Thunder when they beat the Spurs. Remember that flop by Harden on Ginobili, which negated Manu's three pointer?

Also, it's better for the NBA if the Heat lose this, because that means the analysts and the pundits would scream at the top of their lungs over it. Last year, when the Heat were clearly the Big Bad of basketball, everybody tuned in to see them fail, which they did. Here, if the Heat win, not many people can say much over it without seeming like a contrarian or a hater. Without a clear-cut Jerkass to root against, casual fans will not tune in as much, unless it's to see if the Heat make it through.

Oh, and just because it's taboo to say, I'll say it again - the Thunder deserve a ring by next year, if they make it as far to the Finals by then. I'll double down on it - the Heat deserve a ring this time around, because they've already lost before. I'll start rooting for Durant next year if he makes it.

edited 20th Jun '12 3:09:01 PM by Serocco

As I have said already, the Blunder and the Cheat deserve to win a ring in much the same way that the Mexican drug cartels and the Mafia deserve to be left alone.

Once the two Conference Finals were about to begin none of the four teams (Blunder, Spurts, Cheats, Septics) deserves to win a ring this season, or ever (until they undergo drastic roster changes), for that matter. It's like choosing among the Mafia, Mexican drug cartels, al-Qaeda, and neo-Nazis.

edited 20th Jun '12 8:03:58 PM by entropy13

Such a Negative Nancy.

What team do you like?

A "certain" player in the team just celebrated his 34th birthday a couple of days ago.

No idea. Even if I did know, I don't really care to remember.

Dirk Nowitzki, right?

And he hums David Hasselhoff songs at the free throw line XD

I forgot that...

All the people who knew I lived in texas the past few years haven't posted in this thread recently...

The question now becomes: will the refs rig the game so the series extends?

(not likely... also, I'll laugh out loud if another referee comes out and blows the whistle on the game-rigging going on)

edited 21st Jun '12 8:27:58 PM by Nitramy