king james = drama queen. "oh no my elbow it hurttts"

********, i'm not buying any of it. hope both the cavs and celtics beat each other up, i'd rather see orlando make it through than either of them.

Biggest hater ever, the Cavs deserve a title, yes, the King will have a ring :tup:

go lakers!!.haha

i dont care if they are out of the playoffs, im still rooting for the thunder! hahahah...in all seriousness, i guess i'm going for the cavs now.

i already told you i hate on the cavs :tup:

Haha, tis true, tis true. And about that MVP award...:bowrofl:

rigged! should've gone to kevin durant lol

whats funnier is Kobe got ZERO 1st place votes:roflpuke2:

Look at it this way. Cavs nearly took out the Celtics 2 years ago when it was basically KJ playing a one man army. It came down to the final minute...that's just how dominant he is. I mean just about everyone on his team seriously sucked not to mention the team he carried to the finals the previous year.

Anyone that doesn't see/agree with that is simply a hater(Phelan - self-proclaimed of course) bc the truth hurts...especially to LA fans bc Kobe was the poster child all these years and Lebron is clearly better/more dominant now.

If you look at Lebron's squad now... it's a little terrifying bc of how good they are and I'm not just talking about their starters....their bench included. Lebron went from having no one to having everyone. Gone are the matchup problems of last year...Cavs can go ultra small or ultra big....kinda crazy huh?

LA has an easy road to the finals now that the Thunder are gone. Everyone else they know how to play and no one is big enough to compete with them(since Denver is out). The Thunder were the wildcard group and a great one at that.

As long as Bynum is healthy....there is only one team that can matchup and compete with LA and that is the Cavs. You saw it in the regular season. Most of LA's points are Gasol and Bynum in the paint. Counter that with Ilgauskas and Shaq who are both bigger respectively and all of a sudden their points go away and now the back court is forced to score. Lebron neutralizes Kobe and vice versa........so it come down to the better bench/role players. Advantage - Cavs

Actual advantage - David Stern for setting it up so that we can finally have the long awaited Kobe vs Lebron. And yes I agree that Lebron will make it to the finals this year, not just bc he is soo dominant but bc he'll also have some help from the refs.....just like Kobe did/does. In the end it's a business where millions and millions of dollars are at stake everyday so the game is obviously catered to the public to some degree.....kinda sad but definitely true.

^yup i agree...Lakers will make the Finals and the Cavs will to..Cavs have a much harder road tho cuz they will have to meet Orlando if they get through Boston...these two series will be a war with MUCH higher likelyhood of injuries for the Cavs..if they're healthy after all this they will be favored in the Finals.

great points.

Did anyone notice how Rondo basically quit after that collision with Shaq? Little bastard was running free down the baselines until someone finally got in his way, I must say, I was a bit amused by this.

lol, rondo was straight killin' it, then shaq smacked him down. i love how fragile the celtics are. and i'll say it again - any team (detroit being the fluke) relying on sheed in the clutch will fail. it's a known fact of life. guaransheed fail!!!

i'm not on the laker bandwagon. i'm a portland fan through and through (except when sheed and randolph wore the blazer uniform...*shudder*), but i can't stand how lebron cultivates this humble personality when in reality (i.e. when he forgets to keep his image together) he's a total douchebag. every sports writer and analyst builds a shrine to him, it's ridiculous.

i can at least agree that the dude will be one of the most dominant players of all time, if not THE dominant force of all time. but i will NEVER appreciate him the same way i respect someone like kevin durant.

who saw the game anyway? mo williams got hot in g1, but that's the most ridiculous i've EVER seen him play. some of those fades were straight up ridiculous, you'd NEVER shoot that in a proper offense. looks like d-wade forgot his hand somewhere and mo picked it up :rofl2:

anyhow, against the fakers..er, flakers - dammit, LAKERS - their bench will eat the purple and gold's ALIVE. i mean, everybody does these days, right? lol

oh btw bynum's playing hurt. in other news, the sky is blue. :tup:


zman1910's post below officially qualifies as "unintentional dirty quote machine"

Yeah I think that was the whole point of the hard foul....to scare the little smurf from coming in again. He would've been the reason they won that game. Shaq has a knack for scaring the little ones that enjoy penetration like that...as weird as that sounds

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Little shyt was tearing us up with his little floaters and baseline drives, twas starting to piss me off a bit how easy it was for him to sneak through, I called that foul.. In fact I was telling my brother how someone needed to get in front when he comes in and toss him to the deck, which strangely happened about 30 seconds later. Honestly I'm suprised he shrugged it off without injury, he hit the deck pretty hard. But its so amazing to me how the whole team just shut down after that, once your supply man loses confidence and fears driving to the lane, the nights over.

BTW, PP is just a shadow of his former self, what was his FG % for that game? 18%?

oh and I must admit, I was a bit worried when Ray started to heat up behind the arc, usually once he hits 2 in a row, 3 or 4 follow, thank god for that nasty nasty home crowd.