phunkdaddy said:

Damn Miami. Wade, Bron and em came up short. The lynch mob will have at

it but the Heat gonna be alright. Every dawg has his day.

They put it on themselves, talking all that smack from jump street. Bottom line, their stars were out-played by Dallas' stars. Too many turnovers, lapses on defense and how many points did these cats leave on the free throw line?

babybugz said:

Timmy84 said:

More like Poor Scottie. Pippen was all like "he better than Jordan"... when LeBron stop acting like it's all about him and not his team and win seven straight, then he can holler...

I know it’s old news but can you really blame lebron for going to winning team or at least a team that can make the playoffs. I would have done that too not even going to lie but he has to humble himself maybe things work out better for him.

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Cavs had the best record in the league the past two seasons.

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

babybugz said:

I know it’s old news but can you really blame lebron for going to winning team or at least a team that can make the playoffs. I would have done that too not even going to lie but he has to humble himself maybe things work out better for him.

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Cavs had the best record in the league the past two seasons.

But it was a flawed team that was never going to win a title, and LeBron knew it. He wanted to go to a team where he could win a ring as fast as possible and not have to carry it like he did with Cleveland. Nothing wrong with that, just the way he went about doing it.

uPtoWnNY said:

phunkdaddy said:

Damn Miami. Wade, Bron and em came up short. The lynch mob will have at

it but the Heat gonna be alright. Every dawg has his day.

They put it on themselves, talking all that smack from jump street. Bottom line, their stars were out-played by Dallas' stars. Too many turnovers, lapses on defense and how many points did these cats leave on the free throw line?

They were abysmal from the line. Trust me the Heat aren't the only team that trash talk, you

saw it some tonight from the Mavs players and Mark Jackson pointed it out when DeShawn

Stevenson did it after hitting a 3. The only difference is the Heat were under a microscope

and every little thing they do is magnified times 10. Show me an NFL game where there

isn't any trash talking. The Spurs may be the only team in the NBA that don't engage in

a little trash talking.

LeBron, you've just lost the NBA finals and Mav's beat you on your home floor.

What are you going to do now?

LeBron: "I don't know!! I don't get a trip to Disney World and I don't have a place to call home!

uPtoWnNY said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Cavs had the best record in the league the past two seasons.

But it was a flawed team that was never going to win a title, and LeBron knew it. He wanted to go to a team where he could win a ring as fast as possible and not have to carry it like he did with Cleveland. Nothing wrong with that, just the way he went about doing it.

Gotta be fair though. This is the age of free agency in sports.

Big name free agents are generally given the red carpet treatment

these days when visiting teams. Let's not forget that Prime Time Deion

Sanders left the Falcons to go to the 49ers because he thought he

had the best chance to win. He followed that up the next season by joining

the Cowboys because they gave him the best chance to win.

phunkdaddy said:

uPtoWnNY said:

They put it on themselves, talking all that smack from jump street. Bottom line, their stars were out-played by Dallas' stars. Too many turnovers, lapses on defense and how many points did these cats leave on the free throw line?

They were abysmal from the line. Trust me the Heat aren't the only team that trash talk, you

saw it some tonight from the Mavs players and Mark Jackson pointed it out when DeShawn

Stevenson did it after hitting a 3. The only difference is the Heat were under a microscope

and every little thing they do is magnified times 10. Show me an NFL game where there

isn't any trash talking. The Spurs may be the only team in the NBA that don't engage in

a little trash talking.

Just stop now

The Heat are the only team to put on a show, the ultimate trash talk.

CRYAMI!

The world is a better place now.

Alamine said:

phunkdaddy said:

They were abysmal from the line. Trust me the Heat aren't the only team that trash talk, you

saw it some tonight from the Mavs players and Mark Jackson pointed it out when DeShawn

Stevenson did it after hitting a 3. The only difference is the Heat were under a microscope

and every little thing they do is magnified times 10. Show me an NFL game where there

isn't any trash talking. The Spurs may be the only team in the NBA that don't engage in

a little trash talking.

Just stop now

The Heat are the only team to put on a show, the ultimate trash talk.

Sure they are. All the other NBA teams are just pure as the driven snow.

Man this shit is getting worse than Yahoo. People are treating LeBron like he's

fucking Osama Bin Laden and the Heat like they are Al Queda. Is it that serious

because they lost in the Finals of the NBA championship?

I think what brought Miami down wasn't their ignorance, they just couldn't stop Dallas. Dallas was too powerful for them. Bet they wished L.A. was in the finals, would've made a better story because L.A. was spent.

Chris Bosh crying

Timmy84 said:

I think what brought Miami down wasn't their ignorance, they just couldn't stop Dallas. Dallas was too powerful for them. Bet they wished L.A. was in the finals, would've made a better story because L.A. was spent.

They completely shut down Lebron too.

Another deserving person FINALLY getting a ring is my Panamanian uncle from another mother, Rolando Blackman, who played for Dallas for 12 years and was its biggest star before Dirk. He's now the team's director of basketball development and will get a ring with the organization that drafted him 30 years ago on June 9, 1981.

This was a good weekend for Panamanians in sports.

suga10 said:

Chris Bosh crying

LMAO at Bron's comments towards the end. The witch hunters will eventually

have to get back to the real world and get on with their own problems

and personal lives. Classic.

SCNDLS said:

noimageatall said:

Man look..he already threw the Xbox controller across the room. I'm not taking that risk even if he IS my son.

I tried to console him by telling him, "See? If Bron had gone to the Bulls like he was supposed to...!"

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Girl, tell him to calm down before he have heatstroke.

hahahahaha I'll tell him tomorrow. Sure glad I didn't buy him those Heat cufflinks for father's day.

SCNDLS said:

Another deserving person FINALLY getting a ring is my Panamanian uncle from another mother, Rolando Blackman, who played for Dallas for 12 years and was its biggest star before Dirk. He's now the team's director of basketball development and will get a ring with the organization that drafted him 30 years ago on June 9, 1981.

This was a good weekend for Panamanians in sports.

Ro Blackman would have had a ring with the Knicks if fucking Pat the Rat substituted him for dumbass John Starks in Game 7 of the '94 Finals. Shit still pisses me off to this day. So I'm glad the Mavs stuck it to Riley.

uPtoWnNY said:

SCNDLS said:

Another deserving person FINALLY getting a ring is my Panamanian uncle from another mother, Rolando Blackman, who played for Dallas for 12 years and was its biggest star before Dirk. He's now the team's director of basketball development and will get a ring with the organization that drafted him 30 years ago on June 9, 1981.

This was a good weekend for Panamanians in sports.

Ro Blackman would have had a ring with the Knicks if fucking Pat the Rat substituted him for dumbass John Starks in Game 7 of the '94 Finals. Shit still pisses me off to this day. So I'm glad the Mavs stuck it to Riley.

Even Riley admits that was his biggest mistake in his coaching career.

The parade is sometime next week and Mark Cuban has already agreed to pay for the whole thing due to the city's budget woes. He said everyone is getting a ring including the towel boys and stadium attendants. I also liked when he insisted that David Stern first give the trophy to Don Carter, who brought the team to Dallas in 1980. That was classy.

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suga10 said:

Chris Bosh crying

Is this the person who said, he and the Heat were going to win 4, 5, 6, championships? The man has put his foot in his mouth ever since he became a free agent. The real world, he a profesional basketball player, a job for which there's little if any gray area, you win or you lose. In his real world he could NOT take the pressure and folded. To be blunt, what gets a lot of brothas in trouble... their mouth and ego, James is the classic example. yeah i said it.

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TD3 said:

suga10 said:

Chris Bosh crying

Is this the person who said, he and the Heat were going to win 4, 5, 6, championships? The man has put his foot in his mouth ever since he became a free agent. The real world, he a proffesional basketball player a job for which there's little oif any gray area, you win or you lose. In his real world he could take the pressure and folded. To be blunt, what gets a lot of brothas in trouble... their mouth and ego, James is the classic example. yeah i said it.

I said the same thing to my friend last night. Dirk's been criticized for being a soft European player his whole career (and he was). But maybe the very fact that he was European is why he accepted the criticism and worked on the things that needed improvement even 13 years in the league. How many guys with that kinda tenure continues evolving their game? I don't think I've seen a veteran player do this. Jus look at how Dirk handled winning the West Conference (walked off the court, no chest thumping celebration) and last night (he walked off the court with seconds left on the clock to have a moment and almost did not come out to get the trophy, his teammates had to beg him). He clearly has a different mentality and approach and American players could learn a lot from him.

However, a lot of times with bruhs in the league you can't give them an honest assessment of their skills or feedback on things they need to improve without that playground mentality of "you can't tell me shit cuz I got skills" taking over. Criticism isn't always bad.

And if LBJ can't look at this game and honestly say yeah we did not play well and I need to accept responsibility for that and shut his fucking mouth and fix it, he'll never win. They tried being brash and arrogant and it backfired. Now try showing some humility and even vulnerability and maybe the backlash will diminish. But he was still arrogant to the end in the press conference.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/n...als_061311

Five years ago, the Mavericks had a 2-0 Finals lead on the Heat, an immense Game 3 edge late, and lost four straight, lost the title. Remember ’06 was Terry’s way of reminding Nowitzki about the most important thing of all: Remember the failure, remember the ache – and make it all go away now. “If I would have won one early in my career, maybe I would have never put all the work and time that I have over the last 13 years,” Nowitzki said.

He’s been the most awkwardly graceful star the sport’s ever seen, a testament to a game played far below the rim, and deep within the mind. The Mavericks were a remarkable story, and Nowitzki a remarkable star. Dallas swept the two-time defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers, beat the burgeoning Oklahoma City Thunder, and finally beat the defending July champion, Miami Heat.

“It wasn’t about our high-flying star power,” Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. “Come on, how often do we have to hear about the LeBron James(notes) Reality Show? When are people going to talk about the purity of the game and what these guys accomplished?”

Forever now. Once again, James was an uncertain, uneven star with a championship on the line. He didn’t play well in these Finals, and worst in the moments that the Heat needed him most. He didn’t want the ball in the fourth quarter, passing it away as fast as it had come to him.

Dirk Nowitzki celebrates with longtime teammate Jason Terry during the second half of Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
(AP)

James will win championships, but he’ll never enjoy a moment so singularly pure as Nowitzki did. He’ll never have this connection to a franchise and a fandom, a communion of shared struggle and pursuit and angst. This is still Dwyane Wade’s(notes) town, and probably Wade’s team. One Eastern Conference star said, “Right now all he’s doing is helping D-Wade get his second ring.”

To hear James suggest that the world will have to return to its sad, little ordinary lives and he’ll still get to be LeBron James late Sunday night was a window into his warped, fragile psyche. It was sad, and portends to how disconnected to the world he truly is.

“They have to wake up and have the same life that they had before they woke up today … the same personal problems,” James said. “I’m going to continue to live the way that I want to live. … But they have to get back to the real world at some point.”

There’s nothing real about James’ world, and never has been. He’s a prisoner of a life that his sycophants and enablers and our sporting culture has created for him. He’s rich and talented and something of a tortured soul. He’s the flawed superstar for these flawed times. He’s a creation of a basketball breeding ground full of such twisted priorities and warped principles. Almost every person who’s ever had to work closely with him, who has spent significant time, who’s watched him belittle and bully people, told me they were rooting hard against him. That’s sad, and that’s something he doesn’t understand and probably never will.

When the game was over, his attitude was downright defiant. They had done enough to win, he insisted, and of course he was wrong.

Strange, but Chris Bosh(notes) knew the truth. When he talked about Nowitzki, you had to wonder to whom he was directing his words. “There’s nothing extra. There’s nothing super. [Nowitzki] was just himself. And in these situations, I think when you’re yourself and you play your basketball, the best thing always happen.

“He’s worked very hard, for a very long time and he deserves it. I think we can take a page out of their book and really just pay attention to people’s work ethic and how much time they put into the game. Obviously, what we did wasn’t enough.”

As the buzzer sounded on a 105-95 victory, Nowitzki didn’t run to the middle of the floor, into the throbbing mob of teammates and coaches, cameras and flickering lights. He wanted to get out of there, wanted to be alone in the visiting locker room. The tears had started to come, and he just thought that he ought to be alone with them.

Eventually, the Mavericks had to drag him back out to take his Finals MVP trophy, and take his bow on the podium for national television. In the culminating moment of his career, Nowitzki was sheepish, deferring and humbled. He seemed so at peace, so contented. He had taken everything the basketball world could throw his way, and there was no Bleep You moment on Sunday night. There was no I Told You So.

Dirk doesn’t do endorsements and doesn’t do self-promotion. He doesn’t care. He never wanted to be a brand. He wanted to be an NBA champion.

Finally, the clock had pushed back to 1:20 a.m., early Monday and Nowitzki clutched his MVP trophy on the walk out of the arena, out onto the loading dock. There were still Mavericks fans waiting outside the barricades, cheering him, chanting “MVP … MVP … ” Yes, he clutched the trophy, but mostly the memories of making the Mavericks a relevant franchise out of a joke, carving a legacy and a legend as a forever hero. LeBron James will win a title, but he’ll never own it the way that Dirk Nowitzki did this one.

The Mavericks bus was packed with players and coaches and family, and the door opened up wide for Nowitzki. The noise and laughter and love came tumbling out for him. He climbed on, the bus peeled out of the parking lot and toward the Venetian Causeway across the green waters of Biscayne Bay, toward a long night of partying, and a longer life as a champion. And here’s how the Year of LeBron James finally ended in a balmy night in June: Dirk Nowitzki was taking his team, his trophy, his talents to South Beach.

I'll take Dallas in 6...............................

phunkdaddy said:

Alamine said:

Just stop now

The Heat are the only team to put on a show, the ultimate trash talk.

Sure they are. All the other NBA teams are just pure as the driven snow.

Man this shit is getting worse than Yahoo. People are treating LeBron like he's

fucking Osama Bin Laden and the Heat like they are Al Queda. Is it that serious

because they lost in the Finals of the NBA championship?

Thank you. And some of these remarks I've seen about LeBron are ugly and ignorant. Wasting their time and energy hating on a dude they don't know personally. Bunch of fucking losers.

The hate 4 Lebron seems quite unhealthy.............and scary as well.

uPtoWnNY said:

phunkdaddy said:

Sure they are. All the other NBA teams are just pure as the driven snow.

Man this shit is getting worse than Yahoo. People are treating LeBron like he's

fucking Osama Bin Laden and the Heat like they are Al Queda. Is it that serious

because they lost in the Finals of the NBA championship?

Thank you. And some of these remarks I've seen about LeBron are ugly and ignorant. Wasting their time and energy hating on a dude they don't know personally. Bunch of fucking losers.

It is quite ridiculous huh...like he was the first athlete to be arrogant.....pulease.....

I'm a Sixers and Nets fan....die hard......they have SUCKED for years...and I love AI...yeah that's right....he has probably the same issues as Lebron withhis mouth and actions...so....but I see the player that they are......I rooted for the Heat simply because I wanted them to stick to this country and it's over sensational portrayal of villifying not just Lebron but the team I simply was tired of seeing the Lakers and the Bulls and the Celtics all the freaking time, I got great joy that for once their asses got sat the fuck down....now it's the HEAT's turn to reflect and try to switch up some things for the next season while they sit their asses down...I bet the other teams mentioned are doing the same cuz they have some of the biggest ego's running in theNBA Miami is not the only ones with that out there..... had the audacity to leave the CAVS...OMFG....gasp no he didn't.... REALLY!?

It was major news FOREVER and the coverage was just short of a modern day lynching. I agree with him at the end of his speech ...keep it the fuck moving will ya now...BUT NO....the media will beat this until game one of the new season and the comments will be ....can the big three do it this season or choke up again like they did the last...blah blah blah....This is why I stop watching sports cuz my lil pressure can't take the bullshit in the media....My son is a Lebron fanatic, unlike me he will follow him wherever he plays My poor lil Sixers and Nets have struggled 4EVER but I'm not gonna toss them away...Hell I root for the Oakland Raiders been a fan for years....you knew they lost with so many missed opportunities 12 or 13 points at the free throw line and ridiculous passing and turnovers pretty much put the nail in the coffin for the Heat...my son actually said going into the 4th quarter that they were going to lose. You live and you learn and I believe they will, but the media will keep the momentum going of spewing hatred towards a team you would have thought commited genocide...it's just entertainment at the end of the day right.

Graycap23 said:

The hate 4 Lebron seems quite unhealthy.............and scary as well.

Right on Gray! It's stupid and unnecessary. The Heat are an awesome team. They made it to the finals and were beaten by a better team. Congrats to Dallas!

For real, celebs need to stay the fuck off Facebook and Twitter, more often than not you sound like a fool. LBJ is his own worst enemy when it comes to communicating with the media and to the public. Ya'll can blame the haters all you want, but too many times this past season LBJ has said some dumb shit at the worst times giving the media ample ammo to go in on his ass. Learn to shut the hell up, for once, especially when you're not on your job and your team is losing the Finals. Even Mark Cuban's learned that lesson.

“The Greater Man upstairs know when it’s my time. Right now isn’t the time.” –LeBron James, on his Miami Heat team’s inability to capture the 2011 NBA Championship.

Really? So now God doesn't want you to win? Way to take responsibility.

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Sigh...seeing all this just makes me even more sad and depressed that my San Antonio Spurs probably won't be in contention for a title again for another few years, at least. I thought they had a chance to make some noise this year, but something didn't feel right before the first game of the playoffs. Little did I know it was fate that was preparing to make a mockery of 'em in the first round!

Now, they're too old to be considered a threat for the future, unless some major changes take place. We were THA SHIT for most of the last decade, but this is a new one. We had a good ass run, though! Nobody could fuck with us for a few of those years, and it felt GOOD!!!

And oh yeah, congrats to the Mavs and their fans.