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Damn, Curry with all those fourth quarter three pointers
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Welp
Kevin Durant has a monster game and my friend was like, “damn, it’s over” when he nailed that last three pointer
So TIL no team has ever made it from a 3-0 deficit during the Finals and playoffs period. Shit
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Um, the Bucks and the Rockets are both down. You think they will come back or not?
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Well I was gonna say the Bucks will anyway, but now I see they're up in game 2 by 27 points midway through the 4th.
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I had my doubts, especially after game 1 vs Boston, but now am convinced Milwaukee is invincible. The only question now is who their opponent will be.
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Okay, the finals have started. No one even wants to mock me for being wrong? The Bucks were an all around disappointment these playoffs after sweeping the Pistons, but The Rockets just choked. Houston had the perfect opportunity, to advance in my opinion, but didn't step up. Milwaukee by contrast, seemed to have everything they already needed but couldn't put it together.
Given the result, I'll be rooting for Golden State. Logic dictates The Raptors will have the advantage, Toronto is not a team the Warriors can arbitrarily score on and has an offense they seem to have trouble stopping, but aint the NHL. This is our national league!
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I hope the nationalism is facetious.
I don't like to mock people for being wrong. I just want a good series, and this should be.
Given the Warriors are more of a "team" and show more respect to their players, and the organization is socially progressive, and the one bad thing to say is that Kerr feels kind of smug (but not entitled), I'm rooting for them.
That said, I wouldn't mind if the Raptors won. They show grit and dedication, and humility in Kawhi. Plus it would be a nice first. And I'd like a championship to come back to the non-Boston/New York/Lebron East.
But if the Warriors win, they get to make a show out of snubbing Trump, and instead do some volunteering in the DC community, as they have for the last couple years, and that's be great.
Fuck Trump.
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Patriotism is rooting for the closest thing you have to a home team right. Nationalism would be denying the work visas the right to join the league.
If I must be serious, I really have no investment in this series. I do find Toronto's status as "East" an oddity. Why isn't there a "North East" conference? Why is there only one Canadian team? Why have there never been more than two Canadian teams? That seems like a pretty halfhearted "expansion". But I'm not blind to the fact the NBA is full of foreigners. I'm not the one preceding sporting events with national anthems. I'm just responding in the manner that's clearly appropriate for such displays. USA! USA! USA!
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There's a Northeast Division. 2 conferences, 6 divisions.
Expansion as in expanding the total number of teams, not the geographic area. As for why there aren't more Canadian teams, I dunno.
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Tense so far for game 6. Toronto cannot make these kind of turnovers
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Welp, good job Canada
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The one thing I wanted this NBA finals was for Steph Curry to prove himself deserving of a Finals MVP... but he didn't. He couldn't hit the closer at all.
I'm happy an Eastern conference team won, but man, this is another reminder that teams, and fans who aren't personally invested, don't give a crap about player loyalty unless this doesn't get them something. Durant is supposedly some evil "snake" for choosing his best interests in free agency, while teams can just fire the coach and star that got them to the brink of the championship in the first place.
I hope Kawhi leaves the Raptors in his unrestricted free agency. Preferably for one of my teams, but I just want some sort of spite. I feed off it.
Also, a fuck you to that one Warriors part owner.
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Somehow they did it
Thought I'd be old and grey before they won one
Man. Toronto is insane right now. My street was flooded and I don't even live anywhere near downtown. Love what it's doing for the city and country.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
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But seriously, I want to know. Canada invented basketball, so why doesn't it have more NBA teams? Why wasn't the NBA started there?
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Probably they don't have the commercial audience for it?
Austin Rivers got his own father (the opposing team's head coach) ejected from a game.
But to be fair, Doc did trade him away before last season...
If he was a superstar, I bet the NBA would schedule their teams to play against each other on Thanksgiving or Christmas.
The Christmas schedule is put in place prior to the season. That's why New Orleans is playing even though there's a fair chance that Zion won't be in it.
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I know. The entire schedule is put in place prior to the season. But if Austin Rivers was a star prior to the season, that would've given more incentive for NBA to put the matchups against his dad on key TV dates.
Still, both teams are contenders even without this, and there's no way the league would pass up a "Battle of Los Angeles" Christmas. And with NBA ceding Thanksgiving Thursday to the NFL, that just leaves the season opener as the biggest remaining marquee matchup.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Nov 13th 2019 at 12:08:59 PM
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I remember someone in this thread was a fan of a current basketball manga. I just recently found this video on the history of manga's relationship basketball in Japan.
Also, I recently found out that the first non-white player drafted into the NBA was Japanese.
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Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
...so I'm hopping into this thread for the first time to announce that Kobe Bryant has died in a plane crash.
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News outlets are reporting that Lakers legend Kobe Bryant has died at age 41 in a crash of his private helicopter. He is survived by his wife and four young daughters. Four other people were also killed in the crash, which was caused by a fire on board.
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Holy fucking shit
That’s awful
And that was terrible.
His last tweet to Le Bron was to keep with the game, and the Lakers still lost to the Sixers.
Maybe this will finally make the Lakers win harder and claim the championship as a final tribute to Black Mamba. This is the way to do it, in my opinion.
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Life's not about winning or losing individual games, though. And to mark that point, the NBA has cancelled all games today.
He was due to be inducted into the hall of fame next month.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jan 26th 2020 at 3:56:39 AM
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Don’t forget the Pacers.