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Official April NBA Thread - Playoffs coming sooooooon!

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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
Guzim said:
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"What's this kid talking about? My masterplan invovles 5 cheeseburgers."
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:lol :lol :lol :lol

I was at the White Sox game tonight, so I had no idea what was going on in the Bulls game. I had a friend at home call me periodically with updates. Then I get the call "GORDON DID IT AGAIN MOTHER FUCKER! GAME WINNER WITH 5 SECONDS LEFT!"


Just AWESOME. And the best part? I'm going to the motherfucking game on Sunday. Hell yes. Hell fucking yes.
 
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xnipx

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Sorry Baby Bulls but your goin home in 6 games at the most. There's no way you'll match up with our big 3. Homecourt or not it doesnt matter the Wiz are goin to the finals. As long as somebody takes out Miami that is.
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
xnipx said:
Sorry Baby Bulls but your goin home in 6 games at the most. There's no way you'll match up with our big 3. Homecourt or not it doesnt matter the Wiz are goin to the finals. As long as somebody takes out Miami that is.
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:lol :lol :lol

and if there's no way we'll match up with your "big 3", why have we already beaten you by 7 points when we played you at the UC? you beat us on your home floor.

yeah, you also beat us an extra time at the beginning of the year, but that was part of our 0-9 start. as far as i'm concerned that game doesn't matter at all.

the way i see it we're 1-1 against you this year. but if you say we have no chance, I guess i'll have to believe you. damn, that sucks.
 
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Mrbob

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I hate to say I'm just happy to see the Bulls in the playoffs again, but it is exciting to see them make the postseason once more. However my expectations aren't too high. I don't think the series will be easy against Washington, but we have a chance now that we got home court. If the Bulls had to go on the road for round one I think we would be going home. Playoffs are coming now is the time to get excited for NBA ball!
 
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Master Z

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bigfurb said:
Hater: Vince dogged it in Toronto
Carter: Lets be honest here. Do you really give a fuck whether or not i screwed over those mother canuckers
Hater: Good point
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Die!!! But for real though VC is a punk ass bitch. We payed that motherfucker good money and he didn't even try... I don't care if he hated management or he was bored or whatever the fuck his excuse is, he failed to be PROFESSIONAL. We payed him ridiculous amounts of money and in return he gives us half-assed effort? That makes him a PUNK BITCH, and I shall laugh when his knee eventually EXPLODES.
 
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Fifty

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Props to Master Z. As far as that joker defending Vince with "scoreboard bitch" well I won't even waste my time, instead I will quote the Raptor fan's only ally, Bill Simmons

A Raptors fan who e-mailed me wanted to pursue a class-action suit against Vince Carter, which I joked about in my MVP column two weeks ago. So that got me thinking ... could something like that really happen? According to the legal counsel for Sports Guy's World (my buddy House, and no, he's not the guy who took the swipe at Sheffield), the Alexi Yashin case was dismissed after actually advancing a few levels, so there's no legal precedent. Also, when fans buy tickets, there's explicit language that basically tells the ticketholder that he's buying a bill of goods, almost like if you bought fruit at a flea market or something. So the fan angle is out.

House was more intrigued by the Raptors' side – they're the ones who could argue that Vince gave less than his best effort, forcing them to trade him for less than he was worth. Two problems with that scenario: First, the way the NBA's collective bargaining agreement is set up, you can get away with just about anything and still get paid (like Sprewell choking his coach, or Vin Baker's showing up in rough shape for practices). And second, the Raptors didn't make any aggressive moves while Vince was still playing for them. For instance, they knew he was dogging it, especially this season – why didn't they suspend him without pay? That was their biggest mistake. Vince signed a contract with them, he wasn't living up to it, and they didn't do anything about it ... eventually, they kowtowed and made a terrible trade that didn't even help this year's team. Terrible job by them from start to finish.

Anyway, Vince Carter is going to get away with this. I can't believe I'm the only person with a visible sports column who keeps bringing this up – the way sports works now, we have all these "Who am I going to rip today?" writers out there who jump at the chance to rip anyone and anything. Well, why not Vince Carter? Who screwed over a larger group of fans more egregiously than he did? Where's the outrage about this? The guy had 81 freaking points in two games last weekend and the prevailing attitude seems to be, "Wow, it's great to have Vince back!" I'm confused.
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bigfurb

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Master Z said:
Die!!! But for real though VC is a punk ass bitch. We payed that motherfucker good money and he didn't even try... I don't care if he hated management or he was bored or whatever the fuck his excuse is, he failed to be PROFESSIONAL. We payed him ridiculous amounts of money and in return he gives us half-assed effort? That makes him a PUNK BITCH, and I shall laugh when his knee eventually EXPLODES.
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Scoreboard bitch!!! :D (I kid ,I kid)
 
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Ninja Scooter

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Anyway, Vince Carter is going to get away with this. I can't believe I'm the only person with a visible sports column who keeps bringing this up – the way sports works now, we have all these "Who am I going to rip today?" writers out there who jump at the chance to rip anyone and anything. Well, why not Vince Carter? Who screwed over a larger group of fans more egregiously than he did? Where's the outrage about this? The guy had 81 freaking points in two games last weekend and the prevailing attitude seems to be, "Wow, it's great to have Vince back!" I'm confused.
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this is sort of how i feel about Shaq. Everyone praising him for being in shape, like its some kind of great accomplishment or something. He's even doing commercials bragging about losing 30 lbs in 3 months. Fucker was getting paid $30 million a year, he should ALWAYS be in shape. And people wonder why Jerry Buss wasn't bending over backwards to give him an extension.
 
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bigfurb

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Ninja Scooter said:
this is sort of how i feel about Shaq. Everyone praising him for being in shape, like its some kind of great accomplishment or something. He's even doing commercials bragging about losing 30 lbs in 3 months. Fucker was getting paid $30 million a year, he should ALWAYS be in shape. And people wonder why Jerry Buss wasn't bending over backwards to give him an extension.
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I would say a joke at your expense too, but that would be cruel. Raptor fans are at least used to having a shittyy team, they'll get over it and in a few years their hate will move on to Bosh when he inevitably skips town. For laker fans though, this must be akin to getting your first serious assbeating. I don't feel too bad for the laker team though as kobe isn't exactly a sympathetic figure
 
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Fifty

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bigfurb said:
Raptor fans are at least used to having a shittyy team, they'll get over it and in a few years their hate will move on to Bosh when he inevitably skips town.
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:lol :lol
 
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bigfurb said:
I would say a joke at your expense too, but that would be cruel. Raptor fans are at least used to having a shittyy team, they'll get over it and in a few years their hate will move on to Bosh when he inevitably skips town. For laker fans though, this must be akin to getting your first serious assbeating. I don't feel too bad for the laker team though as kobe isn't exactly a sympathetic figure
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Raptors? We trying to have a serious NBA discussion. Get that NBDL shit outta here.
 
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Fifty

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Ninja Scooter said:
Raptors? We trying to have a serious NBA discussion. Get that NBDL shit outta here.
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Oh no you didn't. We were in the same boat, but you done pushed me overboard!


LA Lakers 34 47

Toronto 33 48

*bows down*
 
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DMczaf

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/3143898

Tracy McGrady pretended he had forgot. He pretended he had never said anything stupid or controversial during his last trip to the playoffs.

But Jon Barry wouldn't let him get off that easy. Barry was more than willing to remind everyone how McGrady announced he had reached the second round of the 2002-03 playoffs despite still being one victory away.

Barry was with Detroit at the time and said McGrady's words were quickly passed around the Pistons' locker room.

"(Orlando) got up 3-1, and he said, 'It feels good to get in the second round,' " Barry said. "And it was a seven-game series. They proceeded to lose by 20 in the last three games, and we moved on. He's heard about it from me a few times."

Maybe that's why McGrady was hesitant to mention the word "Dallas" after the Rockets' practice Tuesday. While even Barry called tonight's game "a glorified practice," McGrady actually acted concerned about playing Seattle.

Win or lose tonight, the Rockets will play at Dallas in the first round of the playoffs Saturday at 4:30 p.m. McGrady didn't want to branch off into playoff talk until the regular season officially ended, though.

Maybe he does remember past mistakes after all.

"I was young," he said with a laugh. "I was so excited, because I'd been put out of the playoffs the three previous years. I was just so excited to be the eighth seed, and we were playing the No. 1 seed.

"We went up three games to one, and I felt like the series was pretty much done. And I learned my lesson. ... That mistake will never happen again."

McGrady had a phenomenal series, averaging a league-best 31.7 points. But the eighth-seeded Magic started to crumble after McGrady's remarks firedup the Pistons' defense. In the first game after the comments, Detroit won by 31 points. The Pistons won by 15 in each of the last two games, making Orlando just the seventh team in playoff history to lose a seven-game series after building a 3-1 lead.

"It lit a little bit of a fire," Barry said. "You never want to give the opposition anything to feed off of. It's a battle as it is. It's a mental grind and stuff, and you don't need any little extra edge to get the other team over the hump."

That's why Barry said he told the Rockets' media relations department to follow McGrady everywhere this week. He doesn't want to see McGrady looking ahead again.

McGrady assured everyone he was the last player they needed to worry about.

"I didn't know any better. You live and learn in this league," he said. "Now that I look back on that, yeah, I'm embarrassed. At the time, I didn't care. I really didn't."
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:lol
 
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Shinobi

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:lol We gave it to T-Mac good that week. I would love to see him finally get his playoff win since he's my third favourite player, but it's kinda hard to root against Dirk and the Mavs. Hell, there's really no teams in the playoffs that I hate this year, whereas the last five years the Fakers and Jailblazers were the object of my scorn.







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What a great night of basketball for me. My bulls win so we get homecourt advantage in the 1st rd

And if NJ wins against boston or the cavs lose against the raptors, tomorrow will be even better. I could have my favourite player VC back in the playoffs, and lebron might be so disgusted with his team that he'll leave the cavs in a few years and sign with my bulls, putting my second favourite player on my favourite team to dominate for years to come. Somewhere Jerry Krause is screaming to anyone who'll listen "See, that was my master plan all along"
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:lol Yeah, as much as I love Bron (and I really feel bad for him, he's been ridiculously consistent this year for someone who's still a kid), I really wanna see Vince back in the playoffs (yep, he's still my favourite player...Bulls fans still like Scottie Quitten, so they can't say shit :lol). You realize the last time he touched the hardwood in a playoff game was on that infamous graduation Sunday where his shot rimmed out against Philly four years ago? This after a series where he and AI put on the best "can you top THIS?" one on one matchup I've ever witnessed. Man, what I wouldn't give to see a Nets/Sixers playoff tilt...gonna take some magic for that to occur though.







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2. Carter is my favourite player because above all else I'm a Tar Heel fan. That's the reason why I became a Bulls fan (greatest Tar Heel ever), and Carter is the best UNC product in the league right now. And his game bitchslaps anything the haters have to say about him right now

Hater: Carter's a pussy
Carter: Scoreboard bitch

Hater: Carter's a quitter
Carter: Scoreboard bitch

Hater: Vince dogged it in Toronto
Carter: Lets be honest here. Do you really give a fuck whether or not i screwed over those mother canuckers
Hater: Good point
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bigfurb said:
I would say a joke at your expense too, but that would be cruel. Raptor fans are at least used to having a shittyy team, they'll get over it and in a few years their hate will move on to Bosh when he inevitably skips town.
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:lol You know us all too well...






Fifty said:
Oh no you didn't. We were in the same boat, but you done pushed me overboard!


LA Lakers 34 47

Toronto 33 48

*bows down*
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:lol No Faker fan can spin that shit...

Look, I know what Vince did at the start of the season wasn't right. I'm biased enough to believe he didn't intentionally tank it, but I'm objective enough (barely) to know his heart and head simply wasn't into it as a Raptor this year. I really wish he'd would've played better so he could've at least left here on a brighter note. But what's done is done. I still say this franchise has done more to fuck themselves over (and over, and over, and over...) then Vince did. Alas, too many in the Toronto media are buddies of Richard Peddie to go after his ass.

BTW, couldn't Baron Davis also be accused of "tanking it" in NO? Seems he's been playing like a top player for the Warriors of all teams since he's change of scenery. Of course since he's still on a team doomed for the lottery, I guess nobody gives a shit about him. :lol
 
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bigfurb

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:lol :lol :lol Way to go Konex, you've more than likely doomed LBJ's playoff hopes. I'm sure david stern will be sending some of his associates to thank you personally post-haste.
 
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Manick Joe

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A ha ha ha ha, Vinsanity indeed. Now if only Indiana would rollover in the next hour and vacate that 6th spot for the Sixers and some sweet Atlantic revenge.
 
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theo

Contest Winner
Cloudy said:
Yah, looks like they'll make it. Nets are laying an egg :lol
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don't forget thart doc is gonna take out the starters after the 3rd.

not that i give a shit, but i'd take the nets over the cavs because the new cavs ownership doesn't deserve the extra ticket revenue.
 
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Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
KONEX YOU BETTER ROOT FOR THE MAVS TO WIN! GOD DAMN YOUR SICK FUCKED UP CURSE!
 
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Shinobi

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:lol Man, Nets are turning the ball over at will in this quarter...they'll be lucky to escape with a win at this rate.
 
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Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
AirBrian said:
STOP IT RIGHT NOW! PLAYING WITH THE CURSE WILL ONLY GET YOU HURT!!!
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Just root for the Bulls,let konex curse the Mavs :p
 
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theo

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phew, for a minute there i was doubting the curse, but now i feel the true power of it! :lol

paul silas to the cavs organization:

"C U Next Tuesday"
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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I wish the Spurs would've taken this game more seriously, so they could get their 60th win. Right now, they look bored out there. Just cruising until it's over. Boo!
 
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