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The GS Warriors Are NBA Champions; Hold The Record For Best Postseason Record at 16-1
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ryutaro's mama
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Jack The Nipper
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LeBron just needs more playmakers. Maybe he can take a pay cut and join gs.
LyleLanley
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Now days?
Jack The Nipper
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LeBron will be 33 and has a ton of milage on him. Not sure how many more years he can keep doing it.
Kobe broke down and sort of had the same route.
Warrior's single-handedly destroyed the NBA, didn't you know that? The League was 100% fine before KD joined this team.
it took a major injury for kobe to break down
lebron's still got some miles left
LyleLanley
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LeBron is a goddamn basketball cyborg who will play for the next hundred years.
JinjoUnchained
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Once again the NBA fails to award the correct MVP
Zaza for taking out Leonard's ankle
Getting pretty stale.
Lebron's never been hurt. Never. Kobe had a ton of injuries by the time he was 33. How's bron even able to do that is a miracle
The end always comes out of nowhere.
When Kobe won in 2010 people thought the Lakers would be the favorite to get to the Finals again the next year. People also probably assumed the same of the Celtics. They never made it back there and 3 years later Kobe's Achilles exploded in a season where he killed himself trying to drag a bum ass Dwight Howard to the playoffs.
I would not be surprised to see LeBron make the next 2 Finals or never make it again.
Never assume anything in sports. Enjoy the moment and remember that Paul Pierce will always be a beta slack eyed bitch ass bitch.
HellforLeather
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This, they pushed it to a series real hard.
Amory
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Thompson and Green are signed to team friendly, long term deals.
KD has said he'll take a pay cut to keep the rest of the team together. The Warriors will be around for some time.
I'm seeing into his schtick tbh
Preach
Passing of the torch to the Ball dynasty will happen
Skellig Gra
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Durant takes a huge cut so Curry can get a max deal? That's pretty bad optics.
Hyperactivity
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Who goes in his place? Do the Wizards gain a bench? Maybe Bucks REALLY take a leap forward. Maybe Blake Griffin has a crazy career revitalization with the Heat.
That's it really, in terms of surprises.
Kyrie will be 26 next season, entering his prime. The hope for the Cavs is probably that he can finally start shouldering more and more of the load.
I love Kyrie (my favorite guard in the game after Curry) but he needs to learn to make his teammates better.
Hyperactivity
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Problem is that the West was a little more established in 2010. In the East, Lebron was already in his prime.
The only star around their prime in the East is Wall. Most of the other East squads are way too young, so barring a 2012 Thunder type run, I don't really see it happening.
Durant knew the deal when he signed.
The Cavs have two problems. LeBron probably can't get home court and if he tries he will probably break down and not be fresh for playoffs.
Their best bet is to have rest Kyrie and LeBron as much as possible. Have Kyrie take over more responsibility on offense (he really needs to be able to run the offense when LeBron is on the bench instead of just being a ISO God) and somehow find a diamond in the rough tall ass 3 and D player who is at least 6'6" who can slow down KD a little. If they can't find a way to slow down KD it is always going to be a tough matchup.
Those kind of 3 and D guys are really hard to find. Maybe Ariza? Or someone like him.
JinjoUnchained
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Why? A dirty player knocks out a star player on a deliberate dangerous play. The scrubs of the league need to realize that it's a star driven league and that the stars are the reason why they get paid. Players like LeBron, Leonard, Durant are worth at least twice their contract contract values, but that surplus gets distributed to role players through the CBA.
If a role player like Zaza, Patrick Beverly, or Kelly Olynyk takes out a star through a deliberate dirty play, they should be expelled from the league and forfeit their salary. What other incentive do they have to not take out the other team's stars?
No salt intended against Durant, he earned that ring with his MVP performance.
Violence Jack
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I'm guessing that Kevin Love is gone as is Korver, D-Will, and Jefferson. They're going to be looking for a SG, so GM LeBron is probably putting in calls right now to PG and Butler. Then he might look towards bringing in Blake.
But I'm happy for Durant as a spurned Sonics fan.
But I'm happy for Durant as a spurned Sonics fan.
It's not a huge cut, 35.5 mil vs 32 mil. That allows them to retain bird rights to Iggy and Livingston.
Curry has been underpaid for years due to his prior ankle injuries. He's getting his max deal this year, and KD will probably sign another 2-year deal with player option, so he'll get that 35+ next year when he re-signs again. The real question is what happens with Klay next year when his contract is up.
Hyperactivity
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Best shot is probably developing Iman Shumpert's offense (ouch). Maybe their Derrick Williams reclamation project gets back on track, he was good before players returned from injury/were traded to team and put him at the end of the bench.
Not a 3 and D player, but I'm interested in what they do with Tavares on development.
Cavs frontcourt is dead without Love. Tristan Thompson might match up decent with the Dubs, but there are other teams out there, and you don't want Lebron getting banged up getting rebounds.
Its like the guy who doesn't know when the joke is over. "ZAZA MVP!". That was maybe snarky and edgy back when it happened. Now, not so much.
Hyperactivity
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Fuck off. They might just, maybe, are decent humans and don't want to injure players.
Also, the NBA players are mostly all friends with each other. You'd lose a lot of respect for that sort of shit.
Stabby McSter
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who's working out with lebron this sumer
Khalifa Jayy
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Vegetable Lasagna
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Haha they would have been back no matter what and could have won without Durant. Salty.
Golden State is heavily built from draft picks. Curry, Thompson and Green all were. Durant was a free agent, so how do you block that? Even Damien Jones is putting in work. Dubs are just schooling everyone on and off the court. On the other hand, GM Lebron has to buy Championships
Did you just call Kelly Olynyk a role player? He's a star.
AlteredForms
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There's 4 All-Stars in the starting lineup and their reserves have skills too. This series was over from the start.
Edit: Finals MVP was Lebron's, even though his team lost. Jerry West accomplished this and we need to see it return.
Edit: Finals MVP was Lebron's, even though his team lost. Jerry West accomplished this and we need to see it return.
What is deliberate? Is what LMA did to Durant deliberate and ban worthy? I think you can clearly punish players with special punishment, but what you are proposing is nonsense.
Iggy dunked so many times this finals lol. I thought that everytime he dunked near Lebron.
Now someone photoshop 2 rings on Iggy's fingers.
I don't even think people are mad at Durant. People really mad that Lebron feasibly has no chance to stand up against this team that potentially stands to run the league for the next few years barring injuries.
The superman that has dominated the league for the better part of a decade straight even with his Herculean effort and stats isn't enough to get the cavs to another ring. Makes people sick
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The superman that has dominated the league for the better part of a decade straight even with his Herculean effort and stats isn't enough to get the cavs to another ring. Makes people sick
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Alligatorjandro
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Just send the best players to the cavs and warriors.
Have two mega teams.
Have two mega teams.
NYR
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I love how is very next line is that he is playing for a super team now.
Fenderputty
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He's gonna call in the regular season and take a bunch of HGH for the play off until he retires.
illmatic22
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Lebron's chasedown blocks went missing. Too tired?
brokenbeans
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Nick Young
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i3allistic
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all these hate on the warriors destroying NBA competition ....is funny as fuck! if you don't like it, email your favorite NBA team and tell them to do something about it ...if not ..fuck outta here with your shit
Oakland was lit AF last night, bout to be even more lit on Thursday parade!!
Oakland was lit AF last night, bout to be even more lit on Thursday parade!!
LegendofDragoonLives
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shiftplusone
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I'm a mavs fan, we got ours with our guy.
The mavs aren't competitive because of a lot of reasons.
Lots of people who have suck ass teams just jealous of GS because their team sucks. My team sucks, GS isn't the reason.