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Wish I could fast forward to June and the LAL/MIA Armageddon Finals
Well you got one of those teams right
what do u mean? u thinks the knicks will outduel the heat?
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what do u mean? u thinks the knicks will outduel the heat?
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Sick pic with showing agony in the fans faces in the background
Chill... The #Dunkman Is like his version of Mike's one hand leaner.
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Sick pic with showing agony in the fans faces in the background
Its his trademark dunk
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Sick pic with showing agony in the fans faces in the background
iwas thinking about this the other day. he never does liek a 180 double pump or a 360 or something different he just coks it back
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just realized the lakers are at .500
So the team that people thought before the season could challenge the Bulls all-time win record is now getting
for being .500.? How standards have changed. (And considering that the Lakers' next game is on the road against OKC, that .500 might not last too long).
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Watching that same *** dunk for 10 years makes me yawn everytime he's on a fastbreak. Trademark or not, **** is weak.
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Westbrook was looking for his shot most of the time last year regardless of who was out there.
Good thing he wouldn't be primarily off the ball then. When Harden was out there with Russ, Harden was usually off the ball as the spot up guy. If he didnt have an open three he either moved it on or called for a screen & got to the rim or hit the roll man.
But Russ was usually the 1 when he and harden shared the court, particularly in the fourth
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It does get old, that's why I always say MJ was the greatest and as an entertainer on the court every time he got on a fast break ain't no telling, everyone stood from their seat whether it was a rock the cradle and etc Bron oh you just know its gonna be the usual....
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All Phil pics and "Deal with It" GIF's aside, how does anyone believe that the Lakers won't chase down GS, HOU, and/or Utah for a playoff berth? Too much talent on the roster and the Kobe factor. Whether they actually do any damage with a playoff spot is another story.
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James and the Heat Are Always in the Knicks’ Way From New York Times
There are times — and Sunday had to be one of them — when the chilling realization must run through the Knicks, and all those emotionally tethered to them, that their Eastern Conference fate for another cluster of years was cruelly settled during the summer of 2010, when they thought they were in the game for LeBron James.
On the day they were granted a free-agent audience with the self-styled King, a wheelchair-bound Donnie Walsh, their team president at the time, came away with the intuitive clarity that James would never set up shop at Madison Square Garden. He would only visit and make it a habit to break New York’s heart, precisely the way he did in Miami’s 99-93 victory, the Heat’s 14th straight win.
It is true that fate will occasionally intervene in such cases of inevitability. An injury to Boston’s Bill Russell meant a championship for the St. Louis Hawks in 1958. Michael Jordan took a sabbatical from basketball and created an opening that Patrick Ewing and the Knicks nearly slipped through in 1994.
It’s always possible that a ligament could snap or cartilage might tear. After James fell hard to the court and clutched his left knee Sunday, no doubt there were some among the Garden loyalists who, if only for a devilish moment, were wishing for James to be carted off like Baron Davis in the playoffs last season.
Miami’s Shane Battier had the more honorable feeling, one that bordered on sickening.
“I feel like a parent, watching their receiver go across the middle and get hit,” he said, speaking generally about James’s high-wire athleticism but specifically about his third-quarter spill while he was being fouled after going airborne for a Dwyane Wade fast-break lob and getting nudged by the Knicks’ J. R. Smith.
Battier’s brother played football at Duke but had to quit because of concussions, so he knew of what he spoke.
“I thought, Oh, man, just get up,” Battier said after the Heat gut-checked the Knicks in a 26-16 fourth quarter. Though James later acknowledged that the knee did bother him some for the rest of the game, he got up, put up and suggested that those who wanted to believe the Knicks had the Heat’s number after consecutive 20-point blowouts early in the season should shut up.
“We felt like this was one of our best wins of the season,” he said after accumulating 29 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals.
On top of that, James held Carmelo Anthony not only scoreless but shotless for the final 4 minutes 52 seconds of a tense and tight game. That might be a drought for some overworked N.B.A. statistician to backcheck over the trigger-happy Anthony’s decade in the league.
Not to belabor the issue of the tweak to the knee — during his career, James has shaken off any number of scary-looking entanglements with courtside fans, photographers and less physically endowed opponents — but his effort and effectiveness were exponentially improved almost immediately thereafter.
“He ain’t faking,” said Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra, rushing into a defensive posture at the mere question of James’s recuperative prowess. “He’s not playing to the crowd. He’s a physically attacking player, and when he attacks and gets to the rim, there’s going to be some tumbles.”
Noting that Wade has also long been known for playing with abandon, Spoelstra warned that no one should take such durability for granted. “They’re not superhuman,” he said.
Over in the Knicks’ locker room, Anthony chimed in with the notion that perhaps James is a specimen beyond normal man. “You ever seen him get hurt?” he said. “That man don’t get hurt.”
Anthony, meanwhile, said he took treatment for his knee at halftime with the Knicks ahead by 14, and was also said to have been dinged in the arm and the ribs. For the record, and in sharp contrast to James, it was the second time in a few weeks that Anthony was reportedly wounded during a game and proceeded to shoot miserably or not at all down the stretch.
In this case, drawing James’s complete attention is at least an excuse much of the basketball-watching world can live with, just not the nation of Knicks fans forever wanting to believe Anthony can be that top-tier superstar for a playoff season that is the ultimate measure of an N.B.A. leading man’s physical and mental durability.
It is also exceedingly unfair to compare any player to James’s current standard, on a different combo level athletically and cognitively. We can, however, quibble with the fact that James also plays harder than the likes of Anthony — the most obvious take-away of Sunday’s game.
“His motor is limitless,” Spoelstra said.
When James wasn’t hitting 3-point shots — two straight pulled the Heat even early in the fourth quarter after a long uphill climb — he was setting up Chris Bosh, or rejecting Tyson Chandler at the rim or crushing the last Knicks hope by stepping in front of Anthony to pick off Smith’s unfortunate floater for the game-sealing basket.
Taken out of his offensive game by James, Anthony was practically invisible. And the echoes of the Garden’s standard chant for him during his 24-point first half had long faded.
Anthony as M.V.P.? Absolutely, if we are talking about an Atlantic Division that does not include Miami, and James.
On the day they were granted a free-agent audience with the self-styled King, a wheelchair-bound Donnie Walsh, their team president at the time, came away with the intuitive clarity that James would never set up shop at Madison Square Garden. He would only visit and make it a habit to break New York’s heart, precisely the way he did in Miami’s 99-93 victory, the Heat’s 14th straight win.
It is true that fate will occasionally intervene in such cases of inevitability. An injury to Boston’s Bill Russell meant a championship for the St. Louis Hawks in 1958. Michael Jordan took a sabbatical from basketball and created an opening that Patrick Ewing and the Knicks nearly slipped through in 1994.
It’s always possible that a ligament could snap or cartilage might tear. After James fell hard to the court and clutched his left knee Sunday, no doubt there were some among the Garden loyalists who, if only for a devilish moment, were wishing for James to be carted off like Baron Davis in the playoffs last season.
Miami’s Shane Battier had the more honorable feeling, one that bordered on sickening.
“I feel like a parent, watching their receiver go across the middle and get hit,” he said, speaking generally about James’s high-wire athleticism but specifically about his third-quarter spill while he was being fouled after going airborne for a Dwyane Wade fast-break lob and getting nudged by the Knicks’ J. R. Smith.
Battier’s brother played football at Duke but had to quit because of concussions, so he knew of what he spoke.
“I thought, Oh, man, just get up,” Battier said after the Heat gut-checked the Knicks in a 26-16 fourth quarter. Though James later acknowledged that the knee did bother him some for the rest of the game, he got up, put up and suggested that those who wanted to believe the Knicks had the Heat’s number after consecutive 20-point blowouts early in the season should shut up.
“We felt like this was one of our best wins of the season,” he said after accumulating 29 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals.
On top of that, James held Carmelo Anthony not only scoreless but shotless for the final 4 minutes 52 seconds of a tense and tight game. That might be a drought for some overworked N.B.A. statistician to backcheck over the trigger-happy Anthony’s decade in the league.
Not to belabor the issue of the tweak to the knee — during his career, James has shaken off any number of scary-looking entanglements with courtside fans, photographers and less physically endowed opponents — but his effort and effectiveness were exponentially improved almost immediately thereafter.
“He ain’t faking,” said Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra, rushing into a defensive posture at the mere question of James’s recuperative prowess. “He’s not playing to the crowd. He’s a physically attacking player, and when he attacks and gets to the rim, there’s going to be some tumbles.”
Noting that Wade has also long been known for playing with abandon, Spoelstra warned that no one should take such durability for granted. “They’re not superhuman,” he said.
Over in the Knicks’ locker room, Anthony chimed in with the notion that perhaps James is a specimen beyond normal man. “You ever seen him get hurt?” he said. “That man don’t get hurt.”
Anthony, meanwhile, said he took treatment for his knee at halftime with the Knicks ahead by 14, and was also said to have been dinged in the arm and the ribs. For the record, and in sharp contrast to James, it was the second time in a few weeks that Anthony was reportedly wounded during a game and proceeded to shoot miserably or not at all down the stretch.
In this case, drawing James’s complete attention is at least an excuse much of the basketball-watching world can live with, just not the nation of Knicks fans forever wanting to believe Anthony can be that top-tier superstar for a playoff season that is the ultimate measure of an N.B.A. leading man’s physical and mental durability.
It is also exceedingly unfair to compare any player to James’s current standard, on a different combo level athletically and cognitively. We can, however, quibble with the fact that James also plays harder than the likes of Anthony — the most obvious take-away of Sunday’s game.
“His motor is limitless,” Spoelstra said.
When James wasn’t hitting 3-point shots — two straight pulled the Heat even early in the fourth quarter after a long uphill climb — he was setting up Chris Bosh, or rejecting Tyson Chandler at the rim or crushing the last Knicks hope by stepping in front of Anthony to pick off Smith’s unfortunate floater for the game-sealing basket.
Taken out of his offensive game by James, Anthony was practically invisible. And the echoes of the Garden’s standard chant for him during his 24-point first half had long faded.
Anthony as M.V.P.? Absolutely, if we are talking about an Atlantic Division that does not include Miami, and James.
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this. even kobe during his fro days would do something creative. and all the other dunkers like jrich and vc
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meant to post the vid with the pic
the fans reactions
meant to post the vid with the pic
the fans reactions
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dudes really crying about fast break dunk variety?
you cats will ***** about anything
didnt he jump over a guy on an oop last year
you cats will ***** about anything
didnt he jump over a guy on an oop last year
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the jazz could get mo williams back this week.
of the warriors 14 games this month, 11 of them are at home.
the rockets look pretty good.
the lakers still have work to do
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There's literally nothing left to critique though. It's why the 'dunk contest' is still a story 2 weeks later. Sometimes I hope he plays like **** just to keep things fresh.
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As fast as he made that steal, took one step to the ball, he was already 1 more step from his launch point. At that speed, not a lot of things/time to come up with something.
Game clinching dunk at that speed, fairly far back in the key, with that power > some creative dunk he could screw up and risk the game.
Let the man live.
Game clinching dunk at that speed, fairly far back in the key, with that power > some creative dunk he could screw up and risk the game.
Let the man live.
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If you're not here to critique, debate or argue about sports - than this forum isn't for you bruh.
mmg
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Oh.
I wonder why your upset with what the king does
Female traits.
Dudes mad cause he didn't jumped from half court
Then had he did some amazing **** it would've been "oh he's so arrogant, he needs to act like he's been there before".
Throwing stones at the throne.
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It's only weak b/c he's doing it for Miami. Where was this salt when he was w. Cleveland?
oh...
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They're at .500 with 22 left. The only L's I see for sure are @OKC, @IND, LAC, & possibly @GSW.
Then they have 2 difficult home games against CHI & MEM.
So that leaves 16 games that they should have no problem playing well over .500 in. They have more than a puncher's chance.
Of course, this will still be a disappointment considering the preseason expectations. They're not gonna have HCA in any round of the playoffs & will likely be knocked out at some point. They'd be a much more intriguing team if the playoffs were single game elimination in each round.
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It's only weak b/c he's doing it for Miami. Where was this salt when he was w. Cleveland?
oh...
actually with cleveland he was more creative
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We haven't played anything close to perfect basketball in the last 18 games.
However,
13-5 in our last 18 is such a different team than 17-25 in our first 42 games.
Crazy because Pau and Hill have both been gone too.
Nash deserves credit. He finally seems to have more control out there with the rock than he had the first part of the season.
Dwight's picked up the intensity too...but that FT shooting man...that's what's gonna keep biting is if it doesn't improve soon
It does seem rediculous that fans would be so excited over a 1 point win over Atlanta. But the thing is, for a majority of the season those close 1 point games were always resulting in losses.
So competitively, it's just nice as fans to see
Our team finally pull out these close games more consistently instead of constantly choking them.
We ain't perfect, but were better.
Hopefully this little 5 game road
Trip doesn't kill our progress tho. If we completely blow this trip it could cost us our season.
However,
13-5 in our last 18 is such a different team than 17-25 in our first 42 games.
Crazy because Pau and Hill have both been gone too.
Nash deserves credit. He finally seems to have more control out there with the rock than he had the first part of the season.
Dwight's picked up the intensity too...but that FT shooting man...that's what's gonna keep biting is if it doesn't improve soon
It does seem rediculous that fans would be so excited over a 1 point win over Atlanta. But the thing is, for a majority of the season those close 1 point games were always resulting in losses.
So competitively, it's just nice as fans to see
Our team finally pull out these close games more consistently instead of constantly choking them.
We ain't perfect, but were better.
Hopefully this little 5 game road
Trip doesn't kill our progress tho. If we completely blow this trip it could cost us our season.
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KJ for NBAPA President????
suck it Derek Fisher
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/...t-for-kings-set-him-up-as-hunters-replacement
suck it Derek Fisher
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/...t-for-kings-set-him-up-as-hunters-replacement
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