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Basketball Fan Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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lakersken80 wrote: | No coincidence that Lebron being left out of the MVP regular season list and Boston getting a massive beatdown on the same night..... |
I don't get why he should get a regular season MVP award when he takes games off during the regular season.
Besides giving it to the same player gets rather "boring" it would be the same if the NFL gave it to Peyton Manning every year. |
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RestEasyBlackMamba Star Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Other than injury, no one Is stopping the Cavs or the Warriors from meeting next year too
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LakerLogic Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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LeBron not being on the MVP list. |
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Inspector Gadget Retired Number
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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24ways2die wrote: | Other than injury, no one Is stopping the Cavs or the Warriors from meeting next year too |
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epak Retired Number
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Just get these games over with.
Bring on the 3rd match in this Cavs+warriors trilogy.
And let the warriors destroy the Cavs. |
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LakerLanny Retired Number
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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bertrome wrote: | LakerLanny wrote: | I would love to see the lead get to 50, has that ever happened in a home playoff game before? |
Hornets lost by 58 at home to the Nuggets in a 1st round game 8 years ago. |
Need a late run! _________________ Love, Laker Lanny |
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epak Retired Number
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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I figured the Cavs would rough up IT like they did Curry to slow him down. Will ainge realize IT is fools gold in the more physical playoffs and draft Fultz? |
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PRLakeShow Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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LakerLogic wrote: | LeBron not being on the MVP list. |
It's a regular season award. |
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LakerLogic Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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IceInMyVeins wrote: | LakerLogic wrote: | LeBron not being on the MVP list. |
It's a regular season award. |
He had one of his best regular seasons. |
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PRLakeShow Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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LakerLogic wrote: | IceInMyVeins wrote: | LakerLogic wrote: | LeBron not being on the MVP list. |
It's a regular season award. |
He had one of his best regular seasons. |
Yup. But other players had a better season. Is that so hard to understand? |
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3peat_pete Star Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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LakerLogic wrote: | IceInMyVeins wrote: | LakerLogic wrote: | LeBron not being on the MVP list. |
It's a regular season award. |
He had one of his best regular seasons. |
true but have you seen what Westbrook and Harden did this season? |
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panamaniac Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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The Celtics are unequivocally the worst #1 seed of All Time. Let's enjoy LeBrons greatness, but let's also enjoy his stacked teams steamrolling over inferior competition. |
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DancingBarry Editor-in-Chief
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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130-86. Very enjoyable. |
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Basketball Fan Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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https://sports.yahoo.com/news/adam-silver-says-golden-statecleveland-dominance-not-concern-233319849.html?src=rss
Quote: | Adam Silver says the Golden State/Cleveland dominance is 'not a concern'
Adam Silver says interest is going up, up, up.” (Getty Images)
The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers shared a combined 19-0 playoff record entering Friday evening, as the two back-to-back Conference champions have yet to lose despite what seemed like sturdy enough competition.
The duo appeared spiraling toward a third-consecutive Finals matchup with each other last summer, and the excesses of the 82-game regular season and first month of playoff basketball have done little to dissolve that expectation’s potency. Cleveland plays in Boston on Friday night, in Game 2 of the Eastern finals, and even away from Ohio it should be favored.
Mindful of this, NBA commissioner Adam Silver had the right answer when asked by ESPN’s Hannah Storm on Friday “if the dominance of the Warriors and Cavaliers is a matter of concern, in terms of competitive balance.”
“It’s not a concern,” Silver concluded. “I think that we should be celebrating excellence.”
Translation: A decade ago, Eric Snow started in the Finals. Enjoy this.
Silver went on to note that a combined 86 years’ worth of championship droughts preceded the Warriors 2015 title, and the Cavaliers first NBA championship in 2016 before concluding that the entire affair was “fantastic to watch.”
It is, for a quarter or two. In Golden State and Cleveland’s case, for no longer than four games per series.
Some 6.4 million viewers gave the underdog Boston Celtics a chance on Wednesday in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, clicking the ratings up 19 percent in comparison to 2016’s pairing against the Toronto Raptors. The contest was still down, in LeBron James terms, from the 11.1 million that tuned in to see the then-favorited Chicago Bulls take on James’ Heat in 2011, before LeBron had figured it all out, though the Game 1 ratings were about even with the top-ranked Atlanta Hawks’ Game 1 against James’ still-evolving Cavaliers in 2015.
The overall ratings will be in place, though, and while Adam Silver and company would prefer a few classic Game 7s to gift his billion buck business partners at the networks with, the checks are already cashed. The month-plus lull in competitive playoff play won’t mean a lick in the face of what could be boffo ratings for LeBron vs. GSW III, all it does is make for some angsty time for the press that covers the league, and some dull air for the valued viewer.
The lull’s impact on any future television contracts is best left discussed for another time, but it is worth reminding ourselves that the league’s massive 2015 television deal came with about half of his post-Michael Jordan seasons prior to that agreement ranking as absolute snoozers. The deal ends in 2025, quite a bit can happen between now and then. Quite a bit can emerge.
The same chatter was around two decades ago when Michael Jordan seemed to spin championships until quittin’ time, and when the Los Angeles Lakers bullied their way through the 2001 Western playoffs – necessitating the sort of rule changes that led to the freer, aesthetically pleasing game we see today.
Until it’s 45-27, with 7:12 to go in the second quarter.
This has not been a classic postseason, but it hasn’t been an especially unhappy one either. The NBA has strong hopes that a Finals for the ages might put a bow on what could become (for future reasons both good and ill) one of the league’s showcase years, and it’s not an outsized expectation. |
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LakerLanny Retired Number
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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DancingBarry wrote: | 130-86. Very enjoyable. |
Especially if you bet Cleveland -5.5 as I did.
Lowest stress gambling win ever. _________________ Love, Laker Lanny |
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OregonLakerGuy Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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LakerLogic wrote: | LeBron not being on the MVP list. |
My heart bleeds for the chosen one. So underappreciated |
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bandiger Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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The Grind wrote: | The Celtics are unequivocally the worst #1 seed of All Time. Let's enjoy LeBrons greatness, but let's also enjoy his stacked teams steamrolling over inferior competition. |
All this proves is Cavs/Warriors can just rest post-all star break preparing for the playoffs next year. Silver says he's fine with this type of crap. |
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Vancouver Fan Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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DancingBarry wrote: | 130-86. Very enjoyable. | qft _________________ Music is my medicine |
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PRLakeShow Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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bandiger wrote: | The Grind wrote: | The Celtics are unequivocally the worst #1 seed of All Time. Let's enjoy LeBrons greatness, but let's also enjoy his stacked teams steamrolling over inferior competition. |
All this proves is Cavs/Warriors can just rest post-all star break preparing for the playoffs next year. Silver says he's fine with this type of crap. |
I'm pretty sure both teams can rest their top guys enough to sneak in as the 8th seed. They would still sweep through their conferences even without HCA. |
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DancingBarry Editor-in-Chief
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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LakerLanny wrote: | DancingBarry wrote: | 130-86. Very enjoyable. |
Especially if you bet Cleveland -5.5 as I did.
Lowest stress gambling win ever. |
I guess. Sheesh. Would have had to give up maybe 35 to feel some stress in this ass kicking. |
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bertrome Star Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Wouldn't have imagined the Pacers of all teams giving the Cavs their hardest challenge in the East playoffs. |
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lakersken80 Retired Number
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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bandiger wrote: | The Grind wrote: | The Celtics are unequivocally the worst #1 seed of All Time. Let's enjoy LeBrons greatness, but let's also enjoy his stacked teams steamrolling over inferior competition. |
All this proves is Cavs/Warriors can just rest post-all star break preparing for the playoffs next year. Silver says he's fine with this type of crap. |
Cavs were fine with pacing themselves....no need to stress over a meaningless #1 seed in the east when they are far and above the best team in the east. Reminds me of the Shaq-Kobe Lakers when they would take games off during the season. |
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Basketball Fan Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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bertrome wrote: | Wouldn't have imagined the Pacers of all teams giving the Cavs their hardest challenge in the East playoffs. |
Same but it was still a waste of a season for us though. |
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Dreamshake Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Basketball Fan wrote: | lakersken80 wrote: | No coincidence that Lebron being left out of the MVP regular season list and Boston getting a massive beatdown on the same night..... |
I don't get why he should get a regular season MVP award when he takes games off during the regular season. |
Yet he still led the league in minutes per game.
LeBron avg 26/9/9 on 55% and 36% shooting. MVP numbers. And he defends. He's clearly the best player in basketball. Anyone else winning MVP is a joke. |
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Runway8 Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Man, what a dilemma. I don't want to hear about Lebron and GOAT discussions, but I'd love to see Durant fail too. |
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