NBA Playoffs begin on Saturday.

Coinstartled · May 30, 2018 5:42PM

@erikthredd said:
Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

Forget the FBI and Russian hackers, corrupt game 7 refs already buried James Harden and certainly have their sights on LeBron.

Justacommeman · May 30, 2018 5:43PM

Michael Jordan was soft

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bronco2078 · May 30, 2018 5:46PM

@Justacommeman said:
Michael Jordan was soft

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He had a soft spot in his heart for his bookie. Well any bookie really .

erikthredd · May 30, 2018 5:50PM

@Coinstartled said:

@erikthredd said:
Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

Forget the FBI and Russian hackers, corrupt game 7 refs already buried James Harden and certainly have their sights on LeBron.

Riiight and Houston missing twenty seven threes in a row had nothing to do with them losing in your eyes? Houston was on borrowed time before CP3 got hurt and losing that series was inevitable.

Wait did you actually watch a sporting event for once? I thought you were protesting sporting events because your neighbor's dog farted or some thing like that

bronco2078 · May 30, 2018 5:52PM

@erikthredd said:

@Coinstartled said:

@erikthredd said:
Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

Forget the FBI and Russian hackers, corrupt game 7 refs already buried James Harden and certainly have their sights on LeBron.

Riiight and Houston missing twenty seven threes in a row had nothing to do with them losing in your eyes? Houston was on borrowed time before CP3 got hurt and losing that series was inevitable.

Wait did you actually watch a sporting event for once? I thought you were protesting sporting events because your neighbor's dog farted or some thing like that

the twenty seven missed threes was caused by an outbreak of Rozier-Smartitis .

erikthredd · May 30, 2018 5:53PM

@bronco2078 said:

@erikthredd said:

@Coinstartled said:

@erikthredd said:
Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

Forget the FBI and Russian hackers, corrupt game 7 refs already buried James Harden and certainly have their sights on LeBron.

Riiight and Houston missing twenty seven threes in a row had nothing to do with them losing in your eyes? Houston was on borrowed time before CP3 got hurt and losing that series was inevitable.

Wait did you actually watch a sporting event for once? I thought you were protesting sporting events because your neighbor's dog farted or some thing like that

the twenty seven missed threes was caused by an outbreak of Rozier-Smartitis .

Thats because they were shooting from Brown-town with Jaylen.

edit:its been hilarious listening to other Celtics fans over the past month saying Boston should trade Kyrie then start Rozier.
One hits a game 7 winning three in the Finals while the other goes 0-10 from three in the conference Finals game 7.

Coinstartled · May 30, 2018 5:57PM

@erikthredd said:

@Coinstartled said:

@erikthredd said:
Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

Forget the FBI and Russian hackers, corrupt game 7 refs already buried James Harden and certainly have their sights on LeBron.

Riiight and Houston missing twenty seven threes in a row had nothing to do with them losing in your eyes? Houston was on borrowed time before CP3 got hurt and losing that series was inevitable.

Wait did you actually watch a sporting event for once? I thought you were protesting sporting events because your neighbor's dog farted or some thing like that

Not so much a matter of winning or losing but covering the 6 and a half point spread. Refs made it by a couple points.

They will be rich when sports wagering goes national.

erikthredd · May 30, 2018 6:00PM

@Coinstartled said:

@erikthredd said:

@Coinstartled said:

@erikthredd said:
Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

Forget the FBI and Russian hackers, corrupt game 7 refs already buried James Harden and certainly have their sights on LeBron.

Riiight and Houston missing twenty seven threes in a row had nothing to do with them losing in your eyes? Houston was on borrowed time before CP3 got hurt and losing that series was inevitable.

Wait did you actually watch a sporting event for once? I thought you were protesting sporting events because your neighbor's dog farted or some thing like that

Not so much a matter of winning or losing but covering the 6 and a half point spread. Refs made it by a couple points.

They will be rich when sports wagering goes national.

Cool story Bro.

Coinstartled · May 30, 2018 6:04PM

Being a Pats fan, you need to be trusting.

erikthredd · May 30, 2018 6:10PM

Oh so we're gonna start posting any randomn thing now?

oops can't forget the smiley

BLUEJAYWAY · May 30, 2018 6:15PM

@Coinstartled said:

@stevek said:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/new-browns-db-damarious-randall-makes-big-promise-cavs-upset-warriors-163500604.html

New Browns DB Damarious Randall makes big promise if Cavs upset Warriors

Damarious Randall
@RandallTime
If the Cleveland Cavaliers win the 2018 NBA finals I’ll buy everyone who retweet’s this a jersey...
11:58 PM - May 28, 2018

That could be very costly.

Maybe he'll take out an insurance policy like those NBA owners do to pay off on those big dollar full/half court baskets that fans try for.

stevek · May 30, 2018 6:27PM

One of the best pranks of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI7AUgp5fPI

BLUEJAYWAY · May 30, 2018 6:31PM

Don't know why, but I have a can't explain it, uneasy type of feeling about this Finals. I just don't think it's a slam dunk (no pun intended) for GS. However, I will hazard a guess: GS in 6.

Brick · May 30, 2018 6:49PM

Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

I generally don't like to discuss politics or religion with you guys, mostly because most of you are on the wrong side of most issues and most of you are headed straight to hell.
However I would be willing to bet there were more dead people voting for Hilary than Russians voting for Trump.

Justacommeman · May 30, 2018 6:56PM

@stevek said:
One of the best pranks of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI7AUgp5fPI

Brutal

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galaxy27 · May 30, 2018 7:15PM

when all of you scooby dums get to the bottom of the russian scandal, would you then put my mind at ease by finding out how much doobage gary johnson put away prior to the aleppo moment

erikthredd · May 30, 2018 7:17PM

@Brick said:

Trump also benefited from both the FBI & Russians,let me know when either one helps Lebron beat GS.

I generally don't like to discuss politics or religion with you guys, mostly because most of you are on the wrong side of most issues and most of you are headed straight to hell.
However I would be willing to bet there were more dead people voting for Hilary than Russians voting for Trump.

so what you're saying Lebron needs Russian zombies to beat GS?

Brick · May 30, 2018 7:27PM

That's another thing. My great grandson goes around pretending to kill zombies. Aren't they already dead?

erikthredd · May 30, 2018 7:29PM

@Brick said:
That's another thing. My great grandson goes around pretending to kill zombies. Aren't they already dead?

Apparently not if they're voting for Hilary

keets · May 30, 2018 7:57PM

perhaps if I post my take on the first three installments of the Warriors vs. Cavs it can give you guys something to post about, thus moving away from the Political discussion which is looking like it might go off the rails.

--- Series #1, 2015 --- this had the earmarks of pre-destiny as both Golden State and Cleveland were loaded. unfortunately, Kevin Love suffered a broken arm and never played in the Finals. to make matters worse, I think it was Game 3 when Kyrie Irving suffered his first knee injury and never played again. that left Lebron James to carry the load and the Finals that were supposed to be exciting ended up being anti-climactic.

--- Series #2, 2016 --- this was supposed to be a cake-walk for Golden State as they set an NBA regular season record at 73-9 and only lost twice at home. they were widely proclaimed as the Best Team of All-Time and after going up 3-1 in the Finals and starting the celebration they lost the final three games, two of them at home including Game 7. that had never been done before in NBA history.

--- Series #3, 2017 --- in an attempt to improve an already stacked roster, Golden State signed Kevin Durant in the off-season. the move paid off as the Warriors won the Western Conference, going 12-0 heading into the finals, and the "Rubber Match" was set. already up 2-0 at Cleveland in Game 3, the Warriors prevailed in a close game, 118-113, when Cleveland went cold, I don't think they scored during the final 3+ minutes of play and the result was a Warriors 11-0 run to the finish line. Cleveland won Game 4 to avoid the sweep but the Warriors went home up 3-1 and finished the Cavs in five Games.

--- Series #4, 2018 --- this one has yet to be written but it sort of looks like heading into it that it's somewhere between 2015- 2016-2017. the Warriors are essentially the same Team as last year but don't seem as dominant, the Cavs have a very different roster, missing Kyrie Irving and having Kevin Love coming out of concussion protocol. there chances of winning will diminish if/when Andre Iguadola returns, and even without him it is a daunting task.

Justacommeman · May 30, 2018 9:28PM

Geez keets is the GF out tonight? That’s some thesis

mark

keets · May 31, 2018 2:57AM

she as sawing logs when I posted just prior to joining her.

we'll be watching at a friends tonight, ABC live streaming is not yet available in our locale which sucks. I bought an antenna the other day but we are in a poor location, being equi-distant from the two main broadcasters that would be putting out a good signal. option two was to purchase the least expensive cable package and then cancel but they only offer "12 months" packages for new subscribers.

the upside is that I'm 1-0 at my buddies place, we watched a Boston game together. I think I'll need to take a nap after work today before going over for the night's festivities.

SanctionII · May 31, 2018 6:03AM

Oracle will be rocking tonight. Someone should monitor the decibel level and report it when GS makes a three point shot.

stevek · May 31, 2018 6:12AM

Things could get ugly in there with the score.

Any chances of LeBron breaking down and crying?

LarkinCollector · May 31, 2018 6:48AM

@stevek said:
Any chances of LeBron breaking down and crying?

This might be the only thing worth watching the finals for at this point.

Coinstartled · May 31, 2018 8:49AM

We have one half of the GOAT debate, coming off a spectacular season and getting 12 points to boot. Eight straight finals is impressive. Unless my math is soggy that means that he has led his teams to 24 consecutive non final series victories.

Players like this do not roll over in the spotlight. His support cast is less than exemplary, but unlike baseball where you can only bat every ninth time, LeBron can have his hands on the ball as often as he likes.

I'll call tonight a win for the Cavs. Taking home advantage away from GS, Cavs takes the series in 6.

Maybe Keets will get a free jersey out of this!

keets · May 31, 2018 10:39AM

we have a customer who works for ESPN and does games for the Cavs, Indians, Browns, OSU and occasionally he gets to Cincy. we are always working him for tickets and he was just in the store to look at some jewelry. today we tried but he can't guarantee us any seats for the games here

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 12:13PM

Kevin Love got cleared to play tonight.

keets · May 31, 2018 1:10PM

eric, will your buddy Foster be working any of these games??

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 1:23PM

From what has been pointed out on talk radio he usually refs the 3rd of 4th game in a series and the majority of the time,the team thats down in the series usually wins that game. I can't remember ever hearing that he ref'd games late in a series. I don't think they make public who will be officiating certain games beyond the next game scheduled.
At 9am on gamedays the NBA will post which refs will be calling games that night on this link
http://official.nba.com/referee-assignments/

Coinstartled · May 31, 2018 1:36PM

Maybe Donaghy will ref game 1.

bronco2078 · May 31, 2018 1:40PM

As a boston fan I have to pull for cleveland purely because they beat my team. LeBron has had 4 or 5 days to recover , Kevin Love will play. It's all coming together nicely.

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 1:42PM

Tim Donaghy runs his own sports handicapping website these days. It makes you wonder how many of his former reffing buddies "stay in touch"?

Coinstartled · May 31, 2018 1:51PM

@erikthredd said:
Tim Donaghy runs his own sports handicapping website these days. It makes you wonder how many of his former reffing buddies "stay in touch"?

...or ex GOATS

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 1:55PM

The mission statement on his website says nothing about farm animals.

galaxy27 · May 31, 2018 2:07PM

you guys picking the Cavs tonight are cray cray

Warriors will win comfortably tonight (double-digits)

bronco2078 · May 31, 2018 5:54PM

what is this Jimmy Kimmel garbage? What does that idiot have to do with basketball , He sucks .

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 5:56PM

ABC runs his 30mins show before every Finals game for some reason.

bronco2078 · May 31, 2018 6:12PM

@erikthredd said:
ABC runs his 30mins show before every Finals game for some reason.

I have been complaining off and on about espn and tnt now I wish they would go back to those clowns.

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 6:14PM

ABC is espn. Its the same three announcers in Mark Jackson,Jeff Van Gundy & the other dude.

bronco2078 · May 31, 2018 6:23PM

@erikthredd said:
ABC is espn. Its the same three announcers in Mark Jackson,Jeff Van Gundy & the other dude.

I know but they shat kimmel into the mix , that makes it worse. I wish they would skip all pregame shows , no one watches that . Lets get a panel of washed up retired athletes to mumble about the game and be wrong about everything in advance., how about just no ,

In the other series they were starting at 830 ,so for the finals they pushed the games back just to add kimmel? Morons

erikthredd · May 31, 2018 6:25PM

The East games were starting at 8:30,the West games were starting at 9. Nothing has changed aside from Kimmel before the pregame show.

Justacommeman · May 31, 2018 6:39PM

Game 2 starts at 8:30

Cleveland played a perfect 1st quarter and are only up a point

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erikthredd · May 31, 2018 6:44PM

We'll have to let keets know he can watch these games on espn's site
http://www.espn.com/watch/?id=3380156

galaxy27 · May 31, 2018 6:50PM

GS sleepwalking thru another 1st half

Cavs look great

DIMEMAN · May 31, 2018 6:59PM

Looks like it was a good idea to have them play this game......instead of just giving it to GS!

DIMEMAN · May 31, 2018 7:08PM

Why the "T" on Draymond???? It was definitely a foul, but not a "T"!

Justacommeman · May 31, 2018 7:09PM

@galaxy27 said:
GS sleepwalking thru another 1st half

Cavs look great

And it's tied.

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erikthredd · May 31, 2018 7:09PM

Pretty entertaining game so far.

Brick · May 31, 2018 7:09PM

Appears Golden State is in perfect position to get a fairly easy win. Drats.

NBA Playoffs begin on Saturday.

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