The Heat always lose game one, no biggie for them. This series far from over.
I am so glad they moved back to the 2-2-1-1-1 format though, the old format gave too much of an advantage to the road team if they won one of the first two games.
I dislike Lebron as much as the next guy but cramps are a pain in the arse. He obviously needs more fluids but the airconditioning shouldve been working. Nonetheless it was funny as hell and all these tweets are even better.
Unsurprisingly the reffing has been brutal tonight. Let's see how quickly San Antonio is in the penalty in the 4th.
They're doing whatever they can do keep the Spurs from winning. Out of all the "contenders" the Spurs have to be the least sexy team to win the championship year after year. Whatshisname probably doesn't want the Spurs to win in his first year at the helm.
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Mark Jackson really is running the gauntlet this last few months, from fired by the Pacers, to doing the NBA Finals on TV, to now acting as Lebron's cheerleader/agent at each and every opportunity.
No way Duncan gets the respect he deserves...231 playoff games is nuts.
It's been terrible all night for both sides, thought obviously favouring the Heat. It's predictable, the NBA gets what it wants because it can. Chalmers learned from Wade very well.
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LBJ is the MJ of this era. Without him, NBA's left with Mr. Unreliable Durant and company, still exciting but not on the same level as LBJ.
LBJ himself elevates the league into a whole different stratosphere like MJ once did.
A good basketball fan will appreciate the work of Mr. Big Fundamental Duncan but the Spurs don't make this league sexy, exciting nor relevant.
This of course is why the NBA has turned into such a garbage product in the last 20 years or so. The very success of the league is dependant on stars and big market teams. The NFL is the exact opposite. It can have Green Bay and Buffalo, two horrible TV markets in the Super Bowl, and get a near record rating. The NBA equivalent, Milwaukee and Sacramento, would almost certainly be banished to NBATV as it would crush record low ratings.
It's too bad, but it's also why I watch less than ever. My only concern about last night's game wasn't who won (because of course it was almost never in doubt with this being the NBA), it was whether it was going to be over by 9PM or I wasn't seeing the end, I was switching to Game of Thrones. 15 years ago I would have laughed at anyone who would suggest the NHL is a better product than the NBA. Now? I'll mock anyone who thinks that isn't true,
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Probably with BBall is that it is so easy to score. But there's certain uniqueness to watching MJ, LBJ or Kobe score vs no name scrub players score. Take MJ out of the 90s and take LBJ out of the league now, you still have a lot of very very good players. But the league just doesn't feel the same without these very special marquee players.
Maybe this is testiment that BBall isn't as good a game as football or hockey.
One of the reasons that the NBA has become a terrible product is plays like that. $5,000 dollars is chump change for a guy like Wade. Suspend him for ruining the game. To put this in perspective the Spurs lost by 2 and Wade made 2 free throws from this foul.
There were countless times last night where Danny Green didn't have a "landing spot" after he shot the ball, however I remember Wade jumping right into Green for a foul. Really some awful display of officiating by the refs.
The respect for the stars has ruined the game of basketball and turned it into a soft league. Handing out calls for stars reacting to a foul is laughable. Plus it has lost all its rivalries simply by calling a flagrant foul for anything intentional as small as a push (although I felt Chalmers deserved a flagrant yesterday). Even now you get a technical for passing the ball to the ref or any reaction against your opponent. This league is a soft league.
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Also this doesn't bode well for the league, but outside of a major improvement by Toronto or Washington it looks like Miami is going to be in the finals every single year for the next 4-5 years. Non of the new draftees are going to be franchise changers from what I've seen.
